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454 kg warhead? I doubt that. The USSR did use the metric system, and the pound as a weight in "metric" countries is 500 grams. Which means a warhead of 1000 pounds would be an even 500 kilograms.Interestingly, the wikipedia article mentions a 500 kg warhead in the text and a 454 kg (1001 ...

His passing has touched me significantly more than that of other celebrities.
I am genuinely sad right now.

Agreed! One of the strengths of TLW is that is uses a 'logical path analysis' on the basis that the Cold War did not end. So it's entirely logical and fully defensible that Allied SSM development was not delayed as much as it was in OTL. Cheers: mark There would be much to retcon. I say we open a d...

I suspect the fact that many naval SAMs seem to have a secondary surface-to-surface / anti-ship mode might have something to do with it. Quick check . . . - Sea Slug √ - Sea Dart √ - Standard SM-1/SM-2 √ - used in Operation Praying Mantis (1988) - Sea Sparrow √ - real world proof of that one, sadly...

Sounds like a light cruiser to me, then.
One question always puts up with western warship designs. Who in the seven hells decreed that eight SSMs is the typical average loadout? If I want to have an ASuW unit, I stick a metric fuckton of such missiles on it.

MI is famously known as a contradiction in terms. :lol: I know. Nevertheless, it was the most interesting four years of my time in the navy. I was part of the "foreign naval potential" department and apart from the obvious, I also learned a lot of background info about the countries I wor...

IIRC, isotope analysis has shown Cornish Tin was traded as far as Eastern Med. Probably teamed up with Cyprus' Copper. Western Med, Iberia and Atlantic Coast seem to have got their Copper from Great Orme in N. Wales... I once partially read a book named "Where Troy once stood", and the au...

Tactical Surströmming spray? :shock: That's cruel and unusual extrajudicial punishment! :mrgreen: A simple hint for the Imperial German MCM flottilla: Looking at the shit that was dumped into the Baltic and North Seas in "our" Earth's history especially after WW2 plus the metric crapload o...

I once made my barely printable opinion of Kratman's abilities as a writer and his SS fetishism known on Quora, years ago. The asshole had the mods remove my post for allegedy violating the site's code of conduct, and insulted me personally.
What an absolute tool.

Thought so. The makers of Trench Crusade...I think they are taking stuff that can't be legal...

Have you taken a look at the quite new tabletop game "Trench Crusade"? The premise is batshit, The ideas are batshit. The artworks are batshit on crack. It's Warhammer turned to 11, which in turn is fantasy/scfi/space magic turned to 11.

I wonder if it would fit here.

An eminently sensible, rational and straightforward approach, which has much to commend it for the likes of our own world. On Dark Earth, there are more than enough hints and suspicions that threats may be more than simply natural asteroids, although one could hardly call the threat of an asteroid ...

Regarding the interception of the asteroid, I'd love it if you added a reaction a week or so later in which a West German astrophysicist - or even better, a naval officer (maybe my expy?) sardonically explains on a conference, publicly, that he has a much better idea, more elegant: Landing spacecraf...

Look at Jan‘s fact file about fixed defences in TLW. He keeps mentioning The Pause(tm) [tm added by yours truly] in that one. It seems to fit the 'new' chapter quite handily. There was also mention in a fact file of NZ armored formations serving in Germany. And you have to train those on their new t...

Oooookay…so we are still in The Pause(tm), am I reading this right, with the fixed defences on both sides of the demarcation line (referring to your fact file from a few years earlier)?

If so, then I have a few ideas already sprouting. Good.

James1978 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2026 8:08 pm What about the Narwal mini-sub?
Would it have been a one of a kind, or the first of several?

Half a dozen of them would have been a decent thing to have, provided the crew would be two, not one.

In @ 2017, the 13th Special Forces Brigade was reorganized, beefed up from about 600 to 1,000 px, and tasked with decapitiation mission(s) into the North and renamed 13th Special Mission unit or Decapitiation Unit. Decapitation missions as in 'infil directly into Pyongyang, do not pass Go, do not co...

DON‘T YOU EVER GIVE ME SUCH A SCARE AGAIN, MISTER! :evil: :mrgreen: Just kidding. Will this be a multi-part epilogue? There is so much that hasn‘t even been touched upon. Like what happens to Die Zone ? I would not be averse to writing a short story about a heliborne air assault by Fallschirmjäger o...

Thanks, Jotun, I'll fiddle around with it. I've been a fan of Blind Guardian since 2002, and saw them in 2024, even getting a picture with them; they likely have it hanging on their wall. ;) My thinking on Herz aus Stahl was to lift the title of the German version of the Manowar track straight up, ...

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