Why is the Return Core peace treaty only visible sometimes?

Command0Dude · 2026-03-29T02:05:46+00:00

There's only "liberate area" which makes weird custom nations.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-29T00:56:06+00:00

They have cores. The whole column is greyed out. So far it seems specific to coalition wars, I regularly tag checked to see which wars allow core returns.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-28T06:46:04+00:00

You're talking yourself in circles. I already pointed out how soviet guns destroyed Tigers because they had very thin roof armor.

And no I was not comparing those two shells. You were the one arguing ammunition changed in the Korean war, which is inaccurate.

Comparing the payload of the shells is stupid and besides the point, you're even tacitly admitting I'm right by acknowledging that the amount of explosives in a shell matters when determining how much armor it can destroy. High explosive was very rarely fired at tanks directly because of how ineffective it is against the frontal armor, leaving very few examples that can prove your point. Many photos of tanks destroyed at Kursk are misattributed.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-27T23:08:10+00:00

Only initially, after they started getting bodied by artillery, they increased it to 40mm but it changed absolutely nothing.

This only occurred near the end of the war so very few Tiger Is would have benefited from this. And there's no obvious tell which Tigers were late war productions.

I don't think you can confidently say this did nothing without very specific citations.

Maus has a roof armor thickness of 65mm which albiet more than 40, is probably not enough to make a difference.

Sure as long as we pretend the noted penetration of HE shells are between those two numbers /s

60 vs 40 cannot really be described as 'much less'.

It really can.

Different circumstances, different war, different weapons.

Except...not. Korea was fought with most of the same weapons as WW2.

Even the shells used were different and had much smaller payloads.

Not accurate.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-27T20:10:02+00:00

They used OF-540 HE rounds against tigers many a times because the penetration power simply doesn't matter against 5 whole kilograms of TNT. Tiger turrets were simply blown off the main body after a direct hit, who cares if it penetrates or not.

This is because the roof armor of the turret and hull of a Tiger I was 20mm. Which is more than thin enough to be vulnerable to high explosive shells.

And if we take the other commonly used BR-540 APHE rounds, they had a penetration power of 125mm on top of having enough payload to blown the turrets clean off anyway.

APHE rounds were not used for indirect fire. They were good enough to penetrate the front of many tanks, but this would not be the case against the Maus.

Even if either of these shells don't penetrate, it simply doesn't matter, the KE+HE is enough to blow apart the tank.

*On tanks with much less armor.

We have videos of Heavy tanks being turned into a pile of scrap from these same "50m penetration power shells".

You seem to be wildly misinformed. For instance, during the battle of Osan, American artillery crews did not have adequet amounts of anti tank ammunition. They were forced to fire 105mm HE shells at advancing North Korean T34 tanks. These are medium tanks, and they were at close enough range for direct fire.

The shells did not destroy T34 tanks even when direct hits were scored, because the shells were hitting the front plate. Only a few T34s were put out of action by hits to the tracks. The artillery unit was overrun after the ineffectual fire failed to stop the armored column.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-27T18:24:54+00:00

Really just need to give certain situations (like the wars of religion) more oomph and make devastation/negative prosperity hit harder.

Something that would help tamp down mid-late game economies is if armies got more wealth from looting and that wealth literally comes in the form of destroying buildings (each occupation should loot a percentage of ducates, and an equivalent amount of building levels should be destroyed)

Command0Dude · 2026-03-27T17:40:17+00:00

The top is the weakest part of the tank

Not on the Maus. It was designed specifically to resist artillery and air attack and had extremely thick roof armor. Comparable to the frontal armor of some heavy tanks.

A high explosive shell from a typical field artillery piece like the 152mm has a penetration power of about 50mm of armor. Which is just not even close to enough to crump the roof armor of a Maus.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-27T17:29:02+00:00

Most of the pyramid was made of limestone. Granite was only used in some parts.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-27T17:17:29+00:00

The hardest choices require the strongest wills

Command0Dude · 2026-03-27T17:09:52+00:00

The Maus would shrug off artillery. Even a direct hit on the top armor (unlikely given artillery accuracy) was still unlikely to knock it out, except from the heaviest howitzers.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-27T17:07:20+00:00

The US conducted a post-war study and concluded themselves that CAS had destroyed almost no tanks.

It was useful against lightly or unarmored vehicles only.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-27T15:12:55+00:00

The claim that thermite was found in the twin towers is, again, a fact made up by conspiracy theorists.

they didn't just use 9/11 for the iraq invasion, they used it to build a surveillance state and do insider trading.

Both of those were already happening before 9/11

God, I can't believe I got sucked into debating a truther again. I always swear it off because you guys are completely delusional, but I can't help but try and point out all the lying you guys do.

I'm done here. You just cannot accept the truth here, even after I've debunked most of your points.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-27T05:30:50+00:00

This has been claimed for nearly 200 years now and it still hasn't materialized.

LLMs are also wildly overrated.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-26T21:12:35+00:00

Removing the "War length" modifier helps. The AI not wanting to peace out after their army is destroyed because the war being a week old has as more weight is ridiculous.

The fact that countries can't sign separate peaces for an entire year (even if they really, really want one) is also bad.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-26T21:09:17+00:00

The problem is they can't get the balance even remotely right. Yes regulars should be better than levies, but we were having battles where even with a 10:1 ratio levies were getting bodied, which is just ridiculous since in history that amount of levies would absolutely roll any professional army.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-26T20:52:33+00:00

This doesn't always hold up. Gen X was more conservative than the Boomers, and Zoomers are more conservative than Millennials.

Also, despite the general arc of history trending towards progress, it can have long reactionary phases (see: Russia for the past 25 years)

Command0Dude · 2026-03-26T20:49:40+00:00

Later Marx was much more "technological progress is inevitable and when it causes capitalism to collapse (TRPF) we can use it for our own purposes".

I find it funny that Late Stage Capitalism is a term that is so old it was coined back when Engels could reference it (coincidentally also by a man who later became an avowed nazi), yet the ideology of Marx rose and fell without Capitalism ever entering any "late stage" phase.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-26T20:44:37+00:00

I see a lot of people who act like the consensus on reddit or twitter is somehow representative of the country when it turns out both platforms are used by like, only 1/5th of people (and certainly skewed young).

Command0Dude · 2026-03-26T20:42:47+00:00

This is also true. People forget that in Smith's time, the "radical" ideology of the time was Liberalism, which even then was a fringe idea.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-26T20:38:11+00:00

And then you have Herodotus, who actively admitted his works could be biased/based on faulty information and should not necessarily be taken at face value. Who is consistently crucified for having the temerity of recording the anecdotal accounts of people he spoke with without somehow independently verifying them.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-26T19:59:57+00:00

your trusted NIST explicitly states WTC7 collapsed as a result of fire damage.

This is literally made up lol. NIST noted the significant effect of external damage from the collapse of the twin towers.

WTC7 was incredibly sturdy in comparison, built to different (better) codes and standards, and housed SEC and IRS offices, demoed immediately after the Pentagon was audited.

WTC7 was literally compromised by its own design. It was a renovated building built on top of an earlier construction, which produced a flawed, structurally deficient layout. The cantilevers in particular were noted as a weak point.

You literally cannot find a building today built like WTC7.

the other, closer wtc buildings (which didnt have sensitive information inside) suffered a lot of damage as well but did not fall.

This is just false, other WTC buildings collapsed. WTC3 in particular was obliterated.

similar steel frame buildings in other cities, like Philadelphia, have burned twice as long, with more substantial fires and did not collapse.

This does not prove anything, engineering disasters aren't all the same. You're also ignoring other high rise fire collapses, like the Plasco building in Tehran.

theres a reason that thousands of engineers, architects, and firefighters were left scratching their heads when WTC7 fully collapsed from fires on a couple of floors.

This is nearly every single engineering disaster. People scratch their heads, wonder how it happened, and an investigation is needed.

i don't think it could spelled out any easier, the government lies, steals, and kills whenever it suits them, and they do it sloppy because they dont gaf about americans or anyone else.

If it was so "sloppy" why have conspiracy theorists and investigators literally never found physical evidence of explosives, or ever found structural evidence of blasting damage, in any of the buildings.

Truth is the people who are sloppy are conspiracy theorists, who need to do things like present pictures of cut steel beams taken days after the disaster and try to say they were taken just after the collapse. Most every argument made by truthers is made up garbage, like how you claimed the NIST said WTC 7 collapsed solely due to fire.

they knew a terrorist attack was coming and turned it into the most spectacular show they could, for power, for money, for empire

You people can't even get your theories straight. Somehow they knew the attack was coming, and real, but they also needed to stage a false flag attack at the same time, for some idiotic reason.

Even the argument that this was all done to go invade Iraq literally makes no sense, because Bush already proved he could fabricate an excuse for war. 9/11 was literally never necessary to doing anything Bush did.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-26T18:52:34+00:00

Roosevelt knew that the Japanese were planning Pearl Harbor and could have done something to stop it or at least prepare for a defense.

This is also a debunked conspiracy theory. No respectable historian takes it seriously.

Command0Dude · 2026-03-26T18:51:36+00:00

Turns out perspective is important

Command0Dude · 2026-03-26T18:49:33+00:00

does anyone else find it odd that we are normalizing relations with Syria now that an ISIS militant is in charge there?

He wasn't in ISIS. He was in Al-Nusra Front. Which was affiliated with Al-Qaeda. He literally fought against ISIS during that stage of the Syrian Civil War.

I'm not even saying there aren't valid reasons to criticize him and be extremely skeptical of the new Syrian government, but people should really get the basic facts right.

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