Mask off imperialists
You already know it’s “The house always wins,” just look at the Millennium Challenge
Can’t wait for a Spanish Armada-tier defeat of the US Navy when a whole fleet preparing for an invasion of China gets torn to shreds by dozens of thousands of basic missiles
They always say DARPA is the real driving force behind technological innovation. Who knew they were also working on board game tech too?
If this was reversed and this was an image of Chinese generals and a map of Hawaii or California, it would be the #1 news story for a week here (a la the balloon thing) and Americans would be demanding blood.
:rat-salute-2: To our brave boys. I'll take good care of your wives while you're off fighting for freedom.
People in the military even wear camo at university. IDK why. Must be some exotic cultural thing.
They used to make you wear a much stuffier uniform in the office, but the camo fits like pajamas so over time everyone switched to it.
It's just the rules, that's the uniform you wear as a military person. Also its easier to make someone do physical exercise on a moments notice. Or if youre an office in like Kuwait you can go instantly into murderer mode since youre wearing the right uniform.
Theres another uniform for ceremonial stuff as well. Sometimes the offices have a casual friday type of deal too
they put all their guys on the west coast, idiots. ill land on the other side :some-controversy:
Yeah they're smug now, but wait until I bust out my Tau KX139 Ta'unar Supremacy Armour
They're gonna shit their pants
US Marines occupying Beijing
Weird that we entered the war on the side of the Qing, only to send them a bill for our trouble, which lead directly to the Qing Dynasty bankrupting and collapsing ten years later.
Anyway if I'm not mistaken this was mostly done to scaremonger Congress into sending more troops and money to Japan and Korea. We get completely washed in basically every version of the Taiwan war scenario.
I mean, its a huge no-win situation.
We'd get washed in the same way the Soviets would have gotten washed if we'd done a Korean offensive in Cuba.
But the fallout would be hellish for everyone in the region. Everything of value on the island would be destroyed. Millions would be killed, of not in the initial assault than in the subsequent famines and plagues that always follow war.
Nobody in China wants to see Taiwan come to that. Meanwhile, the Americans see every island resident as acceptable casualties.
"Here's how we send our youth into the meat grinder, for capitalist interests, from our arm chair bunker."
Lol remember the photo of some geriatrics at a think thank playing war games about Taiwan
Wow...it's an old-fashioned hex and counter wargame. As played by the original grognards (well, after Napoleon's, they were the first to appropriate the name).
I thought those were totally obsolete in the new computer era. Maybe they'll actually finish the game, unlike most hex and counter wargame players.
AFAIK this stuff is done all the time still, and the idea is to do it in multiple forms so that the inaccuracies unique to one type of wargame don't become overrepresented in the planning department. The computer-based simulations are probably done with something similar to CMANO though.
More like some grognard stuck around long enough to get to a senior position and now he's going to make everyone play his games! Muhahahaha....finally, the wargamer's dream: actual human opponents! And there's no flaking because you can force them to play! :the-doohickey:
There are at least a few still being made but as video games (which frankly makes sense, offloading all that upkeep to a computer is an obvious move towards playability).
Wow, that finally came out? It was in development for something like 20 years.
WITE was a legendary monster game.
Tabletop wargaming is a niche hobby, but there still are people who are really into it.
Teching up and then immediately upgrading horsemen into camel archers for the Taiwan rush
Hold on, I gotta 3d printer. Let's get a kinetic bombardment satellite up in this.
Mfs don’t know I been building that Babylon great scientist lead since 4000bc
I can't see any soldiers here, their boardroom camo is too good
It's from a tweet. Can't find any original sources, but they were there so who cares
