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Best to fight Nova fight the rebels and fight some more.
Makin' gas bombs, Makin' oil, and fightin' 'round the world!
Damn rights boy!
I am definitely not the best weapons advisor at all lol. I couldn't tell an AUG from an AK-47 if I had to.
And yeh, I believe the reason for these technology rules have always been to keep combat from turning into the boring computer guided age that we call modern warfare.
Of course, i'm the weirdo who finds Napoleonic warfare to be the most interesting, so I dunno...
So you're the type of guy that sees an AK and asks if it's a FAMAS?
Oh boy.
Which is why I do have trouble keeping track of the "Johnson get a WTFshooter from the OMGBBQmobile, stat" type posts.
Good thing I didn't pick a North American nation. I would never had known what was happening.
And a full manifesto for Yaqobs method of communism, which is a different take on the traditional Marxist dialectic.
Which is one of the reasons I have posted so infrequently.
The oligarchy in your country is unique.
Oh, and Keen, how do you feel about us training each other's pilots? As in our pilots mock dogfight each other.
" IT'S THE EEEEEEVIIILLL CORPORATIONS, I TELL YA' "
I kno lol.
It's funny, because his politics irl are fairly economically conservative (extremely so for a Canadian), and yet he outlined a potential negative of giving corporate entities all that power.
No accountability.
Just like the song...
As a general rule most technology heavily dependent on WW2, and had their roots in that war are undeveloped or severely under-developed. But I have allowed guided missiles on the basis that they're ****. The only two in use would be ones going in a straight line (such as Bazooka or Panzercheck like rockets), or the horribly bad and easily confused tracking rockets.
I would more heavily enforce the "little to no WW2 dependent" rule on the basis it's only logical but we've let enough slip through already that it's silly. Although I won't like to have it cut down. It's already weird having Mig's when there was no USSR to build them and their design history in this universe is untouched (I'm assuming there was an Imperial Russian company named Mig that made them for the Tzar).
I understand it's easier to just rip period-correct equipment from Wikipedia and what we learned from Call of Duty black ops. But so far as their wiring and general equipment is still 1950's jet craft I'll try to ***** too loudly. Got to understand that everything is sort of like a suped up Spitfire without the propellers.
That's pretty much the idea. We still have the ship's targeting computers and equipment similar, but that area of tech is still highly under-developed. They can only really cover basic data retrieval, probably handle some out-going data via the radio, and can run some calculations.
The best thing navies can do today is make an estimate on distance and other factors, plug them into your massive ware-house sized computers, and get a co-ordinates printed out on a thumb-sized piece of paper. And then you adjust your guns to those coordinates and fire. With any luck the target would not have moved or the weather changed enough to actually change things.
You're best bet is to probably launch recon planes, have men on the ground giving coordinates, or carpet-bomb the **** out of things (like all of Iwo Jima).
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And, Aaron it is possible Mikoyan-Gurevich existed in this timeline, so yeah MiGs.
True. But if you read up on the company it was a Soviet Design Bureau and was government set up. Provided Mikoyan or Gurevich could have been hand-picked by the Soviets to start and run it, then things could be majorly different than it is now.
A lot of stuff in play Russia-side were originally designed in Soviet-made "Bureaus" and highly dependent on Government support and their operation.
Sukhoi, Mig, and the AK-47 are heavily Soviet-influenced products dependent on having the Bolshevik revolution ending successfully, which it didn't.
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