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Up for playing the plot game of grabbing the kalibrs then sinking the boat.
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gently caress the missiles, steal that nougat and we'll eat like kings. KINGS!
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Oct 1, 2018 19:39
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As part of bote lobby, stealing the kalibrs will get us one perfectly fine cargo ship that we could use for such exciting actions like bait, sneaking one of our ground radars closer to the enemy. Perhaps launch fireworks or one of those American decoy missiles as a distraction. Hell we could fill it full of explosives and ram an enemy coastal structure with it if war crimes lobby gets in on this.
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Oct 1, 2018 20:08
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Somehow, it seems really doubtful that the Russians would just let a group of mercenaries grab some long range missiles: they're probably hoping we'll grab it so they can label us a terrorist organization so they can push into the Balkans full force instead of pussyfooting around with proxy warfare. A favor isn't the best prize, but one missile system isn't worth the hassle of defending.
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Oct 1, 2018 21:14
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That's a gently caress up. You gotta always try to pass out inside the Greyhound so nobody knows you're sleeping one off.
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Oct 1, 2018 21:15
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Gervasius posted:Can we do both? Board the freighter, offload the Kalibr containers and then sink the ship? For that kind of operation we would probably need to charter some bigger ship since Kalibrs are in shipping containers that are beyond albanian fishing boat or NH-90 capacity. If we don't get to it shortly then Mars is going to have it sunk in place. Getting a barge, with a crane, to the freighter and get everything unloaded in short order is not going to happen. Mars won't sink it if it's crewed, which gives us the opportunity to abscond with it. Night10194 posted:Wait, if this thing is just a corporate freighter what the hell was it doing with this missile system? Near as we can tell Mars handed it off to a third party to have it "sink" in a storm. They didn't care. Said third party leased it to ROMARM who insisted it would get sunk (by us). Except it didn't get abused nearly as bad as expected. Which leaves Mars in the position per above.
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Oct 1, 2018 21:48
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I'm almost sure Mars is lying to us here. It's almost like they want to tempt us into sinking the thing for quick cash. I propose we capture it and turn it into an arsenal ship instead.
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Oct 1, 2018 21:50
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thetruegentleman posted:Somehow, it seems really doubtful that the Russians would just let a group of mercenaries grab some long range missiles: they're probably hoping we'll grab it so they can label us a terrorist organization so they can push into the Balkans full force instead of pussyfooting around with proxy warfare. Russia doesn't really have much ability to do a proper intervention to the area, most they'd do is send a sub to sink the boat if they know about that particular cargo. Beyond that, I do bet they have agents and such feeding intel from three-letter men in Moscow to the Balkan forces along with a few SF units doing super-sneaky poo poo.
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Oct 1, 2018 22:55
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Roeben posted:I propose we capture it and turn it into an arsenal ship instead. Team Warcrimes should be all about a disguised warship, we're certainly not going to be hoisting the Hayard Gunnes flag prior to firing. habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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Oct 2, 2018 00:25
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thetruegentleman posted:A favor isn't the best prize, but one missile system isn't worth the hassle of defending. If we can get the ship to a port, we could offload the missile systems and take them to a base that'll be defended anyway. They fit in shipping containers so all we should need are a couple flatbeds. A one-off strike by some 5th gen fighters could definitely be useful, either for helping to clear out this anti-air network or as backup the next time we find ourselves in some ridiculous Ace Combat scenario, but I think the launchers will be more useful in the long run. Plus, who knows what kind of shenanigans we could get up to with an innocuous looking freighter. It doesn't have to be armed to be useful. It's just be more fun if it is. If nothing else we could park a ZSU or a Pantsir on it's deck if we ever need to give the Tokyo Bay Fortress an escort.
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Oct 2, 2018 01:59
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Night10194 posted:gently caress the missiles, steal that nougat and we'll eat like kings. KINGS! are our medics up to handling a gout epidemic? sink the ship
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Oct 2, 2018 03:38
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Frankly the 5th gen action is better than the missiles. We already have amazing cruise missiles. sink the ship
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Oct 2, 2018 04:03
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Sink it as long as we can nick any intel first.
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Oct 2, 2018 04:15
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TheDemon posted:Frankly the 5th gen action is better than the missiles. We already have amazing cruise missiles. sink the ship Agreed. The Klub-K really is a one-use system anyways. No way in hell the Russians are gonna give us reloads once we blow through the missiles. Some F-35s would be hugely helpful busting up the 3DP SAM Wall o' Death. Sink the boat, Jimmy!
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Oct 2, 2018 04:22
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So we either get the missile platforms but no reloads (likely) or a favor from a corp in whatever form that happens? Presuming we sink the boat, can we board it first to search fro intel/evac the crew/nab the nougat/ and put in scuttling charges? Also I'm not sure it's really viable to repair it - even presume we can tow it, it'd require a shipyard to make it seaworthy and that's gonna be hugely expensive - we have to tug it there too. So probalby not worth it unless we want to sell it to someone to scrap. So, what is more useful? The launchers or the favor? We can -probably- get in a boarding op under the justificatio nwe want to use scuttling charges and nab some stuff.
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Oct 2, 2018 04:44
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Search and sink !
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Oct 2, 2018 04:58
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If we board the ship and find that there's nothing there to loot can we have it "sink" on the way to port?
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Oct 2, 2018 06:17
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Sink the boat! Armed freighters are fun but corp favour is
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Oct 2, 2018 07:36
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Sink the boat Our marginal airframes need practice with iron bombs. Call it a SINKEX. Let’s see what it takes to de float that motherfucker. Let’s broadcast that info far and wide. Give any remaining crew a chance to evacuate and also let Mars know we’re doing their dirty work for them. Then we sneak a team onboard, quick intel sweep before dropping the hammer. slothrop fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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Oct 2, 2018 10:21
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Voting keep the boat because cmano will let us bolt hillarious weapons systems to it and we have a fleet to rebuild. Let's give them sailors some work to do!
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Oct 2, 2018 11:04
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Yooper posted:If we don't get to it shortly then Mars is going to have it sunk in place. Getting a barge, with a crane, to the freighter and get everything unloaded in short order is not going to happen. Mars won't sink it if it's crewed, which gives us the opportunity to abscond with it. Okay, in that case, just board the ship, try to get some intel and/or some booze and nougats and then sink the fucker. Stream it via Reaper cam for that sweet, sweet social media interaction. Like, share & subscribe to HG youtube channel.
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Oct 2, 2018 11:14
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Gervasius posted:Okay, in that case, just board the ship, try to get some intel and/or some booze and nougats and then sink the fucker. Stream it via Reaper cam for that sweet, sweet social media interaction. Stream the boarding, the info-stealing, and us sinking it. What do we call the youtube vid? Hayard Gunes Sink War Crimes Boat? RandomPauI fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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Oct 2, 2018 11:25
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RandomPauI posted:What deo we It's legitimate salvage and disposal of hazardous floating object. Do you want to risk derelict ship with unstable and unknown explosives on board to drift into shipping lanes? And no country will allow it to enter their waters. That's why our well-trained personnel will undertake this hazardous mission and remove this terrible danger from one of Mediterranean busiest waterways and for absolutely no cost to taxpayers of Italy, Greece, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Oct 2, 2018 11:44
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Gervasius posted:It's legitimate salvage and disposal of hazardous floating object. Do you want to risk derelict ship with unstable and unknown explosives on board to drift into shipping lanes? And no country will allow it to enter their waters. Well put sir. You have a sparkling, tumescent future in the HG Press Office
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Oct 2, 2018 12:59
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Honestly, I figured we would be streaming and recording everything we do anyway. That is the (not at all distant) future of warfare.
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Oct 2, 2018 13:16
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Likewise I assume Saab etc. advertise on our channel. "Hey look how good our planes are, buy some!" Also voting to keep the boat just because that seems like it'd lead to goofier outcomes.
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Oct 2, 2018 13:43
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Sink it thatbastardken is correct, gout will destroy us if we give in to the temptation of all that nougat.
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Oct 2, 2018 13:47
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Gervasius posted:It's legitimate salvage and disposal of hazardous floating object. Do you want to risk derelict ship with unstable and unknown explosives on board to drift into shipping lanes? And no country will allow it to enter their waters. I like this.
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Oct 2, 2018 15:12
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Right. We'll kill it. First we'll send in a few Albanian boats with our mercs as "advisers" along with air support close at hand. The smell of nougat is drifting towards Gjader and it's becoming overpowering. And some loving retirement HOA sent us a nasty letter telling us to clean that poo poo up. loving HOA's. That neighborhood is now marked as ordnance disposal
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Oct 3, 2018 02:35
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Yooper posted:And some loving retirement HOA sent us a nasty letter telling us to clean that poo poo up. loving HOA's. That neighborhood is now marked as ordnance disposal We have Saturday Night Fever, a surplus of Elvis impersonator era leisure suits. We know that leisure suits burn like napalm. DEATH TO DISCO
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Oct 3, 2018 04:55
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wedgekree posted:We have Saturday Night Fever, a surplus of Elvis impersonator era leisure suits. We know that leisure suits burn like napalm. It's time for a literal Disco Inferno.
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Oct 3, 2018 05:00
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Could we get some surplus 500 lb bombs and do them up like disco balls while we do the disposal run?
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Oct 3, 2018 05:03
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power crystals posted:Likewise I assume Saab etc. advertise on our channel. "Hey look how good our planes are, buy some!" Yooper posted:
I think the furries beat Saab to the ad game... Hopefully they'll get outbid next quarter and Saab can stick a gaudy looking Griffon on the tail and do some "aggressive marketing."  (Seriously though, that tail art is a gem in all the best-worst ways. Congrats on finding the worst Tiger Meet tailart ever, Yooper!) Bacarruda fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Oct 3, 2018 |
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Oct 3, 2018 07:56
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 Mission #8 - Nougat Negative We have "borrowed" two vessels and filled it to the brim with Albanians and a couple of Chingoala advisors. Should they find anything interesting we'll move ahead with a different operation. But if all they find is a mega freighter filled with nougat...  Sparkmaster departs in his Mirage F.1CR along with MEAT in the Reaper. Both are strictly recon birds and pick up a navigation radar still emitting from the freighter.  Sparkmaster reaches station and begins his orbit. The Albanians will arrive in approximately two hours. Even now the smell of nougat is sickly sweet across the Adriatic.  Both of our aircraft are on station. The Albanians are now 1:18 out from target. The freighter is still emitting but nothing that gives us any worries. (Sorry about the timestamps, slipped my mind).  At 8.3 nm all is still clear.  A new radar emits from the freighter. The Albanians take it up a notch. So far all we can see is it's a surface to surface radar.   Oh poo poo.  Oh shittity poo poo.  Oh poo poo^3  Huh.  Both ships take evasive maneuvers! The vampires are 30 ft ASL and coming in fast.  With an enormous splash the first vampire tumbles into the sea with nary a spark. A second missile is coming in fast!  The second missile is a direct hit. So direct that even the debris is blown up.   The Gorge la Borge is gaining speed and trying to dodge incoming missiles! But alas, the Albanian Nougat League is no more.  Seeing as this thing has some teeth left, it's time for the Hired Goons to do it the old fashioned way. Warcrimes.  First up is Powerthighs and Tourist in the Mig-27K Flogger J's with ZAB-2.5SM cluster munitions.   Both aircraft drop down to 300 ft ASL and take it up to 580 kts.  PowerThights hits the IP first and goes up to 800 ft.  A flash erupts from the deck of the ship and a SAM leaps into the air.  PowerThighs weaves and in a split second dodges the incoming missile!   And it's not over! PowerThighs, 300 ft ASL, has incoming tracers on either side.  Between the SAM and AAA PowerThighs has to dive and is too low to safely drop those beautiful warcrime cylinders.  Tourist has no such issues and releases.   In the moment before the canisters strike the Bofors open up on Tourist.  One of the canisters is a hit!    PowerThighs comes in for another run, releasing just as the Bofors opens up.   Oddly enough the Bofors continues to fire and the radars are both still active... Billowing clouds of black smoke rise above the sea. A raging inferno engulfs the nougat. For us, it's time to send in the next wave of strike aircraft.  Two wings of Hired Goons break out over the Adriatic.  Snake poo poo-Johnny Five, White Glove - Sponsored by Vitamin Water, Thunderlips-Slam Jam, and Mcgibby-Hateball are in F-15C Akef's mounting GBU-15's. Leading the way is Grumio, Peeping Tom, Random Paul, and Gervasius in the MIG-21's with good old fashioned KAB-500Kr's.  The MIG's are the first to reach the freighter but comically enough the F-15's release sooner. One by one the Eagle's break off and claim there spot at the "Flight Line" bar & grill. But, sensing a chance, the MIG's launch a full salvo and hope to claim the kill before the Eagle's glide bombs can reach the target!  The KAB-500KR's lead the way, dropping silently through the air towards the giant mass of seething, burning, tasty, nougat.  All of the KAB-500's slam into the foundering freighter!   lol One by one the GBU-15's hammer into the freighter.  And then, in a display of pyrotechnics unseen since the firebombing of Hershey's 2022, the SV Snickers detonates. The wreckage slowly breaks apart and slips to its final resting place 1,000 meters below the sea. The final blow goes to the GBU-15 and the Eagles manage to snatch victory from the jaws of the MIG-21's. At that, all of our birds make for Gjader. The Adriatic safe once again. The way back though reminds everyone that a long slog is ahead as flickers of SAM radars, OECM, and armored units roll in.
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Really digging the new format, this owns.
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Oct 4, 2018 00:20
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Oh dear...
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YEAAAAAHHHHH EAT CLUSTER BOMBS YOU PIECE OF poo poo Also what in the gently caress was that thing?! We were hit by anti-ship and anti-air missiles and active AAA! How the hell do you get that many guns on a tanker!? And more importantly, can we do it ourselves eventually?
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Oct 4, 2018 00:48
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Panamax freighters are kinda big.
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Dr. Snark posted:YEAAAAAHHHHH EAT CLUSTER BOMBS YOU PIECE OF poo poo Sure, but the same thing will happen to it.
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