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I think so, yes.Shroom Man 777 wrote:Unreal time, mang.
Will this be the first time Paul's seen other world leaders ever since the attack, BTW?
They would expect APCs driving through gates and walls and into the building? Well, hokay...PeZook wrote:Yes, I know they are special forces. However, the way it was done was exactly what the Misterians should have been expecting, and since in San Dorado you can buy anything you want, they'd arm and plan accordingly.
Oh, well, that would at least explain why the tsar would need Mr. Karic' helpIn Magdalenka, there were a grand total of two (yes, TWO) gangsters, one of whom was former Spetznaz, versus something like fifty counter terrorists. The house was smaller, too - and yet it took two hours, 17 wounded and 1 dead cop to kill only one of those two, while the other blew himself up. This is why I think those Misterians were comically incompetent.
. Though two hours to take out two guys? That sounds more like the cops were incompetent to me...Really, even if they were twenty John Rambo clones, there's only so much you can do when you have to defend a huge mansion against an opponent that has access to IR sensors, APCs, helicopters, vastly more (competent) manpower and the best weapons money can buy. And I find it hard to believe that even in San Dorado they would've been able to procure anything heavier than fully automatic weapons and grenades in less than two weeks. You can buy RPGs and stuff, but you need to know where to buy them, and these guys are not familiar with the local underworld, proliferate as it might be.Trained and competent opponents who know how to handle defence of a fixed object and have access to explosives and expertise in using them will always be dangerous, no matter how well armed your people are, yet you took them all down with contemptous ease. Hence, Misterian commandoes are a bunch of incompetents
Why not? The only thing you'd need to counter them would be bombs buried in the yard. Police all over the world use APCs equipped with battering rams, so its not like they're a new revolutionary idea.SiegeTank wrote:They would expect APCs driving through gates and walls and into the building? Well, hokay...
The yard and house was turned into a minefield ; The initial assault was literally blown up by a hidden two kilogram nailbomb remotely detonated from inside the house.SiegeTank wrote: Oh, well, that would at least explain why the tsar would need Mr. Karic' help
Ah, but you don't have to defend the entire mansion. IR sensors can't see through walls, anyway, so that's kind of moot.SiegeTank wrote:Really, even if they were twenty John Rambo clones, there's only so much you can do when you have to defend a huge mansion against an opponent that has access to IR sensors, APCs, helicopters, vastly more (competent) manpower and the best weapons money can buy. And I find it hard to believe that even in San Dorado they would've been able to procure anything heavier than fully automatic weapons and grenades in less than two weeks. You can buy RPGs and stuff, but you need to know where to buy them, and these guys are not familiar with the local underworld, proliferate as it might be.
The tsar's mansion had been under 24/7 surveillance since the tsar arrived; had they turned the lawn into a minefield the AIP would have known about it, and done something about it.PeZook wrote:The yard and house was turned into a minefield ; The initial assault was literally blown up by a hidden two kilogram nailbomb remotely detonated from inside the house.
The Armed Interdiction Police would be more than intimately familiar with those (and far worse) techniques. There's a reason why I didn't go into detail on how they did what they did inside the house - I don't know exactly how they did it, but I assumed that eighty-odd years of fighting people trying to work magic with pipe bombs, assault rifles and booby traps has paid off for them. They've been fighting armed-up bad guys since the days of Capone, and there's preciously little holding the AIP back from fighting dirty.You can use nailbombs, grenades, booby traps and assault rifles with armor-piercing rounds to inflict pretty heavy casualties against any attacking force. Partisans have been fighting regular armies with far less throughout the XX century.
Hmm... you know, this could get interesting...Shroom Man 777 wrote:Wow... and if Karic gets his hands on this...
Siege, I love you!
We are all fine if the monkeys stay on Shroomania and not cross the Channel.Shroom Man 777 wrote:Man, I was thinking of having Shroomania accidentally release some Rage-infected monkeys!
But it's okay if Siege has the horrible plague.
Incorrect. ELISA is multi welled. The detection is depended on what antibodies are used. Antibodies are specific and these can be worked out for specificity.MKSheppard wrote:I love the "biological agent detection pen" that Yenchin came up with.
It's so full of shit that it's brown.
It took a major concerted effort by the US and NATO countries etc to get a biological agent detection system that could fit into a relatively large trailer; and we're to believe that Byzantium, etc have managed to produce a multi-agent detection system that fits into a relatively large pen?
At best, it can only look for one type of agent, and has a ludicrously high rate of false positives.
Whatever.Realistically, the best way of finding out if your guys have been hit with BW is when they start throwing their guts up...
EDIT: looking at the interview with the author of it; he says "The BioPen is a patented technology. DARPA has not responded to-date"
Yeah; because DARPA knows their homework and knows that it's utter bullshit.
You know better. Go out and count all the rivets in every single battleship ever produced since 1895 and then calculate barnicle density vs. rivet drag in water under arctic conditions for a 30-day period of time, do a power-to-weight distribution analysis and then come up with the maximum potential speed of said battleships if an application of RAID is used to spray the barnicles off at 1-week intervals, and then you can talk.Grand Moff Yenchin wrote:Whatever.
As unrealistic as you told me they were last night on IM, I do think that in our world of vampire retro-virii, the Rage Virus now (apparently) and then Karic's attack which almost worked but by the grace of writer's fiat (despite the whole bomb factory exploding thing and Pezookia's security measures) plus any other silliness we've had that I've forgotten...Steve wrote:Some people are deciding the Sabikan revanchists will try some Machiavellian schemes to provoke foreign powers into getting involved, either against Sabika and thus further undermining the FTO, or by tricking them into thinking that FTO groups are responsible.
PeZook wrote:So...can I launch the little turtles, finally?
Sure, as soon as I get there (just in time for the new year I guess - doesn't 2010 start on the 15th?)PeZook wrote:So...can I launch the little turtles, finally?
It, does but I guess the launch will have to be retconned to sometime in the first week of DecemberSiegeTank wrote:Sure, as soon as I get there (just in time for the new year I guess - doesn't 2010 start on the 15th?)PeZook wrote:So...can I launch the little turtles, finally?