Episode 4 - Page 29
posted 14th Nov 2021, 8:55 AM
14th Nov 2021, 8:55 AM
mars
Well, we're boned.
In Alice's defense, building a tank entirely out of armour is sort of cheating. I mean, c'mon. It's almost like they came to this fight prepared.
Ah well, guess everybody dies and that's the end of that!
Roll credits, thanks for tuning in!
<3
See you next week!
-M
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14th Nov 2021, 9:16 AM
sigpig
And then the gun barrel splist open like a banana peel...
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15th Nov 2021, 8:34 AM
mars
Hey, if the Raygun's not working, may as well try the Bugs Bunny finger-in-the-barrel trick.
Nothing to lose!
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14th Nov 2021, 9:54 AM
someone
Cheating is how you win wars. Think about any military technology, offensive or defense, from prehistory to the speculated future: when it was invented, it was to gain an unfair advantage over the enemy.
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14th Nov 2021, 7:49 PM
Chaucer59
Probably started something like this:
The Strong Apes are bigger than us and they hit really hard. We can’t win.
Yes we can.
But they’re so big…
Yeah, so we throw rocks at them and poke them with sharp sticks to make them dead.
Hmm. That WOULD neutralize their strength advantage. I like this plan. Do you have a manifesto I can share with my clan?
No, but you can take some of these sharpened sticks to share with them—cutting edge warfare technology!
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15th Nov 2021, 8:48 AM
mars
I once had a highschool teacher make a comment about how "The entire history of human warfare is just people trying to find a way to throw a bigger rock farther"
Or something along that line - and it's always stuck with me. From throwing a rock at someone, to launching an ICBM, it's sort of the same equation. Win as winningly as possible - from a distance, from impenetrable armour, with an alpha-strike that cannot fail and will not allow a response, even with an information war/etc etc.
Always wondered if somewhere out there, an alien race evolved in such a different way that their way of waging war was like... totally different than ours. Like they don't attack directly or care if they die/win a battle, it's entirely about some sort of long-term cultural war spanning 1000 years or some such. Or it's all about out-surviving opponents in whatever way possible. No time for fistfights - all time goes to long term planning for the end-of-days, haha.
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14th Nov 2021, 8:30 PM
Tooniator
"Is this whole tank made of armor?" is my new favorite line.
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15th Nov 2021, 8:37 AM
mars
Not gonna lie, the whole page began with that line in my mind, and just sort of evolved around it accordingly, haha.
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15th Nov 2021, 9:18 AM
Thracecius
*long pause*
Umm, yes Alice, that armored vehicle you are currently perched on is made for warfare against equally potent land-based platforms of destruction, so yes, it is all made of armor, essentially, so as to survive being shot by other vehicles or soldiers.
*crickets chirping*
It's made to make other things go boom and not go boom itself?
Mars, I don't know how you channel Alice, but she cracks me up sometimes. :D Great page!
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18th Nov 2021, 11:13 AM
mars
Thanks as always ^_^ :D
My balancing trick with Alice is always to have her sort of spaced out, but not actually stupid. Talks-before-thinking sort of thing, but not just a cliché bumbling bimbo falling from panel to panel, haha.
That being said, this outing with Anna has been... rough on her, haha.
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18th Nov 2021, 8:00 PM
Chaucer59
Oh, I see. She was trying to melt the barrel. Bad idea. She should have fired into the barrel—right into the muzzle.
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