|
Doesn't the pla regularly get assigned to civil engineering projects? Seems like a good way to have the military do something productive
|
#
¿
Sep 25, 2023 16:20
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 20, 2024 23:25 |
|
|
the new battlefield had network enabled scopes that had little Wi-Fi icons that would fluctuate randomly and everyone made fun of it for being stupid as poo poo but then it turned out it was a real product in development for the us military
|
|
#
¿
Sep 30, 2023 21:21
|
|
|
Jel Shaker posted:what like the wifi on the scope was doing something with the image? I think the scope was hooked up to The Cloud and streamed data to commanders or something? the kind of boondoggle that the mic loves but now with more IoT hype
|
|
#
¿
Oct 1, 2023 01:15
|
|
|
sullat posted:The entire character of a base and its inhabitants can be absorbed in a quick trip to the Rec Commons. The sweaty arenas of Fort Legion, the glittering gambling halls of Morgan Bank, the sunny lovers' trysts in Gaia's High Garden, or the somber reading rooms of U.N. Headquarters. Even the feeding bay at the Hive gives stark insight into the sleeping demons of Yang's communal utopia. Pravin Lal talking about decorum and the UN charter while everyone else were doing things like doing genocide with mindworms or creating mindless flesh automatons was a pretty good portrait of impotent liberalism
|
|
#
¿
Oct 3, 2023 05:56
|
|
|
Frosted Flake posted:Before and during the American Civil War, America briefly experimented with having a proper army. reading stuff about the Mexican American war and it’s nuts how much fancier the Mexicans are
|
|
#
¿
Nov 8, 2023 06:48
|
|
|
didn’t one of the cods have nazbols take over Russia and they’re the main enemy
|
|
#
¿
Nov 8, 2023 21:17
|
|
|
Frosted Flake posted:I've never felt so understood on this forum 🙏 didn’t the barbarian kingdoms maintain separate legal systems, with Germanic law for the Germanics and Roman law for everyone else? are later systems descended from one set in particular with the other one falling out of use or did they end up with a single synthesized system when the distinction between Roman and barbarian disappeared?
|
|
#
¿
Nov 12, 2023 03:45
|
|
|
the pla is always doing civilian infrastructure projects, but I can’t really recall the last time the us military contributed to a public works project aside from the corp of engineers loving up in Katrina
|
|
#
¿
Dec 4, 2023 00:42
|
|
|
FuzzySlippers posted:did AC have a proper sci-fi novelist writing those? They were so much better than what you see in most games I think the guy who wrote them, Brian Reynolds, was the one competent writer at firaxis bc as soon as he left their writing went to poo poo. it doesn’t usually matter bc it just manifests as very uninspired civ tech quotes but whenever they make something that requires world building like xcom or that beyond earth it’s extremely noticeable xcom 2 with an Alpha Centauri level treatment of the premise of a guerilla war against aliens would have been so cool. instead we got factions like the human supremacists who eat aliens and have no other characterization
|
|
#
¿
Dec 6, 2023 00:16
|
|
|
Hatebag posted:we were robbed of marxist guerilla xcom2. farc, the naxalites, the ndfp like there’s just zero mention of it at all bc firaxis can’t do any kind of world building or writing
|
|
#
¿
Dec 6, 2023 03:46
|
|
|
FuzzySlippers posted:Has any game ever done insurgent warfare particularly well either from a narrative or gameplay perspective? Games, like Hollywood movies, have always been a lot more comfortable with CI. I think ja2 heavily implies if not outright states that Deidrianna is backed by the US/NATO, since Ira has a line about hating America bc it’s always loving up other countries, the alruco elite troops all using high end NATO equipment, and the foreign scientists and military advisors mostly being westerners the new jagged alliance has a communist rebel group operating in the same country and from what I recall they’re treated as sympathetic if too idealistic which makes sense since it’s the tropico devs and the communists in that series are always the most reasonable faction
|
|
#
¿
Dec 6, 2023 04:06
|
|
|
The Oldest Man posted:holy poo poo lmao I saw a trailer of that in theaters and assumed it was some urban fantasy reimagining since it had dudes in black bloc hurling molotovs
|
|
#
¿
Dec 19, 2023 04:40
|
|
|
Cao Ni Ma posted:Like the numbers probably dont count the lifetime maintenance cost which will be astronomical given there are only 3 of them didn’t that thing have some stupid warhammer railgun that used proprietary ammo that was immediately discontinued so it had to get scrapped and replaced with a conventional gun
|
|
#
¿
Jan 25, 2024 02:39
|
|
|
Real hurthling! posted:yeah the warhammer guys get props for admitting brits are not human isn’t Britain in warhammer a land of subhuman swampmen who have less lore than warhammer China did before the total war games
|
|
#
¿
Jan 31, 2024 20:22
|
|
|
DancingShade posted:Just give them star trek cosplay jumpsuits. That's what they probably want. the guardians all have moderate brain damage in that game due to unexpected side effects of their wunderwaffe which seems appropriate for space force too
|
|
#
¿
Feb 22, 2024 07:11
|
|
|
Grilled Beef posted:You are 25 years behind all the dumbest units in command and conquer were generally ripped from the headlines
|
|
#
¿
Mar 10, 2024 23:32
|
|
|
DJJIB-DJDCT posted:You're going to have a read egg on your face when Charlemagne/Heinrich the Fowler/Arthur awake from their slumber under the mountain to restore the empire in its hour of greatest need. they’re gonna awake when Serbian Diocletian breaks his chains and escapes to end the world https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukljan
|
|
#
¿
Apr 8, 2024 21:15
|
|
|
bedpan posted:iirc this is Carlism wasn’t that the ultra reactionary monarchist movement whose pretender turned out to be a leftist so all his followers had to adopt leftist positions bc if you’re a reactionary monarchist questioning the will of the king is treason
|
|
#
¿
Apr 12, 2024 20:58
|
|
|
I remember a Vietnam vet telling me they’d sometimes nick little bits of c4 off to use as fuel to heat their field rations with
|
|
#
¿
Apr 16, 2024 19:30
|
|
|
wasn’t there a vr milsim where they attached a shock collar to the rig for training cops or troops not to freak out with pain I bet if they commercialized that there’d be hardcore pain only servers you’re not allowed to turn it off bc immersion
|
|
#
¿
Apr 21, 2024 23:47
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 20, 2024 23:25 |
|
|
my fav gauss gun is the necron one from 40k that has zero resemblance to what a gauss gun is and was clearly named by some 80s writer who thought gauss guns were just a fictional sci-fi term and not a real thing I think they later retconned it to being named after a guy named gauss that discovered them in universe
|
|
#
¿
May 18, 2024 02:14
|
|