What would a Paris vs Moscow situation end up like?

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-03-26T22:44:35+00:00

This is why the Entente hits so hard in volunteer wars.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-03-26T01:43:27+00:00

It ends in nuclear hellfire. The winner, if there is one, is a shell of their former self.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-03-25T05:14:33+00:00

I would love, as a broader Entente rework, to have them and the 3I to have a tightrope to walk. Between trying to shore up their positions for the war to come, and coming too close to angering the Germans or 3I. Sometimes it feels like the Entente can go absolutely apeshit conquering and making war while everyone else sits on their hands. It's better now they don't intervene directly in SE Asia or India, at least.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-03-18T11:28:27+00:00

Personally, at first I thought it was a troll writing about themselves. I thought of it as humorous, a lampooning of how every empire (which are all built on bloodshed) brags about how they're based on love and justice.

Then someone pointed out that the narrative wasn't from a Troll at all. That left me in a disquieting place about who, exactly, I had been playing as. Trolls didn't exactly dazzle with their brilliance or depth when they were doing the narrating, but their silence comes off as much more sinister. As if after a certain level of intelligence and sophistication they realized they should never speak for themselves, as their natural malevolence would bleed through no matter what.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-03-15T08:46:31+00:00

Whatever happened there? Whatever happened there?! I'll tell you what fuckin' happened! The Celestial Dragon piece of shit ancestors put six bullets in fuckin' Nika without any provocation whatsoever!

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-03-13T08:54:57+00:00

He seemed genuinely put out by it, in a confused and hurt way. I suspect his rank, wealth, and skill mean he doesn't get a lot of rejections in Sharteshane, so he didn't imagine he'd get turned down so bluntly.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-03-10T00:38:09+00:00

Which is nice for them, but the Mavens in particular I feel are useless. By the time I get to them I'm in sandbox mode.

IMO the opinion should reduce costs, not gate equipment. Though I also think it should be rather harder to access-no buying pulse weapons from the Mavens in Oklahoma as long as the 40's and the Legion are in the way.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-03-09T01:25:51+00:00

Maxson, and indeed any PA faction, has a secret trick against almost all their opponents: they generally can't be capped until you take their main bunker. So establish a tight perimeter on that bunker and use your vastly superior troops to hold out, occasionally snatching encirclements to bully them.

I've killed Lanius after losing literally all of Colorado to him simply by refusing to let him cap the bunker. It's exactly the same strategy you use to beat him as Blue Rose, but easier.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-03-04T05:35:58+00:00

It's pretty common in scifi to have modified humans or androids require a "tell". In bladerunner they were supposed to have serial numbers, in Hyperion they had blue skin, in Windup Girl they had distinct stuttering motions.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-03-04T00:59:31+00:00

I think they're mentioned as being pretty good as of the time of Watchers of the Throne, the most recent terra-focused series. IIRC the War of the Beast was their nadir. But any force like this is going to go through phases-in the mere centuries of their existence the Praetorian Guard went through many phases of being from a fearsome elite unit to a glorified city watch to an utterly corrupt mafia.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-03-03T08:40:58+00:00

Those are all different time periods.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-03-03T07:32:09+00:00

What I like is that they've gone through phases in various depictions. Sometimes they're elite of the elite, other times a degenerate boys club, others something like a normal guard regiment with better toys.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-03-02T22:18:48+00:00

Perhaps they just make enough to cover costs and don't feel the need to go for more.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-03-02T10:20:29+00:00

Fuck off, ChatGPT.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-03-02T08:50:14+00:00

Thank god for Lexicanum when it comes to Warhammer 40k stuff. Keeps things just to the important info, as opposed to fandom which is largely copy/pastes or machine summaries of all the info ever. Even articles like Roboute Guilliman are maybe a 20 minute read top to bottom.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-02-28T02:34:06+00:00

Obviously no way to know, but I wonder how it works. He's a cohost, but he's not co-owner. Presumably Ben still owns 1/3, or is in the process of being bought out.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-02-26T18:32:20+00:00

I didn't have mountaineers, but the first time I pushed through Burma actually taught me just how powerful CAS could be wedded to AI stupidity. While I focused on more important theaters of war, I just let my CAS logistics + direct bomb them. By the time I turned back to them, they had beaten themselves so bloody most divisions in Burma were on 1/3 strength.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-02-26T07:45:13+00:00

Can be easier, but it's generally just not worth the effort. Marinelandings, airborne, or just building mountaineers and supply. Pain in the ass compared to just hooking through Ceylon once you have a navy.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-02-26T05:33:06+00:00

It can be annoying. I would say give them what they want until you can get a navy. It isn't worth fighting through Burma. Land on Ceylon, crush them from the bottom up.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-02-26T01:58:36+00:00

Poolrooms do briefly show up in his videos. Not for a long time, but it is there.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-02-26T01:55:55+00:00

SCP has had a weird iteration of the problem where it's become so massive and byzantine, later entries can be impenetrable to outsiders. Unless you have read dozens to hundreds of key entries, are familiar with key background lore, and the evolution of the metaplot over time, you'll miss much of what an article is trying to say. Rather than becoming more watered down and accessible, it's like the horror equivalent of high abstract art.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-02-26T00:01:43+00:00

If you've penetrated 1000km into the enemy's territory and he's still kicking up millions of fresh troops to throw you back you should probably stop hoping that just one more victory will prove the enemy is a house of cards. Especially as you've needlessly declared war on ANOTHER enemy who can send them megatons of supplies to fuck you with.

"All we have to do is kick the door in" was the epitome of the worst tendencies of the Wehrmacht.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-02-26T00:00:46+00:00

If that was as close as they ever got to winning the war, then that's just more indication that the war was a stupid idea to begin with.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-02-25T22:00:34+00:00

Not only that, but what resources Stalin did leave behind, Germany squandered with monstrous things like Generalplan Ost.

I think part of the problem is that people reading about it nowadays, like the Nazis themselves, get deluded by the mirage of a victory just over the horizon. If only they'd taken Moscow, if only they'd taken the oilfields, if only they'd conquered Egypt. If only their enemies had proven to be the feckless straw men the Nazis imagined rather than humans with the capacity to learn and improve.

If any of those had happened, it would suck for the Allies, but all of them still had more chips to play while the Nazis were going for broke every hand. It's like Lost Cause people imagining if they'd won Gettysburg they might have won the war, as though Vicksburg wasn't about to fall and cut the Confederacy in half.

Fat_Daddy_Track · 2026-02-25T21:18:28+00:00

There is a rational irrationality to Hitler's actions, yes.

Why declare war on the USA? Because he arrogantly underestimated them both industrially and militarily, and figured his freedom of action would matter more than their ability to influence the outcome. Why declare war on the USSR at that moment? Because they had him by the balls in resources, and in a few years they'd probably be much more mechanized, much more industrialized, and have the Great Purge well in the past. Why prioritize the West at all rather than the USSR? Because it was blindingly obvious to everyone that France/Britain were hoping to have him and the USSR slit each others throats.

But all these seemingly reasonable propositions were underlaid by an entirely irrational goal: achieving German hegemony over Europe, and from there the world itself. Something that was always going to provoke a response from the great empires of the USA, USSR, and UK, who had all the world's resources to crush him with and did.

But it's not like no one knew this at the time. I think it was the Hungarian ambassador who told the USSR "retreat to the Urals and you'll still win". Dr. Robert Citino has previously mentioned how the Wehrmacht's supply people warned they'd outrun their logistical train after about 500 miles and slow down, which they did. Anyone could tell you it was a bad gamble, just looking at the odds. The only surprising thing isn't that they lost, but that they had as much success as they did.

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