Ensign Expendable posted:T-34 was basically World of Tanks: The Movie. I still haven't seen it, maybe I can do a video series on awful Russian war movies. Do it, I love comically bad and weird war movies.
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best bale posted:Poilu The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker 1914-1918 I mean he sources quotes constantly from our sardonic barrel maker and his current avatar is of him now.
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Jan 26, 2021 17:19
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Still fighting the good cause, I really need to get that book.
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Jan 26, 2021 17:37
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Does being assassinated moments after taking power count?
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Jan 29, 2021 06:33
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Yes, we and a lot of other people would greatly appreciate it still.
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Feb 1, 2021 23:18
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'Excuse me, I am looking for Landwehr?' 'Oh sorry, they are over there look for the peaked forage caps...'
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Feb 4, 2021 18:37
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wdarkk posted:This is reminding me that a history teacher mentioned a trench or ravine at Waterloo that essentially acted as a horse juice squeezer when the French cavalry tried to charge across not realizing it was there – is that a real thing or was it made up? It was more of the rise of the ridge and the edges of the nearby Farm House sort of funneling them together making it very hard to manauver or use their full mass.
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Feb 8, 2021 05:39
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Cessna posted:Why not just: Thatoneguyintimecommanders.jpeg
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Feb 8, 2021 18:35
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I think I see what you mean, but I feel like what you're picking up on is that this is an extremely stripped-down, minimalistic war machine. That's more down to the limitations they were operating under (being unable to afford pleasantries) and the fact that it's a rocket plane (which doesn't need lifting surfaces, just control surfaces, thus the tiny wings) than it is to any particular evil on the part of the designers, I think. I feel like I'd get a similar grim brutality from pretty much any cheap-but-lethal machine, anyway. It's awful when you isolate the concept but sadly it yet another note in the horrifying crimes against humanity concerto that is the 2nd World War.
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Feb 17, 2021 07:15
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GotLag posted:Edit: The Kangaroos didn't even have seats, just eight dudes awkwardly milling around in an empty turret well and trying not to stand on the drive shaft Now now, some of the men squatted or sat on their packs.
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Feb 17, 2021 14:41
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Beardless posted:Now that you point it out, absolutely. I think it's the dog-end combined with the multiple (looted?) rings. My god, I see it too.
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Feb 19, 2021 00:30
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Haha technology also oh god.
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Feb 21, 2021 17:03
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Solid find.
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Feb 26, 2021 14:08
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Plundering the population does not end well.
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Mar 3, 2021 17:21
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Nenonen posted:Britain just can't catch a break Vaguely related, I watched Waterloo as I usually do every one or two years and it still cracks me up the movie barely shows you why the Union Brigade is attacking. Just a brief shot of a battery being briefly sabered without mentioning the whole scattering a divisional level amount of men before they run out of steam and are lanced.
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Mar 4, 2021 17:48
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Twice the visual range to track where the parts fell off at!
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Mar 5, 2021 15:30
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Tree Bucket posted:I feel like there's got to be a strong correlation between browsing this sort of thread, and happy childhood hours spent going "oohh" at Stephen Biesty's lovingly-rendered illustrations of arrow-studded corpses being hauled from a moat by a dude with a big hook. There is, every time I see that image or the talk of the castle I grin remembering the same drat book.
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Mar 6, 2021 15:47
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I have one of the old pre-prequel era SW era cross section books with a bunch of a OT trilogy props they went crazy with and I refuse to get rid of it.
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Mar 6, 2021 18:20
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Libluini posted:I'd consider The Legend of the Galactic Heroes future milhist anime. A perfect mix. *nods quietly and vaguely gestures whilst drinking wine*
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Mar 10, 2021 21:08
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White Coke posted:Are the crimes committed by criminals who use robots? Drunks, Yakuza, the odd KGB Agent...
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Mar 11, 2021 11:37
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To me they seemed to be a combination of Sweden, Medieval pre-Russia and parts of the PLC. Being a fantasy creation and all they can be two things or more.
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Mar 11, 2021 14:15
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White Coke posted:So they fight human crimes? Or are there KGBots? They fight idiots who hijack giant robots and assume having a giant robot is the only thing you get is the one step to profit. Also, hunger and the general irritation of the public. It's more of a 'what is the regional cops have access to giant robots but are still sort of tired midlly annoyed cops doing day to day' than 'HOLY poo poo THESE COMMANDO ELITE GOT TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM EXPLODING' sort of deal, well except oddly enough that movie already mentioned. It's like Police Academy too in some ways, but it actually makes effort. SerCypher posted:Armor Hunter Mellowlink! Metal Gear Boss Fight; The Anime. Just imagine a Gruff Snake type using his brains and little resources to murder assholes with giant robots without a giant robot.
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Mar 12, 2021 11:43
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It took a few attempts to really settle and take the fight to Spain, The Anglo-Portugeese forces had to dance back and forth between Portugal and and Spain's borders dealing with fortresses and several Marshals after returning with the three different versions of Spain's resistence trying to consolidate themselves enough to push back the Bonapartists. During this whole time too the Royal Navy is doing all kinds of antics as well.
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Mar 25, 2021 17:48
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Georgian satire drawing geese pecking at French soldiers on Spanish boder.
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Mar 26, 2021 17:26
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Nobody likes burning seamen.
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Mar 28, 2021 15:15
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I remember my old man telling me they had instructions to put people out their misery if the proposed Sarin attacks occured and things were overwhelmed.
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Mar 31, 2021 15:09
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Also I bought a flintlock musket recently and was going to share pics, but the delivery company managed to snap the stock of it in transport so now I'm frantically getting some wood glue to try and repair some of the damage. FSFGGGSSHGHGFGHghj! Seriously!
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Apr 1, 2021 21:49
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Does the Buffalo have a pickehaube?
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Apr 7, 2021 18:31
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That certainly is a Buffalo.
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Apr 7, 2021 19:14
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ArchangeI posted:Yes, I am sure there was absolutely nothing else Sweden was doing at the time that kept the Germans from attacking. Ore? what ore? we have none now. Now if you excuse me, I am going to count my bloody money in the corner.
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Apr 9, 2021 21:37
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SerCypher posted:Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free. Oh god don't ask a Nazi to milk a cow.
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Apr 10, 2021 00:43
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Hunt11 posted:I would be morbidly interested to see what type of horrific machinery they would design to do it. Imagine each horrible scenario for that cow as every competing Nazi and their departments rush to extract milk. Most end with the cow dead or somehow worse by many means with the milk barely extracted, not extracted at all (but spinned to be a good thing) or somehow tracked and on fire.
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Apr 10, 2021 05:12
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They used Y-Lighter barges as well when they could in the 1st World War.
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Apr 24, 2021 00:12
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I for one enjoyed their series that covered the wars, you are just a stick in the mud grouch.
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Apr 24, 2021 11:06
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Alright, explain to me why that series was wrong because I saw through all of the Napoleonic Wars stuff and it was pretty on and to the point with the play by play of the battles and time line stuff. Aside from the dumb name of the production company and the Wikipedia asset info graphics I legit cannot see the reason for your complaints now.
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Apr 24, 2021 13:31
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Tiger Crazy posted:So pretty much the same thing that was used when landing troops 200 years earlier. I should have expected not much changed going into WWI much like the rest of the war. So yeah, this is that strange 'Backwards 1st World War Stuff' misunderstanding that unconsciously rears it's ugly head because of the passage of time and how things change we cannot comprehend that said conflict like all wars bridged technology and tactics that change and develop over time and experince.
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Apr 24, 2021 13:44
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FastestGunAlive posted:My favorite history channel show as a kid was clash of warriors, the music was iconic to me Intolrance? Also, Epic History has nothing to do with the History Channel as the man behind the thing apparently left in 2013?
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Apr 24, 2021 18:04
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Pre-War British Army, even with the territorials is smol compared to the scarily conscript backed armies of everyone else. But hey we're good at holding the corners of Belgium up! The BEF, that thing you wedge under a piece of squeaky furniture.
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Apr 24, 2021 19:59
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I imagine for something that size and carrying that many things they'd either drop the stuff off somewhere safe or have a huge screen of boats to prevent any kind of attacking thing going on.
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Apr 28, 2021 21:55
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Step 1) Oh god our officers and commanders haven't fought a proper war since Napoleon. Step 2) OH GOD WHY. Step 3) Found a college after said war and really crack down on the whole cash for comission thing. A gross over simplification I know, but comedy forums.
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