Alchenar posted:

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/Hot%20Spots/Documents/Russia/2017-07-The-Russian-Way-of-War-Grau-Bartles.pdf

Read Bartles.

HEY GUNS posted:

it would be extremely weird if the kind of guns i like ever saw combat

My Imaginary GF posted:

What was the most efficient way to kill Germans on a strategic level in ww2?

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

Cyrano also gave a reason, maybe you could think about it a little harder, or just stop pretending you had a real point to make besides being riled up about guns

Cyrano4747 posted:

I cast magic missile at the darkness

Geisladisk posted:

02:24 - That cameraman is out of his goddamn mind.

Clarence posted:

Fangz posted:

Denial that the USSR killed, tortured and traumatised millions is a lot closer to holocaust and slavery denial than denying you took someone's lunch. Maybe you think that the idea of things being morally equivalent, even used colloquially, is impossible because no argument/historical event is exactly the same, but come the gently caress on - it's downright insulting to imply that therefore Hegel thinks these events are the same, especially when they literally said that. The issue does not come down to that.

Fangz posted:

I said you're being a douchebag, not a tankie.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

I should just interject with excerpts from these two ex-pilots arguing with eachother through snail mail about the max safe speed of a Spitfire Mk 1 vs a Hurricane Mk 1 and the difference (and obsolescence) between the latter's Mk I and Mk II vs Bf-109s and general dick-waving of credentials on hours flown with each type.

Clarence posted:

Let's find out what 2/Lt. Wilding (he of the long range sniping of yesterday) is up to now -



Horace Holden Wilding, age 22, son of Matilda Wilding, of 19, Kingswood Rd., Prestwich, Manchester, and the late John Frederick Wilding. Joined the Battalion less than two weeks ago.
This may be the same H H Wilding from Manchester in the KRRC who was wounded as a Private on 2nd October 1916.

bewbies posted:

For something like Hearts of Iron, there isn't a whole lot of training value there. The game has a lot of engine limitations, and it is designed to be accessible to a mass audience, not to be brutally realistic. In other words, they eliminate a lot of the severe irritants that commanders and staffs have to deal with real world in order to make the game tolerable for your average guy with a computer. The engine seems to have some mechanical flaws as well....one think I remember is you could dominate the world's oceans by building a giant fleet of cruisers. Building divisions is also really...weird, and very divorced from how things are in the real world.

Nebakenezzer posted:

Chapter 1 had a dude who joined up and had been a postman, so he was a military postman for his entire time in the service

I am learning a few things, though. This 1944 conscription crisis is dumb as gently caress. Basically the invasion of Europe ground down Canadian infantry so much that cooks and medics were being reassigned gulf war style, and without the proper training naturally they were getting killed really quickly. In order to get out of it, PM King (hm, now I get why we refer to him always as Mackenzie King) sent a letter to Churchill to ask if he wouldn't mind saying publically "It's alright brah, we don't need those divisions you have in Canada, we're good"

Churchill said no

feedmegin posted:

Well yes because everyone knows the Germans were masters of precision and order while Russians are basically orcs, right

feedmegin posted:

I mean, why would any snake attack a creature much larger than itself without provocation, as a general habit? What's in it for the snake?

Tias posted:

I heard the green krait (as opposed to the banded krait) was used because it will attack without provocation?

Tias posted:

I heard the green krait (as opposed to the banded krait) was used because it will attack without provocation?

quote:

The Sri Lankan krait is nocturnal and timid. It is very slow and sluggish by day. At night it may strike after considerable provocation, but behaves quite the contrary by day, often allowing itself to be handled or even bullied with impunity. During such rough treatment it usually does nothing but puff up its lung to display its discomfort.

HEY GUNS posted:

that snake is basically me

HEY GUNS posted:

in classical greece there were "house snakes" which were small, non-poisonous, and ate mice. they didn't have cats yet, those were introduced to europe during classical roman times

Clarence posted:

quote:

D Company, however rose to the occasion and acted without delay, defiling quickly through the gaps in the wire and deploying immediately on the other side. The enemy machine gunners however offered a stubborn resistance and kept their guns going until skilfully outflanked and entirely surrounded

HEY GUNS posted:

their whole schtick is "the ______ but with computer game terminology for it"

Comrade Gorbash posted:

Jadgpanzer IV (that, by the way, is the real crappy one)

Fangz posted:

We've had that discussion earlier in the thread, I think. I think these things are quite different kettles of fish in terms of mainstream accessibility and also the visceral nature of your engagement.