Screenshot from 1960s Japanese movie Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. A serious-looking man in a suit is explaining his latest idea. Subtitle reads 'It may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we could ask Mothra to help.'
The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.
Everything is bad, but at least I can focus on my dissertation chapter about how the British in 1915 didn’t have the navy to force a strait when it needed to because it spent the previous decades funding their army’s misadventures in unimportant areas that turned into expensive quagmires.
USCENTCOM’s entire reason for existence for the last forty years has been to prevent exactly THIS ONE THING from happening
and yet
It’s profoundly weird to have “The Troops” be this ephemeral, elusive concept that demands deference in all seasons no matter what.
It feels Prussian.
Hello Gaius my old friend
“Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is Pete Hegseth”
Carl von Clausewitz, probably.
Aw, man - defending Traveller Character Creation is a hill I will die on...during character creation, most likely...
Clausewitz, pictured in his grave:
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO.
USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+
NOT.
A.
DRILL.
www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...
A group of Amazons on a plinth. 2 archers, 2 with sword and shield, 2 with spears, a priestess and a unicorn rider, against a desert backdrop
A slightly better shot of the Yelorna temple residents. I really loved painting this lot and a bunch of fun conversions too. Next up undead. Or beastman. Dunno! I’ll decide tomorrow.
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Very nicely done! I modeled the very same unit back last time they released Early War a looooong time ago. I hope they do as well for you as they did for me!
This is an appallingly bad list. They were at least trying when I was a junior officer, despite the occasional clunker.
Clausewitz is good but some people go too far into Prussian brainrot they start seeing the military as a metaphysical entity that runs off willpower and forget that without detailed planning you’ll just die of dehydration.
“Haha just believe in urself :)”
No Carl I still fucking need water.
As a former professional soldier, my deepest hate and iciest contempt is saved for men who abuse public trust without honor.
US Army officers briefing on the nature of American fascism, 1945.
archive.org/details/Army...
Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
In an attempt to clarify what might initially seem to be a nuanced, complicated issue:
1) John Stallard is a sexist piece of shit.
2) People defending his comments are also sexist pieces of shit.
Hope this helps.
#wargaming
You all spotted that (formerly) Otherworld resin statue based on old D&D artwork too right?
We haven't seen an Indiana squad turn back an Alabama offense this decisively since Antietam
I find Sherman fascinating because he's a war criminal by any modern definition and you can pretty much drawn a line from Sherman-Total-War to Nukes.
BUT... he did it to Confederates and literally freed one of my direct ancestors so... I'm cool with it. 10/10 would march to the sea again.
“Of course that's your contention. You're a first-year roleplayer; you just got finished reading some heartbreaker, Dungeon Crawl Classics, probably. You're gonna be convinced of that 'till next month when you get to Greg Stafford.”
Having given talks and published work about why this is a TERRIBLE idea, I gotta say, I’m not enjoying having to look on in horror as they actually do it. 🤦🏻♀️
The problem with AI is it moves people from bottom left to bottom right by drastically increasing their output.
@stalledgamer.bsky.social This might give you a start on the minefield that is 1:72.
No worries! Rubicon would probably still scratch the modeling itch as their kits are that detailed/realistic/good.
Unfortunately I’m less familiar with 1:72, but I think I saw something on my feed about this very thing earlier today….
In 28mm /1:56, which is really all I do these days, my favorites are Rubicon (Plastic), Trenchworx (Resin or STL) and Blitzkreig (Resin). I think all of those also fall into the right price category?
*scrambling to get anything done at 4:30pm* hurry, please we must hurry, the darkness is upon us, the darkness takes all and ends all, it is coming, it is almost here. we can not fight it, we can not fight the ruinous dark.
