David Steel / LazerPig / Ricewynd / Malquistion - Pathological Liar, Reddit Historian, Femboy Thirster, and Vore Connoisseur

[AeroGavin Rossdale]

Id like to read that one that actually sounds vaguely interesting

It's not. I'll sum it up. "Africans fought with blades which was a cool honor culture, but then the white man came with rifles and the societies that adapted it killed the guys with spears. White man bad." But if you want, here. It's 200 bucks so you know.. do your own research. (I got it from a library I didn't pay for that shit)

 

[F-14 Tomcat]

Ani (Lifelong student of war) doesn't understand what an infantry company does. Or how big a company is. Or anything about actual organizational structure. I like that his idea of what super kit he could provide for riflemen is just a better WT lineup. F-16s organic to the company level is.. an idea.
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Fuckin' pleb. I'd attach a B-52 to every platoon.

They have, the only issues (at least for popularity) are that the company making it is even more autistically focused on detail and the prices are even WORSE.

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That said, I still buy half the DLC for it because I like the developers.

IL-2 is not a war thunder competitor, it's a flight sim. You're gonna have a shit time if you try and fly without a stick, whereas war thunder is easily accessible to anyone with a mouse and keyboard or a controller. Slightly off topic but I really wish they added interactive cockpits like DCS. It's incredibly frustrating to see a button or lever you have to push but instead of just being able to click on it you have to hunt through a not very intuitive and laggy controls menu.

 

[F-16 Viper]

It's not. I'll sum it up. "Africans fought with blades which was a cool honor culture, but then the white man came with rifles and the societies that adapted it killed the guys with spears. White man bad." But if you want, here. It's 200 bucks so you know.. do your own research. (I got it from a library I didn't pay for that shit)

They always assume that Africans wouldn't do the same thing given the chance. Every culture in any point of history would use rifles over swords.

 

[Fatniggo1488]

>looks up infantry company size
>according to the US government, it starts at a few dozen and maxes out at 200.

https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Experience/Military-Units/army/

Mother fucker, half your men would be there just to keep the F-16's running!

This is all standard configuration and can change based on METT-TC

Fire team = four infantrymen. rifleman, grenadier, "automatic rifleman" (LMG), team leader (4 total)

Squad (line squad) = 2 fire teams, one squad leader (9 total)

Gun team = Normally 3 men teams. Ammo bearer, gunner, assistant gunner (normally the team leader, but I've seen this swapped with the AB quite often) (3 total)

Weapons squad = 2 gun teams, one Weapons squad leader AKA weasel (normally the second most senior NCO in a platoon after the platoon sergeant) A medic is normally attached here, and often times a forward observer AKA fister (9 total)

Platoon = 3 line squads, 1 weapons squad, 1 platoon sergeant, 1 platoon leader, normally 1 RTO (39 total)

Company = 3 standard platoons, 1 "headquarters" platoon, 1 first sergeant, 1 XO, 1 CO, 1 company RTO, 1 company medic (mortars are normally here) (122 total not counting headquarters)


Headquarters is normally where you see big fluctuation in infantry company size. Sometimes it's just a few people, and sometimes it's like a plus sized platoon.

Edit:
This can fluctuate a lot. My last deployment before deZOGing myself we had +1 SAW gunner in both gun teams because...???, the AB was also a grenadier because...???, also the supply sergeant which is part of that bizarre headquarters platoon sometimes had 1 nigger with him, most people in supply are niggers, and then at other times a full diversity quota of supply niggers with him. Oh and the SDM randomly moved between weapons squad and 2nd squad, as an on and off again team leader of 2nd squad bravo team because...??? Also, each platoon had an interpreter and ours was a funny stoner dude that was constantly high.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Fuckin' pleb. I'd attach a B-52 to every platoon.

Think bigger. Id give a nuke to every SQUAD.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

Think bigger. Id give a nuke to every SQUAD.

This is the same logic that developed the Fat Man in the fallout universe and we should support this idea fullheartedly.

 

[Mr.Bucket]

This is the same logic that developed the Fat Man in the fallout universe and we should support this idea fullheartedly.

And the Davy Crockett.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

Reading through some of this, it’s weird. But still doesn’t change my mind on the T-14 being shit.

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

Reading through some of this, it’s weird. But still doesn’t change my mind on the T-14 being shit.

The problem with LP is that he'll go off on any information that'll make anything he dislikes look bad regardless of the accuracy of information.

 

[JJLiautaud]

Reading through some of this, it’s weird. But still doesn’t change my mind on the T-14 being shit.

This thread got started because pig had no reason to lie; the T-14 is a test bed prototype to test "advanced" technologies and as such would really suck for combat.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Reading through some of this, it’s weird. But still doesn’t change my mind on the T-14 being shit.

This thread and its cows aren't typical by any standard, I'll admit that. A lot of it comes down to historical accuracy instead of the cows actively sperging out. That's also kind of the fun of it. It takes a otherwise chill community, that being military history, and finds its own type of spergs.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

This thread and its cows aren't typical by any standard, I'll admit that. A lot of it comes down to historical accuracy instead of the cows actively sperging out. That's also kind of the fun of it. It takes an otherwise chill community, that being military history, and finds its own type of spergs.

Military spergs are odd. Some tend to suck Russia’s dick a lot or America’s dick a lot. Shit even Chinese ones too.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Military spergs are odd. Some tend to suck Russia’s dick a lot or America’s dick a lot. Shit even Chinese ones too.

Part is nationalism. Part is patriotism. Part is you really, really like playing their tanks in war thunder. Mix this together, add some chemical X, and you get the mil sperg, the worst off all three

 

[AeroGavin Rossdale]

Military spergs are odd. Some tend to suck Russia’s dick a lot or America’s dick a lot. Shit even Chinese ones too.

Oh, we've got enough -fags, -boos and -spergs for every topic imaginable. Any gun/military message board is tribalism on a central African scale, just sometimes chill. Go to /k/ and ask about the effectiveness of the Red Air Force in WWII and see how long it takes for Ivan and Fritz to show up and shit it up.

 

[Croaking Spider]

It's the same with Itasha wrapped cars. I don't hate anime, but I really fucking hate seeing it plastered everywhere. There's a dude at work who has his 2008 civic SI plasted in very revealing anime stickers and it just looks extremely cringe. It's a way to stand out, but is it really worth making yourself look like a coomer?

Reject modernity, embrace tradition.



Honestly it's a shame you don't see more WWII nose art style influence these days. Our grandfathers were truly a special breed.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

Reject modernity, embrace tradition.

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Honestly it's a shame you don't see more WWII nose art style influence these days. Our grandfathers were truly a special breed.

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I remember hearing that there was a furry who did that to a plane they was flying. He had their fursona drawn on their plane.

 

[Uranus Pink]

Reject modernity, embrace tradition.


Honestly it's a shame you don't see more WWII nose art style influence these days. Our grandfathers were truly a special breed.

One reason why we haven't seen more of the WWII nose art style is the understanding that peculiar nose art style is forever fixed to that of time and event. But it have been influencing every succeeding generation to create and evolve their own style. Also every post WWII generation had the puritan moral fags in the chain of command and commissary military police on their ass to ensure they stay good little enunchs. And to not scribble anything "offensive" to the people they're supposed to kill or the moral fags back home watching TV.

 

[Croaking Spider]

And to not scribble anything "offensive" to the people they're supposed to kill or the moral fags back home watching TV.

That's really the crux of it, isn't it? People ree about stuff like nose art being "sexist" or "degrading to women". I'll never understand the mental gymnastics people have undergone where "sex appeal" and "sexual empowerment" ended up on opposite ends of the spectrum. Given the general overall ideological views of America at the time, this stuff is still pretty tame considering how conservative people were.

This was still in an era where if you showed a couple in a bedroom scene in a movie or show, one of them would have their feet on the ground to stomp out any sexual implications. And yet, you still got stuff like this from the era. Granted, Tex Avery could have possibly been a degenerate behind closed doors, but the man had taste.

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To get myself back on topic, it's been enlightening going through this thread and realizing I wasn't the only one who thought LazerPig often ranged between being slightly off and not having a fucking clue what he's talking about. I used to enjoy his videos for the blend of slight comedy and light military history. Now that he's leaning hard into his OSINT larp and generally makes himself out to be an insufferable faggot on his social media.

Pretty much the only tuber I follow who covers the type of content LP USED to is The Fat Electrician. He's got a good sense of humor, isn't an absolutely pozzed degenerate, and genuinely cares about the subjects he speaks on. In a recent podcast, he said that he was going back to school to get a Masters in history so that he can fill in information that has been ommitted from textbooks over the years.

 

[AeroGavin Rossdale]

Hey yo, got a terrible take here, where you want it chief?

 

[The Foxtrot]

Hey yo, got a terrible take here, where you want it chief?
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The Mosin is not a bad rifle for what it is. I'd argue it's also probably the only bolt-action milsurp rifle that's still (relatively) cheap to acquire and with readily available ammo.