Ridiculous things your military does

[The First Awesocracy]

Everything our military does would be considered ridiculous by other nations.

[The Pope States]

SOldiers are to sing and dance to "I'm a little tea pot" to prve they are a man and can take anything aven if it makes them feel humileated

[Davishire2]

Everyday to save Oil all of our vehicles be it ships,planes,tanks have to to turn off their engnes! this off course doesnt happen during a war.

[American Island]

We still use battleships, they are often mistaken for Islands.

[Chernobyl-Pripyat]

Two for the price of one, mate. The original M-1 Abrams with all of it's crappy systems and computer problems and it's 105mm shell can annihilate an M-4 Sherman AND the T-34 right behind it. It's not that much to take out once you consider the advancement in armament, armor and power projection.

A Sherman Firefly, with a veteran crew of the European theatre v. An M1 Abrams crew fresh out of Knox and sitting on the Berlin Wall.

Yeah, the Sherman any day.

Does the Firefly have modern shells? I'm not sure if WWII shells could score anything but a mobility kill on an Abrams.

[Bafuria]

Folding mountain bike for every soldier Y/N? (keep in mind the rule of cool)

[Oterro]

English? You mean Indian and Scottish of course..

All three, you don't charge into grapeshot and except to live, it just doesn't happen that way, it was the antipersonnel ammo of it's day

I don't think there were any English regiments fighting in the Anglo-Mahrattan war, actually.

[Novaeria]

Our soldiers love dancing with the battle suits when they are out of service (xD)
Here, just a demonstration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUXlCH1stNc

[Rain Rangers]

Do you know how rare the Firefly was, compared to the original Sherman? That, combined with other factors, leads me to side with the Abrams.

Ridiculous thing, depending on who you are: Conscription laws do not apply to women...yet.

That's not the point, though, is it? A veteran tank crew who knows what their machine can do will probably be able to beat a tank crew fresh out of armour school with no real combat experience.

look at the shermans and stuart tanks they broke down alot they could out move a panzer but not a abrams the only tank that moves faster then a abrams is the m2 hellcat destoryer tank but a could still take it out cuz of a tech advantege

[North Defese]

That's not the point, though, is it? A veteran tank crew who knows what their machine can do will probably be able to beat a tank crew fresh out of armour school with no real combat experience.

look at the shermans and stuart tanks they broke down alot they could out move a panzer but not a abrams the only tank that moves faster then a abrams is the m2 hellcat destoryer tank but a could still take it out cuz of a tech advantege

This isn't a debate thread. If you aren't making a post about your soldiers eating a sacred bowl of spagetti before every battle then get the hell off my lawn.

[Bafuria]

Folding mountain bike for every soldier Y/N?

Well?

[Franca-Liria]

We use large dirigibles in naval and land combat that are outfitted with battleship-style guns. Most enemies try to shoot at them, but they have ultra-light armor that had a high damage resistance. They look flimsy and obsolete, but that is one of their advantages.

[Prussia-Denmark]

Our soldiers have been caught several times going Train Surfing.

[Radictistan]

All branches of the Radictistani military maintain a system of regional quotas for entry into officer training programs, whereby no subnational area is allowed to dominate the officer corps.

Okay, I think it's reasonable but I'm sure a lot of you guys think it's crazy. Bloody foreigners.

[Rain Rangers]

look at the shermans and stuart tanks they broke down alot they could out move a panzer but not a abrams the only tank that moves faster then a abrams is the m2 hellcat destoryer tank but a could still take it out cuz of a tech advantege

This isn't a debate thread. If you aren't making a post about your soldiers eating a sacred bowl of spagetti before every battle then get the hell off my lawn.

sorry bout that i wont do it again i just like pionting stuff out sorry north defense

[Rain Rangers]

we use all vechiles from ally side from ww2 on but all have been upgraded to todays regulations for military and our soldiers use any gun they can get their hands on in battle

[Kyraina]

our supersoldiers have a nuclear batterypack on th back of their powerarmour

[Bafuria]

Well?

Is your military to cheap to have enough APC's and your soldiers to lazy to hove it?

My military has plenty of money, but APCs for dozens of millions of soldiers is a waste of that money.

[Bakakishtan]

We love to pillage, rape, steal, kill and when we do, we love to shoot our guns in the air and break things. We're a very savage nation.

[Bafuria]

and bikes aren't? Foldable bikes take up allot of space that could be used to carry ammo, food, ulitility, tents, spare clothes, small sanitation equipment, communication devices, batteries for said devices, repair and maintenance devices, etc. Also, APCs have the advantage of being able to carry more than one man and the ability to actually shoot well while using them.

A Mountain Bike allows a human to travel thirty miles an hour, through any sort of terrain, with no fuel expenditures, need for mechanical engineers, and learning how to ride a bike can be accomplished within an hour if they do not already know how. And can additionally increase the carrying capacity of the rider as they transfer their load unto the bike when riding.

And no, you obviously dismount and leave the bike behind when in combat. But in matters of strategic mobility the Bike is only surpassed by the Horse, and far cheaper.

Do not underestimate the mountain bike

^What he said.

[Astralsideria]

Written orders are always issued in German, so officers are expected to be able to speak German perfectly. Even though there are better methods available, signal flags are sometimes used to communicate - in German - with other ships in the fleet. This is the only official use of German in the country.

[The Soviet Technocracy]

What measures, tactics, weapons, armour, etc, does your military use that is reasonable in context, but to the passerby would be completely insane?

In the Defesian air force, for example, planes are not equipped with ejection seats. If the plane malfunctions or is shot down over friendly territory, the only thing a pilot can do is pray to whatever Deity he things will help him survive a crash landing. This feature was taken out of aircraft on the justification that there can be no possibility of the enemy interrogating the pilot and wrenching out valuable information from him.

Standard operating procedure for taking a densely populated urban area involves heavy use of VX and other chemical weapons. Followed up by armor and dismounted infantry thrusts through wider streets, with regular use of thermobaric demolition charges to clear out sewers and buildings along the way. Usually results in the deaths of well over 90% of the civilian population which doesn't evacuate in the process.

We also use tactical nuclear artillery shells to tear open chunks of a front line to allow a mass armored breakthrough. It's even lulzier.

This is not ridiculous...

This is RL...

[Prydain Fawr]

The Republican Security Forces can often be found shooting birds and other small game because they have so little to do since the liquidation of virtually all internal enemies of the state by the Stasecpol (State Security Police).

[Kyraina]

tend to would have to transfer the load back on again and bikes are only stable kept at the constant semi high speed which is also harder to do with all that equipment on which requires an even higher speed to remain stable and enumerates the soldiers ability to takes and use his equipment as efficiently in event of an ambush. Don't tell me about bikes, I've ridden plenty. Also transfering equipment to a inherently unstable carrying platform is a general no no, especially if the soldiers ride en formation.

Your Argument is invalid

so is urs by riding a bike u make ur soldiers prefect sniper tragets for ambushes and apcs povide better protection

we use weapon in combact we can get our hands on if our troos weapons jam or break

[Helghast empire]

our shock troopers sprint and stab enemy units with knives ( yes they are suicidal and stupid but oh well )