Omg. Point to the HRE on a 2016 map. Point to Byzantium on a 2016 map. Point to China on a 2016 map. Now try it backwards. Point to China on a 500 BC map. Point to Byzantium on a 500 BC map. Point to the HRE on a 500 BC map.

Thanks for the correction! It is indeed the A8 Aaphid and not the Alamo that an Su24 can mount.

White tight ends have very very strong historical precedent for silly dances. Very. Strong.

Unfortunately the local hospital wasn’t availible as a target package.

I was about to reply that this would represent an insane escalation of force but then I remembered sanity is in short supply in that part of the world these days.

I thought Su24s could mount Alamos as well, wouldn’t that seem to be more on point here? Seeing as how it was an old Su24 with potentially bad electronics that got shot down, not a brand spanking new tandem seat bomber arrangement of a successful air superiority fighter with the best EW suite russia’s got?

Sure, but it was still “china” before and “china” after... sorry taiwan.

Yes yes I’ve played Romance of the Three Kingdoms too.

Not for one teeny tiny moment does Burgundy show up on the map? They had a couple pretty good 60 year runs in there. A lot of famous condotierri would be baffled.

“Deutsch”, the language they speak in the Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

China says hi. Maybe not ruled by the same polictical party or dynasty contiguously but the “middle kingdom” has been a nation for about 10,000 years or so. In other words, since long before you were a Gaul and I was a Celt.

I knew it was going to look something like that, but the freakazoid shattered mosaic of the former HRE which eventually coalesces into Germany is pretty visually dramatic.

It’s istanbul, no it’s constantinople

Being an older airframe, A4 Skyhawks honor the old Hollywood trope about always keeping the keys behind the sun visor.

While I’m sure it’ll be nice for AAA gamers, my experience with sub-AAA gaming is that loading screen logic is already shockingly bad. Huge gigantic loads to access things you’re going to exit out of anyway, text blurbs that last nanoseconds and progress bars that shoot to 99% and stay there, etc.

Play-asia is a huuuuge This Is Spinal Tap fan, obvs.

No doubt it’s all the CTE.

The 90-odd part Three Kingdoms (2010) is pretty bad, but at least you get faithful adaptations of the Luo Guanzhong novel.

They had about 11,000 feet as the crow flies to intercept, merge, and shoot down. I don’t think this was BVR, I think this was a sidewinder up the tailpipe.