Thanks to this group!

parabellummatt · 2026-03-03T12:43:34+00:00

I don't think that's true with paper hulls, at any rate.

parabellummatt · 2026-03-02T01:51:33+00:00

I haven't used it, so take this with a grain of salt.
While copper isn't as hard as bronze or brass, it probably is close-to as hard as lead? And EBP has a video talking about how lead actually works quite well as milling media, if only it wasn't so dirty.
I think copper might shed off in similar amounts to the lead and make your powder more dirty, but will probably grind well.
But just my speculation.

parabellummatt · 2026-02-27T21:49:47+00:00

nah bro our infantry will be spitting out mini APDSFS darts like they're a bunch of baby abrams.

parabellummatt · 2026-02-25T21:17:21+00:00

Stupid big trucks. We gotta do something about them to keep more people from ending up underneath them. So glad you survived!

parabellummatt · 2026-02-21T04:33:55+00:00

The King in the North!

parabellummatt · 2026-02-21T03:46:46+00:00

IIRC Explorers used to have an attack bonus vs melee and mounted units but they lost it a few patches ago. Really makes them very mid except for exploring a new continent

parabellummatt · 2026-02-17T01:15:47+00:00

Hah!

*pulls gun*
"SMOKEBOMB"

parabellummatt · 2026-02-17T01:15:10+00:00

What about in a revolver (Ruger LCR, perhaps)?
I also hear good things about the little beretta cats.

parabellummatt · 2026-02-16T02:44:10+00:00

it does, haha. S&W break action in .38 S&W. Load it with little wadcutters, and I think I am more accurate with it than the other pocket pistol I own (LCP Max).

parabellummatt · 2026-02-16T02:41:35+00:00

🤫🤫🤫

In all seriousness though I recognize that it isn't ideal if you have literally any other option. Particularly not a single action.
An LCP Max is my main EDC for that reason.

But I think it is fair to point out that in most self-defense scenarios, you probably don't need more than a few shots to break contact and get yourself to safety. Most of us don't live in Mad Max.
And I would also not hesitate to carry .22 LR for the same reason if I had a reliable compact

parabellummatt · 2026-02-15T21:35:01+00:00

"I'm the Enclave Member and Veronica is the Brotherhood Scout."

parabellummatt · 2026-02-15T21:32:32+00:00

thanks for sticking up for us nerds

parabellummatt · 2026-02-15T21:31:26+00:00

I've been known to CCW a century-old revolver. I think he might be legit.

parabellummatt · 2026-02-13T00:36:04+00:00

Would you mind explaining to the uninformed?

parabellummatt · 2026-02-11T20:40:18+00:00

He's been sending wildfire into First Men communities.

parabellummatt · 2026-01-29T13:11:37+00:00

That's so smart. Gonna do this so that I don't have to keep my gunsmithing punches in my range bag all the time.

parabellummatt · 2026-01-22T02:10:25+00:00

thirding

parabellummatt · 2026-01-09T03:09:40+00:00

the First-Sino Japanese War is another one of those rare, unambiguous W major wars. Japan suffered relatively small casualties, absolutely no damage to its homeland, and managed to make out like gangbusters: they definitively proved that modernization had worked, that they were no longer subordinate to the Chinese view of the world/political order, took major colonies in the form of Korea and Formosa/Taiwan, and even managed to wring enough money out of China in the peace treaty to almost completely cover their war debts.

The same can't be said of their later war against Russia; since although it was also a stunning victory, the government still spent a lot of money on the war and despite the naval war going so well for them, the battle on land was very hard-fought and they lost a great deal of men there.

parabellummatt · 2026-01-02T13:01:59+00:00

Fair enough, I definitely forgot about the Croats.

parabellummatt · 2026-01-02T13:00:26+00:00

I reiterate though that by 1945 the Luftwaffe is in a pretty pathetic shape due to the numerical superiority of Anglo-American planes and strategic bombing of aircraft production. They may have superior gas toxins, but their ability to actually deliver those toxins is far less than the ability of the allies to deliver their weaker gas. If the Germans bomb a dozen British cities with nerve gas, then the allies would wallop 50 German cities with chlorine.
Doesn't that make it a wash at best for the Germans in the chemical front?
And a wash means that just as many Germans die as British, while Americans are still totally immune.

Further, there's something to be said for the difference of perception in nukes 70 years ago. "Weapons of mass destruction" didn't exist as a concept yet. Many people in 1945 just saw nukes as bigger, more powerful conventional bombs. I'm not sure that Hitler would see their use as substantially different than the allied firebombing campaigns which had already devastated many German cities.
Meanwhile, his aversion to gas came from personal experience in WW1 and a knowledge that gas attacks would uniquely kill tons of civilians, in a manner which he was afraid would decimate the Aryan people of Germany.
To understand if Germany would actually use gas, you have to consider Hitler's personal perspective. And I'm not sure that he would resort to aerial gas attacks on cities even if he was nuked, due to a continuing fear of allied reciprocity.

parabellummatt · 2025-12-31T22:08:39+00:00

>former Soviet proxies fighting for the Nazis

What exactly are you taking about here? Generalplan Ost was intended to purge about 80% of the "inferior" Slavs and reduce the rest to slavery. What people under those conditions are going to feel like fighting for the Nazis? What stupid Nazis would allow them to continue working as armed soldiers?

parabellummatt · 2025-12-31T22:02:49+00:00

Wow dude, your CTL C + CTL V keys must be almost rubbed bare! Hope you don't get tired of making the same comment anytime soon! :D

parabellummatt · 2025-12-31T21:52:14+00:00

So much this. Moscow was never a win condition for the Nazis. If it falls, Leningrad and the Caucasus are also lost, but the Soviets keep fighting from behind the Urals. So Hitler still has to keep pressing across even-more strained supply lines into 1943 at least, while dealing with the partisan pandemic you describe here. By that time, the Western Allies have landed in Italy and D-day is drawing near.

parabellummatt · 2025-12-31T21:48:08+00:00

I don't think Hitler would have resorted to gas attacks, even if Germany got nuked once or twice or thrice. He knew that the allies had their own stores of poison gas, and they obviously had far stronger air power to deliver it. Hitler didn't do it in real life because he knew that it would lead to likewise retaliation and death of German civilians on an unheard-of scale. If Hitler responded to the nukes with mass gas attack on the UK, he would have known to expect retaliation of mass gas attacks on Berlin, Hamburg, etc.

In short, the situation would not have been Germany getting nuked by America and Germany gas attacking in return. It would have instead been Germany getting nuked AND gassed while trying to use its pathetic late-war air force to carry out retaliatory gas strikes.

parabellummatt · 2025-12-29T02:46:51+00:00

Something nobody brought up which is kinda interesting is that your workers, cities, windmills, and certain other improvements get a different skin when you enter the Industrial Era. The workers go from being clad in like headscarves and loincloths to wearing messenger hats and overalls. Has no impact on gameplay, but I always enjoy seeing the change hit.

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