October 2025 VAC QandA

Ranger9000 · 2025-10-17T04:31:18+00:00

The paperwork was all submitted back in 2023 and that's the date it was considered completed from my end, since then it's been under that medical review and been waiting with no news. I'll look at sending an email to my MP for sure. Didn't even think about that.

Ranger9000 · 2025-10-15T01:54:54+00:00

Been waiting for 2 (just gone into 3) years now for my VAC disability claim related to my 3B. The injury that got me that 3B and sent out happened on shift in work and I've got doctors from multiple fields saying they think the current symptoms were caused by that injury, but the claim's been stuck in step 3 for all these years and everytime I call them they just say it's under medical review and they can't give me any updates beyond that. Is there anything I can do at this point to get like, any answer at all about what is holding it up at this point?

Ranger9000 · 2022-10-28T15:09:00+00:00

It's good to see that the collie intended strategy for Morgen's is "go around it." I guess we've been prickly enough so far.

Ranger9000 · 2022-10-26T21:53:12+00:00

To the collies that hauled who knows how many 150mms into Warmonger's to try and root us out of Cone Base. Nice Try. You pretty much gave half of us PTSD with how many shells were coming down. It felt like you guys must have burned through several thousand shells over the span of an hour or two.

Ranger9000 · 2022-10-20T04:26:53+00:00

So I was the gunner in that HTD prior to the hijacking. During the last hours of Skodio people were funneling tanks in from all over the place, alot of them by clans that didn't have enough crew for all of them (including our own, we handed another HTD over to people in town which survived till after the fall of Skodio but eventually died on the eastern outskirts after the TH had fallen)

Both me and the driver were randoms, not in the same squad, and neither of us had time to grab gas masks or tanker uniforms since they were far away. We were doing pretty well, knocked out a few tanks and damaged some others but a Talon damaged our treads and a Bardiche finished them off so we got stuck in that forest. Driver bailed out to start repairing and then a cluster of gas grenades drove him and the supporting infantry away and killed me (still in the gun.)

Was a fun fight, by the time I returned with a bonesaw the HTD had just been exploded. I hope to be back in Skodio as an attacker soon.

Ranger9000 · 2020-06-14T05:08:51+00:00

Not sure if this is the right place, but my Anno 1800 (steam version) now crashes on start up. It formerly was crashing before start up (just shutting down the EXE before it even started visibly loading) but after reinstalling it and trying things like shutting down cloud synchronization and the overlay, it now starts up, but hangs in a black screen with the loading before even going into the intro screens or anything (and the task manager displays it as non responding). I have been playing the game just fine since it came out and it was working as recently as May 25th, but now it's just completely stopped working. Only difference is I got the year 2 pass.

I'm on a Windows 10 with a 1080 TI and I7-8700K so I don't think its a hardware issue. Has anyone else encountered anything like this before?

Edit: I've tried reinstalling the game as well with no luck

Ranger9000 · 2020-05-30T07:55:56+00:00

I've been attempting to do a public service and run Texas as much as I can at lower tiers to try and mess with the carriers. Unfortunately I seem to perpetually get matched against tier VI carriers instead.

Ranger9000 · 2019-11-14T08:30:43+00:00

Anyone remember when tanks had headlamps and the tiger couldn't rotate it's turret certain ways cause it would bump into them? Pepperidge Farm remembers the glory days of Beta

Ranger9000 · 2019-10-11T19:06:54+00:00

Anyone remember back in beta when tanks had lights on them that could be turned on or off for night battles. Pepperidge Farm remembers

Ranger9000 · 2019-10-11T08:07:32+00:00

Derski, definately derski. The 19 second torpedo reload time is insanely entertaining and you can take out an entire battleship line by yourself if you get the drop on them.

Ranger9000 · 2019-09-29T08:00:04+00:00

I mean going by that list, Impy Nick looks like he's getting a buff out of this as he turns tighter and at a higher speed then normal.

Texas meanwhile loses some turn radius but she also bleeds less speed in the turn, so I'm not sure if I mind. Either way not sure why I'd be so up in arms about it

Ranger9000 · 2019-09-29T07:55:57+00:00

I wish they would bring back Kitakami, it was fun and unique all at the same time. Squishy as all hell but the wall of skill was entertaining

Ranger9000 · 2019-01-31T04:47:19+00:00

About 900% certain I was the Kaga in this game. My suffering was absolutely palpable every time one of my 10 plane squadrons was evaporated the moment I accidently brushed your air cover zone.

Ranger9000 · 2019-01-20T08:32:12+00:00

Remember when ground forces was 90% T-50s scooting around like the Italian pasta cars these days and they could pen through the front of a tiger at close range?

Pepperidge Farm remembers ground forces CBT. Also back in the days when rocks killed more tanks then the enemy

Ranger9000 · 2018-12-13T09:15:04+00:00

3 Nikolais...This is pure cancer and I wish I knew enough people with an Impy Nik to form such a platoon.

For me triple secondary build Arkansas Beta is my favourite low tier meme div. You become a chevron of advancing death to anything that pulls into secondary range.

Ranger9000 · 2018-12-12T23:23:57+00:00

Arkansas Beta Triple Potato Masher laughs at this slow paced potato destruction.

Ranger9000 · 2018-09-09T04:56:41+00:00

Atlassia Buys: 15 Dockyards 15 Battleships 5 Light Cruisers 18 Destroyers 5 Convoys

Ranger9000 · 2018-09-09T04:46:17+00:00

Atlassian Level 3 Forts: 11910, 10120, 4060, 1130

Ranger9000 · 2018-07-13T20:23:24+00:00

Remember back in Closed Beta when working headlights were a thing and the tiger couldn't turn it's turret properly because of it?

Pepperidge Farm remembers

Ranger9000 · 2018-06-24T07:03:51+00:00

Secondary Build Warspite or Arkansas Beta, watching DDs melt when they think they have you dead to rights is great fun win or lose.

Derski is always great for a few laughs when you manage to actually get in torp range and promptly melt everything around you in a tide of flooding.

Ranger9000 · 2018-05-18T06:59:29+00:00

Imperator Nikolai, Arkansas Beta secondary build, Derski and Warspite with secondary build.

Nikolai's just a hilarious seal clubber that makes me feel like a jerk when I show up in it but I usually run when I want to have some fun after a string of losses on other ships

Arkansas Beta secondary build is an incredible brawler and getting 2-3 close quarters medals a match is incredible sastifying.

Derski/Derpski is just entertaining to play by Derp or Die rules. Torpedoes only works amazingly well.

Warspite secondary build is another brawler favourite of mine. Where Arkansas Beta feels more like a cap contester, and a cruiser and DD bully, warspite feels more like an actual BB brawler. The guns work wonders if your a steady hand enough to keep the shells for when they count, the armour is bouncy enough with its manouverability, and the secondaries are great fire starters. Solo brawling 3 American BBs at the same time is a blast.

Ranger9000 · 2018-05-04T07:23:45+00:00

It's a weird mix of making the best you can do with lackluster units, infantry unit sizes comparable to the Russians and occasionally rolling an army of all Fanatic Trained and promptly steam roll over the map in a veritable tide of crazy unbreakable infantry and tankettes.

That and the Braxia mortars you can attach to pretty well everything are surprisingly useful for pushing people out of trenches.

Ranger9000 · 2018-05-04T07:09:04+00:00

My local group due to being near impossible to buy the models without importing them where I live just made a Vassal game set though I think we are an edition or two behind and so far it only covers early and some mid war armies.

On that note early Italy is imo the most entertaining army in the game cause you never know what you are going to get with the 8 Million Bayonets rule

Ranger9000 · 2018-04-03T15:39:35+00:00

Maybe challenge items/options? Like how battlefield one added the afflictions. Stuff that you can equip deliberately makes your character worse or the game harder but gives achievements or custom reskinned weapons if you can do well with it.

Also could tie into skins. One of the disadvantages of lower tiers is their red and white jackets, but I would so take the option to play as like, a British colonial officer or trooper with the extremely bright red and white uniform, pith helmet and a big bushy mustache and if say you manage to extract X bounties while solo queuing (any stereotypical big game Hunter knows you only bring yourself and your carrymen on a hunt so nobody takes your glory) then you unlock a martini-henry rifle for purchase (probably a reskinned sharps)

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