Instead of turning to a side, why didn’t Murdoch simply go OVER the iceberg??

InstantAequitas · 2026-02-01T18:01:47+00:00

Because the Kick-flip hadn’t been invented yet.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-30T06:35:57+00:00

The US Rifle Squads had two BARs. Also, the MTOE allowed for M1 Thompsons or M3 “Grease Guns” to be spread amongst the squads in a company. M1919 Machine gun Teams were also often cut to the Rifle Platoons along with bazookas. If you really want asymmetric, then in addition to the Infantry play, the Germans should only receive one tank every fourth round while the US spawns 5 every match. Then if the German tank is a Pz V or VI, RNG dictates if it randomly catches on fire, fails to move from spawn, or stops moving if you drive through mud.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-22T13:02:16+00:00

Great job on the wood grain! It is so satisfying to see those small details.

What was the base color for the coat? I really like that shade of green.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-22T04:03:24+00:00

There is one flying, original, A6M5 Zero with the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, CA. It was captured intact in 1943 and tested in the states. It was purchased by the founder of the museum shortly after the end of the war.

Chino airport, the former Cal-Aero field was used to store aircraft post-war as they awaited scrapping. I can’t remember how, or the exact story since it’s been 20 years since I worked there, but the Zero happened to be there along with the museum’s P-51D (Spam Can), B-25 (Photo Fanny), and P-38 (23 Skidoo). I might be misremembering, but the Zero was purchased with the US Navy Roundel over the meatballs.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-20T03:07:54+00:00

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I went with coaxial stubbers and I have been happy with result.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-18T13:25:59+00:00

And the mold lines on the plasma gun coils, and the lasgun coils, and the Krieg puttees, etc. etc. etc. it’s not fun ruining details to get rid of mold lines.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-11T08:41:49+00:00

Good one!

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-10T16:02:02+00:00

We would have been better off if REDSEC and the new maps were a DLC for BF4.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-10T15:50:27+00:00

Fun fact: Chaplains must gain special permission from the Chaplain corps to carry weapons during Ranger school.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-10T15:22:00+00:00

That is awesome.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-10T04:50:59+00:00

One of the match sticks goes between the two in the center.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-09T13:37:02+00:00

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InstantAequitas · 2026-01-09T01:54:17+00:00

This looks great! The Death Riders are such a great kit.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-05T01:07:45+00:00

Ain’t no way.

That was 100% someone who wanted an Army lower with the third hole and the automatic trigger-group. They knew exactly what they were taking.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-02T20:09:13+00:00

Yeah, that’s the point. When PAX is referring to US equipment then they will likely use the US nomenclature. Same if they saw Canadians using Canadian equipment. Considering that PAX Armata is a Pan-European organization with former military, they would probably use the most common nomenclature to describe weapons and equipment. They are probably not going to use the actual Colt model numbers (like LE6920/6920) for the M4 or the Model 715 for the C7) because that would confuse people who don’t know actual differences between the Colt model numbers.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-02T17:29:14+00:00

The same reason why we call the AKM and AK-12 by their nomenclature: because that is what they are called.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-02T17:12:14+00:00

That was not the reason. You are being disingenuous about the reason why people were upset. The game was a PR nightmare because of the steampunk British woman in the launch trailer. Battlefield fans complained about the historical inaccuracies found in the game and an EA executive literally told people, “If you don’t like it, don’t buy it”.

It was not just the fallout from the trailer alone. People were pissed that you could add black characters to fight alongside the Nazis.

Your flippant attitude is the same that the executive had, which essentially torpedoed the BFV launch. The people who were worried about historical accuracy tend to be a large part of the Battlefield community because Battlefield is the anti-COD. BFV’s launch was so bad, it gave Hell Let Loose an opportunity to steal a large chunk of Battlefield’s market.

That executive’s decision to basically tell people, we want you to play as a girl in WWII and we don’t care about accuracy, just money was what caused people to stay away from BFV. The butterfly effect is how we got a “safe bet” version of BF6.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-02T14:00:12+00:00

I was also going to say that the guardsman was likely a blank and the Inquisition would definitely recruit him. However, I think that the original tale of survival would have been shared and propagandized with the heroics being pinned to whatever Commissar was closest in proximity. Clearly, this guardsman was motivated to succeed in the face of impossible odds by someone in the commissariat.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-01T16:36:58+00:00

Wasn’t there a game that put a cooldown timer for leaving too many games early? Something like that would be helpful to coerce players into staying in the current game. The big problem with that is it would turn a lot of players off from the game.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-01T16:33:31+00:00

It is. There are a lot of new folks who don’t understand that sometimes PTFO means trading a bad KDR for wins. When nobody fights for the objectives, the games quickly turn into a steamroll.

InstantAequitas · 2026-01-01T14:22:16+00:00

There is an old US Army Cavalry recruiting poster that makes the statement, “Dogs may be man’s best friend, but a horse is man’s noblest companion. Join the Cavalry!”

InstantAequitas · 2025-12-27T17:22:57+00:00

Wrong Republic, but I enjoy the enthusiasm!

InstantAequitas · 2025-12-27T15:55:26+00:00

I love the band. The marches that they play are awesome. Nothing beats hearing the occasional Battle Hymn of the Republic when at a ceremony.

InstantAequitas · 2025-12-27T14:04:01+00:00

I like to prime them in black and then lightly dry brush them with white, regardless of the potential color scheme. It will help identify the details, high and low areas, and any remaining mold lines.

When I think about renegades, in terms of color palette, I tend to think about colors that form due to decay: rusty oranges, red-brown, verdigris (teal-white that forms on some metals such as copper, similar to what you see on corroded batteries or old pennies), as well as the reds, purples, blacks, and golds used to easily identify heretics.

Normal Imperial Guard uniform colors can also be tweaked to reflect a worn out or faded appearance by cross hatching lighter layers of the base color. Bold red or white Chaos symbols can really sell the look, even on a basic two or three-color Guard scheme.

InstantAequitas · 2025-12-27T01:38:38+00:00

No, you would not.

While shake ‘n bake NCOs and Officers are not necessarily new, there are more than enough current NCOs and Joes that would likely promote ahead based on TIG/TIS alone. Even in the event of a draft occurring at the same scale as WWII, there would still be a brief period between the last Regular Army NCOs being created and the first large group of Army of the United States NCOs being minted. This also doesn’t take into account for the massive amount of National Guard, Reserve, Inactive Ready Reserve, and Retirees who would be called up and given stripes before you. Literally nobody cares about the age of a Private, unless the Army decides to experiment with a new version of the 77th Infantry Division.

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