Agiel

Well on the one hand, even if the Grey Knights are rank amateurs compared to the Harlequins, Harlequins do lack the iconic nature of Space Marines, and space elf ninja clowns, no matter how badass they are with all their colour, finesse, and the most nightmarish weaponry in the 40K lore, may not be as appealing in an age of Gears of War and would only appeal to 40K fans who walk the walk and talk the talk. On the other hand, Fire Warriors wouldn't have been my first choice for the subject of the first major mainstream action game based upon the franchise.

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. A great landing is one in which the plane can be used again. Take comfort you will in all likelihood do better than these guy:

The Frogfoot may be faster (though only barely in aeronautical terms) and has a SEAD capability you may be left longing for if you were in the Hawg. However the A-10C has the up in avionics and low-light operations (the LITENING II targeting pod has LLTV as standard), its iconic GAU-8 cannon fires a slightly longer round at a much higher muzzle velocity, and the fire-and-forget AGM-65 Mavericks leave the Su-25's Vikhr in the dust.

How have you found the "Rook" so far?

"Now nobody MOVE!"

Good news is that for the developers of good multiplayer titles that use GFWL as its online framework, such as Dark Souls, have plenty of time to make a switch to another online services such as Steamworks, as the shut-down comes in nearly a year's time. Bad news is they in all likelihood don't see the point of doing it.

My name unfortunately does not come from the Sword of Truth weapon used by the Mord-Sith. A friend of mine had a sweatshirt he bought from a show that had the names of bands signed on to Unique Leader Records, and one of the bands was named "Agiel," which I though sounded cool, so I began using it as my tag. As for my avatar, it is the emblem of the VF-31 "Tomcatters" Carrier Fighter Wing. I liked the look of the emblem when I first saw it in my early teens, and appropriated it as the emblem of my Catachan Imperial Guard army for 40K. I alternate between that and the emblem of the 422nd TES (Test and Evaluation Squadron)

Standalone aircraft for Flaming Cliffs 3 now available for Digital Combat Simulator World, starting with the A-10A for those who can't be bothered to read the 600+ page PDF manual for it's slightly more digital brother the A-10C. Like the Su-25T that comes free with DCS: World, it can be picked up in an afternoon (as opposed to a week at minimum for A-10C, Ka-50, P-51D, and UH-1H).

http://youtu.be/PjphaDnKhHw?t=9m

I'd have gone for a Devil May Cry/Bayonetta-style game that featured the Harlequins.

Unfortunately it's a case of politics getting in the way of actual good strategic and tactical considerations. I'm reminded of the Scud missile attacks in the 1991 Gulf War. General Chuck Horner who was the lead planner of all air operations was convinced that the Scud hunts were a complete waste of time and that he could have guaranteed Israel's safety if the assets he was forced to dedicate to destroying the launchers were used for other operations, as that would have hastened the end of the conflict and more decisively destroy Iraq's potential for waging war. He believed the Scuds were almost a non-issue and he was correct to a degree; only one Israeli death was attributed to the Scud missile, and that was because he had a heart attack from hearing the explosion. Also claims that Saddam could have mounted chemical warheads on them were completely unfounded; it is extremely difficult to design and manufacture a chemical warhead for a ballistic missile, as most all defense analysts at the time concluded this was well beyond Iraq's capabilities. You cannot simply put a cannister on the tip, the missile descends so fast that VX Nerve Gas will end up as a small toxic puddle at the bottom of a crater and not dispersed as intended.

Well more they know that launching it from a built-up area will sometimes incur a disproportionate response from the Israeli Air Force (though without HUMINT assets on the ground, Israel's options for dealing with this are understandably limited). Photos circulating of a family being pulled from the rubble of an apartment building in this day and age do exponentially more damage to Israel than the physical damage caused by a mortar shell or rocket. For the record, with such a tactic Hamas would be as much to blame (if not more so) for that kind of tragedy as the IAF would.

Grad missiles are quite commonly being launched at Israel. They are military hardware, not home made. Those things are based upon what the Russians consider Soviet-era surplus and they are not known for accuracy. Far from it, they have the circular error probability the size of counties. Like the Vengeance bombs a launch is considered a success if it hits someplace populated. The BM-21's 122mm rockets' greatest boon is cheapness that allows for volume of fire (which is certainly not the way Hamas utilises them) and not precision.

Yes, Stephen. But I think you meant: (Still, not as bad as Candidate Obama vs shambling soulless shell Pod Person President Obama who can't even shoot free throws any more) He really hasn't left himself much room for the outraeg!!! in 2020 at Qatar's laws on homosexuality if he's already playing the Nazi/ Hitler card for somewhere where they won't actually kill you for being gay. Nobody ever said countries like Uganda (see the Christmas law of 2012 and the truly bizarre Youtube "justification" for it) ever get a pass for draconian laws like that. As a fellow industrialised nation with a comparable literacy rate, a growing college-educated and young professional populace, and for the most part good women's suffrage record (unlike most Gulf States) many of us do hold Russia to the west's standards of human rights.

While I find Russia's homophobic laws totally medieval and backwards and I think Putin can hardly get any lower than cozying up with the Russian Orthodox Church to the degree that he is (mind you, I hate the idea of a government getting cozy with any religious institution, regardless of stripes), I still oppose a boycott of hosting the Olympics in Sochi. While one certainly has the right to express their misgivings about a country's discriminatory policies, keep in mind it is the one time every two years we as a species almost forget we hate each other, and boycotting the competition also affects other competing countries and their athletes who still elect to attend. It is for this reason that in spite of China's treatment of Tibetans I opposed a boycott of the Beijing Olympics back in 2008. However, whatever surreptitious some athletes can find to express solidarity with gay-rights cause I'm all for.

Do any of you really think the negative reaction really stung through EA's thick leather skin to fan backlash to the degree that because of it they abandoned the idea of turning Dragon Age into a bi-annual franchise a la Call of Duty.

Reminds me of this scene from "Goodbye Lenin!"

Wonder how much effort would be required to import the horse-riding code and Deadly Reflex mounted combat mod from Oblivion into New Vegas, that way I can say this to Vulpes on meeting him in Nipton while mounted on a steed with a Cold Single Action in one hand and a lever-action carbine in the other: "I aim to kill you in one minute! Or see you hang at Camp Golf at Chief Hanlon's convenience! Which'll it be?"

I quite like this:

I speak French and Cantonese Chinese (by the time my parents realised they should have been teaching me Mandarin instead, it was too late) and I actually find German quite pleasant to listen to so long as it isn't being spoken by some failed artist with a toothbrush mustache. Rather unfortunate when one speaks of how the German language sounds many immediately think of Rammstein and Triumph of the Will

Some people have sort of done that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BBQ2mflwnEU#at=68

I just hate the idea of anyone thinking their country in any war were angels and denying that it is an ugly business. I would be the first to admit that the fire bombings of Dresden and much of Japan (as well as many other war crimes that it would be pointless for me to list by name) were totally unnecessary and that in a just world men like Curtis LeMay would have been held accountable. As for Company of Heroes 2 I believe that it does enough to venerate the soldiers who were the true heroes of World War II and decries the politicians and generals who do not see the human costs of their actions and who twist noble causes for their own ends.

The liquidation of the original Polish Communist party by Comintern prior to the war for harbouring Trotsky-Zinoviev leanings? The Katyn massacre? Or what about the persecution of loyalist Home Army veterans after the war? What about the unstoppable Red Army conveniently halting right at the Vistula just as the last throes of the Polish resistance in Warsaw were being crushed by the SS Dirlewanger Brigade?

...or get me one of these set-ups for Falcon 4.0. http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2919477/Re_Please_show_off_your_pit#Post2919477