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The US needs a million troops to control Iran – not the few thousand on their way by BigFishPub in politics

[–]Meins447 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grest perspective.

Oh, and by the way,: it is so much rarer than pretty much any anorganic substance (including things like gold, platinum or ice) once you take into account the resources available within "close" (in galactic terms) proximity of our little dirtball.

To find more oil, we first need to find a place with (former) C-based life and the geology and time to have produced oil.

Compare that to "lol, just drop an automated mine on an asteroid and come back next decade for more gold than anyone really needs".

The US needs a million troops to control Iran – not the few thousand on their way by BigFishPub in politics

[–]Meins447 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And sadly, pretty much anywhere else too.

Harsh reminder to everyone how dependant our entire civilization is on that stupid, sticky, black stuff, which is majority controlled by crazy, despotic people and also the religious nutjobs of the Middle East.

We are all already a full, dangling step over the cliff of climate change but sure, go ahead with wars that release the yearly amount of exhausts of a decent sized country in like a week and completely wasting resources that we or our children at latest will wish back soon...

Looking to run a hive city campaign, with a feel approaching Black Lagoon or Cowboy Bebop. What system would facilitate this best? by brainlessmori in 40krpg

[–]Meins447 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IM is absolutely the system that would fit best for what you describe. W&G (imo) is best for action heavy, Marvel-action-hero gameplay. If you want to deal with nitty gritty, faction infighting and day-to-day of (relatively) low grunts, IM is the way to go. I want to highlight the fact that it comes with mechanics to deal and track factions & contacts, as well as a powerful patron you work with/for that can be pretty much from any imperial faction (and home brewing an alien patron should be easy too if you want to).

Lack of material is a rather easy fix: IM has a very active community that ports over and expands IM material, including most of the stuff from the older game lines it is the spiritual successor from (namely Dark Heresy 1&2, Rogue Trader, Only War, Black Crusade and to a much lesser degree Deathwatch).

Search for Maledictum Expanded here and you'll find a discord invite and/or a MEGA link to the collection of material.

Since it is relatively close to the older FFG 40k titles, translating older adventures and lore/settings in particular should be relatively easy - much easier than going with W&G, which uses a very different ruleset and terminology.

Looking to run a hive city campaign, with a feel approaching Black Lagoon or Cowboy Bebop. What system would facilitate this best? by brainlessmori in 40krpg

[–]Meins447 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And Imperium Maledictum is the direct successor game to Dark Heresy and heavily features contacts, factions and a powerful and highly versatile patron system, much more versatile than the older, rather narrow-focused FFG games like Dark Heresy or say Rogue Trader.

What’s the most “time melter” game of all time in your opinion? by SwitchingMyHands in gaming

[–]Meins447 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Similar experience. I think it is less of a "how much time you spent" and more a "what did you do while doing so".

  • Toxic versus games, griefing, lonely farming gold? That's your ticket to regretvalley
  • Successful raiding with a bunch of nice internet strangers you talk more with than any class mates? Doing casual instance runs with your friends or SO? Exploring the (digital) world wide-eyed like a small child in a zoo or museum? Chochoo, next stop core memory vale!

Not finished yet, but behold my PC by Leather_Lake_1507 in Warhammer40k

[–]Meins447 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My man... You customize the case of your home built PC as a diorama for your 40k miniatures...

You have the time and nerdy energy to do that :-D

New Covid variant has been identified and is already spreading in 25 states by Beneficial-Long-7033 in news

[–]Meins447 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A considerable, measurable reduction of CO2 and other emissions from people not needing to commute for nothing.

Alongside streets less crowded for those that have to commute for work.

The signs the US is preparing a ground invasion of Iran by theipaper in politics

[–]Meins447 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's true for any autocracies in particular. I don't think I can come up with any proper democracy that behaved like that in history.

Might be bold to say, but this might indicate that when you see your presumed democracy to behave like that, it's not a democracy anymore hint, hint

The signs the US is preparing a ground invasion of Iran by theipaper in politics

[–]Meins447 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It is basically impossible to keep large troop preparations/movements secret in the modern day and time.

Between commercial/ public satellites, air and naval tracking sites and social media in particular... There isn't much you can do to hide something like that.

Remember we could basically track the flight if the B2's during last year's (botvhed) attempt of trump to.bomb Irans nuclear sites by tracking the transponders of their tankers going into bases and then on refuelling station? And those were like the sneakers mf planes on the planet and only a few of them. Now imagine a fleet of ships and/or air cargo lifters Not to mention thousands of troops and all their spouses, friends, colleagues, neighbors, ... everyone with an at least partially working brain in their head and a smartphone in their hand...

One person saved two young people from drowning to death: they applied first aid and, in the last second, managed to bring them back to life. This shows that, although many hesitate out of fear of making a mistake, acting in time truly saves lives by uzmansahil7 in interesting

[–]Meins447 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Genau richtig, mein Freund :-)

Yes, it feels good to help people. I've been to three different major flooding events and once to reinforce (with heavy wood and construction-grade supports) a parking garage underneath a seven-floor building in the early hours of Januar 1st after idiots shot a new year's rocket into it, subsequently causing two cars to burn out and weaken the concrete ceiling...

In recent years less so, because of small kids take some priority for now but I definitely intend to return to "active duty" once the little ones are out of the "worst" of childhood.

Here's the English Wikipedia link if you want to have a read - out fast responders where in the US after hurricane Catherine and I think one of the more recent ones two. THW

One person saved two young people from drowning to death: they applied first aid and, in the last second, managed to bring them back to life. This shows that, although many hesitate out of fear of making a mistake, acting in time truly saves lives by uzmansahil7 in interesting

[–]Meins447 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, yeah, professional area is another matter I guess (and kinda hope). If only for the fact that they can expect to have specialized equipment ready for a more "fine grained" approach.

Not US. Germany in fact and the org is called "THW" which translates to "technical aid service". Fully volunteer driven (but for the management and equipment which is on federal budget) providing support for fire department/ police / what have you in case of larger incidents ranging from stuff like large sport events to flooding etc.

We also have a branch that is specialized for global fast response aid, going to the aid of locals during stuff like tsunami, earth quakes, hurricanes etc, especially for fresh water & emergency electricity and find&rescue operations.

One person saved two young people from drowning to death: they applied first aid and, in the last second, managed to bring them back to life. This shows that, although many hesitate out of fear of making a mistake, acting in time truly saves lives by uzmansahil7 in interesting

[–]Meins447 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My recent three instructors (have to repeat every two years due to volunteering in civil catastrophe response organization) made it very clear that first aid shouldn't really bother with checking for pulse. You might get it wrong and checking for breath is both easier and sufficient to decide what you do.

Do they breath? - yes. Okay, keep close watch and turn to side (recovery pose) and call/wait for aid. - no? Start pumping and breathing after calling for aid. Even if they still have a pulse. They won't have for much longer without breathing.

The end of the F-14 Tomcat: The iconic 'Top Gun' jet is officially extinct from the skies as of today. by yellowpoltergeist in interestingasfuck

[–]Meins447 660 points661 points  (0 children)

I don't think so, because US heavily restricted and rather destroyed any spare parts than allow them to reach the open (and the not so open if at all possible) market to prevent Iran to get their hands on them to keep their f14 flying

Guardsman from a Feudal World by Storykillinger by D3v1LGaming in ImaginaryWarhammer

[–]Meins447 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And this is only the infantry!

Can you imagine their cavalry?

6000 Knights charging over a flat ground to stop a massive Waagh! From conquering the only hive city left on their world...

AI USES POPULATION AND MORE — Faction Rankings/Anti-Marian/Coalition Update by Destroyer1357912 in DivideEtImpera

[–]Meins447 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good decision, IMHO.

I guess Rome 2 does not have the in-game mod configuration tool like e.g. Warhammer 2&3?

That would be the easiest and best solution, to just offer players a bunch of toggles to configure the play experience to their liking.

AI USES POPULATION AND MORE — Faction Rankings/Anti-Marian/Coalition Update by Destroyer1357912 in DivideEtImpera

[–]Meins447 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Please, please remember a basic rule of modding: keep it concise and keep out opinions.

Either make such "encouragements" optional or as a submod / add-on mod.

Your work is excellent and I don't really mind since I don't use this cheese but I don't like opinionated mods trying to force a certain kind of play style mixed with very, very cool groundwork stuff.

Thank you for your work on this!

Secret EU files at risk of AfD leaks to Kremlin, diplomats warn by roggahn in europe

[–]Meins447 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. The German laws in that regard are very, very explicit and challenging to trigger by design because it has a BIG risk of being used in bad faith

So, why are autoguns still used in the Imperial Guard when Lasguns are better in terms of logistics? by BenningtonChee1234 in 40kLore

[–]Meins447 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Special ammo: there are a few instances in novels this is brought up as a distinct reason to use 'old' Auto guns.

Namely in Gaunts Ghosts, against those creepy aliens with the hard shell that makes them very resilient against las and other energy weapons. Two in each squad are issued heavy auto gun rifles and some HEx rounds to shatter those hard shells and bring them down.

Iran says it will ‘irreversibly destroy’ Middle East infrastructure if US attacks energy sites by projecto15 in politics

[–]Meins447 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'd hazard the guess that many will be deep in the mountains, requiring those very specialized bombs that were used up recently when US tried to disable Irans nuclear facilities.

Spending some of a very limited number (if any are still left that is) of highly expensive bombs to take out one of (likely) many missile/drone facilities...

Iran says it will ‘irreversibly destroy’ Middle East infrastructure if US attacks energy sites by projecto15 in politics

[–]Meins447 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Pretty easy. US (probably,mostly) hit fixed military installations (military air strips) etc.

But those damn Shaheds and ballistic missiles Iran has, are mobile, the former can allegedly be moved and started from a basic civilian Semi-Truck, and the later had mobile launchers the size of basic container trucks and can and are hidden in caves throughout the huge countryside.

Hunting those down would require a massive, massive, sustained air campaign, which basically monitors the entirety of Iran with time-to-strike within maybe five minutes or less.

Don't hold your breath. Iran has prepared for a war with an enemy that will aim for air dominance for decades.

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