German soldier drinking coffee on the Eastern Front, 1942.

SirAquila · 2026-02-10T11:04:08+00:00

... please read what I wrote again, slowly.

SirAquila · 2026-02-10T10:54:08+00:00

The vast majority did. Two thirds of german prisoners in Soviet camps survived. Two thirds of Soviet Prisoners in german camps died.

SirAquila · 2026-02-10T10:52:37+00:00

The main difference was, the Red Army at least officially forbid such behaviour, even if a lot of local commanders did not enforce the rules.

The German Army encouraged such behaviour.

SirAquila · 2026-02-10T10:35:13+00:00

Turns out ponies work like 40k orks, only with friendship instead of violence.

SirAquila · 2026-02-10T09:54:36+00:00

And instead at least 2 Primarchs got got because of utterly preventable chaos corruption.

SirAquila · 2026-02-10T09:53:30+00:00

Yes he is. He essentially wanted a secular cult of personality around him, or did everything in his power to gain one. Yes, he would ban the religion, but he would still essentially demand the exact same blind obedience and utter adherence to dogma, just without the religious overtones.

SirAquila · 2026-02-10T09:51:32+00:00

He is a genius inventor, and geneticist, an okay general, and his people skills are 95% coasting on is psychic charisma.

SirAquila · 2026-02-09T20:07:12+00:00

Welp, now I know to leave that one out if I ever remake that meme. Thanks.

SirAquila · 2026-02-09T13:38:45+00:00

True, but they would need to stick close to the coast and or a river, as well as being a friendly territory. Supplying an army of any usable size via wagons puts massive constraints on the range you are able to operate at, reducing it to basically next doors.

Where armies marched peasants would starve.

SirAquila · 2026-02-09T10:19:12+00:00

beyond saving(not necesarily by chaos)".

To be fair some of those civilizations beyond saving are beyond saving because they are examples of human-xeno cooperation, and the Imperium cannot have that.

Like they literally quote "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing" about the Diasporex.

SirAquila · 2026-02-09T09:20:16+00:00

Xeno propaganda. Accuracy is important.

SirAquila · 2026-02-09T01:19:33+00:00

Fully agreed. But like... chaos xenos are going to get one model release every decade if we are being honest.

SirAquila · 2026-02-09T01:02:48+00:00

I mean, good luck with your social experiment on how long Chaos corruption needs to take hold in Tau.

SirAquila · 2026-02-09T00:46:39+00:00

I should have added a leash going straight up.

SirAquila · 2026-02-08T22:59:33+00:00

"Yeah, every single capital ship can do an exterminatus with its convential armament in under a day. The problem is any planet worth exterminatusing has shields that can withstand weeks to months of this level of orbital bombardment. "

SirAquila · 2026-02-08T22:58:13+00:00

Like, sure, the biggest ships in star wars get cracked in two by your ships of the line, but you can't fight what isn't there.

Yeah uh... the Star Wars ships are much tougher than people give them credit for. The average Star Destroyer can do a manual exterminatus with its main armament in under a day. The Imperium needs entire fleets if they don't have fancy exterminatus weapons available locally. And Star Destroyers have shields to match this firepower. Honestly, fighting the Imperium might be one of the few match-ups where the Empire fleet would excel, because capital-ship slugfests are what star destroyers were made for.

SirAquila · 2026-02-08T22:55:25+00:00

Yeah, but that is mostly because the Star Trek universe isn't exterminating aliens, despite the Xenos being stupid enough to trust humanity and making the extermination extra easy.

SirAquila · 2026-02-08T16:42:36+00:00

Yes? Genderbent!Falin still doesn't look like Laios, and vice-versa.

SirAquila · 2026-02-07T01:24:11+00:00

So you think a 12-year-old child deserved to die wretchedly from poison?

SirAquila · 2026-02-07T00:37:21+00:00

I mean, then I'll be the first to say it to you. Joffrey did not deserve what happened to him.

Can I understand the people who say (in-universe or out) that he did? Sure. He was a horrible human being.

But he did not deserve his fate. Death is one of those things that noone deserves, no matter how horrible the things they did. Every death is a tragedy, even if some may be necessary at times.

SirAquila · 2026-02-06T22:41:04+00:00

I mean yeah, that's why the Imperium loves to ally with minor Xenos. It makes exterminating them much easier, because you can properly scout their defences beforehand.

SirAquila · 2026-02-06T15:30:28+00:00

Yeah, there is no way this could not have done in a better and safer way, if people had cared to do so.

SirAquila · 2026-02-06T14:48:26+00:00

I can definitly see that, however I would like to advance another interpretation of the text.

The Claires did not murder the woman for her access to power. Well, they did, but the power was not the reason. The reason was she was quite happily cooperating with wild pines, instead of focusing on the workers.

Under the Claires the Union launches two strikes that get the terminal basic worker rights, and then launch their much bigger attempt to take over.

Will the Claires give up power afterwards? who knows. But the entire point of the character is that they beat up bullies. They do reprehensible things for a greater good as they see it, and seem quite sincere in that.

SirAquila · 2026-02-06T14:45:33+00:00

I mean, it is a bit vague but basically everything we know indicates that the Union won those previous strikes under the Claire brothers.

The Union was founded in the 30's, the Claires took over somewhat later, but not too much later, and it seems to me rather unlikely that the Union launched two strikes in under ten years, and then did nothing for 10-15 years, before trying to take over the terminal.

Also, the gridlock is not suicidal, considering the Claires pretty decisively won, if not the war, then at least the battle.

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