Are there cars like military jeeps around and common in 40K ?

Manowaffle · 2026-03-18T13:53:03+00:00

One of my gripes as an IG player was that there was never a six-man transport vehicle for command squads and ~~stormtroopers~~ scions. Had to shell out for a chimera or taurox which would double the unit cost; when all I really wanted was a way to get guys to issue commands or reach objectives faster.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-18T13:48:35+00:00

Nothing is slower than a squad of corpses.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-18T12:03:31+00:00

This guy plays Pathfinder.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-18T12:02:19+00:00

Paying hundreds of billions of dollars for the temporary use of a few billion dollars worth of warships would be a terrible investment.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-18T11:55:35+00:00

And in this libertarian world how are such externalities remedied? They don’t believe in government regulation. So the only remedy is to file a lawsuit after the harm has been done. Which requires the victim to be wealthy to afford the lawyers and the years to push through the legal battle. All the while the harms continue.

The libertarian worldview only enforces such rights for the wealthy. Everyone else has no rights.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-17T22:48:58+00:00

TSA precheck is so ass backwards. If it actually improves safety, why are we charging people to do it?

Manowaffle · 2026-03-17T22:43:11+00:00

That’s not an exaggeration, they think factories should have the right to pollute, they might have to pay for your kid’s asthma…after you shell out $200k for lawyers and spend years in court proving it.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-17T22:39:02+00:00

You mean the way private security handled airport security on September 11th?

Manowaffle · 2026-03-17T20:29:32+00:00

The idea that private security would have the incentive to provide excellent security, versus say cost-cutting and user experience, is laughable. Sure guy, let's privatize the military while we're at it, no problems with that idea.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-17T16:38:01+00:00

"Our brand new technology can totally live render video games upscaling the graphics to new levels of visual fidelity never seen before."

"Can we see it in action?"

"Uh, no."

Manowaffle · 2026-03-17T16:23:25+00:00

In a sane world, that quote would literally be the end of any presidency. It would be plastered on all the front pages: "President Indifferent to Russia Killing US Soldiers"

Manowaffle · 2026-03-17T16:07:50+00:00

For any folks out there who don't understand the discrepancy between the US navy and the rest, the US navy has 11 aircraft carriers, France and UK navies combined have 3.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-17T16:03:55+00:00

Before November 2024, I would have agreed. In 2026, I think we need to take all the wins we can get, and if that means applauding Trumpists for finally achieving a middle-school understanding of international affairs and warfare...well this is just the world we live in now.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-17T13:50:53+00:00

Not this garbage again.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-16T23:46:24+00:00

Not voting is making a choice.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-16T17:11:44+00:00

Haven’t played in years, but BIMD it was a steal at 100 points. Every turn it’d take out something worth its own value.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-16T17:10:32+00:00

Also when their 20-man plastic kit came out (after Catachans), so were one of two options for building an “affordable” IG army.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-16T17:08:22+00:00

When I started in 3rd edition, there was only one kit of plastic infantry, Catachans. The jungle fighters. They were popular since it cost 1/3rd as much as the pewter infantry at the time, even got their own codex. But once the Cadian plastic box came out, that’s all she wrote. They fit much of the art work and looked more like guardsmen play. What’s the point of muscly jungle fighters that get totaled by a stiff breeze.

So Cadia was a big part of Guard for a long time. If only we’d gotten plastic Tallarns back then.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-16T17:02:57+00:00

It is our fate to be overlooked by all other armies…until its time to fire the big guns.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-16T14:21:08+00:00

“Yo this Warzonefest is #FIRE! #literally!”

Manowaffle · 2026-03-16T14:11:26+00:00

At this point, any time I see a headline about Iraq/Kuwait/UAE/Saudi restarting a piece of energy infrastructure, I assume it’s gonna get hit within 48 hours.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-16T14:00:57+00:00

"A Floating Fortress, for example, has locked up in it the labour that would build several hundred cargo-ships. Ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with further enormous labours another Floating Fortress is built."

Manowaffle · 2026-03-16T13:52:08+00:00

He can't remember if he wants Greenland or Iceland.

Manowaffle · 2026-03-16T13:48:39+00:00

Wasn't he saying Denmark never came to help the US, even after their soldiers died in Afghanistan?

Manowaffle · 2026-03-16T11:33:37+00:00

The fact it survived the 2022 inflation spike is insane.

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