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While many other animals have minor capacities for superstitious behavior, humans do it best. For the life of me, I will never understand why people who claim critical thinking and rationality as some of the most important values in their lives fail to comprehend the fact that we have evolved to be...

The story linked in the OP has just been updated. It seems they know who the hostage taker is. msnbc.com and NBC News updated 2 minutes ago * Share * Print * Font: * + * - BREAKING NEWS SILVER SPRING, Md. — A gunman with a possible explosive device strapped to himself entered the Discovery Communica...

I'd often use them to take down charging Pinky demons, purely because they just run in straight lines and it only takes a few to kill one. It also helped that by the time I'd encountered the next one I'd have collected a whole heap of the damn thing.

Other than that they were pretty damn useless.

Interesting. IA3 has an "Air Cadre" as consisting of 2 Mantas, 4 Tiger Sharks and 10 Barracudas. What sort of firepower would we grant Imperial repulsor tanks? They've only really featured in games, IIRC. In Empire at War, for what it's worth, they seemed a level above AT-STs, if that's an...

ROTS ICS lists max airspeed for a droid HMP as 14200 kph. Between them, the AOTC and ICS gives starfighter atmospheric speeds between 12000 (Aethersprite) and 62000 kph (Utapaun fighter). A TIE/ln will have a comparable powerplant and should fall in that range. Even a Theta-class shuttle can do 200...

I'm a bit unsure about whether this would really count as fluff or not, but in IA3 there's an Ordo Xenos fact sheet for each of the Tau vehicles. Under the Armour section for the Manta it has "Energy Shields - Type Unknown". Unfortunately this doesn't tell us anything about the strength of...

Aye. A more appropriate Imperial equivalent would be the Sentinel landing craft, or another similar vehicle. Additionaly, the main purpose of this thread was to see how the ground forces of each side could stack up to each other. That question becomes a bit moot when you have 700 metre long warships...

Couldn't one argue that a CR-90 Corvette could operate out of a ground base as well then? Or, if we're going for troop transports Acclamators. My comment was intended to point out that Mantas seem to be a somewhat standard part of Tau ground campaigns, not that it could operate out of ground bases....

In universe, the Manta is actually an escort vessel, like the Imperium's Sword- or Cobra-class destroyers. The rationalization is that only the Tau have fine enough propulsion control to effectively maneuver their escort spaceships in atmosphere, and that they are also the only race that is really ...

I'm not sure how well a tank-mounted railgun would perform against an AT-AT, but Imperial Armour 3 states that the Tau do have two aircrat capable of downing shielded Titans - the Manta and a new variant of the Tiger Shark (shown in the text to be capable of dowing a Warhound Titan in a single straf...

Exactly how does an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico travel all the way to Hawaii?

AI behaviors would fix most of the "left them alone" idiocies of the current system. You should be able to set cavalry to look after themselves with a series of simple directives, e.g. if they come under infantry fire, they should retreat. They already had such a setting for skirmisher ca...

Very true. There's certainly no shortage of interesting and important conflicts during that era. A game spanning from 1824 to 1908 could have a lot of potential. The 19th century saw quite a few inovations in both land and naval warfare, both in terms of tactics and technology. It'll certainly be in...

The Total War website has a timer that counts back from 2006 to 1908. Possible indication of a new game in the series. Anyone care to speculate? obvious suggestion would be a WWI era game starting in 1908, or possibly a "Victoria Total War" ending on that date. Edit: Crappy spelling is cr...

adam_grif wrote:Hang on, is Captain Seafort chuck?

No, he isn't.

I wonder how many times he had to redo the Dr. Piper bit.

Fire Warrior is an interesting book for the view it gives us of Tau society. It doesn't outright state much, but through implications a lot of the workings of Tau society and their ideology is made rather clear through it. Regarding wankery, the only thing that really bothered me was the Tau/Imperi...

(CNN) -- The message blaring out of the speakers on the van was stark: "Any black person who is hiding in Rosarno should get out. If we catch you, we will kill you." Abdul Rashid Muhammad Mahmoud Iddris got out. He's one of hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of African migrants taken by bus...

Frankly, arguing that Inquisitors are generals is...... Are we having different definitions of what a general is? A general isn't someone who has an army. He's a military leader who actually plans campaigns, details troops, train them and supply and support them. The Inquisitors don't do that. Actu...

One of the better episodes so far, IMO. A nicely intriguing plot with an excellent ending. It'll certainly be interesting to see how things progress with the ship's Ancient expert and chief of the science team now out of the picture. Obviously, Rush is going to hop in that ship and come back at a la...

I'd say around 3 - 6 hours. There are only two shows I watch regularly anymore (Mythbusters and Stargate Universe), but occasionally I might flick through the documentary channels to see if there's anything interesting on.

Well, they've been spending the last few months comparing Obama to Hitler, so I suppose that it's only natural that they'd bring up the Holocaust sooner or later. I also find it hilarious that the banner on the left of the picture is being held upside-down. You really couldn't parody these people an...

Yeah, do you guys have a link for this? Is it on Youtube yet? I want to watch politicians get their asses kicked by smart people, and dream of what could happen here (in the US) but probably never will. It's on Youtube, split into various parts. Part one is here . Always nice to see the BNP get sla...

Does anyone by any chance have an idea as to why Italy failed to tell anyone else what was going on? Was it some sense of pride, a sort of feeling that they shouldn't be dealing with the enemy? The denials over the bribery that was posted eariler in this thread means that it's highly unlikely that t...

I'll give it a 7. A fun action movie that I feel is a good way to kill a couple of hours. It's hardly a masterpiece of filmaking, of course, but I found it adequately entertaining.

Ah, right. I wasn't aware that the President wasn't allowed accept gifts. Though it certainly makes sense now that you mention it.