“Everything’s standard pattern! This is the Imperial fething Guard! Standard pattern boots, standard pattern mess-tins, standard pattern bodybags! I’m a standard pattern infantryman and you’re a standard pattern no-neck, and any minute now my standard pattern fist is going to smack your nose bone back into your very sub-standard pattern brain!”
Man, I lost it when the Ghosts realized they got issued standard pattern 5 ammo instead of 3. Absolute chaos.
Every now and then, a Black Library author really nails the real horror of endless war: pointless bureaucracy, absurd logistics, and the kind of paperwork that makes you want to run into traffic.
Avi said:
Every now and then, a Black Library author really nails the real horror of endless war: pointless bureaucracy, absurd logistics, and the kind of paperwork that makes you want to run into traffic.
Yeah, sometimes that old-school 40k satire really shines through.
Avi said:
Every now and then, a Black Library author really nails the real horror of endless war: pointless bureaucracy, absurd logistics, and the kind of paperwork that makes you want to run into traffic.
One of the opening chapters of Double Eagle has a Munitorum truck driver getting his pay docked because he went a few milliliters over his fuel ration. Bureaucracy at its finest.
Avi said:
Every now and then, a Black Library author really nails the real horror of endless war: pointless bureaucracy, absurd logistics, and the kind of paperwork that makes you want to run into traffic.
In the grim darkness of the far future, logistics will be your worst nightmare.
Kyle said:
This kinda thing happens in real life too. The US Army has a ridiculous number of things named M1—M1 rifle, M1 knife, M1 tank… it never ends.
And then NATO took it up a notch with this madness.
Kyle said:
This kinda thing happens in real life too. The US Army has a ridiculous number of things named M1—M1 rifle, M1 knife, M1 tank… it never ends.
Kyle said:
This kinda thing happens in real life too. The US Army has a ridiculous number of things named M1—M1 rifle, M1 knife, M1 tank… it never ends.
Wait, I thought the US and NATO used cool names like Stormshadow, while China was the boring one with ‘Type-200’?
Hadi said:
Abnett really nails the little things that make military life frustrating. I’m a vet, and I gotta say, some of his stuff hits way too close to home.