What's the coolest fictional sword?
>>64744841>>64745037I should also add that I'm something of a radical when it comes to my choice of Mabinogion volumes, almost no one else on the planet would point you towards Ellis and Lloyd. Jones and Jones is Solid, to my memoryI'm not a fan of Gantz (hey it's that same guy from earlier!)People tell me Ford, Davies, Parker and Bollard are all very good, but I've never read them. I have my weird old translation where they say "Gwyrda" instead of "Knight" and I'm quite comfortable there.Stay away from Charlotte Guest. Evangeline is more "novels based on the Mabinogion" than a translation.
>>64745067>Speaking of Tolkein his translation of Sir Gawain is the only one worth readingWell that's good>Bulfinch's trilogyOh excellent i can get that thanks>Iliad, I prefer Butler's translation. Suffer through the chapter that's nothing but Ship's manifests, and the other one that's nothing but a description of armor, and enjoy the rest of the funny Greek AnimeExcellent, I need that too>As for norse, the Eddas really are quite short, past that there's Helen Grueber's primerThanksThis is awesome
>>64745094>Jones and Jones is SolidGreat to hear that, cause I at least want to hear what a couple of actual Welsh have to say about all this>Evangeline is more "novels based on the Mabinogion" than a translation.Then I will avoid that too
the monomolecular wire from ringworld was pretty cool
>>64746206Wouldn't it need to be almost infinitely strong to work? You could make clothing out of it, or infinitely durable armor.
How hard would it be for a handgonner to hit a man sized target at 60m?
>>64729552>ITT: trannies and ziggers
>>64743971they were shooting undersized round balls back then and not flush-fit diameter (often rifled) slugs. They did this to compensate for the barrel of the piece becoming progressively tighter due to black powder fouling. if you load your smoothbore flintlock with patched round balls (not a well documented historical practice in smoothbores) and have good sights (instead of just a front bead) you can get comparable accuracy in a flintlock smoothie.
>>64747055iow if you didn’t wad it up with something like paper or tow your musket ball back then was perfectly capable of rolling right out the muzzle if you turned the gun pointing down. Because the ball was undersized. Because loading fast (esp repeat shots) and being accurate enough was more important than squeezing out every last drop of accuracy
>>64729780>Karl's Chosen TranniesNow that's soldiern
>>64729780There's 41% on the drumbFor trannies that volunteers to come
>>64746923Why are bullpups usually heavier anyway? Is it because they make the receiver/area around the face a bit thicker? I remember when I owned my RFB thinking the top cover was very thick.
>>64704630Yeah
I finally managed to sell my piece of shit Saiga and now have space for another gun. PS90 or AUG?
>>64747105AUG, but I generally dislike any pistol caliber rifles.
>>64746923ARfags think anything other than a varmint caliber with a giant recoil absorbing spring behind it "kicks like a mule.">>64747105>piece of shit SaigaLmao what a sad mistake, don't let the NATO propaganda here get to you so much kid.
Old thread: >>64739370>Simulate schizophrenic auditory hallucinations with the sound player plugin!https://github.com/rcc11/4chan-sounds-player
>>64745970THICKER THAN A BOWL OF—-Ohh..wait
>>64746677Why is RPK touching her tummy? That’s my job
>>64746661>>64746677Thank goodness I don’t have to be at a slumber party with these dumb dorks
>>64746607Is this going to be the new phrasing from now on?
Thank God for skirts
The dragon is the size of the ones in GOT, use GOT as the point of reference for most everything to be honest. If you want to be a furry abut this you can do a version where the dragon(s) are smart cookies that can talk and junk.
>>64745651>it's no surprise to me at all that it resisted most hits.Yeah and it is only 1.2mm thick. If you took a brigadine using thicker plates at 2 or 3mm plate and removed the hardening it would still resist the arrows just by being thicker and heavier. If you keep the hardening then you can stand with absolute confidence that no arrow launched by the strongest man on the planet could pierce the armor.>White Walkers also 1-shot a dragon with a single magic missileYeah and it a special ice spear only carried by the Night King and his Captains. The same type of spear would instantly kill a human it stabbs and shatter every normal weapon into ice except dragonglass or valerian steel. There is nothing to imply that the snow zombies carry any special anti dragon weapons, they just carry normal melee weapons in every scene. Even if we go with idea that since they are magical zombies they have super retard strength and would just super stab the dragon with normal steel weapons that no normal man could and that would work but then you run into the problem that if that is the case then any clash between humans and snow zombies would be complete win for zombies thanks to super retard strength alone and not that they are very hard to kill zombies that all charge at you in the 1000's.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWWeT82OB8o>This clash wouldn't really play out the same and the zombie walker they capture would just retard strength away from being tied up.Another possibility is that the writer for the show could not figure out a good way of removing the dragon from the battlefield and just had zombies swarm it and stab it. The same dragon that in previous seasons would tank arrows from bows, require ballistas to hurt it and magical ice spears to kill it is getting pierced by normal swords wielded by zombies that shouldn't have the strength to do it. A bit inconsistent showing of the dragons hide protective capability.
>>64745947do bear in mind that a couple of arrows pierced the brigandine plate in Tod's test, and were only saved by the underlying chainmail and arming doubletTod is being a little disingenuous (as usual) in claiming that the plate is resisting the arrows. it's not the plate per se; it's the whole multi-layered ensemble
>>64734174A DnD dragon would still be viable on the modern battlefield because its giant lizard with an IQ of 180 which can sprint fly at over 200mph, teleport several hundred miles at time, melt steel with a thought, spray psychoactive mustard gas over miles of terrain, breath underwater, perfectly imitate any human it sees once, poison any water within 300ft, cast Wish Spells several times a day, read and control minds at will, make an entire division fall over laughing if tells a joke, has innate thermal vision, construct bridgeheads in minutes, make everybody who can see it shit their pants, ect, ect. Dragons are bullshit.
>>64746238A reasonably old DND dragon isn't viable because you have no way to make him give a shit about your objectives and worse, if he really did care he'd just take over your country and win your war by teleporting demons into your enemy's leader's bathrooms.
>>64745156>>64745170There is no crocodile hide on the planet that a longbow arrow wont stick into.
how do you defend yourself from homemade flame throwers and other rudimentary incendiaries?
>>64746479And acutally you bring up a good point. What is the constant with euro/developed middle eastern countries and gay little scooters. The cops def have this covered scooting after the man spraying strange fluids at them. "I'm gonna get you! Brrrrrrrrr nee nee!"
>>64746508That's true, they're all in a pack mentality and like coyotes or wolves they're all waiting for one to take action so they can all follow. That's probably more a constant everywhere, nigs definitely fight like this. Individual moments in past wars were like that too.
>>64746490Whew lads.
>>64746490Body like that could churn out a baby every year with no problems.
>>64746490This pic would be 10x hotter if she was drinking a glass of milk.
are these legit?https://tlpnb.com/products/16072781483189280861152600?utm_source=ad&utm_medium=google&utm_origin=shopline&utm_campaign=633268&utm_content=23302865516&adset_id=190908157098&utm_term=789241279908&aatid=4797219188&gad_source=2&gad_campaignid=23302865516&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhPa1_tiEkgMVx-FJBR0tDj0rEAEYASAAEgJBL_D_BwE
dude why are you even considering putting your cc info in a sketchy as fuck website for chinkshit? just use Ali like a normal person holy shit you're retardedkys
>>64747132It has fucking emoji in the title of the product, what do you think?
also LMAO you clicked on like an Insta ad for that? per the urlI really really really hope you're 12, otherwise this is embarrassing
>>64747141probably an ad on facebook that this boomer clicked on
Are the specs on these things public knowledge? Are they legal to own and build?https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-sonic-weapon-left-venezuelan-soldiers-bleeding-vomiting-blood-during-maduro-capture-operation-1769871
>>64743625I don't think you know what "sensationalist" means, but you sound like you've got an axe to grind already.It's not the first time something like this is reported.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41047721
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-used-sonic-weapon-venezuelan-200357082.html?guccounter=1Its real.
Just sounds like they're exaggerating the effects of an LRAD. Would these be used in a raid like that?
>Delta taking an operational risk and using some prototype weapon instead of a bullet on a potential threatlollmao even
>>64747125There's been reports of this shit since the Rwandan civil war. I don't think it's a prototype anymore.
can you even call yourself a /k/ommando?
>>64744735>>64744736>>64745779full auto?(that is, not a simulacrum cosmetic trigger group)
>>64746744Those surefire forends are so goddamn sexy>posting my HKs because I haven't bought an MP5 yet
couldn't make my mind up on stock so got them both but running left currently, probs going to get an SS like>>64745242 eventually but is AS Designs the go to for lowers or does anyone vouch for lee or leber (ehh 3d print lines)?
>>64746829:0
>>64743109What light?
Could Wisconsin take the UP in a special 3 day operation?
>>64744181The Finns in the Minnesota iron range towns still engage in a lot of Finnish culture, sauna, drunken stabbings, etc. The boomers and Gen Xers have less Finnish language skills than their parents or the millennials and zoomers.
>>64733859Yeah except for Flint, Saginaw, Kalamazoo, Benton Harbor, Bay City, Lansing, Muskegon, Pontiac, Ypsilanti, and Port Huron- totally nigger free
>>64733898>>64737006Actually people from the UP are called yoopers.
>>64733794horrifying
>>64734558>maple jellyAnon, thank you for letting me know that this is a thing.
How many armored soldiers from the late middle ages would you need to appreciably affect a bronze age battlefield?
>>64746580>first firearms made plate obsoleteLmao, noYou might want to investigate the origin of the term "bullet proof"
>>64746615I know they are capable, but it was all downhill from there.What I mean is, that we missed out on a Seven Years War fought with only plate armour and heavy cavalry like Grunwald.
>>64746667It wasn't feasible anon, with the increased ability to perform complex logistics and the better systems of raising and training troops, all meaning the sizes of armies swelled absolutely massively that outfitting troops in that number with even munitions plate wasn't going to happen
>>64746717A man can dream...
>>64746725I'm sorry anon, I really am
Are living suicide bombs a viable strategy in an open war? I thought that suicide bombing was only good for terrorism at checkpoints/markets but not for a frontal assault to a fortified enemy position.Banzai charges barely worked...
>>64742807>those nippleswould suckle / 10
>>64745842>Isn't that an anti tank mine?yes>>64745842>Don't they need some fucktarded pressure to trigger?As others have pointed out earlier in the thread, Its most likely been jury-rigged to explode upon remote detonation
>>64738168>learning a non Latin alphabet>learning anything that isn't EnglishGrim
>>64739855All the good Russians fled throughout the 90s and after
>>64741298What’s the fragging rate in the Russian military?
>*shits up gun culture forever*
>>64745265>goes to prison>becomes a bisexual roided out shut-in pothead sad desuhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdSAXn4-mbkhttps://youtu.be/7bpXLTOicM0?si=FCFQIJ52mYDwwdFU&t=125
>>64745202>first day?
>>64745231I-is that... an orange man? AIEEEE SAVE ME JANNY!
>>64745350Mosins cost 500+ burgers now. Poorfags here can barely afford PovertySA ARs.
>>64745439Yeah, his two months in the can really buckbroke him. Now he has no interest in guns (even though he could probably get his rights back if he tried), and actively pushes his hedonistic lifestyle.
6,500,000,000€largest sale in israel's history
>>64747059Because Russia is stupid, period.Even at their current state and pushed into their potential retardation they can do something like throwing dirty bombs into EU just to spite them, no matter how many russian serfs die when MAD enters in effect "we will just go to heaven" they literally said here, the average vatniggers is a depraved subhuman who feels (thinking is too much for them) "it's about sending a message", after a few years of interaction with them I would give all the thumbs up for NATO to have cobalt warheads point at their territory and virus tailored to kill russians, and I won't hesitate to push the button as rather kill them all than let them harm actual real humankind.*Verification not required.
>>64747049Ay caramba, mi amigo!! Es mucho no beuno!!
>>64746995no shit an army is unnecessary until it is and by having a good one you avoid needing to use it
So much for the "europe of defense" between this and denmark buying F35s right after Trump threatens to invade Greenland
>ziggers already assblasted by thislol
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>>64744046Bullshit no one alive has seen alien earth.
>>64744046The tactical gear in that show felt odd for a reason. It's meant to look like future gear from the perspective of the past, which is why Weyland Commandos are dressed in black instead of multicam. It's meant to be an impression of 'futuristic' police like forces in an age of 'futuristic CRT monitors'. Much like how the USCM has awkward, clunky, (and frankly ugly) sci fi soldier gear with random shoulder pads and "in the pipe, five by five" lingo
>>64743994beautiful weapon
>>64740610Unit 777, assembling!!!
>>64743994We sending STARS now?
