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howtofightwrite · 6 months

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How well would a claymore mine field fare against troopers of a late medieval army (say, Swiss halberdiers in half armor)? How far away do the troopers need to be in order to have a good chance at survival? And how would a medieval army like that react to their leader hitting a landmine and getting blown up? Would they turn back and flee? Disperse away from the road? Or would they freeze up and lose unit cohesion?

In the words of the esteemed Dr. Farnsworth, “to shreds you say?”

So, for those unfamiliar, claymore mines use a shape charge to propel the shrapnel in a fixed cone (most the shrapnel is propelled in a roughly 45 degree arc, with almost all of it landing within a 90 degree arc of where it's pointed.) These can be rigged up with tripwires, or remote detonators. This is achieved by placing a fairly heavy plate behind the explosive, while the primary payload of eventual shrapnel is placed in front of it.

You don't technically hit a claymore mine. Again, these are shape charges, and designed to propel the destructive force (mostly) horizontally, so, you'd hit the tripwire, or a sentry with a detonator would activate it, possibly without even being detected by the people in the mine's kill zone.

Claymores have an optimal range of about 50 meters, with a maximum range of ~250 meters. So, “exactly how good do you consider your odds?” Because at 50m, the chances of being hit by fatal amounts of shrapnel is estimated to be about ~30%. (Obviously, in other circumstances, such as if you've got claymores set up in a confined concrete bunker, they're going to get a lot more dangerous.)

Also, we don't generally keep tight marching formations the way that early modern troops used, because modern weapons are horrifically effective against them. That Futurama quote is on the nose, because against a densely packed group of soldiers in early modern armor, the blast will likely hit almost all of them, and will, quite literally, blow many, if not most, of them apart. To put this more simply, using early modern military doctrine, they'd all be in the mine's kill zone when it went off, and their armor would do absolutely nothing to help them. In fact, this might be a case where their armor would further contribute to the shrapnel.

As for how they would react? I suspect most of them would take the ignoble option of dying almost instantly in the initial blast or shortly after from blood loss and extreme trauma. Would the survivors who could break and flee? Quite possibly. They also, quite likely, wouldn't even really understand what happened, simply because they'd never seen destructive force on that kind of scale before. “Would they lose cohesion?” My brother in Alfred Nobel's exploding cocktail lounge; they'd be losing biological cohesion with themselves. There wouldn't be a surviving unit.

There was a paradigm shift in the first World War. The stage had been set in the late 19th century, but most European armies didn't realize what had happened (and in fact, military leadership of the time stayed willfully ignorant) until after it came home.

Before this point, there was a concept of being able to “trade hits.” The halberdiers were expected to march into melee combat against other melee forces. This even survived the introduction of gunpowder units, and was still dominant military doctrine through the 19th century, where soldiers were expected to march in rank and file out onto the battlefield before shooting at each other in tightly packed formations.

What happened in the late 19th century was the development of weapons that were able to deal death with such speed and efficiency that getting into melee combat was no longer possible. The old, tightly packed, formations went from being an effective way to get troops into combat, to an effective way to see your troops completely eliminated by a single conscript's heavy machinegun fire.

The effective paradigm of infantry combat is now that your foes have the ability to end your existence, so you need to avoid their weapons (and preferably their detection) completely, until you can end them. (Yes, armor still exists, yes, it does work, but it's contingency you hope you don't need, rather than protection you expect to use.) Combat today is about controlling line of sight. Marching a squad of troops out onto the battlefield in tight formation wouldn't work, because a couple snipers with mediocre positioning could decimate them.

The claymore is part of this new paradigm. If you're in the kill range, unless you're in some radically more advanced armor than it was designed to deal with, you're going to have a bad day when it goes off.

We don't wear the same kinds of armor that those halberdiers used, because modern handgun rounds will perforate those. Modern armor does, sometimes, use steel plates (or, Kevlar, ceramic, or some polymers), as inserts but, the kind of steel used is significantly more resistant to modern bullets than what those early modern soldiers wore.

So, blown to shreds.

-Starke

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#writing reference #writing advice #writing tips #how to fight write #starke answers #improvised pulled pork dispenser #deboned

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buffetlicious · 6 months

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Bought from the coffee shop further down the road are my Braised Duck Rice (卤鸭饭) with deboned duck drumstick, roasted pork, braised peanuts and braised rice plus cucumber and sambal chilli paste. Mum had the Braised Duck Porridge (卤鸭粥) or congee with extra deskinned duck meat and braised peanuts.

PS - Mum favourite braised duck porridge stall had since closed. Now, got to travel all the way to Chong Pang to buy it.

#Brunch #Takeaway #Packed #Braised Duck Rice #卤鸭饭 #Duck Drumstick #Deboned #Roasted Pork #Braised Peanuts #Braised Rice #Cucumber #Sambal Chilli Paste #Braised Duck Porridge #卤鸭粥 #Congee #Asian #Chinese #Food #Buffetlicious

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chaoticfandomthot · 1 year

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Replace my bones with soup and watch me wiggle and smell soooo tasty

#soup #soup posting #no bones #deboned #aiden originals #am i queuing this right

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p0uqiuybrdn · 1 year

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sofiaruelle · 1 month

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It was a little crowded at the fish port. So here’s a little color study of some Mayamaya on display.

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They’re actually called Bukaw-bukaw according to my parents lmao. They also said the fish got its name because of the eyes. They’re huge just like an owl’s and in Hiligaynon owls = bukaw. The fish is also a fave of my lolo’s and tita to grill/sugba.

#study #color study #fish #tw dead fish #lowkey regretting not being able to take ref pics of some blue crabs/stingrays and slabs of tuna on display #also there was this lady casually just deboning a Bangs (milkfish - lots of tiny bones)#we boughta lot of shrimp+squid+marlin for the long weekend #suprisingly there were not a lot of cats??? just lots of doggos causually sleeping in the middle of the walkway #lol mayamaya apparently was an entirely different red fish lmao #WHOOPS

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partrin · 9 months

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rinharu taking a selfie (i don't think this was ever animated.. was it? i can't remember)

ngawww haru's widdol peace sign hehe my baby

#free!#rinharu #matsuoka rin #nanase haruka #they are my eternal babies #help i love them so much #i was thinking of haru while i deboned a salmon steak today #almost bought a mackerel fillet instead because i had a little haru voice in my brain telling me to do it

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smallfrogpleasedtomeetyou · 7 months

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All the fish in the httyd franchise is horribly undercooked y’all u cant just eat an entire raw fish what the fuck

#I say as I have an entire fish in my fridge rn #the guts have been removed but still #it smells bad #anyway good ur fish right #and be careful when deboning #httyd

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dayurno · 2 months

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kevin’s general boytoy helplessness does arrive to the natural conclusion that he is probably dogshit at cooking however i think there is something inherently funny about him liking it but being too horrified by the process of handling raw meat / deboning fish or chicken / seeing animal blood or their organs. i need to see this grown man depend on a more responsible adult to prepare the meat he is about to cook

#i also think in the k/t marriage kevin definitely is the one who cooks but he needs theas help for those parts 😭#kevin: making ribs tonight… thea: (sighing) i’ll get the cleaver #doubly funny for canon-age too. kevin will make dinner if andrew debones the fish #otherwise its not happening #YES i can cook. NO im not touching raw meat or blood or organs #i believe this is a staple in every kevin dynamic he needs a person who will do that for him and the rest is secondary #txt #kevin

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venusqq · 1 year

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THE DARKNESS OUTSIDE US MEMES because i just finished reading it and i’m obsessed

#the darkness outside us #ambrose cusk #kodiak celius #memes #this is me coping with that absolute mess of a book holy fuck #look i think the debon mujaba voice was reaally funny ok #i love them

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champagnemoon · 2 days

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We losing recipes because learning skills from our foremothers isn’t a requirement for survival…it’s too much DoorDash and not enough collard green cleaning

#too much brunches and not enough fish deboning #and not in a trad way either #but we need some Gen Z that know how to make nanas poundcake in 2060

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buffetlicious · 1 year

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Mum had Roasted Chicken Rice with Roasted Pork for dinner. The chicken drumstick is deboned by the seller. While I ordered my Mee Goreng or Mie Goreng from the tze char (煮炒) stall. The lightly spicy fried noodles came with squids, prawns, fishcake slices and eggs. I topped up extra for a fried egg.

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vern-a · 1 year

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Phil gets elytra :)

#i want to see that binary fucker dead i want to see him flattened. murked. deboned.#phil deserves his wings hes fought god twice and emerged victorious #qsmp philza #philza fanart #qsmp fanart #blood #violence #tw: violence #tw: blood #art bits

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randomnameless · 22 hours

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Thinking about the general hypocrisy of "might/muhrit makes right" characters, I noticed something.

Ashnard brags about his vision to Ike'n'pals and dies to someone who is stronger than him, so in his mind, strength > everything :

Ashnard: I do. Oh, how I do… It’s true. The world may be destroyed by the coming of the dark god. Then again, it may not. I question the way in which our society is designed. No matter what strength a person has, it is the station he is born into that controls his destiny. And you cannot control where you will be born. Do you believe that a person of low birth should simply endure the curse of his station? I think not. If you are stronger than those around you, you should benefit from your strength. This is why I will use my strength to remake this world. Class and rank will not matter. Human and sub-human will not matter. The strong will possess everything. The weak will submit to their will. Is this not the meaning of peace?

But isn't the biggest slap in his face the realisation that the man who was behind him and played him, at least for this war, like a fiddle, was the weakest subhuman ever, a heron, who even lost his magical subhuman powers?

Might makes right and all, but who is the last man standing in this entire mess?

A powerless heron.

In a way, Ashnard himself, unknowingly, submitted to the will of that heron, who was willing to rob everyone of their everything.

Just for shit'n'giggles, I wonder what would Ashnard have to say if he ever realised, or maybe had a FB in FEH, that Sephiran, a powerless heron, had been the one who instigated his war, his "discovery" of the medallion, was one of those weaklings he loathed and wanted to submit.

Oh well.

#Tellius stuff #It's always hypocrisy because those characters saying strength matters more than anything else #always deal first with the beings who are stronger than them either by trickery or attacking them when they sleep #Nemesis deboned a sleeping Sothis and targeted a bunch of villagers to slaughter them all instead of having the great 1vs1 FD duel #Rhea gave him one and he died though #Ashnard lure Rajaion with bby Soren and used Izuka's funky potion on him #but if it was all about strength Rajaion by virtue of being Deg's son would have flattened him #Supreme Leader uses uncle's beasties to defeat Rhea or has her outnumbered and targets non combattants #so Rhea has to either flee or be caught by Uncle #it makes me think of Bleach's Nnoitra #who's super proud of his strength and all #but is really pissed when anyone reminds him that he defeated Neliel thanks to Szayel's tricks #so how is this supposed to show your strength/muhrit over the one you defeat?#random stuff

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kidalias · 7 months

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A terrifying monster from Star Trek: Lower Decks for the first week of October

#moopsy #star trek #star trek lower decks #halloween #wonder if they could be used to expedite the process of deboning animals for factory farms #perfect pet for Wolverine #expect more monster art over the month

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hotdogshipping-miwa-enthusiast · 2 months

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Okay so another thing about the beach is episode of Asian circuit that is glorious is the showing of everybody’s cooking abilities, and the absurdity of how they cook

Kai in all rendition of Vanguard knows how to cook canonically probably one of the best cooks because he lives alone and I find it funny enough in dub that he is just so seemly grossed out by lobster that he’s upset at the idea of touching lobster (something no one told him he had to do, Ren was making everyone stew and Miwa was making omelettes, he had no need to cook), but in sub, it seems like he’s just straight up fighting the lobster

The crustacean did nothing, and still won. Kai who were you fighting???????

And Ren….dear sweet lord Ren

Just throwing unwashed, unpeeled veggies in a pot without water and letting it run

THAT FISH STILL HAS ALL ITS BONES AND ORGAN SIR!

What haunts me most about this is not everyone’s absolute insanity to eat and help cook this without any questions asked (looking at you girls, Emi you help cook you should say something and Asuka stop encouraging him not adding water is asking for chard food) , but the fact that it somehow turned out good

#vanguard #cfv #cardfight!! vanguard #cardfight!! vanguard asian circuit #kai toshiki #ren suzugamori #cooking…somehow #kai not everyone is out to get you please stop trying to fight your food #ren at least debone the fish #where is tetsu when you need him #literally crying #how does it work

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wifiwuxians · 1 year

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mm yum yummy yang in my tummy

feel like this might be a little too raw (haha) for my audience here but it's one of my favorite pieces of this year so. here it is... i couldn't get the angle to work if song lan's outer robe stayed on so hot scuffle it is

loss of control and despair are so sexy to me (when applied correctly) so whatever sinister scenario you wanna apply here is fine with me!

#xue yang #song lan #yi city #mdzs #blood #gore #cannibalism #putting those community labels to good use #my art #deboning was too tame #xy&sl #<- NOT that this is cute and kind at all but yknow jic

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