Messerschmit 111 enroute to a new airbase in the Ukraine, circa 1960.
Obviously, Germany won WWII.
Obviously, Germany won WWII.
Alternate Weapons of War thread...
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Thande said:Bloody hell, that's a big Star Destroyer. That really should be called the Overcompensator.
Maiden Flight, SDSD Freudian Nightmare
Imperial Weapons Development Center, Coruscant
To Whom it May Concern:
Gentlemen, let me start by saying that I am greatly honored to be chosen for command of such a magnificent vessel. That said, our insystem shakedown cruise has turned up a few minor issues that I would like to see remedied as soon as possible.
1) We understand your desire to continue the classical stylized lines of the first star destroyer class vessels, and we appreciate your asthetic sense in that regard. However, strictly speaking, was it absolutely necessary to scale up the bridge tower directly? I must confess the foreward bridge window is a great distraction. Militarily, we feel that as is, the three kilometer tall window pane may provide too tempting a target for enemy forces we may engage. We've lost four helmsmen so far to vertigo as well, and we don't think this is in the best interests of the vessel's well-being.
2) The sheer size of our vessel, while a glorious symbol of the mighty Emperor, which we all appreciate completely, has become apparent to us all. My intial briefing tour of the vessel took six days to complete, and the travel tubes were based on the design in use aboard rhe slightly smaller Executor-class vessels. Travel time being prohibitive, we were forced to camp out in the corridors of the major sectors when we stopped for the night. Furthermore, since our crew quarters sections are located entirely within the aft dorsal sectors, both our Engineering crew and ground forces complements have built tent cities within their own sections, and are living there. Fire hazard has become nearly intolerable and the hydroponics department has sent me six hundred messages insisting that the smoke from the camp-fires is ruining their crop, and that we have enough food left aboard for only another three weeks.
2) Our vessel's own gravity is not being handled as well as could be done, with some minor problematical consequences. Our plumbers called my attention to the fact that the sewage from our 6 million-man crew backwashed through the air vents in Sections 42 to 78, decks 258 through 532. Malaria and dysentary broke out in those sections, and we were forced to cordon it off to prevent an epidemic. Our first Chief Medical Officer unfortunately was killed when he requested the paperwork on those affected, and upon recieving e-mailed reports from all 739 of his senior doctors, the computer screen in his quarters self-destructed, propelling shrapnel throughout his quarters. All droids who enter the area have failed to return, and a remote camera probe sent in, recorded images of the survivors in the affected area where they were flinging their own feces at each other, warring with sharpened pieces of metal, and attempting to eat the dismembered limbs of the aforementioned droids.
3) On a similar note, regarding the unfortunate loss of our last CMO, we have finally decided that the staff requirements of this vessel are creating further problems. For instance, our Chief Engineer has begun the habit of signing his reports, "Chief Marshall, Soveriegn Nation of Ree'Ak'tor." He has since sealed off those decks, and started a war. The war in question is against his apparent rival, the commander of our ground forces near the main flightdeck, who has taken to calling himself "Bringer of the Apocalypse." Survaillance records indicate that they have since stopped wearing their armor, and have begun smearing their bodies with industrial cleaning fluid and lubricants before launching raids upon the Engineering department. We believe that they have begun ritualistically sacrificing one of our TIE-fighter pilots before each attack to bring them luck.
Aside from a minor note that some of our turbolaser turret gunners may have starved to death when their food shipments were cut off by the warzone, there is little else to remark on, save that in our first tactical drill, during the course of a two-hour right turn, we failed to halt our rotation with the result of the subsequent and very unfortunate destruction of the entire Coruscant 4th Defensive Fleet. I've made a note to send out letters of regret the moment we reaquire contact with our communications room at the bow of the vessel. That of course is the reason why this message had to be sent to your offices via pen, paper, and one of our probe droids. I beg forgivness for the clerical difficulties that may cause.
Signed,
Grand Admiral
SDSD Freudian Nightmare
general_tiu
Banned
I'm thinking about Mobile Suits [from Mobile Suit Gundam] were used by contemporary nations instead of space-borne fascist states or world governments.
Want some sample?
Want some sample?
Hapsburg
Banned
How is a tac-nuke bad? It's not like it's firing a strat-nuke or a theater-nuke. The Tactical Nuclear Shell is a very small yield and is very "clean", for a nuke. Yield is only about half a kiloton, with minimal radiation. CGU troops wear NBC-protected powered armor, with energy shields, so...they can handle what little radiation there is. Besides, they don't fire them when troops are charging across the battlefield. They use the mortars, artillery, ortillery, and tactical bombers prior to the actual infantry and mechanized assaults, in an attempt to minimize human casualties.Landshark said:
Hapsburg
Banned
Not technically alternate, though kinda is. It's based after the Model 1793 Girandoni Air Rifle, used by the austrian army as a sharpshooter weapon IOTL.
In my Glory of the Empire storyline, Vandox I introduces the M1793 as standard infantry-use weapon in 1794, replacing smoothbore muskets for the most part by 1796. The weapon has its technical problems, however, and is replaced quickly by the Model 1797 Repeating Air-Rifle. This rifle fixes the technical problems, and is issued en masse to the Imperial Army (Vandox reformed it in 1790, organizing it on the basis of each reichskreise contributing a certain amount of troops to a collective imperial military). It is because of this "wonder weapon" that the Imperial Army is able to quickly take territory in Britain.
Here is the Model 1797 Land-Pattern Repeating Air-Rifle:
Caliber: 13mm
Magazine Capacity: 20 shots
Rate of Fire: 60 shots per minute
Range: 200 meters
Rifling: Four grooves
In my Glory of the Empire storyline, Vandox I introduces the M1793 as standard infantry-use weapon in 1794, replacing smoothbore muskets for the most part by 1796. The weapon has its technical problems, however, and is replaced quickly by the Model 1797 Repeating Air-Rifle. This rifle fixes the technical problems, and is issued en masse to the Imperial Army (Vandox reformed it in 1790, organizing it on the basis of each reichskreise contributing a certain amount of troops to a collective imperial military). It is because of this "wonder weapon" that the Imperial Army is able to quickly take territory in Britain.
Here is the Model 1797 Land-Pattern Repeating Air-Rifle:
Caliber: 13mm
Magazine Capacity: 20 shots
Rate of Fire: 60 shots per minute
Range: 200 meters
Rifling: Four grooves
You can build a very small nuke if you are willing to get a low yield. Use CH2 as the moderator and go for a thermal or epithermal neutron design. You get a bit more yield than with conventional explosives, and lots of nice gamma radiation to kill troops.
Seems like somebody was playing a little too much Final Fantasy VIII, am I correct?
No clue about the rest though.
No clue about the rest though.