COMPETITION Steel Chariot of The Prairie: The Lone Free State's First Battle Tank (2247)

[delete013]

4 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

@delete013 what the hell is wrong with your tank's name?

Vollketten 55(tonne).01 - vehicle name. Versuchsträger-(N)iedrige (K)omplexität - project name.

 

It is the usual nomenclature of the tractor factory that was meant to design it.

[delete013]

Ok, appendix 3 is more or less finished.

 

Now I only wait for @Sturgeon's abr.. comanche.

[Sturgeon]

4 hours ago, delete013 said:

Vollketten 55(tonne).01 - vehicle name. Versuchsträger-(N)iedrige (K)omplexität - project name.

 

It is the usual nomenclature of the tractor factory that was meant to design it.

 

Uh... In Texas?

[Sturgeon]

2 hours ago, delete013 said:

Ok, appendix 3 is more or less finished.

 

Now I only wait for @Sturgeon's abr.. comanche.

More like a Challenger, really.

[Sturgeon]

Do @Dominus Dolorem and @A. T. Mahan need more time or are they just out?

[Sturgeon]

SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKERS!

[Sturgeon]

@N-L-M @Belesarius @OnlySlightlyCrazy @LoooSeR requesting an extension at least through the weekend on behalf of James, Dominus/Slisler, and Mahan.

[Sturgeon]

The extension has been okay'd by a judge.  @A. T. Mahan @Dominus Dolorem @Lord_James you have a reprieve. No new timeline has been set, please let us know when you think you might be able to complete.

[delete013]

16 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

 

Uh... In Texas?

German Texans got influx after the war.

[Toxn]

9 minutes ago, delete013 said:

German Texans got influx after the war.

Unt some mit very interesting ideas about ze lower races, ja?

[delete013]

27 minutes ago, Toxn said:

Unt some mit very interesting ideas about ze lower races, ja?

After the nuclear war they only got normal people that fled the insane globalist Meinungsdiktatur.

[Sturgeon]

1 hour ago, delete013 said:

German Texans got influx after the war.

 

I've been to many German Texas cities, and not only do they not have Nazi-style panzer design bureaus, they don't even have many of those words. 

[Sturgeon]

59 minutes ago, delete013 said:

After the nuclear war they only got normal people that fled the insane globalist Meinungsdiktatur.

 

They got... Nazi design bureaus from 1945 after the nuclear war in 2029? Which are still around 218 years later?

[Sturgeon]

Also it's been canon for a really long time that they don't have contact with the Atlantic States, much less Europe.

[delete013]

11 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:

Also it's been canon for a really long time that they don't have contact with the Atlantic States, much less Europe.

 

Why don't you tell me what bothers you?

 

Maybe they crawled from Argentina or somehow washed ashore, does it matter? I though adding another national flavour to the competition would make it interesting..

[Beer]

45 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:

 

I've been to many German Texas cities, and not only do they not have Nazi-style panzer design bureaus, they don't even have many of those words. 

 

While I'd choose different name for marketing something in Texas I'd also choose not to be oversensitive about this particular thing because there is nothing Nazi about it. It's pure technical acronym which the Germans simply love by nature. 

 

VK = Versuchskampfwagen = research combat vehicle, the first number stands for the weight and the number behind the decimal point stands for the particular variant

[Toxn]

13 minutes ago, delete013 said:

 

Why don't you tell me what bothers you?

 

Maybe they crawled from Argentina or somehow washed ashore, does it matter? I though adding another national flavour to the competition would make it interesting..

We're poking you for fun, and because wehraboo-shit is haram for reasons that go all the way back to the guy you're chatting to inventing the term in the first place.

[Toxn]

7 minutes ago, Beer said:

 

While I'd choose different name for marketing something in Texas I'd also choose not to be oversensitive about this particular thing because there is nothing Nazi about it. It's pure technical acronym which the Germans simply love by nature. 

 

VK = Versuchskampfwagen = research combat vehicle, the first number stands for the weight and the number behind the decimal point stands for the particular variant

They do like their big fat compound words.

[Beer]

1 minute ago, Toxn said:

They do like their big fat compound words.

 

Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft

[Sturgeon]

27 minutes ago, delete013 said:

 

Why don't you tell me what bothers you?

 

Maybe they crawled from Argentina or somehow washed ashore, does it matter? I though adding another national flavour to the competition would make it interesting..

 

 

U touched my pee pee

[delete013]

16 minutes ago, Toxn said:

We're poking you for fun, and because wehraboo-shit is haram for reasons that go all the way back to the guy you're chatting to inventing the term in the first place.

Then its all good. I felt that Sturgeon was really upset.

 

I deliberately threw in a bunch of easter eggs to spice up the commission's work. But it's all a joke.

[Sturgeon]

20 minutes ago, Beer said:

 

While I'd choose different name for marketing something in Texas I'd also choose not to be oversensitive about this particular thing because there is nothing Nazi about it. It's pure technical acronym which the Germans simply love by nature. 

 

VK = Versuchskampfwagen = research combat vehicle, the first number stands for the weight and the number behind the decimal point stands for the particular variant

 

That's actually not the case, the nomenclature he's using is distinctly Nazi, not just German:



I am not the foremost expert on German armored vehicles, but I am not aware of any post-war tanks using this designation system. This makes sense because, you know, the Nazi tank design bureaus were liquidated and sent to France. A domestic armored vehicle wouldn't be created in Germany until the 1950s, and by a completely different group of people. The nomenclature, understandably, didn't survive this transition.

As for why I'm prodding him about it, I want to see how far he's willing to take this. We've got a German nomenclature system that was extinct in 1945 which has somehow time-traveled to 2247, and spatially across the Atlantic. This is very interesting! The explanation is of course that delete is an inveterate wehraboo who can't pull his head out of his ass, but I'm highly amused that he doesn't even have a compelling conceit for this. It's just "tanks get Nazi designations". Because of course they do, in his mind. (They also get interleaved roadwheels, for the same reason.) The Texas-German thing was an obvious copout (nevermind that Texas-Germans have different vocabulary - all of their machine-words are English loans - since it comes from peasantry that were imported in the mid-19th Century, 100 years before Nazi Germany existed).

I don't remember who suggested that he ought to just say "wehraboos still exist in 2247" as his answer, but I liked that one. It would have made me laugh.

 

[Sturgeon]

3 minutes ago, delete013 said:

I felt that Sturgeon was really upset.

 

Very perceptive. I won't try to get things by you again!

[Sturgeon]

4 minutes ago, delete013 said:

I deliberately threw in a bunch of easter eggs to spice up the commission's work. But it's all a joke.

 

That's a healthy attitude; most submissions include jokes and easter eggs. 

[delete013]

7 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:

 

That's actually not the case, the nomenclature he's using is distinctly Nazi, not just German:



I am not the foremost expert on German armored vehicles, but I am not aware of any post-war tanks using this designation system. This makes sense because, you know, the Nazi tank design bureaus were liquidated and sent to France. A domestic armored vehicle wouldn't be created in Germany until the 1950s, and by a completely different group of people. The nomenclature, understandably, didn't survive this transition.

As for why I'm prodding him about it, I want to see how far he's willing to take this. We've got a German nomenclature system that was extinct in 1945 which has somehow time-traveled to 2247, and spatially across the Atlantic. This is very interesting! The explanation is of course that delete is an inveterate wehraboo who can't pull his head out of his ass, but I'm highly amused that he doesn't even have a compelling conceit for this. It's just "tanks get Nazi designations". Because of course they do, in his mind. (They also get interleaved roadwheels, for the same reason.) The Texas-German thing was an obvious copout (nevermind that Texas-Germans have different vocabulary - all of their machine-words are English loans - since it comes from peasantry that were imported in the mid-19th Century, 100 years before Nazi Germany existed).

I don't remember who suggested that he ought to just say "wehraboos still exist in 2247" as his answer, but I liked that one. It would have made me laugh.

 

 

You really ought to read something on German history. The designations and the technology only comes from the Nazi party for ideological crusaders. As is with all military things in today's Germany, it is Wehrmacht's legacy, as the latest precursor in the long history of the German/Prussian army. Even if institutions were abolished and the politics tries hard to appear to have broken with the past, many of those people involved in ww2 were very much present during the design of vehicles up until Leopard 2, if still alive, and all had very little to do with politics or ideology. You can't push everything from 1933 to 1945 in the Nazi corner.