Infantry Discussion Thread, Pattern 7: Sword Edition.

[Yukonastan]

Nation development, obv. You know the phrase "shoot twice and go home", right?

Yes, it was the response from the Swiss to German threats of invasion, so why would it be a tradition for every soldier to fire two shots in any military?

Because no reason. Besides, YEF ~= every military ever.

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Y27 short recoil sidearm, 7.2x24mm pills.

[Purpelia]

Nation development, obv. You know the phrase "shoot twice and go home", right?

Yes, it was the response from the Swiss to German threats of invasion, so why would it be a tradition for every soldier to fire two shots in any military?

Maybe they are firing 5.56 paintball and they need to fire twice so their enemies will at least notice they are being hit?

[Nirvash Type TheEND]

Yes, it was the response from the Swiss to German threats of invasion, so why would it be a tradition for every soldier to fire two shots in any military?

Maybe they are firing 5.56 paintball and they need to fire twice so their enemies will at least notice they are being hit?

Fact: Hitting ONE soldier with TWO 5.56 rounds makes it take FOUR soldiers to carry him away.

Simple arithmetic.

[Husseinarti]

Yes, it was the response from the Swiss to German threats of invasion, so why would it be a tradition for every soldier to fire two shots in any military?

Because no reason. Besides, YEF ~= every military ever.

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Y27 short recoil sidearm, 7.2x24mm pills.

Yeah IRL armies are much better anyway.

[Yukonastan]

Yes, it was the response from the Swiss to German threats of invasion, so why would it be a tradition for every soldier to fire two shots in any military?

Maybe they are firing 5.56 paintball and they need to fire twice so their enemies will at least notice they are being hit?

Purp, no. This is like a ceremonial thing. A unit comes back from war, an old bolt-action rifle is drawn from the armory for each platoon, and everyone is given a charger with two cartridges or blanks (necked up 64mm Brenneke have yet to decide whether to put a pill in or no), and they fire those off before boarding the aircraft or ship back home, thus symbolizing "Shoot twice and go home". This relates to the Swiss, who have a policy of armed neutrality, which I'm supposed to have IC-ly. you wouldn't believe the neutrality policy if you followed my ii shenanigans, heh

[Husseinarti]

Maybe they are firing 5.56 paintball and they need to fire twice so their enemies will at least notice they are being hit?

Purp, no. This is like a ceremonial thing. A unit comes back from war, an old bolt-action rifle is drawn from the armory for each platoon, and everyone is given a charger with two cartridges or blanks (necked up 64mm Brenneke have yet to decide whether to put a pill in or no), and they fire those off before boarding the aircraft or ship back home, thus symbolizing "Shoot twice and go home". This relates to the Swiss, who have a policy of armed neutrality, which I'm supposed to have IC-ly. you wouldn't believe the neutrality policy if you followed my ii shenanigans, heh

Then it gets sunk be an SSK.

[Yukonastan]

Purp, no. This is like a ceremonial thing. A unit comes back from war, an old bolt-action rifle is drawn from the armory for each platoon, and everyone is given a charger with two cartridges or blanks (necked up 64mm Brenneke have yet to decide whether to put a pill in or no), and they fire those off before boarding the aircraft or ship back home, thus symbolizing "Shoot twice and go home". This relates to the Swiss, who have a policy of armed neutrality, which I'm supposed to have IC-ly. you wouldn't believe the neutrality policy if you followed my ii shenanigans, heh

Then it gets sunk be an SSK.

Yeah, obviously you're going to be sunk by an SSK(N) when you're coming back from waging peace in a disaster-afflicted region.

[Sevvania]

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This is hnng.

everyone is given a charger with two cartridges or blanks (necked up 64mm Brenneke have yet to decide whether to put a pill in or no), and they fire those off before boarding the aircraft or ship back home, thus symbolizing "Shoot twice and go home".

I was under the impression that "shoot twice and go home" was related to a display of token resistance, rather than some sort of rite of passage.

Edit: But after a quick Google search, I now see the original context.

[Fordorsia]

Maybe they are firing 5.56 paintball and they need to fire twice so their enemies will at least notice they are being hit?

Purp, no. This is like a ceremonial thing. A unit comes back from war, an old bolt-action rifle is drawn from the armory for each platoon, and everyone is given a charger with two cartridges or blanks (necked up 64mm Brenneke have yet to decide whether to put a pill in or no), and they fire those off before boarding the aircraft or ship back home, thus symbolizing "Shoot twice and go home". This relates to the Swiss, who have a policy of armed neutrality, which I'm supposed to have IC-ly. you wouldn't believe the neutrality policy if you followed my ii shenanigans, heh

Taking a quote from someone's response to threats of invasion and turning it into a tradition within your own nation still makes no sense. The most sense that could make if it was implimented at a time when an invader had roughly double your military strength (the origin of the phrase), but even that is stretching it since you're not Switzerland responding to German threats. The quote has nothing to do with neutrality.

[Yukonastan]

(Image)

This is hnng.

everyone is given a charger with two cartridges or blanks (necked up 64mm Brenneke have yet to decide whether to put a pill in or no), and they fire those off before boarding the aircraft or ship back home, thus symbolizing "Shoot twice and go home".

I was under the impression that "shoot twice and go home" was related to a display of token resistance, rather than some sort of rite of passage.

Hey, IC nation development. I can take the display of token resistance and turn it into a ceremonial affair, no?

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Purp, no. This is like a ceremonial thing. A unit comes back from war, an old bolt-action rifle is drawn from the armory for each platoon, and everyone is given a charger with two cartridges or blanks (necked up 64mm Brenneke have yet to decide whether to put a pill in or no), and they fire those off before boarding the aircraft or ship back home, thus symbolizing "Shoot twice and go home". This relates to the Swiss, who have a policy of armed neutrality, which I'm supposed to have IC-ly. you wouldn't believe the neutrality policy if you followed my ii shenanigans, heh

Taking a quote from someone's response to threats of invasion and turning it into a tradition within your own nation still makes no sense. The most sense that could make if it was implimented at a time when an invader had roughly double your military strength (the origin of the phrase), but even that is stretching it since you're not Switzerland responding to German threats. The quote has nothing to do with neutrality.

It's like purp and his bloody helmet spikes, ever thought that I may be working on my nation's history and traditions/ceremonial bullshit that may have come from that?

[Nirvash Type TheEND]

This is hnng.

I was under the impression that "shoot twice and go home" was related to a display of token resistance, rather than some sort of rite of passage.

Hey, IC nation development. I can take the display of token resistance and turn it into a ceremonial affair, no?

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Taking a quote from someone's response to threats of invasion and turning it into a tradition within your own nation still makes no sense. The most sense that could make if it was implimented at a time when an invader had roughly double your military strength (the origin of the phrase), but even that is stretching it since you're not Switzerland responding to German threats. The quote has nothing to do with neutrality.

It's like purp and his bloody helmet spikes, ever thought that I may be working on my nation's history and traditions/ceremonial bullshit that may have come from that?

I drench everything in period blood. Do what you want. Don't let the man keep you down.

[Puzikas]

I think it'd look better without the AK takedown button and funky stock. That may just be me though.

I made this one before the collapsing one:



Also, here's the blowback version:

Everyone go home. Threads over.

[Fordorsia]

Hey, IC nation development. I can take the display of token resistance and turn it into a ceremonial affair, no?

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It's like purp and his bloody helmet spikes, ever thought that I may be working on my nation's history and traditions/ceremonial bullshit that may have come from that?

I drench everything in period blood. Do what you want. Don't let the man keep you down.

At least that makes sense given the (weird as fuck) origin. Intepreting an exchange between other countries as "we now shoot twice to symbolize...something" doesn't really.

I made this one before the collapsing one:



Also, here's the blowback version:

Everyone go home. Threads over.

But we haven't posted enough swords yet

[Nirvash Type TheEND]

I drench everything in period blood. Do what you want. Don't let the man keep you down.

At least that makes sense given the (weird as fuck) origin. Intepreting an exchange between other countries as "we now shoot twice to symbolize...something" doesn't really.

I'd have done it with or without a reason, just because I like the idea.

[Fordorsia]

At least that makes sense given the (weird as fuck) origin. Intepreting an exchange between other countries as "we now shoot twice to symbolize...something" doesn't really.

I'd have done it with or without a reason, just because I like the idea.

But you did have a reason, because you're a disgusting perverted blood fetishist

[Yukonastan]

Hey, IC nation development. I can take the display of token resistance and turn it into a ceremonial affair, no?

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It's like purp and his bloody helmet spikes, ever thought that I may be working on my nation's history and traditions/ceremonial bullshit that may have come from that?

I drench everything in period blood. Do what you want. Don't let the man keep you down.

Thanks for the moral support. *tears up*

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I drench everything in period blood. Do what you want. Don't let the man keep you down.

At least that makes sense given the (weird as fuck) origin. Intepreting an exchange between other countries as "we now shoot twice to symbolize...something" doesn't really.

I developed it some more, by the way. Both rounds will be incendiary tracer rounds fired at a Fordorsian flag.

But seriously, as I said, I'm working on the fucking history of Y'stan. Remember the Great Patriotic War, or WWII, or whatever you want to call it? Remember how Finland was very hard on the Russians during a portion of that called the Winter War? And the one called the Continuation War, as well as the Lapland War?

Remember how Y'stan is Finland and Sweden mixed with my dark and fucked up imagination?

[Nirvash Type TheEND]

I'd have done it with or without a reason, just because I like the idea.

But you did have a reason, because you're a disgusting perverted blood fetishist

It's not my fault I'm fascinated by the writhing formless communion.

[EsToVnIa]

L86s were used as both LSWs and DMRs, right?

[Spreewerke]

L86s were used as both LSWs and DMRs, right?

Anything can be a DMR with a large enough magazine and one of them there fancy scope optics.

[Nirvash Type TheEND]

L86s were used as both LSWs and DMRs, right?

Yes.

[The Archangel Conglomerate]

I am under the impression that they were initially meant to function as LSWs, but ended up being used more as DMRs. So. . . yes I guess.

[EsToVnIa]

L86s were used as both LSWs and DMRs, right?

Yes.

Even though it's in 5.56 NATO????

[Nirvash Type TheEND]

Yes.

Even though it's in 5.56 NATO????

Well I never said it made a good DMR.

[Yukonastan]

Yes.

Even though it's in 5.56 NATO????

Does the cartridge matter? A DMR is most often a straight derivative of one's service rifle, oftentimes firing the same ammunition as it, or it may fire a full-power cartridge currently in use for an MMG. Although at that point you're on the fuzzy line between DMRs and dedicated sniper rifles.

[Nirvash Type TheEND]

Even though it's in 5.56 NATO????

Does the cartridge matter? A DMR is most often a straight derivative of one's service rifle, oftentimes firing the same ammunition as it, or it may fire a full-power cartridge currently in use for an MMG. Although at that point you're on the fuzzy line between DMRs and dedicated sniper rifles.

But muh 800m effective range.