Comments on: Storm & Co. QA

By: Josh M

Josh M — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 05:55:19 +0000

T57 heavy is no way OP. It’s armor is butter. I’ve destroyed one in a T32. You jsut need to attack it when it’s reloading.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:47:39 +0000

“Almost anywhere they rode” means just that. If they could ride properly through that territory it was theirs for the taking. Or pillaging actually. If we go into details such as the climate in certain areas that might provide thick forests and marshes and other such horse unfriendly places then surely their greatest attribute, mobility was denied. Also, they didn’t fail in India, don’t know where you pulled that from. They went in, mauled every army they met and got out while retaining control of everything but the heartland of the Delhi Sultanate.

They were savage as in, no two stones where left standing after they passed if the natives didn’t bend the knee right away. Apart from Carthage, and maybe Jerusalem, did the Romans subject to complete destruction any territory as thorough as the Mongols did? Just the sacking of Bagdad and the massive destruction they delivered on what is today Iraq is monstrous to contemplate, given the scale of warfare in that period.

Every nomadic steppe people could roughly equal them in individual skill maybe, but they showed the world what could happen if you coordinate huge masses of said nomads over thousands of km apart and launch a synchronized invasion. The Huns were probably just as effective, they just came in fewer numbers.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:44:21 +0000

No WW2 battles were fought in continental USA or the British Isles either.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:43:11 +0000

The computer brain don’t mind, it was born to it.

By: Tose Nikolov

Tose Nikolov — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:38:15 +0000

I see your nuke-tossing cybertank and raise you a poor user interface :)

By: Gino Tusconi

Gino Tusconi — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:51:45 +0000

What a stupid developer. Letting these obvious OP tanks run around. They’ll nerf them as soon as every player gets one. Why? Because money, and because no red star.

By: oldfart

oldfart — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:20:40 +0000

If anybody would respect her we wouldn’t give a shit about her sex, everybody can get similar dumb comment yet I’ve never see nobody who’d “respect him” apart from the case when it’s about “respecting her”.
Yeah, typical white knight.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:07:58 +0000

I see your hight-tech pajamas and raise you a nuke-tossing cybertank.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:06:10 +0000

“No logistics” and “almost anywhere they rode” are plain bull right in the face of it – look up why their repeated invasions of the Indus valley failed, for example. “More savage” is a dubious distinction at best and very strongly contested – the Romans already probably have them beat.
Thing is most peope fail to realise that whatever the scale of their conquests (ultimately a question of leadership and some judicious early decisions by Genghis) the Mongols *themselves* were bog-standard Eurasian steppe nomads; ecologically they differed preciously little from the Scythians or other Iranian-speaking pastoralists of old, or their diverse varyingly distant Turko-Mongolic cousins, all of whom were perfectly capable of the same feats of endurance and mobility for the exactly same reasons.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:43:23 +0000

Coat-of-plates (also widely used in China and India) was the main outer component of the 1300s “composite” harnesses that basically amounted to layering something rigid or semi-rigid over the trusty old mail hauberk. Good stopping power but kinda fucking heavy.
Proper plate *replaced* such somewhat ad-hoc solutions, having far better weight to protection ratio. The composite setups basically disappear from the sources after the early 1400s with the elite combatants converting to fully articulated plate armour. Lesser soldiers, equipped on rather more limited budgets, may ofc have kept wearing such setups but AFAIK they tended to prefer avoiding the associated encumberance penalty and hassle, seeing as how they lacked the men-at-arms’ plethora of spare horses and support staff, and instead tended to prefer lighter “single-layer” protection.
And they increasingly took to wearing mass-produced “munition” plate too.