@IiiJaca@starmkommando@KampfgruppeKrag Operational attrition rates this high are acceptable if - and only if - armor is needed to force through heavy, layered defenses, the sort found on the Hindenburg Line. That's what WWI tanks are good at, to extent they're good at anything.
For open field engagement, pursuit? No.
@IiiJaca@starmkommando@KampfgruppeKrag Bataillons de Chars Légers (de Renault FT)
Average unit readiness rate during August 8 – November 11 Offensive Period
Day 0 (Start of operations): 80%
End of Day 1: 56%
End of Day 2: 39%
(After 2nd day, BdC typically withdrawn for maintenance and reconstitution)
@feelsdesperate Starting to worry the top Democrat economic goal of "give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you" may not be 100% compatible with my substack article "Abundance Agenda: How Us Smart Liberals Will Somehow Take Control From The Retards After We Win."
@IiiJaca@starmkommando@KampfgruppeKrag (The answers, if you were wondering, are "about 15 miles at around 3.5 miles per hour", "approximately every 20-25 hours of operation", and "30%". This is a vehicle useful only for being shipped by train to the front and acting as lumbering battering ram against static defenses.)
@IiiJaca@starmkommando@KampfgruppeKrag You are invited to imagine that I replied to this very stupid question with a picture of an incredulous-looking black man laughing at you.
@IiiJaca@starmkommando@KampfgruppeKrag Hey question, what's the unrefueled range of a Renault FT offroad, how long can the engine run before it has to be taken down for a complete overhaul, and what was the operational loss rate from a typical road march? Feel free to reply with numbers rather than cool black guy gif.
@The_WGD Least retarded visibly-brown ethnicity available. Unlike South Asians, East Asians typically do not, as I understand it, satisfy ESG grading criteria. This is also why most H-1Bs are Indian rather than Chinese: juice workforce diversity figures without hiring US blacks/Hispanics.
@FaustianCritic@a_desolate_land@N1archv The first few months is not going to be "you lose, fall back, make new line, repeat", it's "your engaged formations are going to be taking near enough to 100% casualties that the distinction is academic".
@FaustianCritic@a_desolate_land@N1archv I think you're drastically underestimating how bad the first few engagements would go for 1914 Germany. Their reconnaissance is performed entirely by cavalry. They have no machine guns below regimental level. They're marching troops in close-order formations on roads in daylight!
@AraragiGlazer@Mediocre_Chuch_ (And no, a large majority of Americans were not poor in 1960. Fewer than a quarter of Americans were below the poverty line in the 1960 Census - however, 3/4ths of Americans who WERE below the poverty line were white.)
@AraragiGlazer@Mediocre_Chuch_ The Irish were never considered non-white. That's another myth. Millions of Irish were naturalized in a period when US immigration policy was strictly whites-only. You should probably stop digging and reassess where you've picked up all of this extremely wrong information from.
@AraragiGlazer@Mediocre_Chuch_ "Poor people are probably less happy than rich people" is almost certainly true in all times, and under all systems of governance, but that's not what you said.