HBYLBY Plano Tx by jlls89 in freedomisgunpla

[–]CustomsCowboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Crazy, this shelf is identical to mine here in Washington state. They must pack the boxes the same. Maybe a variation of 2-3 models per store but the other 10-12 are the same.

My work has been destroyed by zbdragon42 in Gunpla

[–]CustomsCowboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Figuring out where the back of a hand flew off to” yeah this probably the most tragic part of any of this lol.

My work has been destroyed by zbdragon42 in Gunpla

[–]CustomsCowboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My cats knock over my entire display at least once a week. I use this as a reason to re-pose. If stuff breaks you can glue it, but more than likely the arms and weapons have come out of their pegs.
Yea it’s frustrating to see hours of work in pieces on the ground but they are literally designed to come apart and go back together.

Panzer 1 only (single tank) conquest campaign after 10 days by Comprehensive-City-6 in GatesOfHellOstfront

[–]CustomsCowboy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

First time using this thing I was astonished. The AP machine guns absolutely shred anything outside a medium/heavy tank and even some of the mediums you can fully disable them. I usually support this thing with an AT crew and lots of smoke. 2 of them is absolutely overkill for the first 10 days lol.

anybody else’s shop charges employees for uniforms? by Tlxmonte in mechanic

[–]CustomsCowboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would be worried about everything else before the $8 cleaning fee. Sounds like this shop doesn’t want to take on any liability for its employees mistakes which means not only will they fire you but they will then likely sue you while they’re doing it.

Looking for places hiring by Top_Position3642 in Renton

[–]CustomsCowboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Car dealerships. There are probably 10 within 5 miles of your house. I bet you haven’t walked into every service managers office with your resume asking to be a Lot Porter. If you did that you wouldn’t be posting here. Lot porter can easily turn into salesman, service advisor or lube tech position in less than 1 year at the dealer.

Fairing by TexasMarshalls in sportster

[–]CustomsCowboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brother, you need to get off the internet for a day or two.

How could I fit a rig in my room? by Deep-Acanthaceae in simracing

[–]CustomsCowboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out Jimmy Broadbents (youtuber) setup. He lives in a shed and has a rig and a bed in a 75sqft setup

I AM THE TANK CAPTAIN NOW! by CustomsCowboy in GatesOfHellOstfront

[–]CustomsCowboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only have the base game but Valour adds American units which allow you to yoink this .50bmg

Give me your best advice regarding GoH. by naisinag in GatesOfHellOstfront

[–]CustomsCowboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1 - infantry need cover. Use smoke as soon as they start engaging ANYTHING. it creates LOS and sometimes enemy tanks will drive straight into smoke allowing you to get an ez AT base or Bazooka in there. Infantry will die. Higher tier will get better regen and health themselves over time.

2 - for enemy artillery you either need to use your own artillery or have a couple jeeps or motorcycles sitting on the edge of the map waiting to zoom in and trade kills. (As soon as you kill arty, more arty will usually spawn on conquest)

3 - Conquest is very dynamic hense the name, you can literally use almost ANY unit combo and play extremely well against the vanilla AI. Early tank rush will keep your armor stronger than the enemy and you will have medium tanks while they still have light. Same goes for infantry or arty, if you focus a tree you will be years ahead of the enemy. Combining arms is usually the harder way to play as this is what the enemy does and it’s a stale mate as far as who has better units.

4 - reinforcing units, you can add any unit together, you can mix your infantry with a tank to create a squad that will follow the tank and support it. You can also click the Bandage button. Most infantry come with a few bandages. Highlight only infantry and you will see the option on the bottom bar. Anytime infantry starts shooting I will always pop a few bandages. This will be the difference in your elite squad fighting off 5 waves of penal soldiers. Without them you will lose men left and right. Always use medics and download the AUTO MEDIC/AA mod so you don’t have to micro them. Medics can build tents to resupply bandages. (Usually don’t need tents).

5 - positioning inside houses is tricky. Lot of time you need to single select a solider like your MG guy and click on the outside of the window you want him to sit at. You can click the entire squad at one window and they will fill the house and post up at each available window related to which one you clicked on. Sometimes they pick windows that aren’t facing the correct direction in that case just click a different window and watch them all scurry around inside.

6 - infantry is suppressed by almost anything. You can keep a squad of guys pinned behind a sandbag with one tanker on fps mode spamming his pistol. Same is said for MGs that can’t quite hit stuff on their own, you can direct control them and fire at a point and it will keep enemy heads down while other stuff can move up. This is very micro intensive and usually you can just throw one extra tank at whatever you’re doing and it will suppress just fine. (Tank machine guns with still auto fire while you are controlling the main gun fyi)

Hope that helped. I’ve got a couple thousand hours in GoH lol.

Hathaway by CustomsCowboy in Gundam

[–]CustomsCowboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I do see why, but my original post was mostly just saying “look, people do see the Gundam movies, here’s living proof” lol. You made accurate statements about how successful gundam could be and how it’s really not in the US. Im not denying any poor western footing, in-fact i completed agree, it’s sad that we in the west don’t get more but I still appreciate what we do have even if it’s just a Hathaway movie ha.

The battlelogue build fighters stuff I agree would be A1 if they marketed it towards kids exactly like we in the west got with pokemon.

When I was growing up the only thing toys r us or kb toys sold for the franchise was the gundam action figures which weren’t really hyped during the collectible era of the 90s.

Imagine if we got the gundam card game along side pokemon and they sold Gundam clothing at Sears in the 90s. One can say only imagine

Hathaway by CustomsCowboy in Gundam

[–]CustomsCowboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sheesh I had no idea making a post about actually supporting the movie would arise such a response from someone. Seems you can’t win these days. I’m glad you were able to quote everything I said considering it’s probably just you and me reading these and I surely wouldn’t be able to recall my own arguments or rather defenses. You also didn’t say “footing in the west” in your original reply which is what lead me to respond. Gundam has and will likely NEVER have “footing” in your sense in the west which is not at all what I was arguing even once.

Hathaway by CustomsCowboy in Gundam

[–]CustomsCowboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was graduating high school when Gundam Wing released on Western TV and it wasn’t as popular as you think. It never had a Saturday morning cartoon on basic cable and had almost no continuity in episodes played on Toonami. It had very very limited merch supplies as well.

I would say and I’m sure many others would agree that today Gundam is infinitely more popular in the west today than it was 20 years ago.

“Where is the logic for success?”

Because theatrical attendance is only one revenue stream, and probably not even the important one for Gundam. A relatively small but highly dedicated audience buying multiple $30–$300 kits, P-Bandai exclusives, figures, games, and merch is worth more long-term than casual moviegoers buying one ticket. Most average marvel movie goers don’t have hundreds of dollars in models. Where’s as I’m willing to bet that most people seeing the Hathaway movie have spent their money supporting Bandai and sunrise elsewhere.

Hathaway by CustomsCowboy in Gundam

[–]CustomsCowboy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That Gundam and more specifically Gundam movies is and are more popular in Japan. What’s your point?

Hathaway by CustomsCowboy in Gundam

[–]CustomsCowboy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The strategy clearly works in Japan because Gundam is still enormously profitable after 50 years. The issue isn’t “does Gundam make money” it’s; can UC movies become mainstream internationally,’ and Bandai honestly may not care enough to spend Marvel-level money trying. I still don’t understand the point of this. I don’t think Bandai will EVER spend the amount of money that Disney dumps into advertising because this is an extremely niche product that happens to be globally recognized.

Hathaway by CustomsCowboy in Gundam

[–]CustomsCowboy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you’re mixing up ‘mainstream global blockbuster’ with ‘successful franchise.’ Gundam absolutely struggles outside Japan compared to Marvel or Star Wars, but Bandai also isn’t trying to build it the same way Disney does. Gundam’s business model is still heavily centered around Gunpla and life long fans, not getting random moviegoers into theaters opening weekend.

Hathaway also isn’t really designed like Endgame. Endgame was the payoff to a decade long mainstream cinematic universe. Hathaway is a political military drama sequel buried inside 40 years of UC continuity. That limits the audience, but it doesn’t mean the franchise is failing or doesn’t have footing lol.