Champagne Socialist Sharifistan wrote:Can Travellers or Romani make good soldiers?
I think they can but in this RP some guy said they would all steal from civilians and desert. I thought that sounded racist.
...what.
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by The New California Republic » Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:50 am
Champagne Socialist Sharifistan wrote:Can Travellers or Romani make good soldiers?
I think they can but in this RP some guy said they would all steal from civilians and desert. I thought that sounded racist.
by Champagne Socialist Sharifistan » Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:52 am
by Crookfur » Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:54 am
by Hrstrovokia » Thu Aug 13, 2020 4:13 am
by Austrasien » Thu Aug 13, 2020 6:53 am
Hrstrovokia wrote:Is there any point equipping IFVs or APCs with hardkill APS?
Hrstrovokia wrote:Are you just gonna end up gibbing your own troops?
by Dayganistan » Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:10 am
Champagne Socialist Sharifistan wrote:Can Travellers or Romani make good soldiers?
I think they can but in this RP some guy said they would all steal from civilians and desert. I thought that sounded racist.
by The New California Republic » Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:11 am
Austrasien wrote:Hottest meme since "ERA will kill your own troops" and "autoloaders feed soldiers into the breech".
by Gallia- » Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:29 am
by Munkcestrian RepubIic » Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:38 am
Dayganistan wrote:Champagne Socialist Sharifistan wrote:Can Travellers or Romani make good soldiers?
I think they can but in this RP some guy said they would all steal from civilians and desert. I thought that sounded racist.
I'm going to answer this question and every other "do x make good soldiers" question. Ethnic and religious background have little influence on who is a good soldier. It's more about are you motivated to be good. See the real life Afghan army. Afghanistan has the whole "graveyard of empires" reputation and Afghans have a reputation as good fighters. Most of the Afghan army is garbage. Yet lots of countries that are known for being "peaceful" have good armies and effective soldiers because they're more motivated.
Also you shouldn't be RPing with shitposting trolls.
by The New California Republic » Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:44 am
by Austrasien » Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:44 am
Gallia- wrote:just stop replying to him lol
he's literally like 14 just add him to ignore and move on
by Hrstrovokia » Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:56 am
by Gallia- » Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:00 am
The New California Republic wrote:Do we have a source regarding the T-64 autoloaders never seriously injuring crewmembers? I remember years ago reading several contemporaneous books that said how there were cases of serious injuries, coupled with an unrelated and unidentified (in the West anyway) catastrophic malfunction of the autoloader, which were bad enough for all the T-64s getting sent back to the factory for autoloader refits. I was just wondering if there is a more recent source that discredits those accounts.
by Triplebaconation » Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:02 am
Gallia- wrote:Champagne Socialist Sharifistan wrote:Can Travellers or Romani make good soldiers?
I think they can but in this RP some guy said they would all steal from civilians and desert. I thought that sounded racist.
It's probably right.
Gypsies/Roma communities have been hotbeds of petty crime since they arrived in Eastern Europe in the 1000's.Crookfur wrote:Roflcopter
The virgin FOBbit vs the Chad Wandering Free Company.
by Austrasien » Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:08 am
Hrstrovokia wrote:What do people think of this Frankenstein abomination of an IFV?
A Russian BMP-3M fitted with:
Berezhok Turret
Zaslon APS
Garant RCIED Jammer
Raketa ERA
It's for a country that has suddenly found fossil fuel wealth but has little to no indigenous defence industry and reliant on exports from Russia/former Soviet Union. Everything would be relatively easily to get. The Berezhok allows for the use of Kornet-EM's.
by Gallia- » Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:20 am
Triplebaconation wrote:Gallia- wrote:
It's probably right.
Gypsies/Roma communities have been hotbeds of petty crime since they arrived in Eastern Europe in the 1000's.
The virgin FOBbit vs the Chad Wandering Free Company.
Paladin Press readers are probably a bigger threat than gypsies.
It would probably help this guy more in the long run if everyone just ignored him or reported him for spam or something.
by The New California Republic » Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:20 am
Gallia- wrote:The New California Republic wrote:Do we have a source regarding the T-64 autoloaders never seriously injuring crewmembers? I remember years ago reading several contemporaneous books that said how there were cases of serious injuries, coupled with an unrelated and unidentified (in the West anyway) catastrophic malfunction of the autoloader, which were bad enough for all the T-64s getting sent back to the factory for autoloader refits. I was just wondering if there is a more recent source that discredits those accounts.
They were repeating bad urban legends of the 1980's, obviously. Through a game of telephone and deliberate myth making by highly reputable sources like "turned KGB officers", the idea of "autoloader eats the crew" started as "it broke some guy's hand once", then became "it shoved his arm into the breech", then became "it ripped his arm off" and the scale and number of the events spiraled with each embiggening of the fish. In reality what happened is probably during the testing of the original 6 or so prototypes of the T-64 (or T-72), I think a guy ripped his tanksuit's sleeve cuff or something, probably after getting it caught on the sheet metal handguard and yanking a bit and tearing the cloth. Maybe.
Having seen Americans that are are stupid enough to stick their hands in moving assembly line belts it may literally be a projection of what they would do, whereas more rational ethnes like Russians and Japanese wouldn't.
by Austria-Bohemia-Hungary » Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:26 am
by The New California Republic » Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:27 am
Hrstrovokia wrote:What do people think of this Frankenstein abomination of an IFV?
A Russian BMP-3M fitted with:
Berezhok Turret
Zaslon APS
Garant RCIED Jammer
Raketa ERA
by Austria-Bohemia-Hungary » Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:29 am
Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:I wonder if similarly ridiculous nonsense about M1 Abrams' ammo door eating arms 24/7 would've spawned under certain circumstamces.
by Gallia- » Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:29 am
The New California Republic wrote:Gallia- wrote:
They were repeating bad urban legends of the 1980's, obviously. Through a game of telephone and deliberate myth making by highly reputable sources like "turned KGB officers", the idea of "autoloader eats the crew" started as "it broke some guy's hand once", then became "it shoved his arm into the breech", then became "it ripped his arm off" and the scale and number of the events spiraled with each embiggening of the fish. In reality what happened is probably during the testing of the original 6 or so prototypes of the T-64 (or T-72), I think a guy ripped his tanksuit's sleeve cuff or something, probably after getting it caught on the sheet metal handguard and yanking a bit and tearing the cloth. Maybe.
Having seen Americans that are are stupid enough to stick their hands in moving assembly line belts it may literally be a projection of what they would do, whereas more rational ethnes like Russians and Japanese wouldn't.
So we don't know either way for sure. That's unfortunate. I have been wondering whether it was true for years and was hoping to finally put it to rest one way or the other.
Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:I wonder if similarly ridiculous nonsense about M1 Abrams' ammo door eating arms 24/7 would've spawned under certain circumstamces.
by The New California Republic » Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:43 am
Gallia- wrote:The New California Republic wrote:So we don't know either way for sure. That's unfortunate. I have been wondering whether it was true for years and was hoping to finally put it to rest one way or the other.
We know that there's no reported incidents of someone suffering any serious injury in an autoloader accident that didn't involve removing the handguards or putting their hands where hands shouldn't be.
by Gallia- » Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:59 am
The New California Republic wrote:Gallia- wrote:
We know that there's no reported incidents of someone suffering any serious injury in an autoloader accident that didn't involve removing the handguards or putting their hands where hands shouldn't be.
Given the strict censorship of the time that'd hardly be surprising; but such a thing, if it existed, would likely be somewhere in the KGB or GRU archives.
by The New California Republic » Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:05 am
Gallia- wrote:The New California Republic wrote:Given the strict censorship of the time that'd hardly be surprising; but such a thing, if it existed, would likely be somewhere in the KGB or GRU archives.
Yes I'm sure the Main Intelligence Directorate is extremely interested in why Sergei Ivanov's tanksuit has a 2 millimeter cut on the cuff hem.
by Gallia- » Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:23 am
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