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xthetenth posted:That stuff may as well be Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz for practical purposes. Pronounced "Gregor Breshkywicks" I assume
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FAUXTON posted:Pronounced "Gregor Breshkywicks" I assume and Tzschitzschnig is the perfectly manageable Chich-nig, it's just the Latin alphabet isn't set up to make these noises von Brietzschke
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HEY GAL posted:and Tzschitzschnig is the perfectly manageable Chich-nig, it's just the Latin alphabet isn't set up to make these noises They also sound the way Tamil looks.
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FAUXTON posted:Pronounced "Gregor Breshkywicks" I assume http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlOoSsfU6cM
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The character's real name turns out to be Franek Dolas. I just found out that the actor playing him died two weeks ago.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:So how is Dan Carlin's 6 part Hardcore History podcast series on WWI? I haven't listened to his stuff in a few years now so I don't know if he's maybe gone off the libertarian deep end or something. It's ok but he really likes grand narratives that focus on how important individuals were. It's fine for overview stuff but I kind of wanted to punch him while he was talking about the assassination and run up to war. He also leans a lot on old scholarship from what I recall.
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StashAugustine posted:Being a wargamer means accepting that your hobby is about simulating the lives of lots of really horrible people. Sorry if this is too off-topic, but are the CounterInsurgency games any good? I could never afford one 
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Courage and Air Warfare -- The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War To the guy who was asking about aircrews, I spotted this title while looking for other stuff. Anyone ever read it or heard of it? The blurb for the book quote:Despite the quantity of material written about the Combined Bomber Offensive during the Second World War, the full human dimension of air combat has not been thoroughly explored. This book investigates the unique nature of aerial warfare and the men who took part. It analyses aircrew selection, reaction to combat, adaptability to stress, morale, leadership and combat effectiveness. First-hand reflections of combat flyers, published materials, reports and official documents are used to compare the efforts of the US Eighth Air Force and RAF Bomber Command.
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xthetenth posted:Hieronymous. My mum wanted to call me Obadiah. Also consider Praisegod or Jesus-came-into-the-world-to-save.
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SquadronROE posted:Ah, I thought tankers were just "Armored" units or something. Not cavalry. I think I'm confusing them with the MOS of Cavalry Scout, which seems kind of obvious. Scouting around in Humm-vees and looking at things through fancy glasses. There are armies that arent America's. British armoured regiments are mostly former actual horsey cavalry for instance (once it became clear those dreadful plebeian machines were here to stay).
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HEY GAL posted:name the kid tilly if catholic, maurice if protestant Have you met any Swedish dudes named Christian? 
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Tias posted:Sorry if this is too off-topic, but are the CounterInsurgency games any good? I could never afford one They're great, come chat about them in the Wargames thread.
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feedmegin posted:There are armies that arent America's. British armoured regiments are mostly former actual horsey cavalry for instance (once it became clear those dreadful plebeian machines were here to stay). Do they still delegate a portion of their forces to hold the horses?
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Gonna dump a few pics I found amusing. Swedish Centurion fitted with experimental steel chain standoff screens. August 1976.     
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TheFluff posted:Gonna dump a few pics I found amusing. Swedish Centurion fitted with experimental steel chain standoff screens. August 1976. Haha, did they work at all?
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If this is off-topic or there's a better thread, let me know, but: What about them submarines? I realize I know almost nothing about post-WW2 subs. In particular (because of a nerd cyberpunk storygame I'm GM'ing) I'd like to know what sort of hydro-onics(?) are available for surveying underwater, both at the present day and what might be available in the next seventy years. I know about water-proof videography for recreational use, but doesn't the military or scientific fields deploy long-range/depth cameras based on sound or laser? Tias fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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Hogge Wild posted:Haha, did they work at all? Well, kinda. They were intended to provide protection against HEAT, since the BMP-1's gun provided a cheap and ubiquitous mechanized means to defeat older tanks like the Centurion (the accuracy of that gun was absolute garbage though, but that wasn't well known in the West at the time). If you were lucky the round would tumble and not go off at all, but in most cases all you got was a modest (~25% on average) reduction in penetration depth. Problem was, even small HEAT rounds had more than enough pen left over after that reduction to easily penetrate the front of a Centurion. Instead the solution turned out to be ERA, but that was in the 1980's.
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feedmegin posted:My mum wanted to call me Obadiah. My dad considered Wolfgang for a second kid he never had. Instead I got a name that's been running in the family since the mid 1700s. Considering that part of the family's from Prussia, I shared the fate of a bunch of towns in the eastern US. I can think of worse names to get. Like Wolfgang. One of his uncles got named Abel Telemachus. Uncle AT was the town drunk, and I think we all know why.
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Tias posted:If this is off-topic or there's a better thread, let me know, but: What about them submarines? I realize I know almost nothing about post-WW2 subs. Sonar buoys are commonly used for tracking submarines. Not directly related, but my Dad volunteered at a hospice where a WWII vet told him about flying anti-submarine air patrol out of Florida. They'd deploy those buoys and listen for the presence of U-boats, then fly out with depth charges if they found one. It was all very secret - he wasn't even supposed to be telling about it on his deathbed. He was told the general population would lose their poo poo if they knew how many German U-boats were at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
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I know about Sonar, but suppose you'd like a video feed of something happening below your craft, underwater. What would you use?
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Deteriorata posted:Sonar buoys are commonly used for tracking submarines. This site is cool: http://uboat.net/maps/
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feedmegin posted:My mum wanted to call me Obadiah. Probably a good idea she didn't. It might have been a bar to advancement, following the restoration of Charles II.
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Tias posted:Sorry if this is too off-topic, but are the CounterInsurgency games any good? I could never afford one Cuba Libre (Castro's insurgency in 1950's) and Falling Sky (Caesar in Gaul) are both coming out in the next month or so, so you can grab them for preorder now or get them for list price when they come out. They are both smaller games that are good for players new to the system.
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Tias posted:I know about Sonar, but suppose you'd like a video feed of something happening below your craft, underwater. What would you use? Light is attenuated by water before it gets very far, even in clear waters. You won't see more than 100 feet. If you use bright lights with your video equipment, you'll just illuminate the little bits in the water back at your camera like car headlamps in fog. Your best bet for getting video-like images would be high-frequency sonar.
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Tias posted:I know about Sonar, but suppose you'd like a video feed of something happening below your craft, underwater. What would you use? I work in offshore survey right now so I can perhaps give some idea from the civilian side. If you want to take video underwater you pretty much put the type of camera you want to use in a pressure housing and away you go. The problem is that light disperses much more quickly in water than in air and normally there is a lot of turbidity in seawater so you can't see far. Also, if you go to any sort of depth beyond 50 m or so you need to take lights, otherwise it is pretty much completely dark. Video is normally used to grab pictures of specific things (a fish, damage on a pipeline, etc.) or so that remotely operated vehicle (ROV) pilots can see what they are doing while working. You would not normally put one on the bottom of a boat unless you are working in really shallow water since you won't be able to see very far. It would be pretty much useless for trying to detect a submarine. Most sub-sea search work, hydrographic survey, and sub-sea positioning is still done acoustically and probably always will be. Sound travels a very long way through water and it is much easier to process acoustic data rather than images. On the civilian side there have been a lot of advances in the last 25 years or so in multibeam echosounders and side-scan sonar. There has also been a lot of work recently with mounting these on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). AUVs are actually a big deal in offshore survey right now and I would be very surprised if the military is not actively working on them as well. There are some applications for airborne lidar in shallow-water and surf-zone mapping. Scanning lasers are sometimes used sub-sea to make 3D models of structures and the like. Both applications are rather niche. If you have any specific questions I can try to answer but my knowledge is of civilian rather than military applications.
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A_Bluenoser posted:I work in offshore survey right now so I can perhaps give some idea from the civilian side. The players will have to see a Bad Thing(tm) coming up under the fishing vessel they're on, and this being 2070 sci fi setting, I'm assuming a boat like that would be able to map some of the water below it. I think I've got enough to go on, thanks a lot!
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Tias posted:The players will have to see a Bad Thing(tm) coming up under the fishing vessel they're on, and this being 2070 sci fi setting, I'm assuming a boat like that would be able to map some of the water below it. I think I've got enough to go on, thanks a lot! Pretty much any large recreational fishing vessel these days will have a single-beam echo sounder to determine the depth below keel. Something big coming up from below could manifest as the water becoming shallower very fast. Many commercial and recreational fishing vessels also have what is called a "fish finder". This is a sort of scanning sonar that generates a return from a fish's air bladder and gives a rough range and bearing to the fish (or school of fish). That would probably give exactly the effect you want.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Have you met any Swedish dudes named Christian?
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consider maximiliana for a girl, the patriotic choice also i have seen guys with the last names Narciss or von Venus and I am almost certain they're aliases, like the guy with the last name Soeldner. I do not know if Friedrich Fürcht-dich-nicht's last name was his real one or not. HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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Pick Praiseworthy something for a name.
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I recently learned I have an Appolonia in my family tree. It's a good name for a girl.
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Rockopolis posted:Pick Praiseworthy something for a name. Lots of good ones here. I'm partial to Eusebius or Quartus for a boy, Keziah or Vecula for a girl.
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Deteriorata posted:Lots of good ones here. I've found sixteen guys so far with the last name Kretzschmeyer in various Saxon units between 1619 and 1646.
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Squalid posted:Yeah, and they were only going three miles from their base. Whoops. From a bit back, but I honestly always thought of this when doing PCCs. It's good motivation to do them properly!
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For medieval names I always liked Lilli or Millicent. I think that last one came up itt recently? A_Bluenoser posted:Pretty much any large recreational fishing vessel these days will have a single-beam echo sounder to determine the depth below keel. Something big coming up from below could manifest as the water becoming shallower very fast. Many commercial and recreational fishing vessels also have what is called a "fish finder". This is a sort of scanning sonar that generates a return from a fish's air bladder and gives a rough range and bearing to the fish (or school of fish). That would probably give exactly the effect you want. You, sir, are a wu-tang shogun <3 Thanks a lot!
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"My wife just gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl!" "So how will you name them?" "Wroth and Pain, naturally" "Naturally" I so hope at least one of those people accidentally named their kid Incontinence.
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I almost forgot Dodo von Innhausen und Knyphausen! A talented general for the Swedes, some Osprey dude says he did very well at Luetzen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_zu_Innhausen_und_Knyphausen I don't think it's short for anything, I think he's just East Friesian. His brother was named Enno. Edit: another relative was named Edzard von Innhausen und Knyphausen 
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Cyrano4747 posted:It's ok but he really likes grand narratives that focus on how important individuals were. It's fine for overview stuff but I kind of wanted to punch him while he was talking about the assassination and run up to war. He also leans a lot on old scholarship from what I recall. He does this a lot and also the ted talk thing of dressing up bong rip thoughts, like: woah can you imagine how insane thw conquistadors must have been to travel to America?? Woooahhhhhhhh. Also he called the Tatar invasion of Europe a blitzkrieg, a crime for which I will one day run him over with a tank.
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Talking elsewhere about cool and casual ways to approach history and this dude was brought up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbhANeJL_T4 Dude is really full of poo poo.
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Kemper Boyd posted:Talking elsewhere about cool and casual ways to approach history and this dude was brought up. i am not even going to click on that gently caress you for posting it
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