Uxi

Ok pretty well mastered the aftertouch with Kai and finished the game. Awesome story! Supposedly going to be a trilogy....

Got Heavenly Sword today and just spent about an hour and a half playing it. The game does operate as a button masher, though I've found that it's far more useful to NOT do that. I kill off almost all enemies by triangle, for example after playing some hit and run (using strong to clear them out if I start getting crowded in). Combos are great, too. Was having a lot of fun until I started to get frustrated playing Kai in the mission where you're trying to save your wounded master. Aftertouch with the cannon and Nariko was easy but that crossbow is kicking my butt and some of the last guys always get in and kill the old buzzard. Ah well, I'm sure I'll have it down by tomorrow.

Never been a big fan of IFV or AVF. I'm more of a fan of the "Battle field taxi." No real complaints about the AAV aka Tuna Boat, though, especially with a Mk 19. Leave the vehicle fighting to MBTs.

Is there a more complete summary than Graham's on Feb 8 and/or one that applies to the YF-19 FP, since it appears that it solved the landing gear and gunpod issues. Should I be watching for stress marks on the neck and shoulder? I can't seem to find pics of the affected areas... thanks!

Indeed. I love the YF-21 (my favorite mecha) so much, though it's going to be hard to resist. VF-22S face/head in an add-on could help but without that guarantee, I'll be waiting and hoping.

I have one of the tiny ones but not the action fleet larger one.

How many HDMI devices do you have? A good HDMI AVR has at least 4 these days, if not more. I have 5 HDMI ports between my HDTV and AVR....

Heh, Las Pulgas is mostly used by the reservists now, though 1st Tanks (moved to 29 Stumps after 3rd tanks was disbanded) uses it sometimes for amphibious ops. I was planning on doing an admin extension to my contract, but the admin pogues messed up the paperwork. No way was I going to reup, though.

That's not true at all. The Abrams has been continous evolving and rebuilds are beyond the maintenance chain. Most of the tank inventory in the US Marine Corps, for example, have hulls built in the mid 1980s. The newest tank I was ever on had it's hull built in 1987, though my favorite was built in '85 IIRC. Most were much older. Many had turrets just as old, though I often saw newer turrets with older hulls (newest I can recall was a 1996 turret)... many were former M1's from the US Army that were bought from the USMC after being upgraded to M1A1. Many of these were also M1 converts, and there's been a mix of new builds but there are so many older hulls that the most common thing is new(er) turrets. 2nd and 3rd echelon maintenance goes a long way, but the rebuild systems are just as new as the stuff we got off of MPS from Diego Garcia. The Engines also significant engine change which replaced really tedious maintenance and the newer engines had a self cleaning filter system instead of requiring the manual blowing that the earlier ones did. Upgrades of "black box" tech was frequent, particularly in the fire control system but also in the engine. Right before I got up, the next big thing coming was the "Delta mod," which brings the M1A1 electronics up to M1A2 SEP standards for the comm gear, etc but also included other assorted upgrades. Note that 2/3 of the US Army Battalions have no intention to ever upgrade beyond M1A1D... I saw at least two significant fire control upgrades, the complete replacement of the drivers thermal viewer with an entirely new tech, and we also saw the MCD (Missile Countermeasure Device) and new stoage plan. While the US Army was going to teh UAAPU (under armor aux power unit), the USMC had long used an external aux power unit (EAPU) which took up rear bustle space (which caused them to finally add an extention to replace that lost stowage). There were also relatively minor rearrangements of the way the 120mm ammo was stowed in the ready and semi-ready racks. Continued deployments in Iraq aren't really an issue, at least for the USMC, who doesn't keep a super significant armor force. Where it sucks to be in Iraq now as a Marine tanker is crew fatigue since everyone wants the armor support but there are only so many to go around.

Got the HDDVD's last week but didn't get a chance to watch them again till tonight. Watched the first two episodes. The U Control feature is nice to see all the places the Helix appears. Most of the rest was pretty trite, though. Good content, though wish it had some high res audio.

We start doing PSN tags yet? Mine is "Uxi." Let's meet on warhawk, beyoootches.

Oh, yeah, human loader > autoloader. Any slower than 4 seconds (from ammo door open to "up" the safe/arm level will get a Marine loader a kick in the ass. Human loader can also be used to take the M16 and go take a look over that berm instead of skylining the whole tank/platoon/Co/Bn/RCT. And someone's gotta help the driver with the track work.

I definitely agree. It's a great asset. I'll bet they're waiting for Home to really emphasize that, though.

Try this article, though: http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/34579/284986.html

Am I the only tank crewman here? With a CAR? I'm biased on the M1A1 myself. The gadgets on the A2 (CITV mostly) are really useful for acquiring secondary targets, but they have little to no advantage in acquiring the first target... and realistically, that's what wingmen are for. The fewest tanks we had in a regimental combat team any one spot for OIF-1 was a platoon of 4, though we usually went in companies (14-18, as we were actually slightly over TO) if not the whole tank batallion (56). And for the advantages the A2 does give, logistically, it screws everything up in the long haul with the "black box" mentality even moreso than the earlier Abrams. While I'm not one of the old school grognards who longs for the M60 and I realize the improvements are good, there is something to be said for pure mechanical (rather than electronic) wizardry. Even without power, we can fight an M1A1... not so much with an M1A2. From my own perspective as a tank commander, I much prefer the CIWS to the ICWS which is anything but improved - the Commander has to expose himself to fire where I was nice and safe with my closed hatch on an A1 (though realistically outside of an NBC environment I was always partially open, even in Iraq). The same pitfalls go for the Leo 2A6. All in all the Leo 2 is more similar than dissimilar from the Abrams in all but minute details. Those logistical concerns for the electronic gear are not quite as noticible given the comparably miniscule numbers of Leo 2 that have been produced (particularly when compared to the total number of Abrams - total program for the Abrams is much much larger). 1 on 1, it's a crew match with the better crew winning. 4 on 4 or 14 on 14 in a CAX? Best Platoon leader with the best (accurate) intel. etc Merkava's are great on defense. They're slower than turds, though, so hypothetically an Abrams platoon/company/bn could well outmaneuver a Merkava platoon. Set up a base of fire with one section /platoon/company and flank, for example fairly easily. Challenger 2 are good tanks, but inferior to Abrams and Leo IMO. Queen's Royal Lancers relieved us in place in Basra, so we could push on northwards IIRC. Good guys. Multi-piece ammo is a biatch and we're faster, too. All the FSU stuff is junk and will get blown straight away. No tank armor will stop the M829A3 120mm depleted uranium penetrator from 1500-2000m. Even from 4000m, I give even odds on blowing them straight away well before max range. Provided they don't have any AT11's around that is. Korean? In Iraq, the only thing I was afraid of was the US Air Force.

Looks great to me. Legs or feet don't look too small to me, and I'll love if those hands have individually articulated fingers instead of being another chicken hand rehash.

How about some fighter comparisons? Aaaah, i was trying to avoid this one.

My Max 1A and Hikaru 1J are fine... my Roy 1S is buried under GBP armor and I'm not taking it all off to check...

Old thread, but thought I'd resurrect it. Is there any way to do the trick that Hurin did with DYRL to M0? I have the bootleg, too. I had watched 1,2, & 3 via bittorrent on ANBU fansubs and they were great. I barely know what's going on in the last episodes, though, which is all the good stuff...

Frys is still doing the E6750 (2.6Ghz dual core with 1333 FSB) and and an EliteGroup G33T-M2 mobo for $213. (normally the CPU is $209 alone). I got one and half the build half done (right now just have SuSE installed and am running on onboard video and 4GB of 1066DDR2. Most likely getting an 8800 GTS with 640MB of VRAM) and will then install Vista Ultimate.

I've only used my headset once. I'll probably synch up and use my regular cell phone headset as I hate the earpiece on the Jabra that came with Warhawk.

Was there ever anything to the rumors of using a PSP as an (expensive) PS3 controller?

Yeah I love the design. I hope the stealth / low-viz / whatever matches the shade of the Fast Packs (or gets a matching set of FP). Would be even better as a uniform colored VF-19A FP. I don't need another foldildo, though

Hopefully they'll do both options. A relatively bare VF-11B with Fast Packs for relatively cheap ($100 would be sweeeet) wand then an ultimate version with Chase Plane Boosters, Ghost, Foldildo, etc. Then repaint time for a vanilla VF-11C Fast Pack, Protect Armor Accessory, and they can do a full 1/60 M7 / VFX2 license and redo the 1/60 YF-21 as a VF-22S.

Hopefully we will see a retooled 1/60 with all the 1/48 improvements. Make a metal hip bar and a metal ring BP11 (or whatever part that is for the backpack piece) and everything should be good.