Macedonian Grand Empire wrote:Guys how will your military commanders react in a situation where the enemy is using human shields?
Kill the enemy. All of them. No quarter. Kill any troops doing such and anyone we can determine was involved in giving the order.
We don't typically do that, for a number of excellent reasons, but using noncombatants as human shields is the kind of thing where it needs to be made entirely clear to anyone thinking of doing it that, a) it doesn't work, and b) trying it will get you murdered, when otherwise you might have gotten to have a nice vacation in an Eahlisc POW camp (and we treat our POWs better than a lot of nations around here seem to treat their own citizens) and be sent home when the war's over. 'Cause if you show them that it works, they'll do it again. And again, and again.
We would attempt to avoid civilian casualties insofar as reasonably practical, but failing that, we'll at least make sure they die swiftly and have one hell of an escort to Wælheall.
Purpelia wrote:
That layout is... interesting. I mean on one hand it just looks that much simpler and space efficient than a MBT-70 style belt autoloader. And it looks much more like something I could justify having say in the late 60's and early 70's??? And on the other it really only has at the very best the capability to select between 4 different types of rounds...
So yeah... What are your opinions people? I am all ears.
That's how my Bradsweordes autoloader is set up, except the Bradsweord has three tiers of six and six, for a total of 36 rounds, six of which are immediately accessible. It can put rounds back into the racks, too, so it's theoretically possible, if you've got empty slots, to shuffle rounds between racks to get at ones further back, but this is time-consuming and seldom a good idea in practice. That feature's for rearranging your loadout during downtime; in combat you're probably better off just shooting the rounds ahead of the one you really want at something. Or for reloading, though if you're doing more than a few rounds it's faster to open the blowout panels and just shove 'em directly into the racks from the back.
The Bradsweord's all computerized; it electronically interrogates each round and tracks what's in which slot, and presents the gunner with an easy-to-read diagram to select rounds from.
Hmm. Maybe I should do that for the Bradsweordes autoloader. I've got half the modeling for it done already.