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This will be ironic in hindsight (because we don't know things YET).I'm just as disappointed in my team as you are giddy.* Taricus looks at the Arstotzkan thread, giggles a bit in glee :3
It wasn't just about developing HEAT. If we revised our rocket to use HEAT, we could've also used the opportunity to better shape it and stabilise it. We get better destructive power and rocketry experience.Our rockets DO use HEAT tho. Shaped charge means HEAT in our case. The only thing they don't use is aerodynamic cones.
If the Moskurgian weapon is expensive, as it should be due to beltfed tech being expensive, then the 1910. Otherwise 1924.The Moskurgian weapon costs 2 ore, so does our 1910. So this kinda makes sense. Okay.
I propose :Price. Give them 1910.
Chinese nationalists : We're probably going to lose this. We should give the AS-1924. Giving them 1910's means giving the expense credit to the enemy. The 1924 is at least superior in weight, whereas the 1910 is inferior in all aspects.
Chinese communists : Provide our mortar (speaking of which, no updated mortar shellsI have no idea what they're sending, but it might be wiser to give them our grenades (because grenades are always good) or RPGs.)
We can only support one side of civil war, I belive.No, we can send only one design to each faction.
stuffDon't forget the crosses. Also, our vehicle crews should could carry RPGs with fragmentation rockets.
For good measure, a cross is added to every joystick to exorcise malevolent spirits.So we're Christian or something. Order our soldiers to cut crosses on our bullets in free time, to stop malevolent spirits from reducing accuracy of our fire.
That last one is a lie! Moskurg uses glorious lever-action rifles, and that one has a bolt!Fixed.
So in even more unrelated news, Haxus has "fixed lag" again today.You realize that he "fixes lag" literally every update and it rarely works (even if he did in one update, like back in 2011 or something, which made it run smoothly for a day or two)? I will belive when I see videos.
The Germans did have the best light squad machine gun of the war, although I forget the name right now.MG34, which was good (proably best at the time), and MG42 which is so fucking good that Germany continues to use it even today (under the name of MG3 with minor modifications, to the point that you can use most parts of MG42 in MG3). IIRC, there's a joke that some of MG3s they use still have Reichsadler on some parts.
So Day of the Jackal bullets then.Yeah, that's apparently where they gained popularity in West (with lot's of people (Mythbusters even, as people on internets say) trying to make them and failing, resulting in people considering it another fiction thing like ice bullets) though they were apparently researched (sorry for being Polocentric, they may have been researched by others too, but I dunno) by Polish Second Department (the spy guys of II RP) and later (earlier?) Russians, which resulted in explosive bullets which used mercury (but they were quite hard to create, as they needed very precise manufacture) or later mercury fulminate (or something, but AFAIK, this is confirmed to work), so they're pretty popular in Polish books which include shooting Germans, Russians or other people.
It was very popular among the second-line troops (people who weren't there to pick up a gun and shoot at the enemy but might come under personal attack and thus needed some kind of weapon, such as the logistics branch, vehicle crewmen, etc.) that it was intended for - the purpose was to replace the pistol with a more effective defensive weapon that was still less encumbering than a full-sized rifle like the Garand. Front line troops didn't like it very much, preferring either the Garand or the Browning Automatic Rifle.Funilly enough, some time ago I argued over the exact same thing, saying to my friend that Garand was more popular than Carbine but in the end he threw some sources at me that said otherwise. Sadly, it was on Steam (and there's no archive on Steam) and I can't be exactly arsed to look for it. But IIRC, by the end of war around 40% of American Soldiers were equipped with it (though this may be because the second-line troops were 40% or rather because the end of war was Pacific, and Carbines were more popular there than in Europe).
