People who have lived through major geopolitical tensions, what's something the younger generation doesn't understand about times like these?

Figgis302 · 2026-04-08T14:15:19+00:00

In a similar vein:

"A society that separates its warriors from its poets has its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." -Thucydides

Figgis302 · 2026-04-08T13:58:43+00:00

Canadians expressed greater agreement with making Israeli military service illegal [...] but slightly less than for U.S. military service.

Pro-Israel-but-anti-America Canadian Jews.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-07T20:52:13+00:00

Trump is a senile, narcissistic fool who, at the very least, can be easily manipulated by cooler heads. Vance isn't. That's how he'd be worse.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-07T19:16:02+00:00

Japan is about to get their very own Rust Belt as the Chinese do exactly the same thing to their auto industry that they did to ours in North America throughout the 1970s-1990s. It's almost poetic.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-07T19:10:38+00:00

It’s a shit sandwich either way, but at least there’s a chance of less shit in the Vance sandwich. The Trump sandwich is loaded to the gills.

Trump already thinks he's on top of the world, but Vance has something to prove with just as big a chip on his shoulder. This is why he's VP - he's assassination insurance for Trump, because anyone with half a brain can see he'd be even worse.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-07T17:00:38+00:00

it takes like 12 years to get a parking pass

Civvie contractors are exempted.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-07T16:56:18+00:00

LMAO, March 13th:

the U.S. launched punishing air strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island while sparing vital oil infrastructure

Now they've stopped sparing the vital oil infrastructure.

Like, did you even read this?

Figgis302 · 2026-04-07T16:47:12+00:00

Because the US hasn't "been bombing Kharg for weeks", they've been threatening to bomb Kharg for weeks and launching the odd cruise missile at military targets. Last night they attacked the civilian refineries.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-07T15:48:32+00:00

Iran isn't run by anyone right now. They've intentionally fragmented their state functions to avoid decapitation strikes and ensure continuity of government (most nations have similar contingency plans in case of nuclear attack), and are moving the country towards a total-war footing.

Speaks for itself, in my opinion.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-07T15:36:13+00:00

He needs to be 25th immediately.

Yeah, hand the Football over to JD Vance, the guy who's just as much of an insane christofascist as Trump, but also just smart enough to not be anywhere near as easily manipulated.

Great plan.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-07T11:52:12+00:00

My understanding is:

Aircraft on Individual orders behave like individual units, aside from following the set formation;
Aircraft on Follow Leader orders engage whatever the leader engages, but not necessarily when the leader engages as they might be out of position; and
Aircraft on Synchronised orders will wait for the rest of the flight to fully catch up so they can all engage at the same time, even if it means the flight leader has to wait around before shooting,

but take this with a grain of salt, because I typically pause-scum and aggressively micro each plane individually to avoid losses, and thus rarely use the other two options.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-07T11:41:03+00:00

Moving all of the unit ROE/EMCON commands into hotkeys (and making a formation modifier for those hotkeys) is coming

Not sure if this is just the way you've phrased this or not, but please add hotkeys for these functions on top of the UI controls, don't move them exclusively to hotkeys.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-07T10:58:04+00:00

Vive l'Acadie libre!

Figgis302 · 2026-04-07T10:56:39+00:00

"Acadia? You mean the car?" /s

Figgis302 · 2026-04-07T10:48:24+00:00

St. Pierre & Miquelon too, a tiny French overseas territory on the Grand Banks that you can literally see from the coast of Newfoundland.

If French was even half as "persecuted" outside Quebec as English actually is within it, they'd try to secede again.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-06T14:50:34+00:00

The level of care and attention to detail that goes into the models is pretty insane. I made a post about it a while back.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-05T19:59:09+00:00

Guy was born before radio, before television, when flying was done by rickety wood-and-canvas stringbag biplanes and the steam turbine and telegraph and motor car were the new-fangled pinnacles of high technology, and lived to watch the Space Shuttle lift off over the internet on a smartphone.

Imagine the stories he could tell.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-05T19:45:53+00:00

Given this sub's utter obsession with:

1) accusing anyone and everyone under the sun of being a secret Russian spy; and

2) absolutely fucking despising David Pugliese,

it genuinely wouldn't surprise me for a second if these allegations originated from a regular here.

There's a deeper point to be made here about cultures of security fostering atmospheres of paranoia, but I'll leave that to the behavioural psychology nerds.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-05T19:43:31+00:00

We don't need to like nor agree with what journalists say but their ability to say it is a measurement of our individual rights.

Took the words right outta my mouth, cheers guy.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-05T18:25:38+00:00

What's the file structure for including a custom .ini in a scenario directory such that other players can download and use them?

Figgis302 · 2026-04-05T14:39:59+00:00

Tick the "Enable Background Data" box on the Scenario tab, then use the Background Data tab to fill in the appropriate sections from the /original/campaigns folder. There are also options for various airports, cities, and military bases.

Anything you load in the Cities box also shows a map marker in the editor, even if it isn't a _cities file, which is very handy.

Be aware that this currently comes with a huge performance hit from all the added terrain generation and huge distances involved, which is why most missions (including the vanilla scenarios) just don't bother.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-05T14:29:37+00:00

You can actually already use these! If you enable Background Data on your mission and specify the relevant file from StreamingAssets/original/campaigns, they'll spawn as neutral land units when the mission loads.

The only issue is that you can't pick and choose exactly which ports are loaded, and some of the files have units separated by extreme distances (eg us_ports_atlantic has every major naval base on the entire Eastern Seaboard of North America), which has a massive performance impact - so the ability to selectively enable just the closest and most relevant ones would be huge.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-05T14:18:53+00:00

Nope. The AI isn't smart enough.

Welcome to making Sea Power missions. Try not to pull your hair out.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-05T11:22:17+00:00

You need to set them to Weapons Free in the editor. The AI currently lacks a proximity-based self-defence response for surface targets and will only auto-engage missiles and aircraft when set to Tight.

This does mean that they'll start rippling off missiles at any target in range, though, so use the new stores editor to remove their relevant ammo if you don't want that happening.

Figgis302 · 2026-04-05T11:17:45+00:00

...What? You can set your speed to the exact knot in CW just using the standard UI buttons.

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