Bronezhilet Posted May 23, 2016 Report Share Posted May 23, 2016 RU. I've mainly been in contact with Yuri Pasholok and Anton-whatshisname (cannoneer). I have no contact whatsoever with WG EU. You should be very happy about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 Time to bring this thread back. LostCosmonaut 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted August 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 Pretty good, aside from repeating the bit about the 103 fighting purely defensively. Pretty sure that's been debunked (renhanxue has the archive documents somewhere). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted August 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 speak of the devil Priory_of_Sion and Marsh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 speak of the devil Nice, i will have to post that on my site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted August 21, 2016 Report Share Posted August 21, 2016 Two of the most prevalent and irritating myths on the Web are;- 1. The S-Tank was designed as a tank destroyer or as a tank only fit for just defensive missions. 2. The Merkava was designed for asymmetric combat in an urban environment, rather than full scale armour versus armour battle. Both these myths are endlessly propagated and make me want to spit feathers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 Swedish tank trials, 1994: T___A, LostCosmonaut and Belesarius 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renhanxue Posted September 17, 2016 Report Share Posted September 17, 2016 the strv 103 is faster to lay against a stationary target from the short halt than the M60A1 AOS eat shit, stabilization havers Priory_of_Sion, Belesarius and DogDodger 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renhanxue Posted September 18, 2016 Report Share Posted September 18, 2016 trolling.png: (from a blog post I'm working on; inb4 british lynch mob) e: I actually have individual names on these guys but calling them out in person is, uh, a bit much. most of them are probably alive today. SH_MM and Priory_of_Sion 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogDodger Posted September 18, 2016 Report Share Posted September 18, 2016 the strv 103 is faster to lay against a stationary target from the short halt than the M60A1 AOS eat shit, stabilization havers I knew the Strv 103 could engage targets quickly on the move, but to be honest I'm surprised it was so much slower in engaging targets from rest. I'm gonna get to see a couple in a few days, by the way, as the Virginia Museum of Military Vehicles has its open house this weekend. Always thought it was a neat little vehicle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renhanxue Posted September 18, 2016 Report Share Posted September 18, 2016 Yeah I was surprised by that too. I dunno what's up with that. It doesn't turn super fast at a standstill but it's not that much slower than a turret. I'm hoping the full report has an explanation for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted September 18, 2016 Report Share Posted September 18, 2016 trolling.png: (from a blog post I'm working on; inb4 british lynch mob) e: I actually have individual names on these guys but calling them out in person is, uh, a bit much. most of them are probably alive today. I wonder if this is a long term problem with British tankers seeing as they had a rougher time in WW2 than the Americans did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renhanxue Posted September 26, 2016 Report Share Posted September 26, 2016 http://tanks.mod16.org/2016/09/26/the-baor-in-1973-how-bad-was-it/ I could write more on this but I was getting sick of it so there you go. Belesarius, LostCosmonaut and Collimatrix 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renhanxue Posted September 27, 2016 Report Share Posted September 27, 2016 watch my totally hilarious looping gifs guys Bronezhilet and Priory_of_Sion 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renhanxue Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 Made some actual content to go with the hilarious looping gif I'll post about something that isn't the 103 soon, I promise Ramlaen, EnsignExpendable and Belesarius 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 Made some actual content to go with the hilarious looping gif I'll post about something that isn't the 103 soon, I promise The 103 stuff is interesting. I had a strange fascination with it for a few years back in the '90s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 Made some actual content to go with the hilarious looping gif I'll post about something that isn't the 103 soon, I promise That .gif makes it really easy to understand what is going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 Renhaxue, you got a shoutout today from Yuri Pasholok on his LJ RE: the Swedish tech tree drama. He had some less kind words to say about SP15 and the quality of Swedish blueprints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 Renhaxue, you got a shoutout today from Yuri Pasholok on his LJ RE: the Swedish tech tree drama. He had some less kind words to say about SP15 and the quality of Swedish blueprints. Link/translation? I feast on drama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renhanxue Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 Link would be nice, I can't see it on his LJ. I know he's not happy about it and I've talked to him about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/330988.html Basically there are two main parts: 1) Swedish blueprints suck, the tank in the first picture clips through the front of the hull/engine deck at its allegedly allowed elevation and depression angles 2) SP15 complains about the authenticity of the Swedish tech tree while shoving dumb impossible guns (see below) into his proposals and not getting in touch with WG staff about it despite having contacts to do so. Bronezhilet 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renhanxue Posted October 1, 2016 Report Share Posted October 1, 2016 The EMIL sketches were very early concept drawings and I agree with Pasholok that it doesn't make sense to assume they're what the tank would actually look like in reality. On top of that there were like a good dozen variants proposed and drawings for only one of them have survived. That drawing he posts in connection to the Lago is actually the Terro which is a completely different tank, so I don't know what that is about. Most of what he writes about the Lago actually seems to be caused by communications problems really, I think we're actually in agreement on the facts. It is also true that the drawings we've found of complete tanks usually don't match up very well to what was actually built, but that doesn't surprise me all that much given that they were usually drawn up before the tank building actually started. Other than that, yes, I agree sp15 acted like a baby throwing a temper tantrum but after talking to him I think he's actually got some trouble going on in real life that might explain him exploding all of a sudden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renhanxue Posted October 2, 2016 Report Share Posted October 2, 2016 I've been poking at a gallery site with old Swedish military press photos, and I figured I might link it and hopefully get some feedback before I link it from the blog/reddit/whatever. Some questions I'm curious about: - Are just images with a very brief description fine or do you want more context? Usually the images in the photo archives don't come with a lot of context so I'd have to write about the equipment/regiment in general rather than what's specifically in the photo. - Right now image titles/captions are in Swedish. Is it important to you for them to be in English? - What should I tag? Right now I've mainly tagged equipment and regiments, is there anything else that would be useful? Not that I have much, usually that + geographical area and date (sometimes only year) is all the metadata I have. - Is the album split sensible (WW2 parades/WW2 in the field/early cold war/later cold war)? (feel free to mention anything else that comes to mind, if anything) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted October 2, 2016 Report Share Posted October 2, 2016 That gallery scrolls by really fast, to the point where I can't even read the captions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renhanxue Posted October 3, 2016 Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 The slide show on the start page you mean? Yeah, I think I'll need to get rid of that, everyone hates those carousel things and for good reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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