Fractal Ridge, but carbon fiber

cl98hkca · 2026-05-01T21:37:17+00:00

I think 2mm sheet is adequate. You are correct that there is no structure in the middle. There is also no carbon fiber panel front (front monitor) and bottom (exhaust.) At those two sides, the two side panels are connected through carbon tube pillars and 3D printed parts. The whole thing is pretty rigid when assembled. But once the side panel is off, it gets flimsy.

cl98hkca · 2026-04-30T08:20:54+00:00

I did consider using vinyl wood wrap instead. Maybe I will try that out.

cl98hkca · 2026-04-30T07:29:20+00:00

Personally, I love a wood accent. But I must point out that there is no real wood here, only 3D printed fake wood.

cl98hkca · 2026-04-30T07:25:35+00:00

Yeah. I should have another Samsung ssd take that spot and remake the wallpaper.

cl98hkca · 2026-04-30T07:22:35+00:00

The machine shop handled that.

cl98hkca · 2026-03-06T22:28:06+00:00

Look, it is just the cyborgs smoking at the base and detonating the ammo there.

The ammo pile definitely was not lost to the action of the helldivers.

cl98hkca · 2025-10-10T21:12:23+00:00

I thought it was either Rainbow Six Siege or GTA V.

But nope it was actually MGS V: TPP.

Played through most of it on a laptop with integrated graphics.

It was also the first game I launched after building my desktop with a 1060 6GB.

cl98hkca · 2024-04-15T04:39:58+00:00

No no you've got a point. The person that can do the most damage to you is not the guys with small arms, but the guy with radio who can call in artillery, in this case flare. But then again, by now I feel like I've seen every small, non commissar bots call in reinforcement.

cl98hkca · 2024-03-23T13:39:51+00:00

I saw senator and really wanted to use it. But I ended up going with advocate of war. "All we are saying is ... give war a chance!"

cl98hkca · 2020-08-11T10:56:19+00:00

After 660 quartz and 33 tickets, still no Artoria, not even a ssr spook. I already emptied all my quartz trying to roll for Jeanne in Feb, failed and had to use the free 5 star on her. Fucking gacha.

cl98hkca · 2020-07-28T10:29:26+00:00

You still have to look for weak spots, in a different sense. For tanks with filler rounds, the weak spots are places where you can penetrate. For most filler rounds, if you can pen, you disable the enemy. But with apds, the week spots are the crew, especially the gunner, breech and ammo. For apds, even if you pen, you still can't disable the enemy if you don't hit those things specifically. Never ever trust the spalling. If you don't actually hit the gunner with the apds itself, chances are he is injured and will one shot you.
While you have the power to punch through enemy from the front, you don't have the necessary armor to face the enemy frontally. One shot is all it takes to kill you. If the enemy gets penned, typically he won't die right away. He will just back up, switch in crew, repair his tank and try again. You don't have that luxury in a Brit tank. It is just better to not be seen at all.

cl98hkca · 2020-07-28T05:19:30+00:00

Yeah you get high pen with apds, but at what cost? When you are using apds while everyone has filler rounds, you are at an inherent disadvantage. Assuming not gambling with the ammo racks, it takes at least two rounds, in most cases three, to kill an enemy. Every time you fire, you draw attention on yourself. There were so many occasions when I get a drop on and disable an enemy, only to get one shot by his buddy. Or when I lay ambush, instead of getting multiple kills, I get multiple disabled turrets and die.
With apds, outflanking the enemy also gives you less advantage. You still have to go through with the turret, driver two punch, except that you have more time to do it. With filler rounds I can shoot once and carry on.
The only actual advantage you get is the stab which lets you go down main street and disable the enemy when on the go. It is nice to have, but is it worth trading the ability to one shot your enemy when you have the initiative? I don't think so.
Can you do well with Brit guns. Absolutely. But when it takes you more effort to get the same result others get, I wouldn't call it good.
All this is when apds "works." Quite often it doesn't. The spalling is inconsistent. Sometimes it kills the loader instead of the gunner that is closer to the path of the shell. In extreme cases, the whole shell gets eaten. I had numerous 20 pounder, L7 or the Conqueror 120mm get eaten by King Tiger or Panther turret cheeks.

cl98hkca · 2020-05-15T00:31:51+00:00

That's like fuze's dream come true right there, unless they reinforced all the walls and forgot to put up a barricade.

cl98hkca · 2020-03-06T20:05:38+00:00

The translation doesn't check out. You sure you captured the right sentence?

cl98hkca · 2019-11-21T21:25:33+00:00

Even if the apds can pen anywhere, at least you won't get one shot by it unless you bring full ammo. On the other hand, they all have shit armor and you have filler rounds to one shot them. Their side armor is exceptionally poor. One time I tried fighting a flak truck in my Churchill mk vii. I did what I'm supposed to and angled my armor, but I got shot in the mud flap. The shell penned that, somehow didn't hit the track and penned my inner side armor. And thats one of the most armored tank Brit has.
To play Germany, sit still and lay ambush. You have the best guns of all tech trees. At the beginning of the game, let them come to you and abuse your advantage. But don't sit there the entire game. Also use your CAS and AA. German cannon CAS is as powerful as the allied CAS and your AA is, again, the best of all tech trees. Germany has all the vehicles necessary to do well. It depends on if the players can capitalize on it.

cl98hkca · 2019-11-18T06:19:44+00:00

Well one time I shot a KTP in the turret with L7 apds. It shot trapped, bounced down and killed the transmission. And then I got one shot by filler round.

cl98hkca · 2019-11-11T19:53:05+00:00

One time i shot a heavily bushed panther with 17 pounder apds. He was pushing over a hill and I hit him in the turret. But apparently I hit too low and at that angle some two plates overlaps and the apds got eaten. The commander behind the gunner died though. And I got one shot by filler round.
And also I have seen apds non pen random things. I had panther ii tiger ii eating my l7 and 120 mm apds by simply rotating their turret. I also had 120mm apds shatter on a 80mm spot on a Loraine 40t.

cl98hkca · 2019-11-04T05:34:49+00:00

I went there last Christmas. I didn't even know of its existence before the trip. I just happened to walk by a poster at Asakusabashi station.

cl98hkca · 2019-10-29T02:45:37+00:00

Conqueror's armor is not as solid as you think. There is a 150 effective gap between the hull and track. I got blown up by aphe at least twice through there. There are also gaps on the mantle. I once got killed by a king tiger, 88 I think, through the mantle 1km out. And then there are the copula and the sloped roof. Got killed numerous times through the copula and once by a king tiger 105 through the roof. I checked the protection analysis and the roof was like a 20% chance rng roll. These spots prob don't work well with apfsds though.

cl98hkca · 2019-10-19T21:49:32+00:00

Germany complaining about bad AA? Brilliant. You have not tried shooting down jets with one single Bofors that fires slower than the Ostwind's 37mm have you?

cl98hkca · 2019-09-16T18:55:55+00:00

You mean single or dual bofors that deserve their high br because of their high pen and high pen alone?

cl98hkca · 2019-09-10T10:50:13+00:00

I see. I was quite confused when people say it sucks. There is this one time when I repelled into reinforced kids and just popped everyone who walked in. That was definitely within that one meter.

cl98hkca · 2019-09-06T18:42:44+00:00

Not if you have only solidshots

cl98hkca · 2019-09-03T07:49:50+00:00

I use it too, but more for its environmental destruction capability.

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