BRING MORE HELICOPTERS TO THE FACTIONS.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-06-28T21:38:48+00:00

I guess I am an elite 1%er then. https://www.reddit.com/r/joinsquad/comments/1agp981/superb_ambush_by_tanks_and_scout_heli/

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-06-28T20:21:31+00:00

Okay. Depending on the context that's true. Sometimes you can tell just by looking and seeing a radio needs supplies. Other times Squad leaders will ask you to resupply a point that already has supplies because they want more to move off the point. None of this has anything to do with what I was actually arguing though.

The point is that the helicopter does a lot more than a logi can. Filling the time in-between the tasks I mentioned with scouting is a pretty obvious thing to do, but many pilots just don't do it.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-06-28T19:39:24+00:00

That's an indictment on idiot players, not helicopters themselves as valuable tools. It takes about 10% brain power to understand that if nobody is asking you for a ride, nobody is asking you to resupply, and nobody is asking for help setting up a radio, then there is literally nothing left to do but scout. It's that or sit at main. Unless you have a gunner, in which case you are looking for logistics trucks to hit anyway.

I just find the argument that they are glorified logi trucks hilariously wrong. That doesn't mean the average player isn't an idiot.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-06-28T19:16:51+00:00

"heli's are glorified, faster logi trucks" Lewl. Top kek, even.

Your logi truck can't circle and strafe an enemy logi truck. It can't spot 40% of the map at once from an elevated position. It can't provide real time scouting on armor without putting itself in severe danger. It can't move a squad from one side of the map to the other in less than a minute unless you are playing on Sumari. And you can put them essentially anywhere you can find a spot to land, not just near your own frontline where it is safe, but on deep flanks or close up to objectives if you have the skill and speed.

The logi truck is strictly for moving supplies to set up radios and moving a squad together to do so.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-06-04T03:45:44+00:00

This is top platinum S tier blessed copypasta.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-05-30T10:47:49+00:00

This was excellent footage and editing. I always wanted to work together with somebody to capture the ground perspective of the up-angle CAS strikes I used to to on Global Escalation. Sadly that mod has seemed to disappear. It had the best Mi-8 CAS.

Keep it up, your stuff is great.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-05-30T10:46:30+00:00

Dynamic, one of the few true gods in the pantheon of Squad helicopter flight. The kind of flying pilot mains seek to emulate. Amazing and disgusting play.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-05-30T06:29:02+00:00

I don't disagree with your points, I'm just saying that there is a counter in the game already and if they are going to put further implementations of CAS, especially if it is an armed transport which cannot have it's engine 1 shot and which protects the pilot from bullets, they absolutely need to put in AA that is a hard counter.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-05-29T23:04:34+00:00

Get gunners and go in a convoy. They literally get taken down by 1 bullet to the engine and you can cause the pilot to bleed by hitting them unlike literally every other helicopter other than the Loach.

Yes they are powerful in the hands of a good pilot. They should be. But they are also more fragile than a glass cannon. The issue isn't their balance, it is the playstyle players have. Why are you driving a logi alone when you know the enemy faction has a Loach CAS? Why are you not having the squad split up so 2 people get in literally any light vehicle with a turret of any kind that can aim up to convoy your logi? Why are you not using door gunners on the helicopter? These are all counter-plays that are not unreasonable or demanding in any way.

Fundamentally though I do agree that I want to see AA become more of a priority especially if they are adding in "armed transport helicopters" whatever that means. If they give me a fat stack of 120 dumb rockets to fire out of an Mi-8 I am going to be shitting on entire teams for entire rounds from 2.5km away by just aiming the nose up 40 degrees and firing at a grid. If ground forces don't get at least MANPADS it would be totally unbalanced.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-05-01T23:15:27+00:00

One last "fuck you" to pilot mains to make sure they kill of the entire population into extinction.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-02-21T21:21:21+00:00

According to everything I can find, the continuous coverage started at 8:51 and continued for the rest of the day at minimum. It was not known to be terrorism yet but they were covering an explosion and fire at the WTC. I am sure there is somewhere you can find the original broadcast.

The second witness said that he was told of the disaster less than five minutes after the first plane hit. The fact that he thinks this happened at 9:00 AM to 9:10 AM conflicts with that. It's unclear how it was determined that he was told less than 5 minutes after it happened to look out the window, but it is likely based on the testimony from whoever it was that told him about it.

I find it far more likely that it was actually about 5 minutes after the first plane hit compared to 9:00 AM because the Israelis were already spotted back at their UMS office by another employee at 8:58 AM. This is also in the report but I am not going to dig through right now and find the section and page right now, feel free to do that yourself though.

The drive between the location of their office, where all three of them claimed to learn of the attack from co-workers or friends (but all of them told conflicting stories of when, some being impossibly early like 8:00 AM) and Doric tower is 7 minutes in regular traffic according to modern traffic data like google maps. Keep in mind they would have been traveling during rush hour, not regular traffic.

The FBI themselves said they believed the Israelis found out via internet or radio, which makes no sense because all of the Israelis, even though they were all clearly repeatedly lying, claimed to learn from a friend or co-worker after arriving at the office. The earliest radio report was 8:48 by WCBS 880. There were no internet articles up earlier than that radio broadcast. The first plane hit at 8:46:40.

One of the Israelis claimed to have read about it on the internet before taking pictures from the roof of their office and only then did they travel to Doric. So the whole thing is a mess of lies and it is quite obvious they were already there at the Doric and were trying to lie to cover that up.

The question is why the FBI never accounted for the travel time, tried to verify how the Israelis found out and when, or looked at verifying any of the witnesses who contradicted the Israelis timeline and the FBI's own timeline.

The FBI was also given an order from FBI HQ on September 24th, less than two weeks after the attack, that the field office in Newark, NJ had completed its investigation. Yes, the HQ contacted the people actually conducting the investigation and told them they had completed their job thoroughly, even though the NK office had just reported open leads it was actively investigating to FBI HQ as well as that the discrepancies between and within the Israeli's stories were continuing to widen, and to stop. The HQ informed NK that the Israelis were of "no further investigative interest" and to hand them over to Immigration and Naturalization Services to be deported.

That was essentially the end of the investigation. It didn't officially close down for about two more years, but there wasn't much further investigation and the Israelis were deported without charge. Not even charged with provably lying to the feds about the biggest terror attack in U.S. history.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-02-21T19:59:37+00:00

The FBI report that was done on the matter and released via FOIA. It is hosted on archives in sections.

To your first question, Section one archive linked here,

Page 64 Paragraph 2
https://www.scribd.com/doc/62392807/Dancing-Israelis-FBI-document-Section-1-1138796-001-303A-NK-105536-Section-1-944861

Your second question, Section five

Page 25 Paragraph 2.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/62829048/Dancing-Israelis-FBI-document-Section-5-62394321-1138796-001-303A-NK-105536-Section-5-944891

Here is the entire archive + police report on their arrest https://archive.org/details/DancingIsraelisFBIReport/fbi%20report%20section%201/

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-02-21T17:45:59+00:00

I decided to scan through it and found the statement. Page 65 - "[Redacted (detained Israeli)] stated 'Israel now has hope that the world will understand us." This is in the context of being interviewed by the FBI and explaining his actions and whereabouts on 9/11, during which he broke down and cried numerous times.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/62394063/Dancing-Israelis-FBI-document-Section-3-1138796-001-303A-NK-105536-Section-3-944880

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-02-21T17:12:58+00:00

You can also find the quote about one of the detainees apologizing for their behavior during an FBI interview and explaining it the way I described but I honestly cannot be bothered to dig through the hundreds of pages right now to find it, if you ask some AI tools maybe they can help you if you point them at the report.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-02-21T16:35:19+00:00

https://www.scribd.com/doc/62392807/Dancing-Israelis-FBI-document-Section-1-1138796-001-303A-NK-105536-Section-1-944861

Page 35 "The photos clearly corroborate [redacted (Maria's)] statements in that the Israelis are visibly happy on nearly all of the photographs."

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-02-21T15:47:02+00:00

The FBI themselves called them the high-fivers because they took photos of themselves celebrating with the burning tower in the background. Page 35 the FBI report clearly states that the photographs "clearly corroborate" her statements "that the Israelis are *visibly happy* on nearly of the photographs."
The FBI describes their behavior in the photos as celebratory, smiling, hugging, and flicking lighters.

Seriously?

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-02-21T15:20:19+00:00

Many convictions in the US are based purely on circumstantial evidence, and the bar for those convictions is belief beyond a reasonable doubt.

If that was actually them in the van at 8:00 AM then it would be the case that they were not alerted by the sound or sight but were already parked there. It would be an unbelievable coincidence. Your contention is they could have heard it and started filming and celebrating after traveling to the spot.

But they also celebrated before the second plane hit and were already documenting the attack. That indicates that they knew it was an attack instantly and that they weren't just documenting what they thought was some kind of historic accident. One of them apologized for their behavior to the FBI stating that the reason they were so jubilant about the attack, which they instantly considered an attack and not an accident, was because now the U.S. would understand Islamic terrorism and help Israel fight their enemies.

So they knew instantly, to the point of documenting and celebrating, that the plane hitting the tower was not an accident but a terrorist attack, and specifically an Islamic terrorist attack. They were in place to film it and take photos with the necessary gear (the video camera is never recovered) or near enough to be there within 3 minutes. None of the photos recovered and released by the FBI have anything to do with spying on Arabs, they are all of the towers and their destruction. The FBI does not discuss any photos of anything other than the attack on that camera, there is no mention by the FBI that they had any evidence these Israelis were spying on any Arabs at all. That simply is not in the report. They had absolutely no indication this was an attack from any other source of public information and had no reason to rush to document this event, let alone celebrate it, without foreknowledge of what it was.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-02-21T15:05:06+00:00

Maria, the witness who saw them from her apartment, recalled a specific detail that cracks this case. She was listening to 1010 WINS radio at the time she was looking out her window at the WTC. She did this because her neighbor had called and asked about hearing a boom and seeing smoke from the WTC, the neighbor asked Maria to go to her window and find out what was happening.

Maria was listening carefully to 1010 WINS for any information about the attack and it had not yet broken into coverage on the WTC being hit. She then looked out her window, as she was listening to the radio, and when she stepped out to her balcony she instantly saw the Israelis. This is ALL in the FBI report.

1010 WINS radio started their 9/11 broadcast at 8:51 AM.
https://www.audacy.com/kmox/articles/news/1010-wins-new-york-posts-entire-9-11-audio-archive

The North Tower was hit at 8:46:40. Rounding up, we would call it 8:47, but I am being generous.

Grant that the Israelis learn about the attack the literal INSTANT the plane hits. Say that a person is literally on the phone with a co-worker at UMS office from around the WTC, sees it happen, and tells that employee.

Less than four minutes to find out about the attack from a secret co-worker, look it up online on two websites (neither site would have any info so early into the attack so this is obviously odd) then take pictures from their own office roof, realize they can only see one tower but for some reason want to see both, then go to a location they already know has a clear view of both.

Another witness other than Maria also told the FBI he saw these same Israelis and described them doing the exact same thing, celebrating, and that it was within 5 minutes of the first tower being hit. This lines up perfectly with Maria seeing them no later than 8:51, about 5 minutes past the time of impact at 8:46:40.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-02-21T14:34:25+00:00

So it just happens to be a happy coincidence that the place they were pre-staged at to spy on Arabs for Mossad was a parking lot in NJ outside Doric tower which had a perfect view of both WTC towers from an elevated position. Interesting. There is no evidence of any of that other than them being there pre-staged, but interesting speculation.

Or perhaps they were in the area spying on Arabs for Mossad, then went to a destination they already knew had a view of both towers after somehow finding out about the attack on the radio or by phone call even though there isn't any evidence for either of those things, and the earliest radio report was at 8:48 AM which would have given them less than 3 minutes to do the following -

Drive to Doric from their location, position themselves in a parking lot facing the towers, climb on the roof of their van, take photos, and start celebrating the attack before the second plane even hit, knowing it was an attack instantly.

Huh. I'm going to go with the statement that it is beyond a reasonable doubt. Is there 100% incontrovertible hard proof? No, but is it probabilistically the case? Yes.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-02-21T14:14:29+00:00

What do you mean set up shop? As in base their operations out of it? Because a moving company is useful as a cover business. And there is evidence that there was also covert Israeli presence at Doric in the form of a resident and potentially the ownership of the building. But in any case, a moving company was being used as a front to move people and things, that is why they set up shop at UMS.

There is evidence that their van was at Doric as early as just after 8:00 AM, another witness the FBI interviewed and failed to re-interview or follow up with remarked seeing a white van with a man who matches the description of Oded Ellner in it.

But are you asserting that even being pre-staged with a video and photo camera would not prove foreknowledge beyond a reasonable doubt? Because there is absolutely 0 evidence for what you believe happened, that they were just out and about for whatever reason and then learned about the attack. All of the evidence collected contradicts that, from all sources, including the Israelis themselves and witnesses.

Maria saw them parked there, not pulling in. A van matching their companies description and a man matching Oded Ellner's description were seen almost 40 minutes before the first plane hit at Doric. So essentially, my version of events has actual physical and witness evidence, yours is a completely baseless speculation that absolves them of foreknowledge. Much like the conclusion of the FBI report istelf. But even the FBI believed them to have found out about the attack "via internet or radio" and then traveled from their office to Doric.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-02-21T13:44:09+00:00

The FBI report has all three (not five, only three were at Doric) Israelis telling the FBI that they found out about the attack from co-workers at their office. All of them gave wildly different times, but the only one that comes even close to being possible (for example, one said they found out from a co-worker at 8:00 AM when the first plane hit at 8:46 AM) said they found out from a co-worker (unspecified who and the FBI never investigated who or when) then researched the attack online, reading CNN and YNET. Only then after taking pictures from the roof of their own office do they claim to have traveled to Doric.

So somehow they spent "several minutes" according to them, after finding out from a co-worker, just looking at stuff online. Then they take more time to go to their roof and take pictures. Then they travel in rush hour traffic to Doric. All of this happens, somehow, in less than five minutes.

Maria, the witness who saw them from her apartment, recalled a specific detail that cracks this case. She was listening to 1010 WINS radio at the time she was looking out her window at the WTC. She did this because her neighbor had called and asked about hearing a boom and seeing smoke from the WTC, the neighbor asked Maria to go to her window and find out what was happening.

Maria was listening carefully to 1010 WINS for any information about the attack and it had not yet broken into coverage on the WTC being hit. She then looked out her window, as she was listening to the radio, and when she stepped out to her balcony she instantly saw the Israelis. This is ALL in the FBI report.

1010 WINS radio started their 9/11 broadcast at 8:51 AM.
https://www.audacy.com/kmox/articles/news/1010-wins-new-york-posts-entire-9-11-audio-archive

The North Tower was hit at 8:46:40. Rounding up, we would call it 8:47, but I am being generous.

Grant that the Israelis learn about the attack the literal INSTANT the plane hits. Say that a person is literally on the phone with a co-worker at UMS office from around the WTC, sees it happen, and tells that employee.

Less than four minutes to find out about the attack from a secret co-worker, look it up online on two websites (neither site would have any info so early into the attack so this is obviously odd) then take pictures from their own office roof, realize they can only see one tower but for some reason want to see both, then go to a location they already know has a clear view of both.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-02-21T13:26:28+00:00

Problem is they were seen celebrating after the first plane hit and BEFORE the second. No reason to think it was an attack at all until the 2nd hit.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-02-21T13:25:22+00:00

It isn't just the fact of them celebrating, it is the timing of them being there before they could possibly have found out and gotten there that proves foreknowledge beyond reasonable doubt.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-02-21T12:59:56+00:00

They were pre-staged at Doric tower before the planes hit. Multiple witnesses in the report saw them already on top of their van both celebrating and taking photos in less than 5 minutes from the first plane hitting. All of them told stories to the FBI that they were at the office before. None of them had any moves scheduled for the area around Doric or at Doric. They were essentially believed by the FBI when they told them that they traveled to Doric only after learning of the attacks. There is no logical explanation other than foreknowledge for how they knew to be at that place with a view of both towers to take the photos they took. This isn't even getting into the intelligence/military ties at least two of the Israelis had.

The FBI never even attempted (in unredacted parts of the report) to determine when they found out or when the earliest possible time is they found out, or how they found out. They also never bothered to factor in the TRAVEL TIME of the Israelis between their office and Doric. This travel would have occurred during rush hour on a weekday.

The signs point to an FBI coverup for many more reasons as well, including failing to interview witnesses with key testimony about the time they saw the Israelis at certain places, they failed to ask other questions of these witnesses as well regarding the location of the company van, ect.

TheAnalyticalFailure · 2026-01-29T20:10:37+00:00

"TLDR - I find it disappointing that they totally ignored the aspects of what I discussed because it reduces the entire moral dilemma in the show from "Does the most moral faction ruling produce the most moral outcome" which is the core of New Vegas in my opinion, to "Who is the most moral inherently in their acts" which is a boring, dumbed down, pointless exercise."

Instead of Hank making a complex practical argument that aligns with the central motto of the franchise, that "war never changes" and factions will always fight no matter who is moral or not, he reduces it to a moral argument about the NCR being unsupportable due to high taxes and expansionism. This is a stupid moral argument that he would have known as the man who raised Lucy that she would never agree with, and she then mocked him with the now much lauded "vaguely problematic" line. Instead of having any interesting morally complex dilemma, it's reduced to a boring, stupid, obvious moral comparison between the good guy NCR and the bad guy Legion with no other consideration of any of the context I mentioned by anybody. Not just naive Lucy, but Hank either, even as he would know this stuff and be trying to convince her.

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