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Eternal_Freedom wrote:That's not so bad then. But I just can't see the point of spending even more money when Britain is strapped for cash as it is

200 million Euros over ten years is pocket change for any Western European nation. IMO, it's money well spent.

ChaserGrey wrote:Are you flirting with me, declan?

If that motivates you, then yes, declan is.

Most targets that they'd want to hit are engineered to withstand the impact of a small aircraft. There is also the previous deterrent to shooting down an aircraft that hostages offer. That's not such a big deal anymore thanks to 9/11. How small an aircraft-something the size of a Learjet etc? Then ...

Does this action refute the notion being floated since the Iraq war that the US needs to move away from heavy armor and stick to things like the Stryker to be lighter and leaner? A wheeled APC generally won't have as good cross country mobility (tactical mobility as well?) as a tracked vehicle. Whe...

Well, bear in mind that apparently for the previous nine years, there was no US heavy armor in Afghanistan. So the fact that now they finally decide to deploy a small number of heavy tanks hardly indicates a policy preference for using them. MARINNNES have had the breacher variant of the Abrams in ...

WaPo: "U.S. deploying heavily armored battle tanks for first time in Afghan war" The U.S. military is sending a contingent of heavily armored battle tanks to Afghanistan for the first time in the nine-year war, defense officials said, a shift that signals a further escalation in the aggre...

Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:Space Marines would rip it apart if they they thought for even a moment it might be a threat. If not, they'd probably take the pragmatic approach and adapt components for their own use, much to the Mechanicus's alarm.

Space Marines (Techmarines) have the knowledge to do so?

Broomstick wrote:The rich CAN circumvent all this shit by chartering an airplane. Not rich? Sucks to be you. So the oligarchs aren't inconvenienced, and the unwashed masses are trained to act like sheep.

What's stopping the terrorists from chartering a plane themselves and then flying it into a target?

Screening Protests Grow as Holiday Crunch Looms WHO knows how these things gain momentum on the Internet, but there have been enough online protests against the new body imaging machines at airport checkpoints that the Transportation Security Administration’s new boss, John S. Pistole, called me on...

Serafina wrote:Secret antimatter-bombs hidden in the grave of Paul. After all, the CERN IS IN SWITZERLAND!!! (well, partially)

Antimatter halbreds, the answer to all your halbred needs.

Say what you will about Max Brooks, he managed to get a few things about hypothetical combat against zombies right, especially in regards to the Romans. Basically they regarded zombies as just another hazard of the wilds and quickly developed efficient ways to deal with them. The only large battle ...

Very nice

iborg wrote:Yay ! an update !

...wait, it gets worse. Again. It seems that xenomorphs would run in terror from that place.

How about an update from you?

reminds me how much money the pot growers and mexican mafia spent on defeating prop 19.... Really? That was the proposition to legalise, right? Yep. If it was legal the US based growers would get less money selling it and have to pay taxes and the mexican drug carters would be shit out of luck beca...

The Yosemite Bear wrote:reminds me how much money the pot growers and mexican mafia spent on defeating prop 19....

Really? That was the proposition to legalise, right?

ChaserGrey wrote:...That would be a lot less amusing, wouldn't it? Glad someone pointed this out before I brought it into the story.

It's almost ridiculous enough to fit into the Draka setting, isn't it.

(Fun fact that also inspired me to write this: by canon, the Draka Holbars assault rifle shoots *factory packed* ammo drums. Now, imagine there's no more factories. Yup, you're pretty screwed.) I thought that meant that the drums came loaded from the factory, not that they were only loadable in the...

Simon_Jester wrote:Now now.

I only became capable of writing this after extended discussions with Shroom.

I think I'm infected or something...

That's no cause for alarm...

Brillant work guys.

Serafina wrote:Shroomy, the Vatican has the Swiss Guard - they'll just rip the blockade to shreds

With what, halbreds?

Shroom, your hippothetical scenario is flawed.

Unless Berlusconi was the one embargoing them, then the Mafia would be on his side, and the Italian public wouldn't really give a damn.

Was there any mention what their thinking behind the point scale was?

Gil Hamilton wrote:I mean, what is a zombie horde going to do to an Abrams other than possibly gunking up its treads?

Get it dirty.

I watched part of first episode. I watched up until the zombie kid got her brain splattered, which was really unnerving, and then I stopped watching it.

I thought we were supposed to live in a civilized society here. Tasers has be absolutely lethal if used improperly and it sounds like this facility doesn't bother training people in how to properly use them. It's a miracle nobody has died from this kind of shit. I agree. I don't think they respect ...

Chaotic Neutral wrote:Silly me, you can't use a bazooka indoors! Can I replace it with a grenade launcher for my soldier?

Launchers that use a countermass, like the AT4-CS, are useable in enclosed areas.

Water would be nice...nicer than a katana. Just because you are given all those items doesn't mean you have to take them all.

So who's going to be rocking body armour and a melee weapon?

I sure as hell wouldn't, something tells me carrying as little weight as possible would be helpful, and a melee weapon wouldn't be all to useful if only zombies are implied to have normal human strength.