the infantry love these planes and the airforce hate them. They are cheap (relative) and highly effective

And to expend on it for a bit, in order for them to use the iconic Tiger, a scenario with plenty of entrenched infantry is much more appropriate than any mobility-based warfare. Great tool to force a breakthrough, even greater tool to prevent a breakthrough.

For instance, the handful of combat ready Tigers deployed with the 502nd during the battles around Lake Ladoga in '43 were used almost exlusively in two roles: either to strengthen entrenched friendly infantry against attacking armor or to throw Soviet infantry out of trenches seized in previous assaults.

The entire area of operations around Leningrad, including the supply lines around Lake Ladoga, was one big trench warfare, with massive use of artillery. Armoured spearheads only enabled the following infantry to advance from one line of trenches to the next. Extensive breakthroughs and large scale encirclements were only possible in the steppes further south. The marshes and dense forests up north reduced everything to a meat grinder.

@ChaosEngine I imagine because trench warfare was actually used in a few cases during WW2. From Wikipedia:

"Combined arms tactics where infantry, artillery, armour and aircraft cooperate closely greatly reduced the importance of trench warfare.

It was, however, still a valuable method for reinforcing natural boundaries and creating a line of defence. For example, at the Battle of Stalingrad, soldiers on both sides dug trenches within the ruins. In addition, before the start of the Battle of Kursk, the Soviets constructed a system of defence more elaborate than any other they built during World War I. These defences succeeded in stopping the German armoured pincers from meeting and enveloping the salient."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_warfare#World_War_II

Cools-Hard-boppin' roots from the Blue Note heyday is what gets me goin'....Army doctors are second in importance to career, soldier-minstrels, then come the commissary. Wait: Chow, music, doctors, infantry, command, in that order.

Gonna get to coppin' those tracks soon and help ya with those studio bills...

http://books.google.com/books?id=UOIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA819&dq=Junkers+stratosphere&hl=en&ei=4KgNTb33B8S4ngeYq9WjDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&

☚☚(from a 1930's Popular Mechanics article, a gauss gun)
Chances are good, that if there was a practical application for the military as a personal combat weapon, it would already be here. Wait for tinier more powerful batteries maybe? But by that time, a walking DarpaBot with a minigun and grenade launcher will have replaced puny human infantry fleshbots..

Duuuuude really, pee-pee?? it's a non-issue considering the bulk of their depraved soiree-

Oh and Jerryk???-No need for all the draconian measures in an attempt to adjust society to your idyllic model: The military has rigorous psyche-screens for the guys whose job it is to turn the keys, enter the codes, and push the big red button and folks with better ideas (not unlike yours) are usually MP's or infantry!

If you ever wanted to see mounted Templar Knights charge across a frozen lake into a line of Novgorodian pike infantry, Alexander Nevsky is just what you're looking for.

It might also be the cheesiest thing you've ever seen.

Where did this guy train? Ft. Thisishowtogetyourselfshot?

I mean, he doesn't spend much time prone, charges from a bad position to a worse one, in spite of the fact that the enemy fire is obviously so far away it's not going to make any difference to his aim, misses some cover options, and appears to be shooting randomly in the enemy's general direction. Did I miss anything? I mean, he broke just about every Infantry 101 rule there. No wonder he was getting hit so much. He's damn lucky the Taliban barely knows one end of the rifle from the other and have extremely inaccurate rifles to begin with.

This is the kind of training they send soldiers out with?

Note, I'm not blaming him, he's putting his ass on the line for little pay. Too bad for him the Pentagon and US government would rather spend the money on defense contractors (who coincidentally contribute vast sums to political campaigns) than on training the troops and paying to hire and retain top-quality soldiers.

The more fat cells you make the harder it is to lose weight and keep it off. Fat cells stay fat cells in your body even when they are not loaded with fat. Takes just as much discipline to get fat as it does to get un-fat.

Yoga can affect changes that seem miraculous (and they are) but anything one does to clear chi as a practice can do the same. Ever see what Pilates can do?? Volleyball? Swimming?

Oh hey, Rottenseed?? You are most likely already hermitized. You should simply stop watching TV with a view to actually getting any real information. News rhymes with lose and like this feel-good journal pimped-out to yoga-man it includes an over-abundance of adverts.

Incredibly cool story. More power to the man who blew out his knees and compacted his lumbar hopping out of transport planes for the empire! Reminds me of that scene from Starship Troopers where the mobile infantry recruiter without legs exclaimed with enthusiasm, "The mobile infantry made me the man I am today!"

But psychologically difficult to empathize with.>> ^Enzoblue:

>> ^1stSingularity:
It is hard to be afraid of a robot that needs a flashlight...

Or a robot that has to turn it's head to see and shoot. Real robot infantry would have radar like 360 degree sight and weapons that can shoot realtime in any direction with 100% accuracy. Making them humanoid would be moronic.

My thoughts exactly.>> ^Enzoblue:

>> ^1stSingularity:
It is hard to be afraid of a robot that needs a flashlight...

Or a robot that has to turn it's head to see and shoot. Real robot infantry would have radar like 360 degree sight and weapons that can shoot realtime in any direction with 100% accuracy. Making them humanoid would be moronic.

>> ^1stSingularity:

It is hard to be afraid of a robot that needs a flashlight...


Or a robot that has to turn it's head to see and shoot. Real robot infantry would have radar like 360 degree sight and weapons that can shoot realtime in any direction with 100% accuracy. Making them humanoid would be moronic.

>> ^srd:

For those of us that haven't played starcraft 2 yet, what just happened?


Excellent question. I haven't played the sequel either, but I did play the original. Here's my take: The Terran player debo uses a single Banshee (the flying/cloaking attack helicopter thing) to bypass any frontal defenses of the Protoss player in order to directly attack the player's drones in the back of the player's main base. Consider these drones to be the army's worker bees, collecting resources (crystal and vespene gas) in order to fuel the player's war economy. A direct hit on those drones cripples the Protoss player's economy by slowing/stopping resource income and forces the player to react. Worse yet, whatever attack units the Protoss player has already built in the early game are powerless against the Banshee because the Banshee can cloak and avoid detection.

Thus, not only is the Protoss player collecting income at a slower rate than the other players, but the Protoss player is now also forced to spend additional money to rebuild drones and to build Observer units that can reveal the cloaked Banshee which would allow the already-built Protoss attack units (who are lingering by the resources in the back of the base) to open fire. The Banshee continues to harass those units while Observers are built.

Meanwhile, debo's masterstroke is to send conventional infantry units through the front door of the base while the Protoss units are amassed in the back trying to locate and remove the harassing Banshee. This is a tactical win in terms of superior positioning, where the general infantry are guaranteed to do significant damage on the base's main buildings before being possibly defeated by the returning Protoss units, but also a strategic/macro/'long-view' gaming accomplishment by having forced the Protoss player to deplete his slowed economy on non-fighting Observer units due to a single Banshee, which opened the economical and physical door for the conventional frontal attack that the player is ill-equipped to handle.

TL;DR SEVEN KILLS, N*GGA, EIGHT KILLS, N*GGA

This video really is just alot of fail. As some of pointed out, Unreal really should have made the list. It combined a traditional 3d engine like quake with post processed 2d effects that epic was well known for in the demo scene. Even worse, the game seemed to list alot of war games.

And for "first person", it didn't list a whole lot of first person non shooters. Did anyone see any?

I'll give ya one... under a killing moon. Quite possible the first use of "megatexture" technology, the 3d fullmotion video extravaganza series by Access used a pretty descent 3d engine where objects and walls used a solid unique rendered texture. This gave the games 3d scenes a very detailed look, sadly performance was total crap as even 3d card's couldn't help because the textures spilled over into system memory. Still when viewed at a high resolution, the game was pretty sharp looking.

Tribes also deserves honorable mention, it was one of the first games to offer up really huge maps, large bases, and a FPS with flight that worked! All leading up to planetside, who despite having many game issues over its life time, is still the only game in exhistance that can offer up 300 player battles featuring land, air, and infantry class based warfare.

Quakeworld should also deserve mention for bringing to the table client/server FPS play as we know it today, but in reality it was simply quake with tcpip network support.

Btw, JiggaJonson, opengl did not add any new textures to the game. It simply added additional rendering capabilities, the biggest being texture smoothing.

As an Army veteran, I can tell you this shit is minor compared to the shit we used to say and do to each other in the Infantry.

Pass out first, you get a nice Polaroid with about 10 penises on your forehead waiting for you when you wake up. Used condom tied around the handle to your door? Check. Forget bringing a girlfriend or any female around for that matter. They would be harassed and offended a dozen times within 30 seconds. Porn everywhere.

I can see the argument that this guy is a captain in the Navy and should set an example for the other sailors, but he is just a human being like the rest of them, making the best out of a boring, stressful, and depressing situation. Spend a year in the desert with a bunch of guys that are away from home, girlfriends, wives, kids and life and you'll be so fucking homesick and depressed you won't be able to stand it. This Captain gets it and is trying to have some fun and do his part to make these men and women forget that they are thousands of miles away from home and laugh a little bit.