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Sundog

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  1. That's better. Nice idea, especially for off-road and difficult terrain, especially given how small it folds up.
  2. Can't see it. Get a flash of "please whitelist" then the entire screen goes blank.
  3. D3A. It was the more technologically advanced of the two, and more survivable by role - dive bombers had a significantly better chance of surviving their runs than torpedo bombers did. Dystopias - Mega-City One from Judge Dredd or Blade Runner's Los Angeles
  4. The Wellington had advantages in range and climb, but in everything else the Halifax outshone it. There's no way a twin-engine can match a quad in bomb weight or ceiling. Swords: Sabre vs Cutlass.
  5. I'd love to call 2300, because the Kafers were quite interesting. But Traveller had the Hivers and the K'kree, which were very alien, and I like that more. So, Traveller. Weapons of conquerors: Roman Gladius vs Zulu Iklwa.
  6. The Pinkerton Detective Agency actually has a very good name in business. They have a reputation for loyalty, integrity, confidentiality and security. And they don't give a darn about what people who don't hire them think.
  7. The launch complex, the gantry, everything within half a Kilometer... This is just not good design work. Too much opportunity for failure.
  8. Hammerhead. Atmosphere capable and armed with missiles as well as cannon. Battlestar vs Imperial Star Destroyer.
  9. P61. There were plenty of light bombers and ground attack planes, not so many good night fighters. Nuclear Bombers: Tupolev TU-95 vs Convair B-36
  10. Primitive cargo cranes were quite common on Roman-era docks. All that's needed is a counterweighted arm and a fulcrum - could even be disassembled when not in use.
  11. If by "sailing ship" you mean a square-rigged tall ship, by the time of those they could make a planed bottomed small craft fairly easily. Rather than launch from the ship, use a crane to lower a boat-bottomed ornithopter (basically a flying boat) over the side and let it take off under it's own power. Reverse the procedure for recovery.
  12. Sinatra. Not as good a vocalist as Bennet (whom I also love) but a better entertainer and showman, and an excellent actor to boot. Tench class submarine vs I-400 class submarine
  13. Helldiver. The Dauntless was apparently the superior plane to fly, but the Helldiver beat the heck out of it in capability. One for the ship nerds: Armoured deck carrier vs unarmoured deck carrier?
  14. B17. Did most of the heavy lifting in WWII. Plus, the B29 was a bit of a disappointment - the next really good US heavy bomber was the B36 Peacemaker. Which would you rather have? A model rail set or a model racing car set?
  15. I rather had hoped we'd seen the end of that character...
  16. Been personally quarantining for a week now. Most of the symptoms gone, just feels like a head cold.
  17. Also, the Monkey King is usually portrayed as human sized. Reasonably, as would be any kids.
  18. The Serious Man Captain Chronos actually hesitated in recruiting The Serious Man, because his world's end was very dangerous even to Chronos. His world was literally dissolving into nothingness, his entire universe ceasing to be. But nevertheless, the good Captain felt it was the only way. The Serious Man's powers are subtle. Everything around him becomes, for lack of a better term, a little more real. Powers that warp the laws of physics stop being able to do so. Chemistry starts working on very hard and strict laws. Energy beams can exist, but if you want to bounce a shot - well, better make sure that mirror is pretty much optically perfect. Why was this important? Because he was up against a force that was making everything UNreal. making it fake, false, a creation of a diseased mind. The universe cannot hold itself together without effective constants, and now there were no constants. For years earlier, a strange and warped mind had discovered a way to impose his worldview on the entire universe. Now, The Serious Man must find and stop that crazed individual. He must stop Foxbat.
  19. Atrocity was never more than an associate member of Indecency, because some of the members really didn't want to work with him. His "schtick" was to go for the maximum body count, preferably as bloodily as possible. Yet another "product" of the various super-soldier initiatives, Atrocity was trained and enhanced to be the supreme terror weapon. The fact that he no longer had any sort of moral compass or loyalty to anyone or anything was viewed by his handlers as a success in bio-mental conditioning - until he went off the reservation - and just kept going. Atrocity hated Virtuous for stopping some of his most "creative" exploits. So he tricked the superhero into trying to stop a runaway tanker truck full of petroleum - except that it was actually full of dioxygen difluoride. And designed to spray it's contents all over anyone trying to get the tanker under control. Or so he claimed, after a PRIMUS team finally brought him in. The detonation leveled several city blocks. No trace of what was at the centre of the blast was ever determined.
  20. Hmm, most of my family is up around Bremerton, so they should be OK.
  21. Given the possible background, make it an acrobatics/scrambling movement. I've generally found that it's best to use Flight with the limitation "in or near contact with a surface" as a limitation, as it gets the SFX across without being either too limiting or too complex. Add a meter of clinging for holding on to vertical surfaces.
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