Infantry Discussion Thread part 11: Gallas Razor edition.

[Fordorsia]

If water and mud are your main concerns in a particular environment regarding boots, issue wellies.

[Triplebaconation]

I'm so glad that I don't post here much anymore.

I'm pretty sure they've been arguing about whether WW1 soldiers should look like knights for weeks.

[Spirit of Hope]

I'm so glad that I don't post here much anymore.

I'm pretty sure they've been arguing about whether WW1 soldiers should look like knights for weeks.

To be fair, only one person is arguing WW1 soldiers should look like knights. The rest of us have been telling them how that won't work.

[Theodosiya]

I'm pretty sure they've been arguing about whether WW1 soldiers should look like knights for weeks.

To be fair, only one person is arguing WW1 soldiers should look like knights. The rest of us have been telling them how that won't work.

They should be, and ride in tanks with walkways inside and outside, accompanied by actual sword wielding foot knights and knights on horseback.

*sarcasm*

[Kassaran]

No no no, they need to be in hermetically sealed body-pods perfectly sized into efficient little polygonal structures so as to minimize the amount of space the squishy hooman takes up. Then you can jam pack it full of armor and guns and stuff.

I do love stuff.

[Purpelia]

Steam propelled pneumatic power armor modeled after Gothic suits of plate.

[Free-Don]

I prefer the natural approach of breeding better fighting emus to create an effective quick reaction force that can be more easily loaded up in train cars.

[Purpelia]

I prefer the natural approach of breeding better fighting emus to create an effective quick reaction force that can be more easily loaded up in train cars.

Didn't emus like beat the australian army at some point?

[Free-Don]

Why yes, yes they did.

Real quotes:

The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic

If we had a military division with the bullet carrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world.

They can face machine guns with the invincibility of tanks.

They are like Zulus whom even dum-dum bullets could not stop.

...strategy based on a decision to build a 52,000 pound emu-proof fence.

Plans for the containment of the emus making use of a 132 mile long fence to isolate the emu held territory.

Truest historical documents of the war

[Purpelia]

And people ask why the Japanese newer tried to take Australia.

[Free-Don]

Imagine this:

You're in a piddly little trench having constructed it the night before expecting enemy retaliation any time soon. The morning sun now beating down on you as the harsh dry winds blow into you kicking up the loose dirt and sand into your face. Suddenly a loud thumping and harsh crack of gun fire arises from beyond a the crest behind you and a tide of khaki covered birds arrive. Each bird themselves carrying their human companion firing rapidly at you and despite your best attempts you rifle fire seems to be ineffective with most just missing as they zig zag and avoid every shot. Your company commander was able to reposition the machine guns to start pouring automatic fire into the charging hoard but you only see three or four fall down before they gain on you but you suspect more were hit but you don't have any proof and only assumed that after they ride through and over your lines dropping off their humans before moving on through the rest of your company's position.

[Purpelia]

And that is why you need cavalry.

[Fordorsia]

>57000 dead emus
>emu victory

Worst meme

[Purpelia]

>57000 dead emus
>emu victory

Worst meme

60 million dead. Allied victory.

What's your point?

[Sevvania]

>57000 dead emus
>emu victory

Worst meme

60 million dead. Allied victory.

What's your point?

I mean, the Allies actually killed people.

[Purpelia]

60 million dead. Allied victory.

What's your point?

I mean, the Allies actually killed people.

Which, you must admit makes the emus victory all the grander. They won without having to kill a soul.

[Gallia-]

>57000 dead emus
>emu victory

Worst meme

Emus are still around.

Ergo victory.

[The Manticoran Empire]

>57000 dead emus
>emu victory

Worst meme

Most were killed by hunters for a bounty.

[Elan Valleys]

someones department needs to join the 21st century

I'm the only person at my department that does not wear an outer vest. I think they look unprofessional and entice people to play into their stupid operator fantasies at the least appropriate times (which is about all of them).

This is hardly unprofessional. It has 4 pockets, only two attachment points and is easily removable when needed (first aid/sitting in the office)

[Gallia-]

Looks like a tyrannytruppen to me.



Jovial and friendly officers without intimidating vests, obvious handcuffs, or lack of smiles. Unf. they're Hoosiers.

Anyway he's talking about this:

http://3z87cm47po1l378rrj1bamaw.wpengin ... G_1379.jpg

So I'm not sure why you're bringing up a goofy utility vest when he clearly means a ballistic plate carrier with enough magazines to survive a night in Kabul.

American police officers face actual dangerous gun fights, not fisticuffs and "aw shucks you got me again," career criminals, so when they "wear vests" they end up looking more like this:



And less like this:

[Purpelia]

American police officers face actual dangerous gun fights, not fisticuffs and "aw shucks you got me again," career criminals, so when they "wear vests" they end up looking more like this:

(Image)

Pictures like this make me understand why americans don't trust their police forces. If my local police walked down the street looking an invading army I wouldn't trust them either. I mean, just having that sort of weapons available, even if they are not on you at all times signals to everyone that as a police force you have zero trust in and kinship with the community you are policing.

[Isilanka]

Wait that first picture was actually the actual police ?

[Fordorsia]

If my local police walked down the street looking an invading army I wouldn't trust them either

That's SWAT you dip. America's police is fucked but they don't have SWAT on the beat.

[Purpelia]

If my local police walked down the street looking an invading army I wouldn't trust them either

That's SWAT you dip. America's police is fucked but they don't have SWAT on the beat.

It says sheriff on their chest not SWAT. Sings don't lie.

[Manokan Republic]

I'm pretty sure they've been arguing about whether WW1 soldiers should look like knights for weeks.

To be fair, only one person is arguing WW1 soldiers should look like knights. The rest of us have been telling them how that won't work.

There's actually no reason why you couldn't wear knight armor in WWI, but made of the steels at the time that could stop shrapnel and handgun rounds.

Name a reason why it can't work. By your own calculations, covering the whole body in steel armor equal to a helmet would only be 32 pounds which is, well not that heavy, even with other gear added on top. As I've demonstrated previously the helmet material was able to stop a .45 acp, 9mm, most fragmentation and even .45 ACP rounds fired from a much more powerful bolt action, with a 360 m/s .45 ACP only penetrating some of the times.

You're simply saying it won't work without any logical reason as to why. But anyways, there were very similiar forms of armor in WWI that indicate how it might work. It wouldn't actually imagine that knight armor would be the best armor, but there were cases of that in WWI. There were also things like cavalry which proved to be mostly useless. The main reason the whole body wasn't covered in most cases was a matter of cost, prioritizing the head and chest, but there's no actual reason why you couldn't cover most of the body.