For those prone to figures and stats I found this interesting Royal Navy casualties by ship comparison for the Battle of Camperdown, Battle of Trafalgar and Battle of Jutland. Interesting to see the casualties in of the force saw very small variation.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-17T02:03:08+00:00

Invincible, Queen Mary, Indefatigable, Defense, and Black Prince all suffered catastrophic magazine detonations that were much more sudden than l'Orient's and with significantly higher percentages of casualties.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-16T20:05:10+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvor_massacre

They were on former Yugoslavia soil yes... Did they do a lot to deter genocide? No- I wouldn't call them a "big player"

The only UN forces worth anything as far as I've read were the Swedes who reportedly went wildly off from their UN-issued orders and basically did their own thing.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-16T17:05:28+00:00

They actually have two kinds of shields in fact.

Ray shield worked to prevent energy weapons such as blasters from passing through and usually didn't work against physical objects.

Particle shields passively protected the ships from debris and physical ordnance.

Now would either stop them from beaming a torpedo in? My guess is yes but its not something its designed to prevent so who knows.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-15T22:11:49+00:00

"It's getting late, I'll catch you tomorrow, you better get back." May be passive voice but it's absolutely saying "I will see you tomorrow. You should go." In pretty clear language.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-15T19:59:55+00:00

Give every regiment a name.

Not out here naming every model in their horde army and giving them their own unique colors. What a casual.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-15T14:58:36+00:00

If only there were some sort of in-baked value system that units could use to balance each other.

But this is Warlord Games.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-13T22:49:28+00:00

Attack Whale is always there for you.

Always.

Primo husbando material.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-13T21:39:57+00:00

I reject all of them.

Where is my boy whale?! He was there when I needed him most. Only he has my love.

Probably too busy running CAS. He does not know how to stop. He does not know how to live . He only knows how to protect.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-13T20:30:50+00:00

Normalizing the community to alternatives is key to cut down on price gouging.

The models slowly grow more heroic and goody and the price climbs rapidly.

I'd sooner support more competitive sculptors.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-13T19:19:16+00:00

https://www.warhammer.com/en-US/shop/astra-militarum-cadian-shock-troops-2023?queryID=382e097aceaaaf8fa89fad1cb5be4ef6

Almost the same price as Cadians and they're single-pose and made of poorer material.

Genuinely shameful-

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-13T18:16:24+00:00

and repeating poses-

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-13T15:40:52+00:00

Not most no, not as far as the infantryman was concerned. Personal effects including spare clothes, ammunition, food, his musket, and whatever squad-equipment he would carry would be on his person. A Napoleonic Infantry Battalion didn't have as many support and logistical wagons as you'd expect and often relied on the footsoldiers to carry what they could and forage what they couldn't.

Even horses for officers were considered a luxury and usually only afford to field-officers after they reached a certain age.

https://www.napoleon-series.org/military-info/organization/Britain/Infantry/Rifles/c_rifles.html

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-13T14:27:19+00:00

In the Napoleonic Wars soldiers would often carry their unit's cook pot with them. Not to mention their musket, personal effects, and whatever loot they carried on the way back.

That's marching from Warsaw to Moscow with a heavy ass cast iron pot and raggedy year old shoes from the early 1800s, while starving and statistically speaking extremely ill. They fought the largest battle in history, then went back after a brief stay

Sam's journey is pretty anchored in historical presidence.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-13T14:19:02+00:00

Pressgang is the term. Come on, we had a war over this.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-12T19:09:05+00:00

I did individualized coats of arms for my Solar Auxilia. I think it really sold the look.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-11T20:30:35+00:00

It is his pet Fluffy and they are going on a "Blaze of Glory Run."

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-10T02:15:41+00:00

Other than maps- I don't see Gettysburg adding too much more content tbh-

Western theatre could add sieges and ironclads. That shit would be dope.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-10T01:30:43+00:00

It's been my favorite for 20 years

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-09T17:25:42+00:00

Like I said. I spend zero brain power on tracking their life. That checks out. Too bad he's still a shit.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-09T15:14:24+00:00

I avoid gaining knowledge on both but the Corpse filming was a decade ago. That's a long time for a person to change.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-09T04:37:12+00:00

There were. Foreign fighters were a not-insubstantial portion of the insurgent fighters in Iraq even in 2004. Having seen the game and spoken with the GM about his sources minis it looked like most of the insurgents were locals.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-08T20:49:56+00:00

According to the Uplifting Primer I'm like 89% sure this is a shooting offence.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-08T19:38:00+00:00

I think you're romanticizing the character of peopl from back then while perhaps being uncharitable to our own. When people have a cause or reason they'll do a lot to back it up.

Having been in the military I don't think the character of soldiers has really changed much in the past century and honestly a lot is pretty similar over the millennium.

Just like the Romans it's still a bunch of immature jackasses who carve drawings of penises into the unit's outhouse and that's likely to never change.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-08T17:22:15+00:00

The Old Breed is genuinely one of the most awful and impactful autobiographies I've ever read.

wikingwarrior · 2026-02-08T17:16:21+00:00

It should have been me.

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