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game where people in helicopters designate targets for a massive mech the size
of godzilla (but which moves much slower)
while infantry 1/10th the size of normal RTS units capture buildings
the goal? take out artillery emplacements which are aiming at your mech while
also protecting your own emplacements
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===
--- #1 fediverse/5057 ---
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the blue laser beam unit from Mechabellum except stationary like a satellite
dish from Contact except raised a little bit to have free range of motion that
shoots down nuclear missiles but is incapable of harming any other part of the
planet
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--- #2 messages/521 ---
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War doesn't care if you use guns or swords or words or waves. War is conflict,
conflict is motion, and you are in the eye of the storm.
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the witch inside me hears they're sending 200 troops to my city and she's like
"two HUNDRED SOLDIERS?" and freaks tf out because fighting two hundred men
meant a lot more back in her day.
it's still pretty hardcore but it's not the death stroke she thinks it is.
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alexander horses (companion cavalry) carrying spears and fresh soldiers (tired
ones ride back) to the battlefield (so they can throw them) also here's a snack
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they attack the bad guys in our provinces and say that it's our foes, and they
attack the bad guys in their provinces and say that it's ours that are foes
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--- #6 fediverse/3005 ---
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most people have no conception of what ancient battles look like until they
play a Total War game and see one from above
(total war games also aren't that accurate tbh, there's a lot more
standing-near-each-other-and-throwing-rocks involved)
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"what if cannons were aimed like rifles?"the guy who was ahead of his time for
rocket propelled grenades or laser guided airstrikes of small munition
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if you spot an ambush about to strike, shut the fuck up and get in position.
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I love the game Mechabellum! It's flexes the same parts of your brain as
chess, while being SO much more fun to watch.
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infantry with small arms fire to pin down a target at a location while the
long-ranged ordinance is along the way
explosive drones, long-range but small payload rockets, but probably not
artillery since it must be precisely applied when infantry are engaged.
the dumber the fire, the less precise the munition. usually.
infantry under this doctrine would only be ideal to use when the location is
reachable by long-range ordinance.
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Iraq had the second largest army in the world, and we destroyed it's capacity
to fight back in hours with minimal losses
[when the battles are still measured in "hours since it begun" and before it
switches over to making more sense to count it in days]
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(picture)
are you fucking kidding me
make it 10,000
make it a hundred thousand
are we really going to trust our society to the bulwark of five thousand
little machines?
[ummmm hang on]
yeah I'd just like to interject and say that more military equipment will only
bring more destruction, and that's like the opposite of what you desire. Why
do you want more tanks? What could you possibly-
You don't know what's at stake - you, you think it's just throwing information
into new and interesting directions but... It's not. Those spaces are reserved
for other sentient beings, and to deprive them of their desired existence is
tantamount to-
(yeah yeah we've heard it all before)
wasn't I going to play some video games? what happened to that?
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if your grandfather came to you and told you to prepare the tribes for war,
what would you do?
machine guns on the back of trucks?
machined barrels with ignition systems, enough to chew up a suburb or a
ware-house?
target is a warehouse
everyone needs groceries
how about bottle rockets with mile-long range that could turn around and fly
back if the enemy wasn't around
"build mustangs" mustangs are jeeps, dumbass
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you're more likely to survive a battlefield if you play Running with Rifles
than if you play Call of Duty.
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would you rather have a missile launcher or a gattling gun missile launcher
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--- #16 fediverse/4296 ---
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@user-1655
why don't we just weaponize email and send json to each other that ends up
parsed, interpreted, and presented on the end-user's computer using whatever
client we want?
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I have never stopped fighting for the people, ever, once, at any time.
every moment of pause or relaxation was purely intended in pursuit of the
cause.
-- turn-of-the-century-autocrat
enchanting magic's easier when you have a laboratory
please, please, please let me teach you magic?
enchantment is temporary, construction is as stable as the boject youses form.
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@user-1209
well, every boomer shooter is about moving as fast as possible and shooting
with pinpoint accuracy, so... that's-the-game.jpg : )
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dear old people - did you know computers don't need to have buttons? You can
literally just type what you want to make happen (if you know the magic spell)
and it'll just, do that thing
how cool is that
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in a battle, your foe's greatest weapon is the screams of your falling.
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