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TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#12551: May 25th 2012 at 7:30:56 AM

[up][up]That third photie would be good reason to never take cover in a concrete bunker. Seeing as how that whole bunker seems to be going airborne after just one bomb hit it.

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#12552: May 25th 2012 at 7:32:19 AM

Given that's a bomb designed for Bunker-Busting...

"Yup. That tasted purple."
dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#12553: May 25th 2012 at 7:35:29 AM

I am not sure exactly what it is hitting. The caption in the Wikipedia page for the bunker buster just says that it is a guided bomb hitting a target.

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DirectorCannon Since: Nov, 2011
#12554: May 25th 2012 at 7:42:46 AM

No, the metal will be visible, to give it some grey to keep with the rest of the color scheme.

Cganale (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#12555: May 25th 2012 at 8:09:39 AM

That's what a ground penetrator does. It blasts through the target, goes underground, and explodes there. Pressure wave beneath the ground basically makes Mother Earth vomit violently.

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#12556: May 25th 2012 at 8:12:04 AM

Pressure wave beneath the ground basically makes Mother Earth vomit violently.

[lol]

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Cganale (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#12557: May 25th 2012 at 8:34:49 AM

I tried to be artful with that one, I did. Being awake for near of twenty hours on a third day of my Archive Binge on The Salvation War makes my mind do strange things.

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#12558: May 25th 2012 at 8:41:48 AM

If such behavior results in posts like that, by all means please continue.

By the way, has anyone played Command and Conquer?

edited 25th May '12 8:42:19 AM by dRoy

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Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#12559: May 25th 2012 at 9:03:14 AM

A silly question: Is there any circumstances where soldiers use bicycles?

In rare moments on really nice days, when there are important people on base, we get the bikes out of mobility storage and do bike patrol. There's even a special SF uniform for doing it that involves cargo shorts and a polo shirt.

Never done bike patrol myself, but my buddy always volunteers when it comes up, I slink into the shadows and say I'd rather walk.

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#12560: May 25th 2012 at 9:05:47 AM

[up][up]I have. Pretty much all of them that meant anything - the RTS ones rather than the daft as a brush shooters. Why d'ya ask?

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#12561: May 25th 2012 at 9:10:57 AM

@Barkey - I see. I would like to see a trooper bike patroling. It gives me an amusing image.

@Tam - Oh, it's just that you mentioning The Salvation War reminded me of Tiberium Wars. I keep hearing about both of them, especially for their care in military details and sheer amount of awesome moments.

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Cganale (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#12562: May 25th 2012 at 9:12:40 AM

I didn't read Tiberium Wars because I'm not familiar with the subject material, but I am familiar with the author. I followed him on Gunblade Saga, Legacy of the Chimera, and an aborted novelization of Halo 2 before he got into Tiberium Wars and his Firefly thing. The man is a fucking masterful author.

And he doesn't even have any kind of military background. He fucking does his research.

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#12563: May 25th 2012 at 9:14:17 AM

I haven't read either of them, only because so far I know absolutely nothing about military. So whenever there is a prose detailing strategy, positioning, and such, it eludes me.

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Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#12564: May 25th 2012 at 9:14:42 AM

Honestly we look like your average civilian bike cop in a beach town when we're on bike patrol. Polo shirt, cargo shorts, and a duty belt with our tools. Doesn't look like anything special or hilarious really, only by contrast when they are standing next to a guy in cammies with a tac vest and an M4.

Lee Child is an example of a kickass author when it comes to a civilian doing his research.

He gets a few things wrong in the Reacher novels, and some of them are highly implausible, but for not even being an American(he's a brit) he does a pretty outstanding job. When it comes to the tactical portions of the story, he does great. It's more the main characters career that raises lots of eyebrows to me.

edited 25th May '12 9:17:26 AM by Barkey

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#12565: May 25th 2012 at 9:16:51 AM

I see.

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TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#12566: May 25th 2012 at 9:25:29 AM

[up]I have read some of the Tiberium Wars book, but not to the same extent that I read the Salvation War. I too binged on that. Read the two books twice through at least before I made myself stop.

Barkey Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#12567: May 25th 2012 at 9:29:56 AM

I read the Salvation War back when I was on night shift. I remember eagerly huddling close to my smartphone, in the dark, in a truck, sitting on a lonely flight line for 12 hours, feverishly reading the awesomeness.

It just screams "HUMANITY, FUCK YEAH!" in such blissful tones.

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#12568: May 25th 2012 at 9:35:22 AM

That sounds like just my favor of story. I just can't tolerate the incompetent portrayal of military in popular media nowadays.

I mean, I just remembered American version of Godzilla. Fighting off a skyscraper-sized monster with light infantry? Seriously?

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Cganale (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#12569: May 25th 2012 at 9:38:31 AM

It just screams "HUMANITY, FUCK YEAH!" in such blissful tones.

Quoted for Mother-Fucking Truth.

Also, just nearing the end of Pantheocide. Fucking Mythbusters. lulz be had

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#12570: May 25th 2012 at 9:49:44 AM

The worst thing about the^GINO movie was all the Apaches deciding to use all their Hellfire missiles and 30mm rounds to re-arrange the Manhatten skyline instead of hitting GINO with them. Poor infantry tactics were the least of the problems.

^Godzilla In Name Only.

Cganale (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#12571: May 25th 2012 at 9:51:20 AM

I'm glad the last time I saw that movie was before I had real, working knowledge of military munitions. Just by what I barely remember, I'd have flipped a fucking table at all the inconsistencies.

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#12572: May 25th 2012 at 9:56:02 AM

Still, at least it wasn't a Michael Bay film, 8-)

Cganale (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#12573: May 25th 2012 at 9:59:58 AM

Michael Bay's films get their boom-boom devices right. And are unapologetically pro-American. That goes a long way in my book.

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#12575: May 25th 2012 at 10:24:56 AM

He does at least try and not be so blatant sometimes; Revenge of the Fallen has that token SAS guy, after all.

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