Cyrano4747 posted:

Also I saw constitution sale in the late 90s after her restoration. It was loving amazing.

Koramei posted:

cavalry and firearms have coexisted and complemented each other for centuries, therefore cavalry will last forever

bewbies posted:

I've also never really understood why people think they want realistic war movies. If a war movie was realistic it would be really really really really boring for the first two and half hours and then the last 15 minutes would be really loud and confusing

Ensign Expendable posted:

Of course, eventually, you'd have to get into the building and fight in it. Here's the method for doing that, explained in comic book form! "Assault Group: Advance! A submachinegun around your neck, ten grenades at your disposal, courage in your heart, go!"

"Approach the enemy by hidden ways: trenches, ditches, breaches in the walls and fences. Move while prone. Use craters and ruins, you can hide well here. And then: a brave dash forward.
You will enter a labyrinth of rooms and obstacles, full of danger. Not a problem, a grenade in each corner! Enter the house with a friend: you and your grenade. Both of you should be dressed lightly: you should leave your rucksack behind, the grenade shouldn't have a fragmentation sleeve. The grenade goes in first, you go in after. A burst from your submachinegun at the ceiling remnants, and move on.

Another room, another grenade. Turn, one more grenade! Forward again! The enemy can counterattack. Do not be afraid. The initiative is in your hands. Use your grenades and submachinegun more tenaciously.

Sweep any suspicious corner with your submachinegun. Don't delay!

Hogge Wild posted:

haha

Lieutenant Laaksonen would be proud .

Feral_Shofixti posted:

The Allies brought a few hundred homing pigeons ashore with them on D-Day...

quote:

During the Italian Campaign of World War II, G.I. Joe saved the lives of the inhabitants of the village of Calvi Vecchia, Italy, and of the British troops of 56th (London) Infantry Division occupying it. Air support had been requested against German positions at Calvi Vecchia on 18 October 1943, but the message that the 169th (London) Infantry Brigade had captured the village, delivered by G.I. Joe, arrived just in time to avoid the bombing. G.I. Joe flew this 20 mile distance in an impressive 20 minutes, just as the planes were preparing to take off for the target. Up to a thousand men were saved.[1]

On 4 November 1946, G.I. Joe was presented the Dickin Medal for gallantry by Major-General Charles Keightley at the Tower on London, the citation credits him with the most outstanding flight made by a United States Army homing pigeon in World War II.[2] G.I. Joe was the 29th and the first non-British recipient of the medal.[2]

Pellisworth posted:

And some incredibly tiny arrowheads that are maybe for a child's bow?

OwlFancier posted:

Possibly you might be thinking of the antipersonnel variant which would be a Scorpio as used by rome which I think would tend to be more like a big crossbow on a stand though it still uses torsion springs rather than just the inherent springyness of the arms. Supposedly they're pretty awesome though again they are a bit awkward to lug about all over the place, they'd be used more like a cannon battery would be in later millenia. Or given the rate of fire, probably more like a gatling gun.

Cyrano4747 posted:

Modern-as-in-today people might have had poo poo, but before relatively recently no one gave a gently caress. drat near every WW2 vet I've known who saw combat had serious hearing issues.

Plan Z posted:

Can anyone do any pieces on utility/history of slingshots in ancient combat? It's something I've always been curious about, but whenever I remember to look it up, the stuff I find is unsatisfactory. Whatever era/military info you can share would be wonderful.

Rockopolis posted:

Are they working towards drone tanks, like sticking the crew behind the fighty bit of the tank at the end of a really long cable?
Like going from a knife to a spear to a pike.

Nenonen posted:

sullat posted:

Really? I thought it was a holiday promoted by Mexican-Americans to give themselves their own holiday, since celebrating another country's independence day is poor form. Much like St. Paddy's day.

Ensign Expendable posted:

You need physical strength to be a loader.

Kemper Boyd posted:

There's levels to historical accuracy. Such as the picture that Rome paints of Roman culture and society, it is very accurate based on what we know about Rome. It doesn't matter that Pullo and Vorenus weren't probably around for most of what happened.

Vikings has this weird thing going on where some of the stuff in the series is very accurate, and then they drop historical accuracy for the next scene for dramatic purposes. For instance, the scene in the first episode where the two dudes show up at Ragnars and Lagerthas house and she tells them that there's water and food if they want, otherwise they can gently caress off: very much an accurate representation of how the duty of hospitality worked in early medieval Scandinavia.

Then again, the next scene where the Jarl, played by Gabriel Byrne, condemns a guy to death for reasons. They didn't have the death penalty. Likewise, Byrnes Jarl is presented a lot like a late medieval king or something. He's the Jarl because people have confidence in his leadership, he can't actually tell people that they have to do what he says for most of the time.

Ensign Expendable posted:

• Electrified armour that would melt the shell before it could penetrate.
  

The Lone Badger posted:

They were covering up how good the British radar network was, IIRC.

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

They were mostly intended to discourage muggings, buglaries, etc as a personal defense weapon rather than for Operators to Go Loud and Service Tangos (hotter loads like 7.65 parabellum, .380 ACP, 9x20 Browning Long, .455 webley etc were used for combat sidearms).

Gnoman posted:

...and a captain had the opportunity to strike after a long pounding.

JcDent posted:

Love it how now tankers nor Russians were around to stop Finnish Willy the Coyote antics.

GotLag posted:

I dunno, I feel like it's part of the translator's job to address glaring errors or biases in the source work.

Acebuckeye13 posted:

$200 million dollars.

That movie cost $200 million dollars to make.

I will forget the faces of my parents and the names of my friends before I forget that Battleship, a movie based on a boardgame that features an international coalition fighting off an alien invasion that use literal pegs as weapons, cost $200 million dollars to make.

Jamwad Hilder posted:

Chicago hot dogs are garbage. This is my Alamo.

Zamboni Apocalypse posted:

"Amnesty", possibly - usually I see this in relation to traffic or parking tickets, or overdue library books. (Montana/Eastern WA, over the years.) IIRC, in metro areas weapons amnesties have been done, which have now been supplanted by "gun buy-backs", which still function as a way to dispose of scary/unwanted/stolen or will-draw-lots-of-heat crime guns.

my dad posted:

[*]It was not unusual for women Partizans to be careful to save their last bullet when at risk of getting captured alive by fascist/nationalist militias.

Fangz posted:

Better not tell Trump about the flamethrower gap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Bo2ro60ro

BattleMoose posted:

Actually, assuming they can carry sufficient explosions could be a valid method for delivering ordnance, particularly around corners, down/up stairs and such. Is this already a thing?

Gnoman posted:

On a completely different subject, I've heard many times that the wide proliferation of guns and cars in the pre-WWII US compared to that of the other powers was a major advantage for training troops. According to the claims, having so many men already knowing how to drive, perform basic mechanical work (from working on the cars, which needed a lot more maintenance than those of today), and comprehend the basics of operating a firearm meant that training in those tasks went a lot faster, and allowed a higher standard of training than other armies were sometimes forced to accept.


This sounds plausible to me, but plausibility is not enough to say something is confirmed, and I'm wondering if there was any documented evidence for or against this idea.