Best combat animal
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I'm trying to pick the best animal companion to help me in glorious battle. Lots of close melee combat likely. Ideally I would like to ride my beast into battle but it's not a must.
Water operations not likely, but I wouldn't mind keeping my options open.
Arctic ops, desert ops, jungle ops all likely as well. I could probably put insulated armor on my battle buddy to make it more versatile.
Suggestions?
>>30441929
Dog
Combat wombat
Bonus points if you own a hodaka
>>30441929
A motherfucking badger.
>>30441929
You almost go it right.
How crazy can I go with the gear? I want a doggo with a button that he can bite to mark GPS coordinates, a visible+FLIR camera to stream me video, and a suppressed .22 that I can remote control. It'll be like a remote control robot but semi autonomous and intelligent
>5 posts
>not one person said horse
>>30442208
>high caloric intake
>large
>does not fight
>>30441929
Seriously though a dog is the best option.
Either an Ovcharka if you just cant help yourself or a pit bull of some sort and make sure its the opposite gender of you they get much more protective then.
>>30442208
Do camels count?
>>30442006
This. Swarms of honey badgers with armor and sharpened teeth/claws
Honey Bager for 300
>>30441929
>tfw combat snail
>>30442257
you know u can train a horse to fight? i mean have u ever seen a horse run trough a crowd of people?
>>30442257
Ovcharkas are bears, not dogs.
>>30442296
You can train it to run single people down. Horses won't just run into a crowd if they feel they can't charge through and no you don't train them to fight but train them to not run away in panic while you fight from its back.
>>30442377
how about we give the horse a cow-catcher to improve crowd-plowing performance
>>30442359
>implying bears can even compete
It got taken down from youtube but some crazy russian bred bears and held them all (3 or 4) in check with two ovcharkas who were ~80% of the size... Maybe even smaller becaus they have that crazy fur but they were visibly smaller and rekt the bears whenever they got rowdy.
>>30441929
a really big face-ripping-off dog or a really well trained tracking dog. preferably both but you dont want half of both
>>30442433
this. half these damn large attack dog breeds were bred specifically to murder bears for entertainment
![Wojtek_the_bear[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qog8PJv.jpg "Wojtek_the_bear[1].jpg")
A bear
>can carry heavy supplies and is smart enough to deliver them correctly
>already considered one of the hardest animals to kill when enraged, but now you can armor it
>can charge at 35 miles per hour
>it's a bear, it's just naturally good at fucking people up whenever it wants
pic related, Polish artillery corp Syrian brown bear. He liked beer and cigarettes, hauled crates of artillery shells by hand and eventually became a corporal.
I don't really think it's practical to ride a bear, but it might work in a pinch for a cavalry charge type maneuver if it's big enough.
grizzly bear or polar bears would be physically preferable, but I'm not sure you could convince one to be your companion
Here you go, anon, the nastiest bastard piece of work in the animal kingdom.
Crocodiles? It eats them. Lions? It eats them. Cape Buffalo? Even they know not to start shit with a hippo.
Guns? Its hide is thick enough to ignore small arms fire. Amphibious? No shit it's a fucking hippo, man. Fighting style? It knocks you down and bites off your genitals.
But wait there's more. It can spin its tail to projectile shit over a wide area behind it. Not even cowardly attacks from the rear will work on the hippo.
What I'm trying to say, anon, is that the hippo is the answer to all your combat needs and will fuck shit up.
Note: hippo may knock you down bite off your genitals and sodomize you to death. Do not taunt hippo. Do not approach hippo from the rear. Do not get between hippo and sexy female hippo.
>>30442522
fucking aquatic killing machines
personally, I hope we someday bio-engineer arachnids.
>>30442660
You have to kidding me.
>>30442522
/thread
What would you do to weaponize/protect/utilize your battle Buddy?
>>30442093
Great post, but how feasible is all that stuff?
What do you guys currently have in your animal warriors?
Boars! Need I say more?
>>30442490
>yfw you're outranked by a bear
>>30442522
It can't swim.
So unless you have scuba gear in that saddle bag, you just died on that river crossing.
>>30442660
Nothing could go wrong with that idea
>>30442783
Moar Boar always says moar.
>2016
>not riding into battle on an armored elephant
>>30442791
It's like riding a living tank, of course you have a snorkel.
>>30442932
>ywn use an AT4 on a giant mammal
>>30442287
Da Fuck killer fresh water snail
>>30442791
>can't swim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE0FviKHKOk
>>30443084
Did you even watch the video? Hippos don't swim, they run (and occasionally glide) along the river bed.
>>30443269
>superman can't fly
![shot_placement_hippo_side_brain[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/OAuW9SW.jpg "shot_placement_hippo_side_brain[1].jpg")
>>30442522
they're also the stupidest animal for their size. Better hope you're not anywhere close by when you unleash the war hippos.
>>30443269
I have personally witnessed hippos swim on the top of a deep lake. We had to get out of dodge fast because they became interested in the boat.
They prefer to clomp around underwater but are capable of floating for extended periods.
>>30443673
>Barr also attempted to measure the bite pressure of an adult male hippo, but had to abandon the attempt due to the male's aggressiveness.
