A Sometimes Food posted:

I assume like most game it depends on what the squirrels eat. Ones living off forage in woodlands are probably fine, ones gorged on nuts and fruits are probably delicious. Ones that raid dumpsters not so much.

Warbadger posted:

Ok, so we imagine they've got a legit big army fully equipped with the best gear and super well trained ninja operator types. Totally real and strong and that dude's friend.

And they aren't using it. Instead they throw mountains of irreplaceable equipment into important battles along with rear echelon troops to accomplish nothing while the ubermensch legion sits on its rear end. I guess waiting for the key moment when a breakthrough happens so they can... drive in against little resistance to occupy some territory up to the next line of contact?

Now imagine thinking this is smart.

Douche Wolf 89 posted:

uhhh sure but i'm saying "Dams are beefy but they're not designed to counter munitions" based off wiki and i guess that ep of the simpsons with niles is dumb. they are now and have been ever since someone paying for one to last longer than a war thought "what if they drag a cannon over there?" it's vital infrastructure an enemy would definitely target, not a rinky dink money laundering operation lol

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

You know here's the really terrifying thing about this that we can actually discuss without speculating and I can't speculate. Two different groups were able to get within a few miles of the nuclear weapons in russia. That's not a joke that's not something that can be debated the nuclear weapons in Russia were almost taken by two non-state actors over the course of a month a loving month.

Toxic Mental posted:

Everyone welcome weg on board as the thread's newest IK. Please give him the same respect and accountability that you'd give to me.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

A while ago Wargaming, the guys who operate World of Tanks and World of Warships, closed their RU servers and allowed people to migrate to the EU servers. There were already plenty of RU/UA players on the EU servers before then, but now there's LOTS.

Anyway, I've started saying "Слава Україні!" in the all chat prior to games. If there's any answer, it's usually there's one of two options: "Героям слава!" or a long rant in Russian, and for the second guys I have a second stored line in Russian about my views on Putin ready to drop in chat. Over this past year it has made plenty of people so loving incandescent that they either spend a ton of time in the game yelling in Russian at me, or after the game in private messages.

I don't give a poo poo if you're a Russian guy who wants to play on EU servers, but if you're the kind of Russian guy who feels the need to do racisms at Ukrainians and defend King Putin and his Dirlewagner Brigades everywhere, then gently caress off.

Toxic Mental posted:

HonorableTB posted:

A bigger thing about grifting away the nukes is a matter of customer: who would you "safely" be able to sell a grifted nuclear warhead to and survive long enough to enjoy your ill-gotten wealth? The amount of actors that could reasonably buy a grifted warhead or anything of the sort is a short enough list that there's no possible way you'd ever be able to get away with it.

The reason they go to the threat well with nukes is because it is advantageous to remind everyone of their existence - not as a real threat but to remind the west of the deterrent effect they have. The quickest way to loving around and finding out is to bluff about your nukes working when they don't, that's not a bluff you as a nation can survive if called. Again let me point out that the Soviet Union as a nation-state entity disintegrated around the nuclear forces and while the Red Army was engaged in a coup, the professionalism of the strategic missile forces never suffered or degraded.

Russian nuclear capabilites are extremely known quantities because neither the Russians nor the US have significantly bothered to upgrade or modernize nuclear forces beyond the required maintainence and upkeep. You don't need to modernize much when you're throwing around multiple megatons per warhead in a MIRV

Tai posted:

Nazi is probably at the point that it's definition is ''someone who doesn't agree with me''. It's not just the Russian government.

steinrokkan posted:

If Russian boats are built like American littoral ships, Ukraine just needs to wait for them to dissolve in water, as USS Alka Seltzer did.

Icochet posted:

I braved -20C weather in my trusty blue jeans for many days and now my piss pipe is infected. It's not all fun and games

weg posted:

How would they stop the US military from sending that not so secret mini shuttle up there and loving with it?

CommieGIR posted:

Its not large enough to grab a satellite unlike the original Shuttle, but it is totally made to intercept and examine other satellites.

Tai posted:

Su-57 is a prime example of everything wrong with the Russian army. It's always 20 years behind NATO now. The Su-57 is a great dog fighter but you aren't dog fighting anyone when F-35's are dropping missiles 300km away to blow you up. Loitering in your blind spot, waiting for you to turn around in the cockpit, then get a gun kill on you because lol.