Armor and combined arms tactics on the battalion level?

[Lanius]

Artillery works great, but air power is usually somewhere else. Campaign designers probably felt it is too powerful, or something.

At least the Germans usually don't have any, so the M16 Quad 50.cal halftracks can be used as very brutal infantry support. Dunno, but are 4.50 cal machineguns that better at taking out soft targets than one .30 caliber one? They really chop German infantry down, especially if it's in the open.

[De Selby]

Artillery works great, but air power is usually somewhere else. Campaign designers probably felt it is too powerful, or something.

At least the Germans usually don't have any, so the M16 Quad 50.cal halftracks can be used as very brutal infantry support. Dunno, but are 4.50 cal machineguns that better at taking out soft targets than one .30 caliber one? They really chop German infantry down, especially if it's in the open.

That's all great, but it is a FACT that mongol archers could fire a deadly arrow up to 300 meters from the back of a bucking mongolian bronco.

50 cal versus mongol arrow?  The mongol arrow has no moving parts, flies as if animated by the spirit of Ghengis Khan, and has been known to leave a trail of death and destruction to mark every inch of land it passes over.

A 50 cal makes lots of noise and wastes valuable resources like lead and brass.  Save the lead and brass for paying tribute to the mongol war gods - you're going to need that once you try those 50 cal noisemakers against the raw power of a mongol army.

[roo_ster]

That's all great, but it is a FACT that mongol archers could fire a deadly arrow up to 300 meters from the back of a bucking mongolian bronco.

50 cal versus mongol arrow?  The mongol arrow has no moving parts, flies as if animated by the spirit of Ghengis Khan, and has been known to leave a trail of death and destruction to mark every inch of land it passes over.

A 50 cal makes lots of noise and wastes valuable resources like lead and brass.  Save the lead and brass for paying tribute to the mongol war gods - you're going to need that once you try those 50 cal noisemakers against the raw power of a mongol army.

 

[41magsnub]

.50 is much better than a .30.  According to Internet lore even a near miss from a .50 is enough to turn a person inside out!  With a quad .50 it would turn them inside out, then back, inside out again, and then back to normal again.  The tissue damage from all this flipping back and forth is fatal but leaves the body intact so it does not violate the Geneva convention.

[kgbsquirrel]

.50 is much better than a .30.  According to Internet lore even a near miss from a .50 is enough to turn a person inside out!  With a quad .50 it would turn them inside out, then back, inside out again, and then back to normal again.  The tissue damage from all this flipping back and forth is fatal but leaves the body intact so it does not violate the Geneva convention.

See, this is where all that misinformation in the wannabe/poser/fanboy originally came from, some actually knowledgeable folks BS'ing and joking.  3:2 odds that the Brady campaign latches onto this thread and cites it as expert testimony and evidence in their campaign against .50's, I mean after all, they already knew that you could get heat seeking bullets for the .50, but that a near-miss can turn people inside out too!?

[erictank]

See, this is where all that misinformation in the wannabe/poser/fanboy originally came from, some actually knowledgeable folks BS'ing and joking.  3:2 odds that the Brady campaign latches onto this thread and cites it as expert testimony and evidence in their campaign against .50's, I mean after all, they already knew that you could get heat seeking bullets for the .50, but that a near-miss can turn people inside out too!?

Someone's gonna have to sign up with the Bradys to monitor them, so we can know when they announce that little "factoid"...

[kgbsquirrel]

Someone's gonna have to sign up with the Bradys to monitor them, so we can know when they announce that little "factoid"...

I nominate Fistful to be the human sacr---err undercover Brady monitor.

[erictank]

I nominate Fistful to be the human sacr---err undercover Brady monitor.

Hey, Fistful!  What's your email address?  I need to... ummm... send you something, yeah, that's it!   

[seeker_two]

.50 is much better than a .30.  According to Internet lore even a near miss from a .50 is enough to turn a person inside out!  With a quad .50 it would turn them inside out, then back, inside out again, and then back to normal again.  The tissue damage from all this flipping back and forth is fatal but leaves the body intact so it does not violate the Geneva convention.

You forgot one part.....it also shoots through schools.....