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16-10-2018 02:57:01 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: bouncing?
16-10-2018 02:59:48 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Reading a good book, atm.
16-10-2018 02:59:57 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: "Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks."
16-10-2018 03:00:38 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Pros:  Really quiet, mechanically rugged, excellent build quality.
16-10-2018 03:01:00 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: oh, and good performance in mud.
16-10-2018 03:01:43 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Cons: High centre of gravity, Rubber tracks not good on ice, adequate but not exceptional gun.
16-10-2018 03:03:11 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Also, the factory workers packed whisky bottles inside the tanks, but the first couple tries had them stolen between the ship and the front line.  (i.e., someone else found them.  The problem was solved when they started packing them inside the main cannon, between the breech and muzzle barrel plugs.)
16-10-2018 03:09:08 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Whew, that's pretty robust.  In Romania, they ran out of fuel when a surrounded german unit broke out and scattered a bunch of logistic units behind them, and the engines had to run on one part gas, two parts kerosene.
16-10-2018 03:09:28 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: They captured some stocks, but no diesel.
16-10-2018 03:13:15 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Oops, that's another breakdown.  Seven days running over dead dry terrain in August lead to the rubber road wheels cracking off.
16-10-2018 03:13:38 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: ..although, to be fair, T-34s generally had different issues on that time scale.
16-10-2018 03:17:28 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Hmm, two stories about shells going straight down gun barrels.  One where a tanker takes two days careful aiming to put one down the pipe of a Tiger, blowing the gun up, and one where a 20mm shell from an aircraft cannon goes straight down an elevated sherman barrel and hits the company commander in the back.
16-10-2018 03:18:10 < ER!ER@63-39-173-041.dhcp.hckr.nc.charter.com: ouch
16-10-2018 03:18:26 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Yeah.
16-10-2018 03:18:52 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Breech was open in the second case, and it took them over a day to figure out how the commander got killed, since the way he got hit meant it didn't come down the hatch above him.
16-10-2018 03:20:07 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Also, the guy didn't die immediately from a direct hit by an exploding 20mm shell, which is a longer survival time than I expected.
16-10-2018 03:20:46 < ER!ER@63-39-173-041.dhcp.hckr.nc.charter.com: humans have way too much HP
16-10-2018 03:21:03 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Well, he died about a half hour later, so it didn't just barely kill him.
16-10-2018 03:46:52 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Oh well, hope there's a town after this.  I want to spend the next month or so before this happens again learning about the creature and gathering enough mana to decide a confrontation.
16-10-2018 03:46:56 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: (Cabal.)
16-10-2018 03:47:37 < ER!ER@63-39-173-041.dhcp.hckr.nc.charter.com: whine some more, you get time where you're not under threat sometimes
16-10-2018 03:48:54 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Eh, it's fine.
16-10-2018 03:50:09 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: You're right, though.
16-10-2018 03:52:14 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: You've had it rough.
16-10-2018 03:52:17 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: go beat up these guys.
16-10-2018 03:54:32 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: and make with the kaboom.
16-10-2018 03:54:42 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: or use reverse lightweight to gravity-slam dudes.
16-10-2018 03:55:29 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Shame you're indoors.  Temp lightweight might make someone float away like a helium baloon, only to fall back to earth and splash.
16-10-2018 03:57:32 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Hmm, that's interesting.
16-10-2018 03:57:36 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: the booze ration wasn't vodka.
16-10-2018 03:57:41 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: It was white wine.
16-10-2018 03:57:50 < ER!ER@63-39-173-041.dhcp.hckr.nc.charter.com: yum
16-10-2018 03:57:57 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Very, very small.
16-10-2018 03:58:58 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: 300grams, and one ration every day you had a night movement.
16-10-2018 03:59:10 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Tank commanders and drivers got two.
16-10-2018 03:59:24 < ER!ER@63-39-173-041.dhcp.hckr.nc.charter.com: of course
16-10-2018 03:59:33 < ER!ER@63-39-173-041.dhcp.hckr.nc.charter.com: need to keep the drivers happy
16-10-2018 03:59:40 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Well, they had to watch.
16-10-2018 03:59:41 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: but yeah.
16-10-2018 03:59:56 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: A lot of the guys were tank infantry, who mostly rode.
16-10-2018 03:59:56 < ER!ER@63-39-173-041.dhcp.hckr.nc.charter.com: lest they tokyo drift over their allies
16-10-2018 04:00:53 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: "desantniki" is the word apparently.
16-10-2018 04:01:53 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Google translate calls them paratroopers, but that doesn't seem correct.
16-10-2018 04:03:43 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: They're not airborne or airmobile, nor are they attached.  They seem integral to the unit.. the infantry that rides on and accompanies tanks.
16-10-2018 04:07:22 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Heh, apparently the night movements during winter lead to three tank turrets being temporarily disabled due to piss dripping into the turret rings and freezing.
16-10-2018 04:07:37 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: they couldn't stop, after all, and drunk people don't aim well.
16-10-2018 04:10:05 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: also, the tank commander during these movements rode outside the tank too.
16-10-2018 04:10:32 < ER!ER@63-39-173-041.dhcp.hckr.nc.charter.com: all the better to pose heroically, of course
16-10-2018 04:10:44 < ER!ER@63-39-173-041.dhcp.hckr.nc.charter.com: I hope they were issued swords
16-10-2018 04:11:45 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: I don't know, actually.  Presumably submachine guns, as Soviets had crap pistols.
16-10-2018 04:15:09 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Hehe, next battle he has one tank in his unit with an over-duration engine.  It can't get replaced because there was a minor screwup in the tank serial numbers.. it's now a 'supernumary' tank, and won't get replaced.
16-10-2018 04:15:30 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: After that happened, it was ignored because it was assumed that at some point it would get knocked out.
16-10-2018 04:16:06 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: 24 months later, it's got engine breakdowns due to being too old, which slows his unit up multiple times.  Eventually he gives the order to make sure the tank gets knocked out in the next battle.
16-10-2018 04:16:18 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Guess what happens.
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16-10-2018 12:27:28 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Ahh, the full name appends a 'tanko' to desantniki.
16-10-2018 12:27:33 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: so 'Tank Paratroopers.'
16-10-2018 12:33:29 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Translator explains it at the end.
16-10-2018 12:33:40 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: 'desantniki' just means 'by special delivery'
16-10-2018 12:34:00 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: and usually 'by descent' or by parachute, but it also applies to marines.
16-10-2018 12:38:08 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: Huh, apparently if you got assigned to foreign gear, that is lend-lease equipment, you would spend the rest of the war fighting only in units equipped suchly.
16-10-2018 12:39:10 < Devastator!chatzilla@kpmd-0g9ka9yg1ymo5trnceke0broq.ipv1.telus.net: I though it was because he spends the duration of the memoraire with one batallation.