JcDent

A T-55 experience

Military history, video games and miniature wargaming.

RPGs, single player FPS, RTS and 4X, grog games.


Passionate about complaining about Warhammer.


Catholic, socialist, and an LGBT+ ally.


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Two dudes in the entire game (afaik) wear eye patches because they're war vets, give me one of those too Todd, let me roleplay my soldier character to be a war vet who also lost an eye so I can bond with the weirdo gun store owner on Neon or just please add some glasses to that universe, why does the Starfield universe not have glasses, like it's already an issue that disabilities are invisible/don't exist in most games, nobody uses mobility aids like canes or wheelchairs, they're just not a thing.

In Fallout they used wheelchairs to be regular static chairs for their skeleton tableaus but nobody who's alive uses one because they don't have the technology for that. In Starfield the cities aren't designed with them in mind (which could be a clever worldbuilding choice saying the future is not conscious of disabled people's needs but I'm sure it's not) but now with modern technology we have even less options than we did in 2015! (Fallout 4) or 2008! (Fallout 3) people don't even wear fucking glasses anymore!

I know there's like magic future plastic surgery in the Starfield universe so maybe they can fix people's vision problems with bionic eyes or new flesh eyes, I could buy that one if it was explicitly said out loud to me, except that still doesn't solve the question of why glasses just don't exist at all, people love to look fashionable, there's several odd and eccentric clothing choices with fancy dresses and suits with bright bold colors and patterns, people wear hats (tbh mostly boring baseball caps or cowboy hats), earrings and piercings, they have tattoos and cybernetic implant looking things stuck on their forehead but nobody wears glasses for style, even if they theoretically don't need it? come the fuck on. They don't even need to provide benefits like "better accuracy" or whatever, even if it had 0 stat bonuses I'd like to have the option to wear glasses because I can't live without mine irl, the world is a blur without glasses to me, but my in game character is too perfect, her vision is fine and there isn't a trait like New Vegas's "Four Eyes" where it could provide you with those said bonuses I don't care about but negatives if you weren't wearing any glasses, but no everybody has perfect vision in the cyberpunk dystopian liberal space democracy hell future, which shows some awesome worldbuilding choices and what priorities they had. they wanted the political setting to be fleshed out and left out basic things like "people wear glasses".




A combination of "my infantry is 43rd (Wessex), so the unit has to have palled around with them," "the unit has to have fielded Churchills" was painful even before I had to account for the decals that I have.

And there is very little firm grasp of what goes where exactly, though I did my best.

So this is one of the tanks of the C Squadron (round marking), 9RTR (yellow color, the 992 number), 31st Armored Brigade (the green hourglass).

One of the circles is filled in with black because sometimes the tankers did that, so Warlord included these in the Churchill box transfers. I scraped the black out of one before gluing it in, but I thought it made it fragile, so I left the other as is. Maybe I'll paint it in tomorrow.

The hourglass is a bitch of a decal because it follows the shape AND GUESS WHICH PART OF THE HOURGLASS SHAPE IS NOT VERY STRUCTURALLY SOUND??? Also, it's just not a very pleasing shape, but I was at my wits' end, 32st supported 43rd at Hill 112 and matching unit to tanks is always painful.

I have no idea if the unit ever had Churchill VI Bs and I don't care. Fuck you.

The 40 disc is the weight class. It doesn't go higher, Churchill is a huge bitch.

The star on the roof is what they used for aerial recognition in Europe to avoid getting pasted by Yanks friendly air.

9RTR has all "I" names (Iceni, Indefatigable, etc.), so I need to find a decal for one of the documented ones or make up my own (Inconvenient, Incontinent, Illegitimate, etc.).

War department number I can do without.

Weathering will be done at a much, much later date. I just can't anymore.