yeah, it’s a type of brigandine, honestly one of the coolest types of armor out there (and possibly the origin of “studded leather” in fantasy RPGs, from people seeing pictures of just the outside and not realizing the studs are actually rivets holding metal plates in place on the inside)

yeah, Total Recall’s got some great guns, although I’m not sure if they were going exactly for the G11 here (that’s kind of blockier and chonkier, it’s like a rectangle with a scope and grip sticking out of the top and bottom, having a normal magazine kind of breaks the silhouette, but I guess there are a lot of limitation when working with existing props). The G11 was indeed featured in a lot of media as a “this is what we’ll be using in the future” gun, although it was more so video games since getting real G11s for a live-action production isn’t really an option. It, and the OICW too.

Total Recall has these awesome Pancor Jackhammer mock-ups as well:

older action movies in general often have a really great selection of guns, I much prefer it to all the tacticool shit of today. Like, did you know that the Half-Life MP5 with grenade launcher was actually a real thing (well, movie prop, from End of Days), they were on some wild shit:

not bows by themselves, but I’ve got guys with bows (although I think “compound bow” specifically refers to those fancy modern bows, I don’t have anything with those - did you mean recurve bows?):

from the author’s twitter bio:

history/yuri artist

all my characters are very gay

the apartment comes with boards pre-included, you can just cover the windows up (for “not dying from sunrise” purposes)

I got it from Twitter, but I assume it was based on this template, or another similar one

Prigomemnon (or Prigosseus?)

One of the worst things about this is that Ridley did make an absolutely amazing Napoleonic Era movie - his first one, The Duellists. He knocked it out of the park with literally his first one, and now we’ve gotten to “When I have issues with historians, I ask: ‘Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Well, shut the fuck up then.’” (like, my guy, how the fuck do you think history works? “were you there”, what kind of retort is this even)

to be fair, this is exaggerated in the meme - Theodead is actually Theodred (turning “dred” into “dead” is a bit tortured), and Orctank is really Orthanc (which again required some extra work to make the joke).

The only really egregious one is Grima Wormtongue, except even that one isn’t so bad, since Wormtongue is explicitly supposed to be a nickname given to the guy, not what he actually calls himself (although Grima itself can actually mean “mask” or “apparition”, but you’d need to be a linguistics nerd to know that). Saruman sounding kind of close to Sauron is maybe a bit confusing, but I feel like the closeness of the two names is somewhat exaggerated.

the pope is a dictator who has the authority to exercise unlimited power

Literally the entire point of Catholicism, there was like a big schism about it and everything. Should have become Orthodox instead if you’re gonna whine about that.

also holy shit this has got to be one of the funniest community notes of all time:

to be fair, actual historical Roman clothing was pretty colorful, but yeah, the pop-history understanding of Rome doesn’t necessarily emphasize that

Freiburger

American Freikorps

sending Juche Dinosaurs over to Hamas as military aid

create a thriving Palestinian civil society

with what resources exactly? Israel literally just steals Palestinian tax money, what the fuck are the Palestinians supposed to build their society with, hopes and dreams?

genocide is when there’s camps

Uyghurs? well, there’s camps, so it’s genocide

dropping over half a million tons of bombs, deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure until you’ve basically razed the entire country to the ground and bomber pilots end up just dropping their payloads on random fields since there literally isn’t anything left to bomb? no camps, so it’s all fine, just a bit of collateral damage

Nah, I just got a Russian torrent of Osprey books and extracted a bunch of the illustrations. I just think they’re neat.

The Men-at-Arms series isn’t really for wargaming though, they’re just historical books generally focusing on a given country’s military during a certain historical period. I didn’t even know Osprey did wargames until I looked it up just now, but they do have a whole bunch of series, I’ve mostly got Men-at-Arms stuff, and a few other series, like Elite & Warrior.

Men at Arms 264 - Peter the Great’s Army (2) - Cavalry, by Osprey Publishing

The really cool thing about this is you don’t even need it. Tungsten penetrator rods work just as well as uranium does without being nearly as toxic

I think part of the problem is that it just so happens that the vast majority of the world’s tungsten is in China, followed (after a very big gap, China has a truly massive supply) by Russia & Vietnam.

The only Western country to have a decent amount is Canada (and I guess if you combine Austria, Spain & Portugal in Europe they’ll add up to a similar amount). The US does actually apparently have some, it’s just not actually being mined, I assume because it would be too expensive. So for the US, it is simply much more economical to use DU instead of tungsten (or we could go into the Fallout timeline and have the US invade Canada, just for metal rather than oil).

I’m not running out of ammunition, I’m simply redefining the concept of a supply chain

1918 to 2006

Ah yes, famously socialist Kingdom of Yugoslavia (formerly Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes). Those damn communists, ruling all these Balkan monarchies in the first half of the 20th century