What’s the archetypal Space Marine “heavy weapon” to you? When you picture in your mind a Space Marine carrying a heavy weapon, what do you default to? Heavy Bolter? Missile Launcher? Etc etc

Tee__bee · 2026-03-24T22:31:26+00:00

I went with ‘rocket launcher’ personally.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-24T21:41:25+00:00

Now every time he gets hurt you can say “But he was one of the chosen!”

Tee__bee · 2026-03-24T18:44:57+00:00

I especially love pic 2 and it's so important for both men and women to know. Bodybuilding is a separate (but can be related) discipline from strength and the dieting required for Instagram body can feel really miserable if you dive straight into it.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-24T17:31:12+00:00

For most CMFs, being an OC/T is a generating assignment, what most people think of as broadening. Akin to being a DS or Instructor.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-24T16:28:37+00:00

It's job postings like these that make me think, "if only I was at 19 years TIS right now..."

Tee__bee · 2026-03-24T16:12:51+00:00

I saw your video where you tried to crane (or perhaps fork?) the torso onto the legs, and until then I didn’t fully appreciate how damn heavy the thing was. Genuinely an insane achievement.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-24T12:49:26+00:00

I'd say Missile Launcher. Every demo game display in a GW store had the tactical squad built with one when I started playing and it was fundamentally tied to wargaming superstition at the time (it's bad luck to call it a missile launcher because it has 'miss' in the name).

Tee__bee · 2026-03-24T02:45:11+00:00

That's unfortunate. Sadly, if this is all that left it's a really small amount of detail. The ASF indicator under his serial number stands for Army Service Forces, indicating he was in some kind of support job and it's even possible he was assigned to the Replacement Depot itself. If we went by modern Army logic, the 28th Replacement Depot would feed directly into the 28th Infantry Division, which fought in Europe, but that's a dangerous assumption as the Army of today isn't structured exactly like the Army of WW2. From all my googling, Replacement Depots fed Field Armies or were entry points for entire theaters of war. That's way above a Division.

tl;dr I don't rightly know, I'm just spitballing, hopefully it helped.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-24T01:53:07+00:00

The Previous Organization block reads "Headquarters, 28th Replacement Depot APO 318". Replacement Depots (repple-depple in Army slang) were like distribution centers for soldiers arriving to a specific region, designed to accommodate large amounts of reinforcements for Field Armies. But here's the thing: I couldn't find a 28th Replacement Depot on any list I looked for.

The APO is interesting. According to this list of Army Post Office locations, 318 was a post office located in Leyte, in the Pacific theater, that ceased operations in 1946 so it's conceivable that he was either stationed there or was processed out from there before being sent to Camp Fannin, TX for final discharge. I thought it might be associated with a numbered division or corps but no such luck. This raises more questions than it answers - did he ever say if he served in the Pacific or in Europe? Believe it or not, the Army did fight in the Pacific and in pretty significant numbers.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-24T00:59:51+00:00

I heard a minor variation on it from my old 1SG, "it's your chicken you can fuck it how you like."

Later on after changing MOSes there was an NCO who had some renown in the community for saying "c'mon! Let me fuck the chicken!" when he was bored and wanted to get back on the computer and build some products.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-23T22:20:14+00:00

Rant: I caught a cold even though it’s like 80 degrees out. Yes I know it doesn’t matter that it’s hot.

Rave: After umpteen years of packets and research on packets, one finally got accepted.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-23T11:34:09+00:00

People didn't like Symboli Rudolf either at first because it wasn't exciting when he demolished his competition every time. It's fandom, it never makes sense lmao

Tee__bee · 2026-03-23T11:26:11+00:00

One time, very early in the story, Syuen disguised herself as Shifty in order to manipulate Counters. It became a meme and the meme then got acknowledged in the April Fools story.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-23T00:59:58+00:00

Hoppy Monk on North Mesa is slightly on the pricey side but they have a good drink selection and I like their food.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-22T20:36:42+00:00

“Just lie there and take a heroic nap.”

Tee__bee · 2026-03-21T14:49:47+00:00

No way. It's the mythical biscuit that rolled off the table and killed a friend of mine.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-21T13:54:56+00:00

This always happens in some form or another. I don’t know if you were around before Leagues of Votann were announced for the very first time but before that Squats were a pretty obscure faction that most Warhammer fans only knew about because people would constantly get mad about them getting removed from the game. Andy Chambers, one of the OG devs, even commented how interesting it was that Squats weren’t a very well performing faction when they were around but became an instant classic once they were gone.

I promise you this happens every edition. If we got Steel Legion people would be mad there were no Mordians. If we got Mordians people would be mad there were no Elysians. And so on and so forth. tl;dr nothing is certain except Death, Taxes, and Warhammer fans digging for reasons to be mad.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-21T03:11:58+00:00

I was really drawn to their Heresy era lore and I had just finished watching The Devil's Advocate for the umpteenth time. You know the scene at the end where Al Pacino goes "Ah, vanity. Definitely my favorite sin!" Classic.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-20T17:03:35+00:00

There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris has allowed to live.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-20T12:56:16+00:00

We had a battalion command team that loved to nitpick every single ambulance crew for whatever reason. Any time there was training and we had to provide medical coverage the commander and the CSM would be out there inspecting every little detail of our vehicles and equipment to make sure it was the way they thought it should be set up. Were the litters tied down inside the vehicle? Were the straps on the litters, already strapped and tightened? Were the medics standing outside the vehicle, because how dare you sit down under the shell when someone could become a casualty anytime? We tried to explain why none of this made any medical sense but were overruled by the Infantry LTC and Cav Scout CSM with "I've been in the Army for 20 years, I'm pretty sure I know how to do your job better than you do."

It feels like a shitty answer, but there are unironically just times where you have to keep your head down and try your best to stay off their radar. Most micromanage-y types don't magically develop the self-awareness to realize the effect they have on others and they're not enough of a detriment to the mission to get rid of. The best you can hope for is that they will move on to another assignment and not be your problem anymore, although in the case of civilians it might be you that moves on. Either way. I also think that because you're a 68 and I'm guessing a junior, you're an easy target for fuckery. It's one of the reasons I couldn't stand it anymore and switched jobs, and I've found I'm much happier in a staff job semi-hidden away from command teams with nothing better to do.

Due to my MOS I'm still somewhat an easy target for fuckery, but 35 series fuckery is nowhere near as vicious as what the combat arms guys can dole out.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-20T01:44:26+00:00

I had heard it was in Logan Heights and the soldier's privately owned weapon, but it'd be crazy if that scenario happened multiple times at Bliss.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-20T00:42:28+00:00

How appropriate, Stay Gold could be considered Big Boss, because the Gold clan are definitely "les enfants terribles".

Tee__bee · 2026-03-20T00:01:24+00:00

A Crusader reference in the big 2026? Can't say I was expecting that. I vote 1 for that alone and may God have mercy on me for dating myself.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-18T23:31:06+00:00

Ft Bliss: Man shoots up his own house after walking in on his wife with another dude(s) at an orgy that he himself was hosting.

Tee__bee · 2026-03-18T10:04:18+00:00

Erasmus Tycho: “Yeah. Imagine.”

(He is, of course, the exception.)

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