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OOC: What is your military's greatest flaw?

Postby Bafuria » Sat May 29, 2010 1:56 pm

Every military has it's flaws, don't deny it. So what is yours?

The Bafurian Military still uses Vietnam War era tactical doctrines. We still use Semi-Automatic rifles, monochrome uniforms and most of our troops have weak body armor, if any.
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Postby Swilatia » Sat May 29, 2010 2:01 pm

That it doesn't exist.
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Postby Ostafrika (Ancient) » Sat May 29, 2010 2:03 pm

It is racially segregated, between white units, and units of black troops commanded by white officers.
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Postby Neo Prutenia » Sat May 29, 2010 2:05 pm

Swilatia wrote:That it doesn't exist.


How can it then have flaws at all? And non-existence is not a flaw!

As for mine, being that this is a OOC thread, it's very expensive and very difficult and time-consuming to replace.
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Postby Nightkill the Emperor » Sat May 29, 2010 2:06 pm

We like to charge at our enemies, and rarely use guns.
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Postby Ostafrika (Ancient) » Sat May 29, 2010 2:09 pm

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:We like to charge at our enemies, and rarely use guns.


That really is a problem. The part about rarely using guns, I mean.
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Postby Nightkill the Emperor » Sat May 29, 2010 2:11 pm

Ostafrika wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:We like to charge at our enemies, and rarely use guns.


That really is a problem. The part about rarely using guns, I mean.


We can heal. :D
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Postby Neo Prutenia » Sat May 29, 2010 2:12 pm

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:[
We can heal. :D
And we have super strength, endurance and speed. :D
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Can you heal a acute case of death?
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Postby Bafuria » Sat May 29, 2010 2:12 pm

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Ostafrika wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:We like to charge at our enemies, and rarely use guns.


That really is a problem. The part about rarely using guns, I mean.


We can heal. :D
And we have super strength, endurance and speed. :D
Genetic Engineering FTW. :D


Can your genetic engineered soldiers replace their grey matter after they lose half of it?
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Postby Nightkill the Emperor » Sat May 29, 2010 2:13 pm

Neo Prutenia wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:[
We can heal. :D
And we have super strength, endurance and speed. :D
Genetic Engineering FTW. :D

Can you heal a acute case of death?

...
No...
But it'll take a ton of bullets to kill us.
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Postby Orlkjestad » Sat May 29, 2010 2:13 pm

We have none.
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Postby Nightkill the Emperor » Sat May 29, 2010 2:14 pm

Bafuria wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Ostafrika wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:We like to charge at our enemies, and rarely use guns.


That really is a problem. The part about rarely using guns, I mean.


We can heal. :D
And we have super strength, endurance and speed. :D
Genetic Engineering FTW. :D


Can your genetic engineered soldiers replace their grey matter after they lose half of it?

No. Headshots will kill us. You have to fire at least 10 bullets at the same place to kill us anywhere else though.
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Nat: Night's always in some bizarre state somewhere between "intoxicated enough to kill a hair metal lead singer" and "annoying Mormon missionary sober".

Swith: It's because you're so awesome. God himself refreshes the screen before he types just to see if Nightkill has written anything while he was off somewhere else.

Monfrox wrote:
The balkens wrote:
# went there....

It's Nightkill. He's been there so long he rents out rooms to other people at a flat rate, but demands cash up front.

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Postby Neo Prutenia » Sat May 29, 2010 2:15 pm

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:...
No...
But it'll take a ton of bullets to kill us.


Nope, just one.
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Postby Fatatatutti » Sat May 29, 2010 2:17 pm

Our greatest flaw is probably the fact that we have little to no combat experience. Obviously, an army with seasoned, combat-hardened veterans would have an advantage over us. On the other hand, we look at our training program as similar to an astronaut program - you have to get it right on the first try. And there are plenty of wars in the world for us to observe and learn from.

Another flaw is our cultural reluctance to kill people. It is feared that in a life-or-death situation, many of our soldiers would prefer to give their own lives rather than kill the enemy. That's why our doctrines emphasize achieving objectives rather than inflicting casualties.

Both of those flaws are somewhat mitigated by our extensive experience in peacekeeping operations, which have taught us how to control people, both civilian and military, without killing them.

Lesser flaws include lack of body armour, a possibly undersized (5.56x45mm) main weapon, limited air support, etc.
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Postby Shabarik » Sat May 29, 2010 2:19 pm

We use droids for about 25% of our overall military population, so for the standard models, an electromagnetic pulse or hacking will disable them. For the rest of that 75%, our military is occupied by clones, each taking 14 years to build (About 22 years in human years), meaning if the facilities are destroyed recruitment will halt.
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Postby Librira » Sat May 29, 2010 2:21 pm

we use WW2 doctrines. we use old German blitzkrieg stratagem. also some of our planes desingns are based off of WW2 era planes.
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Postby Great Nepal » Sat May 29, 2010 2:23 pm

Orlkjestad wrote:We have none.

Almost this, although even if there were it would be censored.
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Postby Reavani » Sat May 29, 2010 2:23 pm

The gaps between my three classes of soldiers are immense in regards to training and equipment.
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Postby Regiria » Sat May 29, 2010 2:25 pm

Clever way of obtaining knowledge of other nations' weaknesses.

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Postby Chernobyl-Pripyat » Sat May 29, 2010 2:31 pm

Poorly organized, lack of a dedicated NCO corps, limited communication capabilities between non command units.

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Postby Enzo Turga » Sat May 29, 2010 2:31 pm

Great Nepal wrote:
Orlkjestad wrote:We have none.

Almost this, although even if there were it would be censored.


That can be considered a godmod. Every army has flaws. Even if they're little, they're still there. Saying you're army has no flaws is saying you're army is absolutly perfect. I somehow doubt that.
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Postby Tierra Prime » Sat May 29, 2010 2:35 pm

No battle experience.

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Postby Hebkia » Sat May 29, 2010 2:36 pm

Doesn't exist for the most part.

Where it does, it consists of petty tyrants who exist to put down and terrify peasants, rather than fight other, better trained soldiers.

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Postby Great Nepal » Sat May 29, 2010 2:36 pm

Enzo Turga wrote:
Great Nepal wrote:
Orlkjestad wrote:We have none.

Almost this, although even if there were it would be censored.


That can be considered a godmod. Every army has flaws. Even if they're little, they're still there. Saying you're army has no flaws is saying you're army is absolutly perfect. I somehow doubt that.

Well though I said "even if there were it would be censored" which means that the post is basically a propaganda as the main information is censored.
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Postby Orlkjestad » Sat May 29, 2010 2:38 pm

Enzo Turga wrote:
Great Nepal wrote:
Orlkjestad wrote:We have none.

Almost this, although even if there were it would be censored.


That can be considered a godmod. Every army has flaws. Even if they're little, they're still there. Saying you're army has no flaws is saying you're army is absolutly perfect. I somehow doubt that.


Awww, but I wanna sound intimidating! :p

Alright, I'll choke it up. Our entire military lives in splendor due to our large amounts of funding to the military, causing the military to be unprepared for a bloody battle. But they are professionally trained, I can assure you.
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