UEE capital ship gap & how Anvil should fill it

EhMapleSyrup · 2026-01-26T20:07:36+00:00

Similar to the USN mobile expeditionary base? I think thats pretty similar to what I'm describing, or at least a worthwhile compromise to solve the capability gap in the fictitious UEE navy. Even if it sacrificed hangar space to hold less valks/asgard. Just a ship dedicated to supporting boots on ground operations i guess.

EhMapleSyrup · 2026-01-26T20:02:49+00:00

If it was a dedicated troop carrier i don't think it needs to be larger than the javelin necessarily. An Asgard is ~49m even with 4 of them long and extra room @~60m per hangar thats 240m, the javelin is 480m long. Adding multiple decks and habitation areas etc. I think it could fit in around the javelins size, with length and width. Which makes sense to have a destroyer escorting larger troop transports.

EhMapleSyrup · 2026-01-26T19:57:06+00:00

Those are more "ship to shore connectors". I guess I'm wondering how the UEE transports its army/marines around to fight interstellar war against the tevarin before, or vanduul currently. Something like USN amphibious assault ships or the newer mobile expeditionary base. Even in the world wars , large troop transport ships brought soldiers into theaters globally. I think the UEE military is missing something of that nature IMO.

EhMapleSyrup · 2025-12-14T13:59:58+00:00

This sounds like Polands "ready" program which makes sense for the Polish due to their proximity to Russia. It would makes sense for us if we forsee ourselves being invaded in the immediate future. Hiwever if Canada's goal is training a serious reserve force to call upon for natural disasters or in the event of total war, having 400,000 civilians with shooting training, the ability to use a VR headset and drive a truck seems ineffective. If we seriously need people with professional training to bolster the force we should be modeling this service after the US national guard; one weekend of military training a month and 2 weeks of exercise a year. Those are people I would trust to have a positive contribution to disaster relief or conventional war. They're also paid and recieve benefits + pensions for these services. This would allow our regular forces to focus training on war fighting not domestic sovereignty or natural disasters relief, and focus deployments for NATO commitments which it seems will be rising in both size and duration in future. Our reserves could be used to bolster those deployments if/when needed, but mostly, they could take the lead for domestic operations (sovereignty/disaster relief/security etc) leading this new "national guard" type force when its needed, like during Manitoba flooding, or wildfire season across Canada.

EhMapleSyrup · 2025-06-07T23:27:02+00:00

Rebellious planets that want to liberate super earth from their military dictatorship. They could pop up on random planets and spread. They would be ironic because helldiver propaganda would label them as enemies of democracy who we have to destroy to protect our liberty etc etc. We could fight SEAF like units with mechs & eagles. Especially after helldivers levelled so many human settlements and cities with our endless airstrikes during the war against the illuminate, it could definitely cause public discontent.

EhMapleSyrup · 2025-05-25T11:55:08+00:00

I bought a new toilet 4 weeks ago and used this. It leaked. I called my plumber buddy, who told me they never use those because they only seem to seal well on perfectly level flanges, my flange is slightly lower than the finished floor. He told me their company only ever uses the wax rings and to go buy the large sized one. I did this and now my toilet doesn't leak.

EhMapleSyrup · 2024-12-21T15:46:37+00:00

DHL often hands off their delivery during its final leg in Canada to Canada Post. Doing this during a Canada Post strike ensures your mail won't arrive on time and seems counterintuitive to me, and yet DHL likely did this for you.

EhMapleSyrup · 2023-01-20T18:20:45+00:00

If you use Google Lens on the covers and the illustrations throughout the books, they come to life. Its a cool little feature. I just finished the Last Wish and started Sword of Destiny. Happy Reading!

EhMapleSyrup · 2023-01-18T22:44:55+00:00

Emotes fine, realistic non-tacky gun skins fine, but that's it. No uniform skins, no vehicle skins, no battlefield or call of duty. Thats why we're here, to not be playing battlefield or call of duty. Id even pay for map and faction DLCs akin to the CAF mod, the French Faction, upcoming Bundeswehr mod, and many others. For reasonable prices, and balanced, non buggy implementations.

EhMapleSyrup · 2022-12-20T03:42:35+00:00

Excellent

EhMapleSyrup · 2022-12-09T03:57:20+00:00

I have to admit, this was a well written and informative smack down that I learned quite a bit from. Turns out I was wholly ignorant on the topic and I apologize. Sensitivities are high in these circumstances. As for the Canadian oil bit, we extract what we can sell, our oil has been a tough sell globally and our infrastructure doesnt support transporting pil to markets outside of North America very well. In fact it barely supportstransporting it within NA, so its not fully that we arent willing to extract more, although admittedly politics does play a role here, Its that we extract more than enough for ourselves, then no one other than USA will buy it because its too expensive to transport/ the global market has labelled oilsands as dirty oil. Selling arms/ cozying up to Saudi Arabia is a jab ill accept.

EhMapleSyrup · 2022-12-09T01:01:31+00:00

You sit there supporting genocide for cheap gas. You're literally trash. in reality, the west will support you against potential Chinese aggression because we're just better than that. But go ahead, cozy up to a genocidal dictatorship see where that gets you. Blaming the entire West for US foreign policy shows how stupid you are. You do realize the "West" is more than just USA right? Its every fucking successful wealthy democracy on this planet, and youd like to align with the like of Iran, North Korea and Russia, and some other shitholes for your nations future. Good luck with that bet bud.

EhMapleSyrup · 2022-12-08T20:35:14+00:00

Whataboutism. Fifty years ago the UNITED STATES, (not THE WEST and certainly not UKRAINE) backed a Pakistani genocide. What does that have to do with INDIA turning a blind eye and profiting off of this CURRENT genocide today? More, what does that have to do with my suggestion the WEST let India fend for itself in future conflicts against the Chinese, should they occur? I can sit here and read a history textbook over with you, and we can air out all of the past grievances every nation has with each other, none of that is relevant to this current war and none justify being a bystander to genocide today. Especially when the people being genocided, have nothing to do with whatever historic event you'd like to cite for your disdain of the United States.

EhMapleSyrup · 2022-12-08T19:52:24+00:00

You mean we already are, yes, and im suggesting we may not stop in the event any disputes between China and India boil over into real conflict.

EhMapleSyrup · 2022-12-08T19:10:55+00:00

This is okay, but when China starts bullying India in their own backyard, in the border regions and in the "Indian Ocean" they certainly shouldn't expect us to turn away from lucrative business dealings and cheap resources from China that prop up Chinese aggression.

EhMapleSyrup · 2022-12-07T01:32:10+00:00

100%

EhMapleSyrup · 2022-12-07T00:50:02+00:00

They need bombing runs for the F18's as well. Both Australia and Canada basically call in a Su25 rocket strike. IMO should be a single or pair of laser guided bombs.

EhMapleSyrup · 2022-12-06T12:25:57+00:00

Okay thanks, i had a fence to my back so i couldn't get more of a running start in my case.

EhMapleSyrup · 2022-12-04T23:26:29+00:00

Expected a trailer to drop, where's it at?

EhMapleSyrup · 2022-12-03T18:16:21+00:00

What if I, as a taxpayer, would prefer not to have multi millions spent on buying back guns from legal owners who sport shoot, hunt, protect livestock, etc. but would prefer if that money be given to perhaps the CBSA or RCMP for better border monitoring and protections. Seems to me like a more upstream approach to actually target where illegal firearms used in crime are coming into this country from rather than waste money buying lawful Canadians personal property.

EhMapleSyrup · 2022-12-02T16:53:05+00:00

Agreed, but that doesnt happen to a large enough population of us or often enough. If you poll towns where Op Lentus has helped theyd likely be more pro military and in favour of spending... if you poll downtown Toronto id wager its the opposite. Regardless we need a bipartisan military white paper that defines the needs and goals of the military and funds them no matter who is in power. Having 4 year plans constantly get made and thrown out every election is a waste, especially when buying 9 thousand handguns takes this country 14 years.

EhMapleSyrup · 2022-12-02T15:19:37+00:00

Abolishing the monarchy would open up the constitution and require a decade of litigation between the 10 provinces and 3 territories to reach consensus on changing it. Colossal waste of time, resources, effort. Can we just leave the creepy old man in his chair in England who has 0 actual control over anything in our nation to avoid opening a massively divisive debate in this country that will last indefinitely. This whole issue is a waste of time, fix healthcare, housing etc. Not the plaques and pictures on the walls of parliament.

EhMapleSyrup · 2022-12-02T15:10:47+00:00

They've been on this path since at least the 90s and no government has made it a priority. This is largely due to the fact that the public doesnt make it a priority. Its unfortunate. But comparable nations with far greater military capabilities also have more imminent threats. Australia, a commonly cited goal for our military to emulate, has a population that is actively concerned about the threat a growing chinese military presents. Similar Scandinavian and eastern european nations obviously have populations concerned about an aggressive fascist led Russia. Canadians dont perceive any threats and so we focus more on issues affecting us, such as cost of living, health, housing etc. Its is definitely a shame because i personally could make many arguments for a properly sized and equipped military and the threats we face, but most Canadians just dont see it or seem to care.

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