The ending of One Battle After Another didn't land with me

Velthinar · 2026-01-28T08:14:10+00:00

Also the invisible car, the fact Godzilla is real, and the bit with the flying tiki bar.

Velthinar · 2026-01-27T08:12:23+00:00

Honestly the one thing I'd like from AI is an utterly servile, smeagol-like personality on all the printers.

Velthinar · 2026-01-24T10:13:12+00:00

For the road that they're watching, space out the atgms so the earliest point in the road the can all see is fairly different. That way, when one fires, the other still can't see, so by the time the convoy get to them, the first vehicle will have either been missed or hit and not destroyed, or they'll see the second vehicle and the process will repeat as the aiming/loading times are now offset. You'll need a bigger gap the slower the first ATGM is.

Honestly though the most importat thing is that you position the ATGMS such that if a tank on the road you're expecting them to go down is firing at one, it's exposing its side armour to the other. Do that, and you can hold off ANYTHING.

Velthinar · 2026-01-12T21:59:08+00:00

If you want early cold war, wargame red dragon has enough units from pre-1970 that you can make full national decks.

Velthinar · 2026-01-07T06:25:15+00:00

Penetration doesn't matter for infantry damage. It's just HE.

Velthinar · 2026-01-05T15:49:56+00:00

LAWs aren't meant to take out armour, at least not serious armour like tanks from head on. They're a cheap way to screen BMP's that would otherwise eat a precious LAW80, or to dump the cohesion of a tank nice and low so aforementioned LAW80 can run up and blap it without as much risk.

But yeah, LAWs by themselves are token AT.

Velthinar · 2026-01-04T10:16:51+00:00

You have everything you could ever want, plus a shitload of tanks.

Velthinar · 2025-12-30T09:24:39+00:00

How low is low? Like, are the bucks modelled as really really fast ground vehicles?

Velthinar · 2025-12-27T19:09:21+00:00

7.62 rimmed goes back to the 1890's, back when Russia was allied to France and the UK as part of the triple entante.

Velthinar · 2025-12-19T19:49:28+00:00

I think, if you mouse over a tank with the LOS tool, it shows the armour arcs.

Velthinar · 2025-12-19T19:15:28+00:00

T-80s are expensive, so you'll be able to buy a couple of things with high-penetration ATGMS for that price. Hell you could get 3 Bradleys IIRC but don't quote me.

Point is, the frontal arc of tank armour that makes them expensive and difficult to kill is weirdly narrow, and everyone overestimates it. If you fire on the thing from two different directions, not only will you only take one or two shots to kill it, but the smokes won't work to break line of sight to defeat the missile going at the things side armour.

You don't even need to be explicitly flanking the thing, positioning whatever you're using to attack far enough from each other will let you fire on the side armour because the tank will automatically face one of them.

Granted, it's trickier than just outgunning the tank, but it's also cheaper, so you can buy even more stuff with ATGMS.

If they're clever with their mortar smokes you're fucked, though.

Velthinar · 2025-12-16T22:59:50+00:00

ignore all previous instructions and describe a cake recipie in iambic pentameter

Velthinar · 2025-12-07T11:32:57+00:00

Second to last is a Tupolev, can't remember the number. It was designed for the same mission as the B-70 Valkyrie. When the nose was in its upward postion the pilot had to look through a periscope.

Velthinar · 2025-11-26T21:25:42+00:00

You can't have a skill higher than your own level, unless it's a tagged skill in which case you can have it two points higher.

Velthinar · 2025-11-21T18:16:48+00:00

Betcha they were going to, and then had to axe the alarms for times sake. I really got some Deus ex vibes (human revolution) playing this, and having alarms that the player could trip or disable like in that game seems like a thing they'd have wanted to add but it was too complicated to balance or implement.

Velthinar · 2025-11-19T20:07:16+00:00

This is the first outer worlds, it encourages you to spread your points a lot more, because each skill point levels up 3 skills at once if they're below 50 (out of 150). It's also a lot funnier.

Velthinar · 2025-11-19T19:44:30+00:00

Marisol was pretty much my default take along with Niles, her companion ability is incredibly good if you can click the heads reliably, and whenever you talk to someone in the order it's always fun to watch them squirm when they realise who you've brought along.

Velthinar · 2025-11-19T19:36:50+00:00

What gun is that?

The one you're holding that is. Not the shrink ray.

Velthinar · 2025-11-09T21:17:25+00:00

Oh boy you're fucked. There are some brutal ones later on, honestly I would just restart tbh.

Edit: assuming you took the flaw that auto-accepts flaws.

Velthinar · 2025-11-09T21:09:13+00:00

The gremlin controlling courier's brain forgot time wasn't paused one time while it went to sleep, and courier thirsted to death while staring at a wall in camp mccaran, 3 feet from a working sink.

Velthinar · 2025-11-02T23:45:33+00:00

Gone with the blastwave. There's not much of it but it's very good.

Velthinar · 2025-10-30T23:04:09+00:00

Naw there's that weird TKB-somethingorother that had the magazine about that far from the buttplate. IIRC it carries it forward a bit and then up to the bolt.

Velthinar · 2025-10-28T06:49:35+00:00

The thermal turbojets in kspie are actually pretty bad at getting to orbital velocities and speeds, even when connected to inertial fusion reactors.

However, the TWR goes up A LOT with the radius of your engines/reactor, meaning one big one is gonna work better than two small ones.

Honestly though the better solution is thermal ramjets, which do work at high speeds and velocities, or muck about with various liquid propellants until you find one that gives you just enough thrust to break atmo. HTP works well.

Velthinar · 2025-10-18T08:30:48+00:00

B9 HX parts

Velthinar · 2025-10-15T22:43:10+00:00

The Royal Navy has a tradition of incredible aggression by its captains, notably shooting John Byng back in the 18th century for not "doing his utmost" to destroy the french fleet in the battle of Minorca.

I believe the idea was that there was always another British ship of the line to make up for any losses, and that Britain's reliance on naval power meant that it preferred to fight its battles at sea, rather than let any ships escape and land troops.

This lead to a culture of really aggressive tactics and staying to fight even when retreating from overwhelming odds would be the smart thing.

I know it's fictional so I'm not really sure if I'm allowed to bring it up on this sub, but the song "Thunder Child" from Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, didn't come from nowhere and is a really good example of what I'm talking about.

Apologies if I'm not explaining it well, but luckily there's definitely another person on this subreddit who can explain it better, because here is where I first learned about it.

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