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feedmegin posted:I do enjoy how he sometimes bags on Jackson (who knows the square root of poo poo about history) vs Tolkien (literally a professor specialising in early mediaeval English literature) when it comes to tactics, logistics etc in the movie versus book versions. Tolkien knew how early mediaeval warfare worked, and it shows. the author seems quite complimentary to Jackson in general, i thought. they seem to understand that Jackson is working within the constraints of a different medium to Tolkien, and with flesh-and-blood actors who force a choice between safely or accurately depicting warfare.
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Jun 23, 2021 11:19
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for a good emulation of ww1 flight mechanics I recommend Flying Cirus, an rpg by local goon open_sketchbook.
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it's saying someone is well mannered and learned as a double compliment, not a backhanded insult.
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zoux posted:How meaningful are ship designations in and between navies? Why did it ever matter if a ship was precisely a battleship or a battlecruiser or a cruiser - just treaty stuff? Extremely broadly speaking a Battleship is intended to fight fleet battles, a Battlecruiser is intended to hunt cruisers, and Cruisers are intended to do everything else - scouting, raiding, convoys, blockades. The designations are important to anyone who might need to know at a glance the capabilities of ship/fleet/task force/squadron, in addition to being a common point of reference for arms limitation treaties. The designations vary between navies but not as much as they used to. Tomn posted:The distinction does get a bit fuzzy with changing technology and fleet doctrines, though. Speaking of which, what IS the modern difference between frigates, destroyers, and corvettes? size, mostly. in ascending order it's corvettes, frigates, destroyers. thatbastardken fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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Feb 9, 2022 05:53
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ChubbyChecker posted:if all of this is correct, then why did the us retreat from vietnam? and everyone from afghanistan? morale matters more than what type of machine gun you have maintaining an occupation is different to fighting a war, and the morale of a nation is different to the morale of an army.
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Feb 22, 2022 08:23
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I'm almost as much grit as oil
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Feb 25, 2022 05:34
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Turkson posted:I feel attacked. right in the Dardanelles
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Feb 26, 2022 13:23
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Fangz posted:"why the gently caress wasn't this test done before, and why were BuOrd so precious with their torpedos that they wouldn't do the test when reports started coming back." because they were expensive and difficult to manufacture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo#Supply_and_production quote:NTS produced only 1½ torpedoes a day in 1937, despite having three shifts of three thousand workers working around the clock
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Mar 4, 2022 15:15
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feedmegin posted:Farmers with shotguns very much is a thing in the British countryside even today, much more than any other firearm. and farmer's mums
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technicals are usually land cruisers though
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Apr 21, 2022 14:36
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DesperateDan posted:The in the tank toss? The old battle rattle?
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Jun 3, 2022 08:15
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They were the security service, paramilitary to the Waffen-SS's regular military. Initially formed from Hitler's personal bodyguards and street fighting crew. Ironically in the later war they lost the black uniforms and had to use army grey like everyone else.
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Jun 4, 2022 12:12
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The Lone Badger posted:Shooting down a single bomber could get you more than five kills couldn't it? Victories are per plane. Killing the crew is optional.
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Jul 7, 2022 12:32
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Scratch Monkey posted:Do planes parked on the ground count? The Lone Badger posted:What about aircraft carriers? Some submarine torpedo men have to be turbo-ace+++ right?
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Jul 7, 2022 12:55
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baaderbrains posted:Is there an equivalent of battle scarred old guys in monasteries in medieval Europe? as a historical thing? no idea. as a fictional thing? yeah, absolutely. Brother Cadfael is the first one that sprang to my mind but 'retired crusader/knight/mercenary takes monastic vows' is absolutely a genre.
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Jul 10, 2022 02:54
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 Wallenstein must go! Who must go?
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Jul 18, 2022 02:37
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the limiting factor on army sizes throughout history is going to be supplies, not ideology. industrial states can have armies in the hundreds of thousands because they can bring in food by railroad, up till then an army destroys its surroundings by foraging or it starves.
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Aug 3, 2022 06:03
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Tulip posted:Excluding politics, culture, and society from military history makes the question of "why were armies of medieval Europe so much smaller than ancient armies" really hard to answer, while taking politics seriously makes it really easy to answer. Hell it makes the question of why were Roman armies so able to recover from losses compared to their rivals hard to answer. not really, the armies were smaller because the states couldn't supply them. the subsidiary question of why they couldn't supply them has complex political, cultural and societal answers, but no matter how motivated or cohesive your military population is they can't fight without food, water and fuel. Rome's ability to raise fresh armies after disaster was reliant on their allied (or subjugated) states for manpower and equipment, but Rome fed them in the field.
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Aug 3, 2022 07:08
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Alchenar posted:Regardless, I think the assertion that ordinary people couldn't care less if the Assyrians conqured them... questionable. the dead are hard to poll for their opinion thatbastardken fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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Aug 3, 2022 07:45
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ilmucche posted:is that a realistic concern? how long does 210 rounds last? M4 carbine posted:Rate of fire: 700–950 round/min cyclic the rest of your question is kind of open ended, there's lots of differences in doctrine even within a given nations military. generally speaking if you're talking about US (or NATO, or NATO-adjacent) forces the infantry will have probably gotten to the firefight in a vehicle, which will probably have extra ammunition stored in it. on a long-range special forces foot patrol? carry extra ammo and shoot straight. guarding a base? reach down to the crate of magazines you prepared earlier. thatbastardken fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Oct 4, 2022 |
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Oct 4, 2022 12:09
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Scratch Monkey posted:In WWII (and I believe Korea too) the amount of ammo and supplies a given unit was expected to run through in a day was a pre calculated number generally called a “unit of fire.” It was moved from storage in the rear in support of planned operations and staged closer to the front so it could be brought up as needed. Here’s a good page on the concept http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/U/n/Unit_Of_Fire.htm that's a cool article, thanks.
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Oct 4, 2022 12:30
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Thomamelas posted:Groups that would set up things to look like fake lighthouses/fires to drive ships upon sandbars. Then loot the ship/break it apart for scrap. It's a common bit of local "history" that isn't. Unregulated coastal salvage is another matter, but false lights aren't a thing that ever really happened. Probably made up by ship owners or insurers to demonize communities that might get a windfall from their misfortune.
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Oct 18, 2022 06:07
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Hitler did love Disney though
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:On a related note, what made the continental harvests during wartime so terrible? Lack of fertilizer? Lack of labor? Just bad luck? I recall some discussion about German agriculture of the period being heavily reliant on small family farms that used a lot of manual labor instead of machinery. Probably not helped by the delayed movement to a war economy. Did Nazi Germany have an equivalent of the Land Girls?
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Jan 5, 2023 06:45
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i think it was this thread talking about tactilol pictures from the american civil war? any, enjoy: https://www.tumblr.com/qsycomplainsalot/706336132253859840/csa-cpt-samuel-richardson-of-the-2nd-texas-cavalry?source=share
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Jan 14, 2023 01:56
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RIP chitoryu, condolences sandwich anarchist.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Do you know of any other German loanwords that start with “y” or a sound similar to that? ydolf ytler
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May 3, 2023 01:54
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:And that in turn reminds me of FIDO, the "Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation". The British Isles have a problem, viz. they are often foggy/smoggy, which is bad if you're a pilot looking for your runway. The solution? Run a pipe down either side of the runway, with jets placed at periodic intervals. Run aircraft fuel through the pipes, and light it on fire. The heat would disperse the fog, improving visibility enough for aircraft to land. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_Warfare_Department early war Britain is a land of contrasts no tanks, but plenty of petrol.
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Jun 6, 2023 03:00
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i thought the user of chocco for australian reservists dated to the militia getting beaten by the ija in png, but it makes sense that it's older than that.
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Oct 3, 2023 22:19
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serco were running Australia's
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Oct 24, 2023 22:32
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i'm not drawing from any source more reliable than my own biases but i reckon the same (Victorian-era? i think?) historians who derided medieval swords as heavy blunt objects are responsible for the classic weaboo perception of Japanese swordsmithing as superior to the west, when it looks like it was all pretty similar.
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Nov 21, 2023 07:54
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NBC stuff in general seems like it's mostly good for killing civilians rather than armies, if only because it's easier to equip an army with countermeasures. obvious exception for an actual nuclear bomb, but even then buttoned up tanks and reinforced bunkers make the outskirts of a blast more survivable.
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Nov 25, 2023 13:46
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milhist thread: tohubohu
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yeah agreed
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there's a scene in Generation Kill where they get them
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it ain't called the deescalation of blair mountain
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