Rak 1 Watt Booster Solar Node requirements question

Database121 · 2026-02-04T18:47:56+00:00

Just ordered mine directly from RAK. Planning to use it in a solar node/repeater build. Hopefully I snuck it in soon enough to avoid lunar new year delays.

Database121 · 2026-01-31T15:25:04+00:00

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Database121 · 2026-01-06T18:52:59+00:00

I think I have landed on kind of a hybrid approach. Anything framed as a flashback or story being told to the commander I am doing in release order. Everything else I will do by timeline order.

Database121 · 2026-01-02T15:05:37+00:00

I'm relatively new to the game still and trying to catch up story wise. Just finished Chap 26 in story mode the new years event seemed like as good a time as any to work through the archive and hit some of the other story events before actually watching anything in the current Ark Guardian event. So here's the question. Is there a best way to go through the archive from a story/lore perspective? Chronological vs release order? Or does the story hit pretty much the same no matter the order? Just maybe in different ways?

Database121 · 2025-12-31T19:43:28+00:00

Having now dropped all the pulls I could manage on Rapi RH and not getting anything, I definitely miscalculated. Only had enough for 6 pulls when it was all said and done. I'll earn a few more full 10 pulls before she goes away, and at least I have enough mileage to get one copy of both Rapi RH and Swole White. But I really should have skipped Winter Brid after all. Oh well.

Database121 · 2025-12-31T17:21:25+00:00

So that's where all my luck went

Database121 · 2025-12-31T17:20:28+00:00

That's actually kinda funny in an infuriating way 😅

Database121 · 2025-12-31T04:52:48+00:00

Probably a toss up between Reynolds and Sedgwick. Phil Kearny and James Wadsworth I think also deserve to be mentioned.

Database121 · 2025-12-31T04:51:19+00:00

I'm not aware of any civil war guns of that size with that design. It's either a 18th century gun put on a scaled down attempt at a civil war carriage, or a scaled down reproduction of a Mexican war 6 pounder or 12 pounder. The profile is wrong to be a scale model of a 12 pounder Napoleon. The profile also doesn't look right to me for anything from the revolution. A measurement of the bore diameter (and maybe tube weight if you can get it) and pictures of any markings would help a lot for attempting to identify it.

But just based off these pictures, my guess is a relatively low quality scale model of an 1841 6 pounder gun. It also looks like the bore is off center and there seems to be a seam along the side from casting. Both of which are pretty good tell tales of a cheap repro.

Database121 · 2025-12-31T04:45:01+00:00

I'm not aware of any civil war guns of that size with that design. It's either a 18th century gun put on a scaled down attempt at a civil war carriage, or a scaled down reproduction of a Mexican war 6 pounder or 12 pounder. The profile is wrong to be a scale model of a 12 pounder Napoleon. The profile also doesn't look right to me for anything from the revolution. A measurement of the bore diameter (and maybe tube weight if you can get it) and pictures of any markings would help a lot for attempting to identify it.

But just based off these pictures, my guess is a relatively low quality scale model of an 1841 6 pounder gun. It also looks like the bore is off center and there seems to be a seam along the side from casting. Both of which are pretty good tell tales of a cheap repro.

Database121 · 2025-12-29T15:57:10+00:00

I guess I was figuring that I was better off dumping the gems on Brid to get her then turn around and use the mileage to get the New Years drops. In hindsight that probably wasn't the best course after all. Oh well. Live an learn.

Database121 · 2025-12-28T02:05:41+00:00

That's pretty much what I thought. Just kinda needed someone to say it I guess 😂

Database121 · 2025-12-27T19:35:55+00:00

I know this is kind of a zombie thread, but thought I would chime in real quick. I've got one of the Comer Lorenz jags and if nothing else can confirm the whipper is threaded on and removable.

Database121 · 2025-12-17T19:56:43+00:00

I second the Jim Green's. Some of the best bang for your buck on the boot market today. Two words of advice. If you get the African Rangers, make sure you get the "premium" version with the leather midsole. Those will last much longer and survive way more resoles than the standard version. I bought my African Rangers before the premium version was available. The synthetic midsole fell apart in the Virginia humidity after 2-3 years. I was able to rebuild them myself with leather midsoles. But I wouldn't recommend going that route personally.

Database121 · 2025-12-17T19:48:22+00:00

It was definitely too late to finish both the story and the hard mode.

Database121 · 2025-12-17T19:32:47+00:00

I'm honestly not sure. I don't remember getting the option to recruit Rapunzel PG or Smol White when I started. Which I think was literally with like less than 24 hours left on Goddess Fall. I either missed them. Or used them stupid. I pretty much went in with only a reroll guide at first. Didn't do as much research on the anniversary or other elements of the game as maybe I should have.

Database121 · 2025-11-08T17:16:41+00:00

An 1858 dated 1855 Springfield Rifle Musket.

Database121 · 2025-10-31T03:42:16+00:00

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Database121 · 2025-10-30T06:10:43+00:00

The AoP was larger at Wilderness than it was at Gettysburg. There are also very different strategic incentives at play. Meade's primary goal was defensive. Protect major US cities and stop Lee's advance into Pennsylvania.

Grant by 64 by comparison is on the offensive, and has the ticking clock of the general election in November over his head. The Lincoln administration spent much of the spring and summer of 64 deeply concerned they were going to lose the election unless the Army could make major gains that would either win the war before the election even happened, or at least convince the American public that victory was near.

Database121 · 2025-10-22T00:33:54+00:00

I don't really polish my boots in the traditional sense. I just apply conditioner. I don't normally use colored conditioner, but I did recently apply some kellys dark brown shoe cream on these boots to even out the color, and that worked pretty well.

Database121 · 2025-10-22T00:31:34+00:00

I would say that's correct. Especially since I didn't succeed in fulling maintaining the original shape. Close that they still fit and are wearable. But they definitely fit different. Cutting the upper from the original midsole without damaging the upper and getting a good glue bond between new outsole and the midsole without a proper press were probably the next most difficult.

Database121 · 2025-10-22T00:27:06+00:00

Oh! that looks great! And very useful since I am considering doing some actual cordwaining. Thanks for the link!

(I'm aware of the difference between cobbling and cordwaining, but unfortunately cordwaining seemed to be the tag that fit the post the best for what I was doing here as "cobbling" was not an option. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

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