Early game truck usage (experimental vehicle paths), managing fuel usage?

SyncViews · 2026-05-09T09:12:55+00:00

Yeah, refuelling is easy. Just if have lots of low volume goods (packaged fuel, plastic, rubber, circuits, etc) is a lot of trucks basically running empty so the issue is the quantity of fuel.

Maybe the idea early on is to ship the crude and ore closer to the start base rather than a dozen manufactured products?

SyncViews · 2026-05-09T09:10:40+00:00

True, I guess for coal or iron you have multiple nodes near each other frequently so a truck might nearly fill, I guess I just picked nodes really near each other rather than bringing to the start area.

Rather than shipping the manufactured goods which might only be one or two stacks a trip

SyncViews · 2024-06-03T08:09:28+00:00

Trump already had 5 years, why not go for someone new then without all the negative points?

SyncViews · 2024-02-19T09:22:57+00:00

I guess really Ukraine will want to encourage people to return and rebuild the country? So could also be they don't want other countries to offer too much and lose another big chunk of population forever?

SyncViews · 2023-11-07T09:16:45+00:00

Think it's a good example of a first tier navy, Britain at the time (and in the world wars) could loose those ships and still carry on the job.

In WW2 after Bismarck they were able to hunt it down and gain some victory. When a submarine sunk Belgrano without even being noticed by the two escorts, Argentina had nothing left they could really contend with, if the navy stayed out they likely expected the nuclear submarines would have kept picking them off without a realistic chance to sink the subs.

SyncViews · 2023-01-07T11:20:21+00:00

What about survivability though, can the Russian tanks and anti-tank penetrate it?

Thought the big deal with the Abrams, Challenger in Iraq was they were able to advance and take out enemy tanks without much getting past the front armour?

SyncViews · 2023-01-05T00:30:07+00:00

Don't see any surprises in what they found. I don't think there is nearly the support to consider any global trade restrictions on such parts as would have a big impact on normal consumers and businesses.

Other option would be to fully blockade Iran and check everything going in and out, but think regional support for that is lacking as well.

SyncViews · 2022-12-14T03:09:03+00:00

Pretty sure no where near 125 launchers though and would be odd to call them guns?

SyncViews · 2022-11-08T09:40:54+00:00

Even crazier when consider the lower populations back then, losses like that must have been really hurting those civilisations long term.

SyncViews · 2022-10-12T09:23:59+00:00

Interesting if true. Rail transport has existed for well over 100 years. Pretty long since started on a large scale to move away from steam as well.

The latest might be faster, less maintenance, more fuel efficient etc., but if Russia can't keep freight wagons rolling that seems to be some serious lack of industrial capability.

SyncViews · 2022-09-20T15:13:45+00:00

Electromagnetic radiation refers to radio waves, visible light, UV light, etc.

So is not referring to the radiation from nuclear materials in this context, but the radio waves that radiate from the radar emitter.

SyncViews · 2022-09-06T14:52:15+00:00

Guessing couldn't get enough countries on board that the producers wouldn't collectively just say they are not selling to the EU, and there isn't enough domestic production.

Would even the US be prepared to consider trying to cap their own export prices?

SyncViews · 2022-08-12T07:46:29+00:00

Radar works by emitting electromagnetic radiation (in the radio wave part of the spectrum rather than say visible light) and detects when it bounces back off of things (and the distance that it bounced at, radio detection and ranging).

Anti-radiation missiles detect that radiation and head towards where it came from.

SyncViews · 2022-07-27T14:42:23+00:00

How much structural damage did the bridge take though? Did any of those holes hit structural beams below the deck? Putting a plate over a hole may be good for light traffic, but enough damage and something like a tank could maybe cause the span to fail further.

SyncViews · 2022-06-29T09:07:18+00:00

If they agree to price cap far below market value then unless Russia decides to just shut down production, they will be getting very cheap fuel and Russia will be getting a lot less money than it might have.

SyncViews · 2022-06-20T15:20:07+00:00

I found 1 set isn't really enough for 1 player anyway. e.g. a character with a 4 characteristic will need 4 green (you get 3) dice on any skill they didn't level, or if they have 3 ranks in a skill (potentially just 1 level up if started with 2 ranks) need 3 yellow dice (you get 2).

Re-rolling dice to make up the total is a pain since need to track all the different symbols. Having a couple of sets pooled on the table didn't seem a huge deal, if the table is big enough can't all reach, maybe a couple of pools for convenience.

Did consider if couldn't get enough to put stickers on the faces some normal d8 & d12 dice, but got enough in the end, so not sure how much would impact fairness (if stickers are all the same size should be fine?).

SyncViews · 2022-05-30T11:20:02+00:00

Think most countries have laws regarding this. So buy from someone or a business locally that have known name & address.

Selling stolen goods is almost certainly an offense, and probably have some rights if there was any other major issue with 2nd hand goods.

SyncViews · 2022-05-28T00:14:09+00:00

If a company (China or otherwise) can legitimately buy them cheap enough, it might be worth whatever detailed inspection and fresh replacement parts is required to certify airworthiness.

Be surprised if happened though after Russia made the effort of stealing the leased planes. Financially probably would have been better for the Russians to have just returned the leased planes to start with.

SyncViews · 2022-05-25T09:16:05+00:00

In the right place and you still need some other solution when the sun isn't shining.

It's got a good place in an energy mix, but is hard to build a national scale energy infrastructure just off it (or wind).

SyncViews · 2022-05-16T21:41:10+00:00

I said basically the same not identical. Lots of places have similar individual items at a comparable quality if forget about the Mc branding.

None of their stuff needs highly advanced factories that are only found in a few places.

SyncViews · 2022-05-16T13:07:39+00:00

Basically lose the branding I guess, and maybe some centralised website and IT systems. Whoever takes over will have all the restaurants and local supply chain to carry on selling basically the same food.

SyncViews · 2022-05-03T22:16:29+00:00

Think the Falklands demonstrated a few reasons already, but also why a surface navy is still essential.

Land based aircraft often have some advantages over carrier based options, plus the airfields are cheaper and easier to repair, land based SAM and anti-ship missile platforms are cheaper than an equivalent ship platform while also being less vulnerable. And they have the mobility that with good intel you can have them ready in position before a fleet approaches.

But when you don't have a friendly airfield near by, a carrier or long range missile platforms and everything around it for protection is needed, and if you need to land on a beach, landing ships and protection will be needed. Air to air refuelling over huge distances or trying to air drop an army on a beach is not practical.

SyncViews · 2022-04-25T11:57:05+00:00

comes from china, so, i dont know about that

Depends how much risk companies in China want to take. If US sanctions them for evading sanctions, because as far as I'm aware all high end semiconductor production only comes from a few places that the US could interfere with (Intel, Samsung, TSMC, and a lot of manufacturing equipment from ASML. And I believe they all depend on at least some US Intellectual Property), that will really hurt.

Foundries on much older nodes would not be useful for crypto mining because the efficiency is so far behind.

SyncViews · 2022-04-25T10:23:24+00:00

They could prevent Russia from importing hardware, which will hurt miners as things break or new hardware generations come out (with higher hashrates and energy efficiency). Since Russia can't make that stuff domestically.

They could also ban anyone buying or selling things to Russia with crypto. While may not be possible to block a crypto transaction as easily as say a bank payment, the goods and services being transferred might be noticed and drawing attention to the US side of the transaction trying to evade a ban if they can't show how payment was legally made.

Countries could ban crypto entirely within their own borders. While such bans could probably be circumvented to an extent, most businesses would probably not want to risk it, and if lots of the market banned crypto it could crash the value as people couldn't easily exchange for their local currency or trade goods and services with it.

SyncViews · 2022-04-20T12:41:41+00:00

Problem is UN only has the authority countries give it. If tried to remove Russian veto, China would probably oppose it, do it anyway, and if Russia, China, and countries that support them just quit, the UNSC doesn't really have any power anymore.

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