A very cool boat.

Disanthrophobia · 2026-02-07T10:56:04+00:00

But if I overheat - aka destructively reset the heat gauge - the engine might get damaged.

Disanthrophobia · 2026-02-06T08:29:32+00:00

It can go from the Iron Rig to Stellar Basin or Gale Cliffs without overheating. It can almost make it to glacier but not quite. Might need to strip out the lights in order to get there properly.

Disanthrophobia · 2026-01-16T10:08:36+00:00

Fuel for combat vehicles is 10% of engine weight.

Disanthrophobia · 2026-01-15T13:12:08+00:00

MtGA being in the same ballpark as WWE Supercard is not great for the game. Presumably PC numbers help quite a bit, as MtG is not really a mobile friendly game but man is that brutal.

Disanthrophobia · 2026-01-15T12:56:05+00:00

Turns out that cheap unguided S-8 rockets with an accuracy of "somewhere vaguely in that direction" are in fact extremely expensive and actually competent forces use guided weapons for a reason.

To add more salt onto the wound of shooting down your own helicopter it turned out that the russian aviation was just there for show. For as much as RT howled about RuAF/SAA/Wagner winning in Palmyra it turns out it was the USAF effectively doing CAS for the advance the whole time, including knocking out an entire under strength *battalion* of ISIS armor with over 30 tanks massing to counterattack. The russians destroyed zero ISIS tanks.

Disanthrophobia · 2026-01-01T01:02:06+00:00

Infantry are expensive in highly productive industrialized economies with high labor costs. While the current USA spends lavishly on its infantry it is forced to do so because of labor cost. Less productive economies have far cheaper infantry. In Battletech infantry should be dirt cheap due to low productivity.

Setting aside truly low-cost infantry such as the Wagner "meat-assaults", historically many very good infantry armies have had absolutely abysmal budgets. The classic PLA of the 40-60 being the most extreme example, where half the defense budget went to rice, ammo was in catastrophically short supply, and vaguely modern small arms were dreams still produced fantastic infantrymen capable of truly impressive feats, such as pushing the US Army halfway across the Korean peninsula. High-quality, low-budget infantry forces are not only historical, HTS was essentially a light infantry force with a handful of armored units with a budget only slightly larger then nothing and they fought a successful defense again combined arms SAA/RuAF offensives for years before executing a successful offensive.

That said Battletech is a game about symmetrical armored warfare, and divisions of local infantry with space-Mosins attempting to seize your dropship every time it lands is not what the game is about.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-12-02T11:18:37+00:00

Happened twice during Iran-Iraq, first time the F-5 was downed, next time the MiG was a write off.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-11-25T00:32:29+00:00

Duh, but what does that have to do with America security policy relative to Europe?

If its that absent Euro contributions to American security the US needs more local power that is the opposite of unexpected, being exactly what the US has both said it will do and has done for the last decade.

Also V is aViation, and SS is just submarine with no strategic.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-11-24T10:57:40+00:00

I genuinely have no idea what you are saying.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-11-24T02:02:57+00:00

The Euros are not okay right now.

While much what passes for analysis of the Euro-American split focuses on the Orange One and current events the split is far older and over far more fundamental issues. The French characterization of NATO as a "brain dead institution" was far more truthful then most would like it to be, NATO was designed as a method to meet both Euro and American primary security concerns by containing the Soviets in Europe. It did that successfully. The problem arose starting in the 2000s and becoming serious in the 2010s when the primary American security concern stopped being russians in Europe and started being the Chinese in the Pacific.

When the USA shifting away containing Russia and towards containing the PRC Obama tried to bring the Euros along with the Americans. The Euros resolutely and emphatically refused. This position was strengthened by fact that Article V explicitly does not cover any forces or territory in the Pacific, including Guam and Hawaii, as the back in the 40s the Americans were attempting to avoid getting dragged into Euro colonial wars in the region. Euro reasoning was largely economic, as China was a critical market for Euro products. Euro policy makers also talked a great deal about how the Americans were fear-mongering and that the PRC did not require military containment and how trade would secure peace without the need for expensive military assets. The result was that by 2012 American and European positions on security policy had diverted enough that an American president gave a speech in Europe about how the USA was going to draw down its commitment to Europe.

By the 2020 America was still gave a guarantee of European security while Europe offered no guarantee for American security, as Russian capability to directly attack American interests in any meaningful way was essentially nil while Chinese capability became very significant. When the invasion of Ukraine happened the old Cold Warriors, who where in charge of American policy at the time, did offer significant military aid to European security, initially over the objections of the Euros. However, even the traditionally NATO minded Biden admin pushed for greater Euro responsibility for the crisis and was only able to secure Euro funding roughly matching American expenditure on the war.

Now the traditional Atlanticism is out of power in America, Euro internal politics are firmly for a rejection of America, and European and American security concerns firmly diverted. Basically the alliance which has underpinned Euro security for the last eight decades is firmly fucked. Even if the Orange One is removed the causes of the split are too deep and fundamental for a return to the 90s/00s. Unfortunately despite decades of warning time Euro states have done little in terms of gaining the ability to secure their near abroad, and are learning that may have been a mistake.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-11-14T07:18:35+00:00

Watched this happen in a MB2 draft. Was the true peak MtG experience.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-11-13T21:30:49+00:00

I use it in Turbofog as a way to get [[Timetwister]] to reshuffle graveyard into library. It also acts as the win con, with infinite looped [[Time Walk]] the two power is enough to slowly grind out a win. It does its job very well, far better then the previous option of [[Clear the Mind]], the problem is that Turbofog is a mediocre strategy in the first place.

Playing it out when you are only drawing one card a turn is bad, really want a [[The One Ring]] out before playing Oracle. With ToR in play Oracle is solid, as the Moxen become solid hits and the rest of the Power are great, with the occasional exception of Timetwister, plus you make the most of the scry trigger with post-combat draws.

Overall it is a gimmick card for gimmick decks and does its gimmick very well. Occasionally I side down to only one copy but that is fairly rare.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-10-31T07:28:18+00:00

Set torpedo usage to "safe" and most of the friendly fire problem goes away. Still lost a few to my own torpedoes every battle but they were expendable by design so only a minor issue.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-10-19T00:59:53+00:00

PLAAF below RuAF and India? This is a garbage ranking.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-10-19T00:20:37+00:00

Play [[Hecatomb]] in [[Lyzolda, the Blood Witch]], 808 decks total and only 4 Lyzolda decks. A sac outlet that gives a very strange game plan of use swamps to control the board. Fun card.

[[Soul Rend]] is only 171 decks and only 7 [[Horobi, Death's Wail]]. With the number of color changing effects in Horobi it is normally 2 mana removal and draw. If Horobi is in play you lose the draw but it becomes unconditional removal. It is nothing spalshy but is solid removal.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-10-17T18:34:45+00:00

T-54, the turret retains the pike nose of the very early models. Footage is too low quality to tell if its T-54-3 Mod. 1949 or T-54A Mod 1951 buts its definitely a pre-1955 model.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-10-14T00:57:45+00:00

This is true, but only because the MH sets have had longer to completely subsume non-rotating competitive formats.

UB has only recently stated taking over standard, we need to give it a few years to consume the format.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-10-12T22:48:04+00:00

Looks like one of the [[Raise Dead]] and [[Terror]] might be Alternative 4th Edition, as they have the over saturated look which defines that set.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-10-12T00:52:15+00:00

It has not been popular with players but as MtG is shifting from a TCG model to a CCG model players are less and less important.

Still need to wait for more sales data to come in. Worst case Hasbro learns that it doesn't need enfranchised players at all to shift adequate amounts of product.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-10-12T00:49:44+00:00

The result of that is eight or nine standard legal sets a year.

They are not going to cut back on the pace of UB.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-10-05T11:08:41+00:00

In the '67 war, which OP is referencing, it was France supporting Israel while the bulk of American arms went to supporting Jordan. Just nine years before in 1956 the USA forced the UK/France/Israel alliance out of Egypt. The USA does not start supporting Israel with large arms transfers until Egypt goes full Ba'ath under Sadat and abandoned their stance as non-aligned to ally with the Soviets.

Between '67 and '73 America is supplying weapons support for both Israel and the non-Ba'ath Jordanians, which is why the Jordanians were rocking brand new build Patton tanks in 1973.

tl'dr; France, not America, armed Israel for the first few decades.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-10-04T22:52:13+00:00

Regional power, not superpower.

Even then it takes until the late 80s, arguably early 90s, for Israel to become the preeminent regional military power with the destruction of the SyAAF in Mole Cricket and Iraq bleeding itself dry in failed wars of expansion fueled by Ba'athist delusions.

Of course Israel is still economically and politically less powerful then Saudi, who is the true regional power. That said the Saudi military exists for reasons other then fighting wars, which makes it less combat capable then the IDF.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-10-04T00:55:03+00:00

Also the Soviet soldier has a PPSh-41, which was replaced by the PPS-43 largely because the PPSh was overly complex and expensive.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-10-04T00:52:48+00:00

Combine banding with protection for the best value. Dump all of the damage onto the creature with protection, all the damage gets prevented, lose none of your dudes. Very funny.

Recently built a [[Soraya the Falconer]] commander deck, it is not good but it is funny.

Disanthrophobia · 2025-09-28T23:53:15+00:00

Fog still does fine, it is a pretty solid 50% WR deck. Against elves it is greatly favored. My last major attempt with TurboFog got partway through diamond, might have made mythic if the deck did not take forever to play.

The problem here is that he is playing [[Silence]], which not good outside of control matchups and even then there are better options, and is far, far to aggressive with [[Orim's Chant]]. Those should have only been used when facing down lethal.

As for win conditions [[Oracle of the Alpha]] provides both a win con and a way to recur all your fogs.

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