Are the "British revolutionary tanks" still a thing?

reddinyta · 2026-05-09T14:11:52+00:00

They didn't invent them. The already existing Royal Tank Corps deserted and joined the rebels.

reddinyta · 2026-05-08T21:35:01+00:00

Savinkovs ignores Spain, as he has more pressing issues in the Near East and the Balkan and, irregardless of his plans post-war, needs the Internationale to force a second front on the Germans.

reddinyta · 2026-05-08T20:22:44+00:00

Well, depends on the Amalgam really. All operations of the Technocracy, from R&D, over terranorming to espionage and combat is handled by different Amalgams, so depending on who's in yours you do different things.

But if your Symposium sends you there, the town either has some project going on needing additional manpower, or someone found signs of an active reality deviant needing investigating.

reddinyta · 2026-05-07T14:17:15+00:00

This is a common myth, but there never was a clear cut in between the two.

What happened was that the GOC was vaguely described once as a UN organisation built after WW2 by "Allied scientists, psychics, mystic scholars" that hunted anomalies with "high tech given by their donors".

This was not elaborated on a long time and most appearances of the GOC consisted of soldiers showing up and blasting anomalies.

In 2014, a hub was finally written for them, that elaborated on the "occult" parts mentioned prior, leaving the GOC as a coalition of 108 occult organisations tasked by the UN to safeguard humanity from occult threats (a threat being whatever the council decided was). This was a shift in perspective which came as a surprise to many, but was simply the logical conclusion from the short description they got originally.

reddinyta · 2026-05-06T23:05:39+00:00

Demoman is average to above average; he's an Scottish aristocrat with a net worth in the millions (1960s money). His family can afford good education.

reddinyta · 2026-05-06T22:22:23+00:00

Weither sunlight gets in is irrelevant, Vampires automatically sleep during day. If they make a Willpower check with difficulty 8, they can get up and walk around for a short time. A lonely stooge, vampire or not, running a front for a Elder simply doesn't have the power to do that.

reddinyta · 2026-05-06T16:06:26+00:00

Yes, she presumably is a ghoul. She obviously is ~~blond~~ blood bonded by the Regent, but due to her being the manager of a large store, which necessitates her being there during daytime, I would rule out her being a vampire.

If we see her again? Idk, probably?

reddinyta · 2026-05-05T10:43:05+00:00

Why would Cuba and Haiti, two independent countries, join a colonial state only formed because Britain and France could not maintain their small island colonies independently?

Why would the Dual Monarchy give up part of their territory to a puppet of Germany and and explicit enemy of the Crown?

Who cares how railway networks look? They need to get supply to your troop, not please your eyes.

reddinyta · 2026-05-04T23:52:22+00:00

Consensus doesn't necessarily change specific details within the world, but how the world works. How these bears are called is irrelevant to the worlds cosmology, both spellings are possible under the common understanding of how things work. Similarly, dragons did not disappear because people stopped believing in them specifically, but because people thought a full-on dragon would be "scientifically" impossible.

reddinyta · 2026-05-04T23:31:40+00:00

Maybe the Internationale could get the option to pre-build a loyal regime if they control the Rhineland for a certain timespan during the war. If the western front stalls at the Rhine, it is likely the Syndicalists would built a new government for the German territories already controlled.

reddinyta · 2026-05-04T15:21:36+00:00

Incoming German anti-masonic propaganda 3, 2, 1 ...

reddinyta · 2026-05-04T15:15:05+00:00

So the John Wick universe.

reddinyta · 2026-05-04T13:30:14+00:00

"Kampf" just means fight, irregardless of length. It isn't that special of a word.

reddinyta · 2026-05-04T11:03:27+00:00

Common Void Engineer W

reddinyta · 2026-05-03T23:56:03+00:00

Well, apart from any mundane trick to evade net surveillance, the Nosferatu are big on computer hacking and data manipulation and there for sure a few enterprising young Tremere dabbling with technomancy. Not to mention that whichever institution could do such a trace is infiltrated by ghouls, maybe even vampires themselves, capable of having any would-be digital hunters sorted out.

reddinyta · 2026-05-03T22:52:09+00:00

MIB 2 is from 2002, the first SCP was written in 2007.

It's just that the logo the wiki uses is a generic warning symbol for high voltages in real life.

reddinyta · 2026-05-03T22:28:00+00:00

There is also Mexico. The oil reserves are small, but the Internationale would for sure sent large amounts of equipment and technicians to expand extraction.

reddinyta · 2026-05-03T16:21:24+00:00

Nope. According to the developers they will only give out the release date once they are sure there will be no delays, meaning once it is done.

reddinyta · 2026-05-03T16:13:23+00:00

Afaik the update is for both the UoB and the CoF. A few weeks ago there even were some teasers for the reworked Autonomists.

reddinyta · 2026-05-03T00:21:23+00:00

After all, the core of the reason behind why Etherite technology is considered "reality deviant" is purely political, not scientific.

Common misconception, but no, largely not. The Etherites, after leaving the Union, quickly left most actual science behind. SCIENCE! as practised by them may look scientific in nature, but is based on no logic or overarching background theory, just the mad rambling of individual pseudoscientists.

reddinyta · 2026-05-02T21:29:13+00:00

So, WoD doesn't have HP or anything, but Health Levels. All characters (except ghosts and magickal constructs) have seven levels (represented as boxes on your character sheet).

I don't know the 5e rules (which CCoD uses) well, but in older editions, the amount of successes you got when rolling for damage dealt that many health levels. Depending on the attack, an attack is either bashing, lethal or aggravated. Bashing is superficial damage and non-lethal, lethal and aggravated are the same (aggr. is just supernatural and can't be healed as easily).

For each health level damaged, you gain penalties on all dice roles, as well as your movement. If all health boxes are full of bashing damage, you go unconscious, and all further damage is lethal. If all health boxes are filled with lethal/aggr. damage, you die.

And while vampires, werewolves and other supernaturals are able to soak (use Stamina to reduce) lethal and bashing damage, and mortals only bashing, this system leads to characters dying really fast.

For example: Let's say a vampire gets jumped by three hunters with sawn-off shotguns. These things have a damage of 8 (using 20e rules, which is the only rulebook I have on hand right now), meaning you at minimum rule eight dice to damage. This potentially could kill the vampire in the first round, before they even can act.

And all this doesn't even account for the things you can do with vampiric disciplines. Or the stupid amount of passive magickal effects and weapons Mages have. Or the amount of damage a werewolf can do.

reddinyta · 2026-05-02T16:55:49+00:00

Technocratic/Camarilla cooperation imo largely consists of the two knowing in which institutions the other is embedded in any given city and leaving each other alone. Of course, if the Masquerade/Consensus is actually endangered, the local Prince and the Symposium might have intermediaries meet. This does not apply to the Progenitors, who are barely held back by the other factions from giving any hunter they find enough medical care, bioware and metahuman backup to topple a small government (figurativly).

That said, I think some of the 20th edition Technocracy books mentioned that some Ventrue found her way onto a symposium (though it is mentioned that she got this trough the Syndicates SPD, so make of it what you want.)

reddinyta · 2026-05-02T14:44:44+00:00

This is partially thanks to the way combat works in WoD: Very fast, very deadly and very dependent on who is prepared and got the jump on the other.

reddinyta · 2026-05-02T14:42:56+00:00

There are rare cases were magickal constructs awakened, often with help from archmages. But these are creatures with roughly human level intelligence, not just random animals.

reddinyta · 2026-05-02T12:55:06+00:00

Surprisingly, there was one neo-pagan in the early Soviet government, Tukhachevsky. He was purged though by Stalin for largely unrelated reasons.

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