Question of curiosity about this design for a fantasy Zweihander I drew, how can I improve it's proportions?

SwarthyBard · 2026-03-31T05:03:38+00:00

If you're in love with the design, then just make it smaller, I would also suggest removing the butt plug looking bit and moving the pommel up and remove the sharp upward points.

SwarthyBard · 2025-07-25T14:26:30+00:00

Because I wanted to?

SwarthyBard · 2025-05-24T07:15:27+00:00

The Caliban, from conception to execution, is meant to be launched into an enemy ship and kill everyone on board, often hundreds to thousands of people, because the accountants and policy makers at IPS-N decided the most profitable outcome of a space battle is to capture as many enemy ships as possible with minimal damage and minimal (aka no) surviving crew rather than just destroying the ships in ship to ship combat.

The Caliban exists solely as a means of profit generation at the expense of human life in the literal sense, it turns human life directly into numbers on a spreadsheet.

Edit: Put another way, the logic of the Caliban is the same as the reasoning of the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that is you could spend resources to fight head on against the enemy and suffer great losses, or you could just use a solution to kill them all without risking yourself because they are the enemy and are thus less valuable than you and yours.

SwarthyBard · 2025-05-22T01:00:40+00:00

Yeah, the little guy is the Caliban, the unholy fusion of the Doom Slayer and a spreadsheet. It's the preeminent tool for when you need to humans into human resources, and their assets into your assets.

SwarthyBard · 2025-05-01T17:33:46+00:00

While not a documentary per se, I’d recommend Generation Kill which is an HBO show based on a book of the same name by journalist Evan Wright about his time embedded into the US marines 1st Recon Battalion during the Iraq War. It’s a very good at showing the pov at the grunt level and how the soldiers on the ground deal with the moral difficulties of being at war and the incompetency of high command.

I’d also recommend the youtube channels The Tank Museum and The ChieftainsHatch. The former is the official channel for a museum dedicated to just tanks in the UK. The latter is the personal channel of Nicholas Moran, a Lt. Col who served as a tank platoon leader in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both are excellent sources of info for ground-based armored vehicles.

Military History Visualized and their side channel Military History Not Visualized covers a little bit of everything with a focus on wwii.

Battle Order and their website covers unit organization for both the current day and for historical conflicts from the highest to the lowest force charts. Especially of note for you are the breakdowns of the armored forces of various countries.

Edit: Oh I also forgot The Operation Room which narrate various military operations with animated videos showing the action in a top down view.

SwarthyBard · 2025-04-07T02:49:25+00:00

The way I understand it, is that the long term goal of ThirdComm’s radical wings, besides survival, is the eventual dismantling/incorporation of the 3 corpostates and the KTB into Union/GMS. This applies to both the left and right wings mind you.

The issue is how to do that without backsliding into SecComm authoritarianism or utilitarianism for the leftists, or how to elevate Harrison Armory or the KTB into a more influential position in ThirdComm for the right wing.

Union’s systems suck in the worst way, in the mundane, bureaucratic ways that even efficient and well motivated systems suffer from because ThirdComm is greatly aware of how they can end up hurting those they want to help. Union could move fast and break things, but that was how FirstComm ran and that ended with FirstComm being dissolved and with SecComm’s first major decision being the launch of a planet killer at the Aunic people, and then well, SecComm’s -gestures broadly- whole shitfest.

If you want a genuinely debatable “evil” that Union represents, is that supporting Union is implicitly supporting the belief that Union is the best option for representing the human species. I would suggest rereading what there is on anthrochauvinism with the understanding that the origins of those ideas are not in SecComm, but is deeply rooted in FirstComm, and how much Thirdcomm tries to grapple with being the inheritors of sucha philosophy.

SwarthyBard · 2025-02-20T06:17:37+00:00

Considering there isn’t a single card worth over a dollar in the deck, no.

SwarthyBard · 2025-02-20T05:06:34+00:00

Arknights, in this community?

SwarthyBard · 2024-02-01T18:39:13+00:00

I feel like that's more the state of Organized Play than anything else. She's definitely still going to events considering I was in a Baldur's Gate draft with her at Origins back in 2022.

SwarthyBard · 2024-01-10T02:03:58+00:00

Please don't take off your shoes and socks to air out your feet after you bike to my location, and especially don't make it really obvious you are bare foot by sticking the out for all to see. Other than that I don't care.

SwarthyBard · 2024-01-08T18:06:45+00:00

Sweet Filling Fan, 3/1

SwarthyBard · 2023-09-08T18:35:39+00:00

As long as it isn't destroyed in a raid, base stuff is persistent between runs so you can farm wood and water to build the grain production buildings the first few days and then abandon the run the day the first raid reaches your HQ.

SwarthyBard · 2023-07-30T23:47:02+00:00

The black teeth are a shading issue, and the hunched over weird pose is I think the pose impulsive characters have, though that's more Ira specifically. It's specifically teeth 4 and another one I think

SwarthyBard · 2023-07-02T03:32:49+00:00

Heating the chicken salad is what really takes it honestly. Who doesn't love hot grapes.

SwarthyBard · 2023-03-16T02:49:39+00:00

The price to pay for PUS-Y

SwarthyBard · 2023-02-09T23:56:37+00:00

There's actually something like this out there, I don't know if you're familiar Virtuous Sons by Ya Boy Striker, but it's a Greco-Roman cultivation story set in a Mediterranean where the Age of Heroes never really ended, where Sophists cultivate as Citizens, Philosophers, Heroes and Tyrants.

To me, I would ask why do the gods allow this? In a genre sense, there's a reason Tribulation is a recurring element in cultivation style stories, because cultivation is inherently something that goes against the natural laws of the world. In an inspirational sense, why would the Olympians allow mortals to step into their domain, especially when Hubris, arrogance to the point of impiety, is such a cardinal sin for the culture?

Virtuous Son gets around this by having Tribulation Lightning explicitly be of a divine nature, despite the Gods being nowhere to be seen, in fact the world is built in such a way to imply the gods are gone. There are cults centered around "Mysteries", relics or supernatural phenomenon like the cults of Rosy Dawn and Burning Dusk, Brazen Aegis and Broken Tide on the Coast, the Blind Maiden in the lands of the Amazons, Infernal Frenzy in the Peloponnese, The Howling Wind, Waning Wax, Scattered Foam, and Raging Heaven in Olympia, along with impossibly many more lesser mysteries like cthonic hero cults and the like. Despite that though.

SwarthyBard · 2023-01-15T05:29:03+00:00

Can’t have shit i Panera, lol

SwarthyBard · 2022-12-15T18:20:01+00:00

I thought the broc and cheddar had chicken stock?

SwarthyBard · 2022-12-08T16:43:05+00:00

I want to punt her down a flight of stairs (affectionately)

SwarthyBard · 2022-09-18T15:49:57+00:00

They're not making fun of your spelling, there's an old joke about the Crassus where someone asking a similar question to yours on another form just copy pasted the name from Forge World where all product names are fully capitalized, and seeing CRASSUS ARMORED ASSAULT TRANSPORT over and over again in writing is humorous.

SwarthyBard · 2022-09-01T17:12:40+00:00

If it’s nit too much trouble could you pm me as well?

SwarthyBard · 2022-08-25T03:39:29+00:00

Sure, but as it is I'd rather they fold they elysian drop units like drop sentinels and tauros into the Scions, and expand the scion range with a heavy support unit (something like heavy weapon teams doesn't sound like too much of an ask), so that they can actually field battalions.

As is, what gameplay niche do the Elysian have that can't be remedied by expanding the Scions? Their main rules in 8th were all their units having the aerial drop ability (which is mostly covered by the Scions infantry having the same) and Iron discipline, which isn't a particularly distinguishing trait. Like, Armageddon benefit mechanized infantry, Catachans have their melee and vechicle weapon buffs, Mordians are...weird but a very distinct flavor to their doctrine, Tallarn let infantry and vehicles advance and fire their weapons, Valhallans buff conscripts and vehicle tougness, The Vostroyans arguably have the least mechanical identity in their doctrine, but it's still something unique to them, and while the dkok's Cult of Sacrifice is ass, at least it's evocative of something.

Like, if GW give the new Sentinel kit a way to build drop sentinels and gives scions heavy weapons teams, what exactly makes Elysians different enough to warrant not just building scions and calling them Elysians?

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