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System Metternich posted:Almost, it's “Hail, Fortune! The die rollers salute/greet you“ which suspiciously sounds like a P&P thing Legend or not, I based my looted latin on that. A kind goon on the classical forum gave me Ave, Fortuna! Aleatores te salutant! as a great option for what I wanted. I may or may not 3D model a dice tower and I wanted something latin to go on it.
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Happy to have made it to the end of the thread, even with the carrier posting. Then again, there was some excellent interwar tank posting, which is always hilarious. By the way, there's one thing that's bugging me: Ronson Shermans. Like you people said, they installed wet racks to stop cooking Tommies, but how long did that take? What's the time gap between Shermans starting to roll around like angry houses and the time they get/are refitted with wet racks? I mean, it wasn't like they discovered the issue on day two and fixed it with an overnight patch, so there should have been a period of flammable tanks, no? What about the Soviet Shermans? Still on Shermans: how fast was the switch over to 76 mm gun? Where there Sherman tankers rolling around in 75s in 1945? If anyone is shy about efortposting on Shermans post war as well various ways they got modernised, I would like it if you posted away. Going by Fate of a Nation, the Israelis were sticking any gun they could on Shermans. Were there ever similar attempts to upgun T-34/85s to a hilarious extent?
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My only regret is that I never had the time/discipline of mind to read them. Thank you, Tin! You were one of the biggest factors into my newfound appreciation of WWI. By the way, Cyrano mentioned French Napoleonic sappeurs as a particularly badass/bloodthirsty bunch. Anybody wants to post about their exploits and how they assaulted fortifications with axes and stuff?
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On a less harrowing note, Israel DLC for Wargame dropped yesterday. I can't decide what's funnier: various experiments with Shermans or the traditional video game inability to cope with mechanized infantry that leads to 15 guys sharing one humwee or 10-man squads cramming themselves into Merkavas. Slightly back on topic: what would have happened to the French if the Russians captured? What was the usual fate of PoWs in Napoleonic wars
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:There's also a suggestion by one rabbi that the text has been misinterpreted and originally one of David's shots ended up getting stuck in Goliath's greaves, causing Goliath to stumble around unable to flex his leg, giving David an opportunity to cut his head off. Bible: the Mechwarrior story. "Hit them on the weakspot for massive damage" - Proverbs, 5:15
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Arquinsiel posted:sank the SS. Kitten Transporter. Never forget!
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lenoon posted:I feel like grey's WITP threads are one of the companion threads to this one, same regulars keep on cropping up to criticise Sometimes, when I follow them, I can't tell the difference between the threads
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Drive me closer, I want to hit them with my pike! Alternatively, this.
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Ablative armor made out of machineguns
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OwlFancier posted:Considering tanks don't generally fight infantry close in any more if they can avoid it because everyone and their dog can have an anti tank launcher, the need for personal defence weapons mounted on the tank is rather slim, and nobody wants to spend space and weight on housing gunners when you could put more ammunition, armour, or a kettle in there instead. How many MGs are there on the latest TUSK Abrams? 3-5?
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Not like you need that much extra ammo for muskets or have that much extra food
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So Il-102 was planned and understandably never accepted in 1982. What the hell were they thinking when they were making it? Day 60 Bomb Truck against peasants resisting collectivization?
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Oct 19, 2016 10:14
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Ah, sovereign citizens, an amazing crazy bunch.
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Anglo-Saxons were a mistake
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I hate all of you Now tell me something fun about combat helos or Zhukov's ethics
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HEY GAL posted:it's interesting to me that the table was invented by people who still wrote in blackletter calligraphy. raise one of these guys from the dead and tell him about computers and he'd probably be ok with your accounts receivable spreadsheet--but he'd wonder why, when you printed it out, it wasn't beautifully decorated with all the squiggles you could muster The next Excel release must have an automatic squiggle decorator
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Yeah, I learned it the hard way that historical video games are not. Except for maybe grognardy strategy games made by obscure studios and sold for $waytoomany. Getting interested in history through video games is embarking on a path of constant disappointment in games. Also, I had fun with Red Orchestra and Day of Infamy. Maybe not that much fun with bolt action rifles (I fire, I miss because I'm an idiot, I don't get to fire twice), but I had fun. Especially when you get to be playing battlefield buddies with the officer and RTO in Infamy.
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StashAugustine posted:4 wasn't bad but it was all downhill from there Yeah, CoD4: Modern Warfare was the pinnacle of modern CoD experience. CoD2 was also good. What's so bad about BF3 SP, aside from QTEs and taking on a VDV brigade singlehandedly?
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So basically the french were good at herding abu hajaars.
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I guess those who didn't love the revolution/Napoleon and dodged draft died later. Wasn't it that service in Russian military was for 25 years back then?
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Woo, got back to the front of the thread. Now I have to read about T-55, one of my favorite subjects.
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Well, wouldn't a commander who wants to unbutton/hatch down or whatever be as vulnerable to MG fire as the cameras? Cameras aren't that easier to hit than vision slits, no?
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Fangz posted:Well, war sucks then Makes for good reading and thread material, tho
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xthetenth posted:Stop making me want expeditions: Viking. So I take it Expeditions: Conquistador is a good game? Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The time Vikings went Crusading is an amazing epic story that I'm surprised is not a series of movies. 
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Nov 10, 2016 23:45
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I love using the... Shilka? Tunguska? as an anti-infantry platform in Battlefield. As an added bonus, you're immune to snipers, and you get to inconvenience fliers!
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Did we talk about Hacksaw Ridge? I liked the movie, but the battle scenes are some well-filmed Call of Duty bullshit. Also, Japanese soldiers only ever get shot in threes.
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I love how shrapnel games go on sales an only knock off like 5 bucks off their super old games.
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Tias posted:I only play the freebies, but honest to God, they've given me hundreds of hours of fun through the years. Well, that's true. I once asked them for a review version of winSPMBT. By the time they wrote me back, I had managed to review the game based on the freebie.
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 The spirit of German kitbashing lives with... whatever this is.
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let gustavus hit the floor let gustavus hit the floor let gustavus hit the flooooor 
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That tank, lol ride ride ride hooold THUNK
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JcDent posted:
So, this was posted on livejournal, in regards to this gunwagon: my friend translated this for me posted:[here] we can see the most interesting instances - Air Defence Missile System"Kvadrat" mounted on the chassis (export model of ADMS "Kub"), 85-mm Zenith cannon KS-1 and a 100-mm KS-19. Looks pretty apocalyptic, just like from "Red Alert". In the background, if my eyes are not deceiving me, there are two more KS-19s, but on truck chassis, ZSU-57-2, wheelbarrows with different weaponry, and I think, couple of "Gvozdika". In the next picture, 85-mm up close. Gotta say, I love how the export version of "Kub" (cube) is called "Kvadrat" (square) As far as my own "reasearch" had produced at that point, in a message to Hogge Wild posted:My friend hasn't gotten back to me yet, but it seems someone took the TEL (learned a new acronym today) from this It was apparently from a Hezbollah column that also included T-54s and Kornet missiles on quadbikes.
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P-Mack posted:I remember it was mentioned a while back that Japan independently came up with countermarching pike and shot tactics at the same time as in Europe if not earlier. Wasn't it the Portuguese that brought firearms to Japan? Of course, Japanese quickly fell in love with the things...
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Please go into detail. Also, invading allies, wow.
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Kinda explains why Civ is getting more into the cassus beli territory
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How many Bren carriers do ypu have weld together to get an 88mm carrier?
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On the other hand, armored trains are the fastest thing on the ground around WWI and they use the rail that you want to keep intact for your own movement. So they can always keep changing position, disgorgibg troops in all those important places (if they weren't important, they wouldn't have rail) where they can gently caress up your movement and supply while also supporting said troops. I think it really shines in an RCW scenario where you have huge tracts of nothing connected only by the vital rail you can't afford to sabotage and really nothing approacing an artillery park. And even if you had a park, good luck communicating with it in a timely manner to gently caress up a train.
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gently caress the Soviet Union, just in case.
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Nenonen posted:What is the likelihood that the creepy sex thing was actually porn with people dressed as tanks? No, I'm not going to check if anthropomorphic tank porn is a thing Yes, yes it is. Do you want it in tanks loving, anthropomorphic tanks loving or tank sprouts tentacles to gently caress a girl flavor? It's probably somewhat rarer than anthropomorphic A-10 porno.
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In an SS hat. I hope the recreationists and soldiers know better
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