The Hankou Multifunction Response Team employs 9 warfighters spread across two SPEAR teams with a CCT element permanently attached to the unit.
Either SPEAR team can break into two-man subunits, providing base of fire and maneuver organically without support of the other fire team or CCT. Alternately, the Hankou force can advance together with both SPEAR teams and the CCT element creating a bounding overwatch that can overmatch and destroy isolated Ember subunits.
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"Liminal interactions continually escalated between USN warships and increasingly bold PLAN Maritime Militia proxies. At the request of the US Navy, Anchorage stood up a reciprocal force–Multifunction Response Team Ember. A counter-reconnaissance unit with search and rescue capabilities, Ember was staffed to provide an in-extremis contingency response to increasingly bold actions by Chinese Maritime Militia proxies in contested waters through the South China Sea." Excerpt _NearPresent Core Book #nearpresent #unforgivingclosecombat #darkwatersburn
Remembering when First Gundam was (partially) reanimated for the Sega Saturn. 30 years ago, we caught a glimpse of what a full remake could look like - with a glorious 90s anime aesthetic to boot. Mini image thread 🧵
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Made in USA M193 (55 gr FMJ-BT, brass case) is still just 44 cents, shipped.
Even though I reload on twin Dillon machines, with another kid on the way I'm not exactly full of free time. Gonna snag a few cases
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Pre-vis rendering of the current Near_Present 28mm line up.
The CCT were designed to integrate with existing airframes and surface craft allowing them to be deployed alongside troops without having to reinvent everything they touch (rotary wing and maritime infil platforms specifically).
[ Note the Anchorage and Hankou infantry are created at the same scale as the @AwbariBurns (BPRE28mm) line. ]
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Yep, made with Blender. I too could not believe this was actually CG and not 2D when I first saw it.
Lots going on to convincingly sell that look; the character animation is great of course, but there's also the camera angles, the smear frames, speed lines, chroma ab, and so on.
Brand New "EVANGELION" Anime Series Announced
Written by Yoko Taro (NieR Automata)
A Studio CloverWorks × Khara Production
Directors Kazuya Tsurumaki & Toko Yatabe