Recent content by JagerIV

Tried to log in earlier today, and got an error message. Didn't think to record what it was. Just tried again now, and not getting the issue. So hopefully its resolved, but figure I'd mention it occured.

Yeah, my assumption is Whiskey was probably in the middle of a web of pre-existing tunnels. The other side of that is that's likely going to be the case in any attempt to hold or push into bug territory. Modern tunnel boring machines can apparently get into 10-20 meters a day. If bugs (say...

The difficulty with using artillery well, especially on a bug world, is the extensive tunneling. We have close to a century of proof now that, as powerful as 155 mm is, it is an amount of firepower that you can dig in against. Its "only" craters 1-2 meters down, and given bug scale, they are...

Yeah, it is overall a quite good video. I felt a little sheepish pointing it out and then more or less only criticizing it. I think here he did make the correct choice in going for "what force could have held" rather than "how well would Marines with only small arms have done" because, as he...

Isn't that pretty in line with what modern foot marches can do anyways? Slower, even? Especially if discussing road marches, that doesn't seem like its particularly crazy fitness standard.

Some initial attempts to add math in here. Looking over his map, there's about 100 meters of gap for the bugs to attack through, in two roughly 50 m entrances. A warrior bug is listed at about 5 meters long. Assuming roughly 5 meters width per bug too, "shoulder to shoulder" the Warriors could...

When a video comes out dealing exactly with my very specific semi-obsession, its certainly worth a look, and I'd say its overall a pretty decent video and worth a watch. It posits the battle of wisky outpost, with the original bug force which he estimated at about 2,000 Warrior, 50 Hoppers, and...

Yeah, I'm getting much more of a sense that for any actual combat, logistics, especially ammo, is more likely going to be the limiting factor on achievable intensity of operation, rather than specific human limits. leaves mostly the road march question: is the 30 km march something a soldier...

Thanks for posting this. Ill watch it later when i have time.

Hm, every time I post currently, I'm told there has been a server error, but when I refresh, everything has posted correctly. I generally operate through the brave browser, and haven't tried other browsers yet to see if its something specific on my end, but figured I'd let people know. Started...

These questions were coming to me when thinking through some of the dynamics of the M.I. vs the US thread, but figured they were actually more generally applicable. Basic issue I came to was a though of how much "work" can realistically be done by infantry. Specifically in a day to day...

New current thinking I'm having is it would be better as a first target, rather than the Pacific islands, is along the Centeral-west portion of the Canadian boarder, between the West coast to the shore of lake superior in Minnesota. This is about 2,500 km of boarder region. This is admittedly a...

I was thinking through the numbers again. MI Starts with roughly 250,000 MI first month, and that grows to 3 million by month end, where things then level off. US overall has roughly 2 million overall. So, overall that would suggest strong US numerical superiority for roughly the first 8...

Its very impressive for infantry scale equipment, but not likely that impressive overall. On foot for example he's not actually covering ground all that fast. Even with jets he generally seems to be barely outpacing the warrior bugs, which seem to at best generally have horse like speed, not car...

I have strong disagreements with Abhorsen (libertarianism is the handmaiden of socialism, excetera) but your literally reading the opposite of what he wrote. I believe libertarians are serious about just wanting to be left alone (my falling out of libertarianism coming from a belief that isn't...