It’s Turnip28, everyone’s incompetent. The artillery is supporting Horseless Dragoons.

Jump good.

A photo was provided. For you, it is bad form to accuse art of being AI without any articulatable reason and without having even done a cursory image check. Going around accusing random pieces of art of being AI makes you a nuisance rather than a hero.

If you are worried about AI, a simple reverse image search could have cleared up your suspicions in about 30 seconds. It is bad form to accuse a piece of art of being AI based on nothing.

Please do not accuse art posted here of being AI without an articulatable reason.

I can’t confirm original provenance, but I checked before posting and found this image posted as far back as 2017, so I think it’s safe.

The engineering is there.

Precisely. Space is the ultimate high ground. Once the cage tower is high enough that it can be dangled from a geosynchronous orbital platform the defense will be impenetrable.

What about a second helicopter flying above the first one, slingload carrying a cage big enough to entirely protect the first helicopter?

Would you say it’s…noncredible?

Completely viable if you know what you’re doing. There’s a path past the quarry with a lot of small rocks on the ground. Aggro’d deathclaws chasing you will (usually) get stuck on them due to pathfinding glitchiness, allowing you to run straight to Vegas.

They were armored against .30 cal. A .50 cal/12.7mm would penetrate, but that’s the trade off for having a lightweight vehicle. It was only designed for small arms protection and artillery fragmentation protection.

As an APC, they were not intended to be assaulting when they were first designed. The M113 replaced the M59 APC, which also was only designed for small arms and artillery protection. This amount of protection or less than this was normal in troop carriers designed earlier than the M113. When you go back to WW2, most troop carriers had laughable amounts of comparative armor.

M113s had a Suffering From Success issue that as very good and modular APCs, they were used in what would later be recognized as an IFV role. Instead of being battle taxis that moved troops up while protecting them from artillery fragments and scattered small arms, the M113s were commonly used as assault vehicles, essentially doing the role just like a WW1 tank. The problems with using them in this way resulted some of the design considerations of the Bradley.

I haven’t specifically seen stories of bullets bouncing around multiple times inside. Maybe it happened, but documentation of it both happening and documentation that such a thing was more common than a freak occurrence would be something to find.

Riding on top of M113s, just like riding on top of many other vehicles happened/happens for a lot of reasons.

That is mostly down to what you’re painting. I think mostly you should get black, white, primary colors, and then a foundational shade of any color which you will use in large amounts.

A black and a white paint are both very useful. I don’t particularly like the Vallejo white, preferring the Pro-Acryl or Two Thin Coats whites.

Primary colors; red, blue, and yellow are good ideas because while I wouldn’t recommend fully mixing all your own colors, having these colors (along with white) will allow you to mix into most other colors to create highlight shades. I’d recommend bright, saturated shades.

I personally get a lot of use out of VMC Chocolate Brown, Pale grey Blue, and Hull Red. However a lot of that is down to what I’m painting.

I made it up.

War is just a series of tubes.

I’ve been using Two Thin Coats brand paints. I like how thin and workable their gold (‘Glistening Gold’) is straight out of the bottle while also having good coverage.

That era has a lot of great art, and expansions especially to side games sometimes aren’t super well preserved online, so feel free to post that anywhere here or in !warhammer40k@lemmy.world

The original big box.

It was in the Space Hulk: Genestealer expansion from 1990.