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Without getting into -4 STR shitposting, how does the female body work? How strong can they get and, purely based on their physical ability, how capable would a woman be of functioning in a military unit?
>Inb4 "adventurers are exceptional"
A lot of fantasy settings also have highl(over?)representation of women as nameless soldiers.
>>44601529
Lots of women could function in military units, the biggest issue with having females in the military would be sexual rather than their ability.
Holding formation and being skilled with weapons is what is important in soldiers, but having females in a camp mostly full of guys in a time like that is a recipe for disaster.
Depends how grim/realistic you want your setting though.
In a world where there are dragons and wizards having females with equal representation in military aspects is something that really shouldn't bother you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_human_physiology#Skeleton_and_muscular_system
>>44601529
>Without getting into -4 STR shitposting, how does the female body work?
For 75% a mans wage
>>44601529
>>44601529
>how capable would a woman be of functioning in a military unit?
Anything can be taught, if you do it correctly and from the ground up.
>>44601529
>220 posts
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I think at peak fitness, a woman is about 60% as capable as a man. By military standards that gap would be even greater. Then there's all the social issues of having mixed gender units. Which makes me wonder why they don't just have female-exclusive units and not have to deal with the problems to begin with.
The real interesting thing would be to see, in the next 20-40 years when cybernetics, robot bodies, and exosuits come along, and then you not only completely eliminate the physical differences between men and women combatants, but also possibly the social if identity doesn't even come into play.
Imagine a near-future unit where the woman is cybered up and is physically more capable than all the men combined, or there are just remote controlled robot soldiers or something and you don't know the gender or identity of the person steering it.
>>44601655
>I think at peak fitness, a woman is about 60% as capable as a man.
How do you figure?
>>44601660
I don't. It could be completely wrong, I just seem to recall hearing that number or statistic somewhere. I don't remember the exact number but I know it was more than 50% though not much more.
>>44601660
Likely from peak athletic records. Women's records are much less impressive than men's in most cases.
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>>44601655
>I think at peak fitness, a woman is about 60% as capable as a man.
Don't do this to me. Don't destroy my femdom fantasies.
>>44601655
>The real interesting thing would be to see, in the next 20-40 years when cybernetics, robot bodies, and exosuits come along, and then you not only completely eliminate the physical differences between men and women combatants, but also possibly the social if identity doesn't even come into play.
At that point it is literally the "What a shame" scenario. Your original body will no longer matter it will just be version number of your cybernetic rig.
However, having remote controlled or even autonomous robots doing physical labor instead of humans is a much more realistic scenario.
>>44601529
>what is Israel army
>>44601529
>Without getting into -4 STR shitposting, how does the female body work? How strong can they get and, purely based on their physical ability, how capable would a woman be of functioning in a military unit?
This will not be a good thread.
>>44601684
Which isn't to say they're still not impressive, it's just an issue of scale. An female Olympian is probably still gonna be able to wreck most people I know
Functioning in a military unit doesn't require peak physical condition, though. Sure, soldiers are expected to be fit, but there's still a gap between them and top athletes.
>>44601698
>>what is Israel army
A miserable little pile of human rights violations.
They're completely unsuited to combat and the average woman would horribly lose a fight with a below average man.
You just ignore that shit in fantasy for the same reason you don't stop wizards from casting spells because they wouldn't be able to in the real world.
>>44601686
I'm sure a woman athlete can beat your fatty ass every day.
>>44601529
Here's to (you)
>>44601660
>>44601669
The average woman has 60% as much upper body strength as the average man. At peak fitness, this gap increases exponentially.
Consider the following records:
Male Clean and Jerk: 586 lbs
Female Clean and Jerk: 418
Male Backlift: 6270 lbs
Female Backlift: Less then 2000 [can't find exact figure]
Male Squat: Over 1200 lbs
Female Squat: 800 lbs
Its just a totally different ballgame. Women are, on average and peak, weaker then men. Women being soldiers is just as much fantasy as dragons and wizards are.
>>44601686
He means under "ideal circumastanes." The gap between individuals if far greater than the average gap between genders. Same goes for the apparent myth that "men can't multitask but women can" studies showed that on average women are slightly better at multitasking but the variance between individuals is magnitudes greater than the average between genders.
Even among male soldiers there are some that are just outright terrible.
>>44601686
>Don't do this to me. Don't destroy my femdom fantasies.
well it's all relative. She's still gonna be able to bend you backwards and ride you like a Lipizzaner
>>44601529
With both ancient and modern militaries, a large factor is the weight of the gear being carried around, which is calibrated to fit on the average man.
If you can somehow get around this need (many fantasy settings have ways around supply lines and supplies in general) then it should really just be a matter of flavour.
Only mature thoughtful discussion will come from this thread
>>44601720
>completely unsuited to combat
Only the Sith deal in absolutes.
>the average woman would horribly lose a fight with a below average man
This isn't about fistfights, anon. This is about war. Given a decent weapon and some physical training, anyone can hurt anyone else. No amount of muscle mass or bone density is going to keep you from getting cut the fuck up and bleeding out.
>>44601701
Sure, sure. It's just that when you look at them, it's instantly obvious why men and women have separate categories.
Strength is the most obvious, but even things that are more about speed and agility still go for men.
Women are
>Shorter by a wide margin
>Have less reach
>Less running speed (due to hip bone)
>Less shock absorption (because of less muscle)
>Less capacity for oxygen and blood flow (smaller chest cavity)
>Far less testosterone
>Far inferior grip strength
It's not even a close contest. Why do people keep making these threads? The genders are not even close to being equal physically, it's obvious to anyone who even basically observes human behavior and society.
>Hur why aren't women soldiers? They can be equal to men as soldiers right?
>Literally not a single fighting unit throughout the history of the world that featured females in any way that wasn't the result of an honor guard/pageantry or as a result of utter desperation
>No point throughout the entirety of human history were females were considered more disposable then males
>Literal reproductive mechanics including both mensuration AND pregnancy insures females are less capable of going out on campaigns or being away from safe conditions for long periods of time.
The only reason why people keep making these threads is retardation or b8, there can't be any other way.
>>44601686
Just imagine her as being part giant, a goddess, or better yet a Gnoll girl.
Or you could just get a better fetish. Femdom is the ultimate normie fetish, it's kind of irritating.
>>44601729
>Women being soldiers is just as much fantasy as dragons and wizards are.
Soldiers don't settle battles through weightlifting contests, anon.
>>44601780
Oddly enough in shooting women are basically on par. They take half as many shots and get half as many points so my extrapolation they get the same amount of points/shot.
>>44601788
>>44601758
No, but the average woman is also less durable then the average man, can carry less equipment than the average man, can work for shorter periods than the average man, and last but not least, warfare requires muscle.
The idea that any faggot with a sharp object is as good as any other faggot with a sharp object is bullocks. A 6'8 juggarnaut in fullplate is going to tear through manlets like tissue paper, 'skill' be damned.
>>44601529
>how capable would a woman be of functioning in a military unit?
Sun Tzu started with women. The Emperor's concubines, if I remember correctly. If a legion can be raised out of pampered courtisans, then any woman can be a soldier.
>>44601788
>>44601780
Saying that physical strength and capability aren't massively relevant to modern combat is just ridiculous.
Especially >>44601788, given how much weight a soldier has to carry around.
Confirmed for armchair weebs who don't even camp much less do combat.
>>44601808
>Sun Tzu started with women.
None of them became soldiers though. He more or less did it on a dare, to show that discipline can be taught to anyone.
>>44601814
Well, maybe. But it's just not AS HUGE a deal nowadays when you have have a big gun that tears through everything doing the heavy killing.
It's not like it's back in the days of swords and shields where you physically had to get in someones face and cut them in half manually
>>44601808
Leaving out the part where the Emperors male soldiers were massively fucking incompetent?
That's like saying a female MMA fighter could kick your basement dwelling ass and then acting like that's an impressive feat.
>>44601803
And a manlet in fullplate with a sharp object is going to tear through juggernaut without fullplate
>>44601529
>how capable would a woman be of functioning in a military unit?
If you mean melee military units like you depict, there is absolutely no contest between your average healthy woman and your average healthy man. There are even historical examples of all (or mostly) female units never winning a fight.
If you mean more modern military units, well, guns are a great equalizer in a lot of things. If you were interested in including female military units in your game but you still want to keep things kinda "realistic", they'd have to be a ranged unit. Perhaps bows or crossbows or something, although less upper body strength means less draw on a bow and ability to pull a crossbow. Or if you don't mind mixing a little steampunk into your fantasy, just give them guns.
Women simply aren't built for combat. Not being a /pol/ shill here, it's simply a repeatedly proven fact.
cheesecake pic is posted just for fun and not to be taken seriously.
>>44601803
to be fair, we long seince abandoned the "big millitary battle" style of war, it's more about short scrimishes and city battles now. Im willing to bet that most women can do fairly well, escpiecialy sience they are more violent than man when push comes to shove
>>44601814
They'd obviously get men, mules and other simple beasts to do the heavy lifting in between fighting. Duh.
Besides, though the load a soldier has to carry may be heavy, it isn't olympic-class weightlifting levels of heavy.
>>44601840
This. It wasn't a "real" military unit. It was just for show.
>>44601850
>manlet
>full plate
>>44601808
You gravely misunderstand the point of this story. It's not that Sun Zu turned the concubines into warriors. It's that he was asked if he though he could teach discipline to anyone, and replied that even these women who obviously had no virtues of war could do. Then he taught them discipline and showed everyone how he could make the women do tricks.
It's... not exactly a story that promotes women. The point was that he could even make something as unsuitable as those women do basic formations.
>>44601529
Stick 'em all in power armor and give them all the same training and they're all the same.
Next question.
>>44601843
AS huge a deal, no. Still, it means that unless the women use a shit-ton of tactics to control the engagements then they're most likely going to get their ass stomped in any one battle, and in any protracted conflict where maneuverability and endurance becomes a thing their completely screwed.
Guys are pretty much bred for conflict and fighting, whereas women are geared towards having kids and they give up a lot of capability in other areas for that.
It's just a simple fact. You'll always have the occasional outlier, and I'm not saying a woman won't be as capable as any man just because she's a woman.
But peak male combat performance is always going to out-perform peak female combat performance, and quite frankly it turns out being a lazy shit is one point where the genders are equal so it's not like every woman in the military is going to be trying their hardest while the guys are fatass base slobs.
>>44601843
>It's not like it's back in the days of swords and shields where you physically had to get in someones face and cut them in half manually
Swords aren't even that physically intensive to use, and if you really want to get easy mode you can use a spear. If you can stand in position and point a long stick at the enemy, you can work in a spear formation.
Of course being stronger helps, but that also helps today. Big guns are nice, but:
>You need to carry a lot of ammo to function in a prolonged conflict
>You need to carry supplies for the functioning of your unit and your own survival
>You need to carry medical supplies in case a comerade gets wounded
>You may need to carry that comerade himself, who might as well be a 200cm guy who weighs 110 kg
>You will be marching and patrolling a lot more often than you will be fighting, meaning you need stamina
>It's always possible that some kebab runs at your unit brandishing a sword, meaning you need to bayonet him down rather than open fire and risk hitting your own men and/or innocent bystanders
There is a very, very good reason why the military today still has physical standards, most likely higher than those of a peasant levy army.
>>44601881
>if you're under a certain height you can't wear fullplate
go home, you're drunk
>>44601861
>>44601850
You'd think wrong. Modern soldier's equipment weighs more then plate, and is less evenly distributed.
The average soldier has to carry over 50 lbs on his back, and be able to fight effectively, and be able to carry someone ELSE off the battlefield if necessary. None of this the average woman can do, even trained.
Nevermind the durability problem, which just cannot be fixed by anything short of genetic engineering. Women break easier, they are weaker with weaker bones.
Unless you are 6'3 and named Helga, join the Air Force. Because the army can not use you.
>>44601914
You misread my post.
I'm saying that a manlet in fullplate with a sword will tear through a juggernaut without the same equipement wite ease.
I'm not talking about the muscle required to go to war, that's another matters and I agree with you on that.
>>44601850
Ehhhhhhh . . . . .
I dunno about that man. I mean, is the juggernaut completely unarmed? Otherwise it's "Blunt object to the head while blocking the sharp object (also, let's take a moment to lawls at the manlet who went into battle using his sidearm ahahaha manlets.)"
I'd still place my bet on the 6'8" combat monster vs. the 5'8" manlet who lives in his parents castle.
>>44601862
. . . . . yeah, you have never gone camping even have you.
>That feel when you love strong women
>That feel when, as a consequence, you hate most if not all women
At least there's always my Chinese cartoons.
>>44601914
>The average soldier has to carry over 50 lbs on his back, and be able to fight effectively, and be able to carry someone ELSE off the battlefield if necessary. None of this the average woman can do, even trained.
>even trained.
Oh please.
>>44601928
Insofar as that is concerned, I will agree with you. A manlet in full plate will likely kill a giant without it. Same with a woman in armor vs a naked man. Armor in general is a massive edge.
>>44601930
Blunt object against armour > Sharp object against skin
Everytime, I will bet on the guy with a sword and an armour over the guy with no sword and no armour
>>44601930
Don't bring your weak-ass reasoning into a discussion about warfare if you've never assembled a jeep by yourself, anon.
>>44601940
Yes, a trained woman can easily reach male fitness standards. Thats why the army makes woman pass male fitness standards.
Oh wait.
>>44601684
Doesn't help that we don't have the same biological drive to compete like that so the number of women who aim for things like that is a lot smaller, or I believe it to be anyway, than the same cross section of the male population.
>>44601655
60% sounds way off because pound for pound the strength and endurance difference is pretty low.
>>44601862
The average soldiers equipment is around 60-70 pounds, bearing in mind that women have far slimmer shoulders and thus far less potential for muscle in the upper body by nature of a smaller skeletal system not to mention difference in the shape of pelvises that vastly increases the load on the hips and lower back of women, even in modern day combat the unfortunate truth is that women often vastly under preform when compared to men. The reason there is no female rangers isn't because it's a boys club, it's because the female body just isn;t designed to be put under that sort of stress, biologically, their role is to survive and give birth, dying while fighting and hunting is incredibly counter productive and thus they simply aren't built to fight and hunt and preform feats of phyiscal prowess like a man is.
>>44601914
As a volunteer firefighter you'd be surprised the size of the person a female firefighter can carry in full gear, even those under 6ft.
>>44601529
>Without getting into -4 STR shitposting, how does the female body work?
Why must you do this, Anon? You knew how this thread was going to turn out.
>>44601958
Standards are theoretical.
>>44601976
Your sex life is theoretical.
>>44601972
I guess he was just too curious to resist.
That or he was a troll.
>>44601529
What kind of military unit are we even talking about?
>>44601655
>Imagine a near-future unit where the woman is cybered up and is physically more capable than all the men combined, or there are just remote controlled robot soldiers or something and you don't know the gender or identity of the person steering it.
Metal Gear?
>>44601962
The point isn't whether they perform as well as men or whether they can bear as heavy a load as men.
The point is whether they can do so well enough to kill the other guys.
You don't need to be the best of the best in order to function, anon.
>>44601944
Ah, so the big guy is unarmed.
Well, yeah, no shit. That's why big guys get stabbed in bars by short dudes who think they're tough.
>>44601788
But it would be fucking cool if they did.
Honestly, I'd take a thread with worldbuilding for a race that solves all war through ritual weightlifting over the shitshow these totally unnecessary threads always become.
>>44602013
If the other guys are men, then yes it's kind of important if they can perform as well as men.
>>44602013
No, the point is you want the best of the best, because we are under no shortage of soldiers.
We don't have a fat manlet division, we don't need a woman division. Its literally just having weaker soldiers we don't need so people who don't fight feel better about themselves, and people who do fight die because their comrades are subpar.
Our society's mad desire to ignore evolution and biology has gone too far.
>>44601803
As someone who does sword work you don't know what your talking about. A blade through the kidney is a blade through the kidney.
>>44601962
While that's largely true you're still making the mistake of comparing taking inferences from a whole population and then applying it to the individual. Of course if you take an average height and weight man and have him face off against an average height and weight woman of course he's biased to win because on average we're shorter and weigh less than you are. But if you take a man and a woman of the same height and weight with the same level of fitness, it's going to be a close match.
Pullo! Get back in formation!
>>44601993
A baiting one.
>>44602013
>The point is whether they can do so well enough to kill the other guys.
Nigger, the military is about much more than just killing dudes. Even a high school shooter can do that.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/09/15/army-marine-leaders-weigh-test-data-female-combat-performance.html
I don't feel like a discussion held on a board for taiwanese pictographs is going to have more weight than a professional evaluation.
>>44601529
Holy fuck what the hell is wrong with her waist? It's like half the width of her shoulders and her legs look fucking dislocated. Not to mention the freaky ass spine curvature.
>>44602044
>Nigger, the military is about much more than just killing dudes
Keep drinking the kool-aid.
>>44602025
Oh really? Pick up a sword, drive it straight through a man in armor. If you can, give your sword to a child, and ask for the same result.
I'll wait. If you honestly work with swords and yet don't understand that the amount of POWER you can put behind a weapon matters, you shouldn't be working with swords.
>>44602045
I can see female Tank Soldiers, as they'd be smaller and better able to fit in the cramped confines of a tank (For example, only the smallest Russain soldiers were selected for tank duty as they made the insides as small and cramped as possible). Also physical strength would be less of an issue there save in repairing shed tracks and the like.
Historically women have fought either as special units, but more often in a defensive role. When the enemy is at the gates, it doesn't really matter that women can't march as long, or can't carry as much weight.
>>44602076
>drive it through a man in armor
>IN ARMOR
bitch please
>>44602079
Women, on average, are also less effected by g forces for much the same reason which makes them better fighter pilots.
>>44602079
Read the article.
'Tank Soldiers' need to be able to quickly drag their wounded comrades out of burning wreckages.
My setting solves this problem because guns exist, and there is a drug that negates the menstrual cycle.
>>44602028
If by same level of fitness you mean average man and olympian level athlete female, sure. If you mean two high level athletes where one happens to be a rather large woman the guy would crush her.
>>44602113
If a tank was crewed by people of approximately the same weight and height that wouldn't be as much a problem.
>>44601803
>No, but the average woman is also less durable then the average man,
In all fairness, the most durable human male on Earth is more or less equally vulnerable to everyone else to puncturing and cutting injuries because when it comes right down to it we aren't built to sustain those very well.
>>44602110
yeah, which is why we see the extreme amount of female fighter pilots everywhere. There's more to being a fighter pilot than tolerating g-forces.
>>44601796
lol
>>44602140
Except males can tolerate much more pain than females.
>>44602140
In all fairness, WW1 helmets couldn't withstand direct gunfire, yet they saved countless lives by resisting shrapnel. In warfare, every little advantage counts.
There's this one article I read years ago written by a woman who was in the army, and she talked about how she was given the opportunity to be one of the guys. She tried to keep up with them for a month or so and was struggling all the way. A big issue throughout her experience was that if she was to keep up with them when on the regular long marches, she'd end up being unable to carry all her equipment at the same time so another soldier would end up having to carry it if she was to keep going - in a real-world combat situation this would be absolutely the last thing you want. Everyone needs to carry their own weight.
Eventually she dropped out because she was literally physically destroyed and the stress on her body nearly rendered her infertile, plus iirc it gave her osteoporosis (can't remember the exact medical details of why). I think it took her something like the better part of a year to recover properly and even then she still has some persisting issues as a result of this.
Her point was that women need to accept that they aren't on the same level as men. If they want to try then go ahead but the bar should absolutely not be lowered. Our aim as a society should be equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.
>>44602122
>and there is a drug that negates the menstrual cycle.
I hope that drug also negates every other point made in this thread regarding basic female physiology.
>>44602134
Since you appear to have missed it: what matters most is body size and muscle cross-sectional area. If you take a woman and a man of the same height and the same weight the differences between their body size and muscle cross-sectional area are going to be minute.
>>44602148
Tolerating g forces is a big deal since it means you're less likely to black out when performing high speed maneuvers. But yes there are other things to it but none of them are particularly favored by the male sex.
>>44601529
Men are stronger, faster, more decisive (even when wrong), have higher thresholds for pain, have better hand-eye-coordination, locational awareness and spatial recognition.
If you are the weaker sex, just comfort yourself with the fact that females are still much better at having boobs. (and social stuff, colors, managing groups, not getting sick/immune system, non-violence in general).
>>44602207
This article?
You're so concerned with the physical yet you men are so retarded to not think about their psyche.
Women are incompetent in anything battle related in all areas.
You're no different from the creationists arguing against evolution, hope you realize that.
>>44602210
>But yes there are other things to it but none of them are particularly favored by the male sex.
Discounting the whole signing up the job to begin with thing.
>>44602210
>If you take a woman and a man of the same height and the same weight the differences between their body size and muscle cross-sectional area are going to be minute.
But that's wrong and you're wrong.
>>44602231
A very compelling argument good sir!
>>44601616
>For 75% a mans wage
Myth.
>>44602054
He's indirectly right, you're either killing the dudes, saving the dudes killing dudes, or making killing dudes even more efficient
>>44602245
Or moving around and preparing the stuff used by the dudes killing dudes. Can't leave out logistics.
>>44602013
>You don't need to be the best of the best in order to function, anon.
As someone who actually served in the Armed Forces, holy fuck is this shit true.
Some guys who made it into Basic were ripped dudes who were beyond the pale, some of the best athletes I've ever seen. Others (including myself originally) just barely passed the bar sometimes.
And you know what? The recruiter and drill instructor doesn't care. At all. Caring never even enters into his thought process. The CONCEPT of caring never enters his thought process even.
The idea is to make everyone reasonably fit, but most especially to shoot straight and for the love of god TAKE FUCKING ORDERS. Some of the best candidates who joined up washed out because they wouldn't just shut the fuck up and do what they were told, while shorter skinnier guys like me passed because I could do that.
What makes a professional army isn't strength or speed or endurance; that's hero worship "be all you can be" "one man can make all the difference" bullshit that likely hasn't applied for a very long time.
What makes a professional army now are five really simplistic things; numbers, firepower, good logistics, discipline, and training (as in in tactics and coordination and skills, not fitness).
The physical stuff I've seen keep getting a pass even if the guy isn't nearly as great as some others; you don't need to be "peak human", you just need to be "eh, good enough".
>>44602251
Yeah, I considered them in efficiency. I did forget the recording and teaching of killing dudes.
>>44601613
>its rib cage is more rounded and smaller,
+1 AGI
> and the pelvis generally not as high.
Small creature size
>This, combined with the female's weaker tendons & ligaments and a narrower intercondylar notch, causes increased susceptibility to injury of the ACL in female athletes. [12] [13] [14] [15]
-1 CON
>In contrast, the pelvis of the human male appears to be slightly more optimized (narrower) for walking
Men: +5 feet movement
>Males in general are seen to have denser, stronger bones, tendons, and ligaments.[19]
Men: +1 CON
>Males have a more pronounced Adam's apple or thyroid cartilage (and deeper voices) due to larger vocal cords.[22]
Men: +2 incoming crit damage, called shot to the neck
>Gross measures of body strength suggest a 40-50% difference in upper body strength between the sexes, and a 20-30% difference in lower body strength.
Assuming 10 is base STR, -4 STR to women seems fair
>Males typically have larger tracheae and branching bronchi, with about 56% greater lung volume per body mass.
+50% underwater breathing time
The only way to balance this is to inject survivalistic elements into the RPG and force men to eat about 1.5x what women need... which again, is fairly realistic
>>44602240
He's right, though. Proportionally, men have more muscle and the potential to develop more, owing partially to higher skeletal mass and partially to testosterone.
Sure, you can argue that if women had the exact same amount of muscle, then logically they'de be as big and strong, but that's exactly the point: they're not, and are not predisposed to become such.
>>44602253
I think what a lot of people are getting at here is that the section of the female population that meets "good enough" is smaller than the same for men, disregarding all non-physical factors.
>>44602210
Except it's not. Did you not take high school science?
Females carry more body fat, and much less muscle. Even if you train to the same "level", without resorting to testosterone and de facto gender swapping, males would outlift and outrun any female at peak fitness. Regardless of how similar they are in height and weight.
>>44601758
>This isn't about fistfights, anon. This is about war. Given a decent weapon and some physical training, anyone can hurt anyone else. No amount of muscle mass or bone density is going to keep you from getting cut the fuck up and bleeding out.
You seem to have a romanticized view of what war during the melee weapon age was like.
Hint: it was a lot of pushing and shoving, with the occasional pike or spear hitting from a distance. Most deaths did not happen during the clash.
They happened when someone was toppled over and killed with a misericorde, or poked to death from a spear.
All of the things you quoted directly contribute to the ability of someone to knock another over. No guile is going to magically topple someone on the ground.
>>44602240
I've got something you don't, cunt. Testosterone. It means even if in terms of proportion we're the same height and breadth, I still have significantly more muscle mass than you. Testosterone also means it's easier for me to gain muscle, easier by a long shot. And that is how it always will be and how it always has been. At peak fitness a woman will always be weaker than a man by a long shot. At the average level of fitness required for the military, the same applies.
Deal with it. This is the reality of the situation. People are different.
>>44602199
Who then died later of disease, trench warfare, poor conditions, worse tactics, and simple attrition.
WWI is a bad example for a lot of things, because there's a high probability that everyone who was ever saved by something just died later in the war anyway because of the truly disgusting casualty rates.
Am I the only one who hates women more and more as I learn more and more about them? I'm starting to think that maybe our ancestors had the right idea, that maybe women are nothing more than machines for producing children.
>>44602266
This is really the argument, sure women CAN make strong exceptional warriors but they will more than likely not. It's a great bait including the adventurers are exceptional quip because frankly, adventurers are exceptional and should be treated as such.
>>44602301
>I still have significantly more muscle mass than you
lmao
also firearms render this bullshit unessecary. why dont you have guns in your setting, /tg/?
>>44602305
hate is for fear
just ignore and move on, doing your own thing
>>44602305
Maybe try learning something about them from real life first. That might give you a more well-rounded image of them than reading threads on /tg/ and weightlifting records.
>>44601588
Actually no. The biggest problem IS in fact physical.
While there are plenty of women capable of doing some of the required exertion, they're in the top percentiles of fitness - very well beyond the average woman's capabilities. Conversely, the average man will be able to do this shit if he doesn't cheat his way through basic training.
Even with technological advancements, some differences remain critical. Tougher to piss with a full load, but that's minor. Less women are able to pull themselves up while wearing full gear - and thus more likely to require a helping hand, or simply take more time. In a combat situation this could endanger you or worse yet leave you with the knowledge that one or two people on your team died because you could not keep up.
Again it's not as though there are none that can pull it off (see those rangers), there's just many wise enough to realize they're not in that top level of women and take on other duties. It also turns out that despite what they constantly tell us, women aren't ACTUALLY more pain-resistant (their bodies just happen to produce a metric fuckton of drugs when they're giving birth), and their often more compact frames which help with vehicle conditions are counterbalanced by marginally lower spatial capabilities.
Again though: as long as they can pass the tests properly, there is/shouldbe no problem. It's really only a problem when shit like that NYFD affair occur, where pencilpushers obsessed with good PR force incompetents into the force by lowering standards or forcing exemptions/double-standards, and people that would have NEVER have made the cut if they were men end up causing incidents "because it's sexist if they don't".
Because that is fucking DANGEROUS
>>44602266
That's probably true, honestly.
But let me tell you, I never served in a single unit where there wasn't at least one guy who slowed down EVERYONE, and everyone knew it, and in none of those cases where those people women.
I was glad to get out of infantry honestly, I don't think I was ever physically or mentally suited for it and always felt like I was on the bottom percentile.
>>44601698
The mixed gender units have higher casualty rates than the single gender.
![French_cuirass_of_WWI[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Gbfjjyg.jpg "French_cuirass_of_WWI[1].jpg")
>>44602303
>because there's a high probability that everyone who was ever saved by something just died later in the war anyway
So they shouldn't have used helmets because they were going to die anyway?
This isn't exclusive to WWI, this is the story of military development since time immemorial. There are always factors that will cause casualties (welcome to planet earth, welcome to war) and great thinkers have always tried to reduce casualties in all fields, from wooden shields to canned food to steel helmets to theoretical futuristic armor.
WW1 is an excellent example because of all the shit that was tried, some succesfull and some less so.
>>44602322
>also firearms render this bullshit unessecary
Moving the goalposts much? Read the fucking thread. There's more to being in the military and combat situations than being able to point and shoot a fucking gun, such as moving around with the 70lb+ of equipment on your back.
>>44602322
Because I'm playing an Ice Age (time period, not movie) game.
>>44602305
I'm going to assume you were a faggot who put them on a pedestal and your vision of what they should be is ruined.
>>44602305
Probably. Women are better at a host of other things not related to war/violence/fitness, the single most important being anything to do with other people/emotions and social maneuvering.
>>44601529
Women are every bit as good distance runners as men, perhaps even more so. This means they'll be about as good in the march as men will, assuming they aren't exceptionally burdened. They could be entirely capable warriors--the gap there is much, much smaller than it is for raw athletics or hard labor. The issue is that they're generally too valuable for such societies to risk; population bounces back better with more females around. Guys are fundamentally expendable. So that means an army with a pile of women... maybe they have overpopulation problems. Maybe they go to war not to win, but to kill their women (and surplus men too). Could be a fun dystopic kind of deal.
>>44602322
>firearms make strength unnecessary for warfare.
You have to be stronger to be a modern soldier than you have to be to be a knight.
![1355451889359[2].png](https://i.imgur.com/zDDDrzA.png "1355451889359[2].png")
>>44602330
>Maybe try learning something about them from real life first.
I have, and that's the problem. You're going to get your butts hurt and call me a fedora tipper or whatever, but I find it harder and harder to find redeeming factors in women, to the point where I simply cannot be attracted to them. It has gotten to the point where I have to separate the idea of a woman from its reality in order to make sense of my heterosexuality.
>Inb4 'hurdurdurf you're gay xDDD'
>>44602337
Something like 200% higher, in fact.
>>44602305
I'm sure there are others, but since sll of this discussion is irrelevant to real life it doesn't matter so much.
Think of it this way; you probably deserve to be hated just as much just by being yourself every day of your life. Most people aren't particularly useful contributors to society, and have a job that literally any other person with training can do. Or in some cases have a job that serves no real purpose and get paid tons of money for it anyway and then get fooled into think the money means they somehow matter.
I think that we can all agree that women should be drafted into single-gender units and forced to go fight pointless wars in the desert for the current hegemon.
It's just feminism, of course
>>44602335
I can confirm this. My cousin went through basic recently, and the drill sergeants and trainers in general are terrified of getting charged with sexism or even more batshit stuff like sexual assault, so they don't push the women that hard at all. You'll see female soldiers lagging behind in a march or even carrying half the necessary gear and getting passed. Hopefully they washed out later.
>>44602307
Yes I know, that's why i specifically pointed out "all things equal". What the other moron was saying amounted to "a woman with the same stats as a man could never beat a man because the average woman can't be an average man".
>>44602336
Yeah I'd never want to be in the infantry even if I could join. Fuck that.
>>44601729
>Male Squat: Over 1200 lbs
>Female Squat: 800 lbs
That's equipment assisted - with 5m elastic bands on knees, a triple kevlar suit that stretches and needs 500-600lbs of weight to even bend into a squat position.
It's like comparing biking to running.
Male squat record is 1047 lbs with elastic wraps on knees.
938 lbs without wraps and drug tested.
Female squat record is 650 lbs (and the woman in question looks like pic related).
Female squat record made by an actual drug tested woman is 577,5 lbs.
>>44601709
You shouldn't Snipe innocent civilians with incendiary statements like that, anon.
Antisemitic insults like that are a DIME a dozen.
>>44602357
>>44602341
>All settings with firearms have modern military units, armor, and tactics
I was actually referring to Old West through Vietnam tech levels, but I won't stop your retardation.
>>44602379
As someone who actually served, I legitimately couldn't give a fuck either way in fact.
From my personal experiences individual effort affects tactical victory and goal-meeting in such a marginal way that it doesn't matter.
>>44602262
>>Males typically have larger tracheae and branching bronchi, with about 56% greater lung volume per body mass.
>+50% underwater breathing time
Not just that, it traslates to running endurance, weightlifting capacity, and a hundred other things.
>>44602348
>I'm going to assume you were a faggot who put them on a pedestal and your vision of what they should be is ruined.
Depends on what you call a pedestal. Feminism promised me women I could call my equal in each and every way, and that is what I expected. Women themselves raised my expectations of women so high, none of them could fulfill them.
Perhaps if I grew up in the 1820s, engrained with the idea that women are overgrown children, I could've found them endearing simply because I wouldn't be disappointed.
>>44602336
Then you meet shit people.
Which is not really that surprising because most people are shit.
Next time you go out try to keep tabs of how many dudes you hate as well and you'll realize that you just hate people and not just women.
or you just want a chick that acts like a dude, and good luck with that one because they're at most one in 50.
>>44602262
>halflings and goblin are sized about like 10 year old children and have -2 str
>adult women are weaker than they were as children
eh
>>44602354
>marathon record
>about 25 men before the first woman
>they could be entirely capable warriors despite being physically inferior in essentially ever manner
>>44602394
>puns
Worse than turbohitler.
>>44602413
Wasn't there this boy who was so good at hockey, he outperformed the adult women he played with and was banned from playing with them because of it, and then had to go to court just to continue doing what he's talented at?
>>44602301
Considering you're a guy on /tg/ no you probably don't.
>>44602391
>Yeah I'd never want to be in the infantry even if I could join. Fuck that.
I didn't want to be either but it's a bitch getting anyone to look at you for officer-rank jobs like Intel and analysis of you couldn't get a commission.
Eventually I got accepted and everything got a lot better, but ironically the process of being shot at and then deciding who gets to be shot where because of what intel we did or didn't have more or less turned me off to the whole "heroism and patriotism" thing, and I am now convinced women can be let if they can pass grade simply because the romantic idea of the physical ability of the modern soldier mattering more then other factors is just a made-up fantasy commercials tell you.
>>44602253
The guys here seem to think that only special forces are military or something
>>44602394
As a man of Jewish descent, I don't like jokes about us Jews.
I think they often cement prejudices and misinterpretations of the Jewish people and culture.
But, every now and then, even I enjoy a good laugh and feel that I shouldn't be so serious about everything.
So I have a very good joke about the holocaust here, if anyone wants to buy it.
>>44602413
Newest edition of Runequest gives Halflings a fucking terrifying amount of penalties to everything. They roll their Strength on 2d6 and roll 1d3+6 for Size. The stats for humans have a maximum of 18.
An average halfling has a good chance of dealing literally 0 damage with a melee attack, because holy fucking shit they're tiny and feeble.For some reason the game still arms the example halfling with a shortsword (for them) and a sling instead of large reach weapons and crossbows that could ease that pain somewhat.
>>44602451
>Military is only special forces
>Female investigators, agents, and spies also automatically perform worse at everything because fuck if i know
these threads in a nutshell
>>44602438
Worldclass professional women's football teams train by playing against armature junior boys teams. They routinely lose to highschoolers.
>>44602449
So where do they usually put women that join the military? I'm not terribly familiar with it.
>>44602409
No, I have plenty of friends and have been married for three years at this point. But I'll fully admit most people I meet just don't interest me in the slightest beyond an academic interest in hearing their stories.
I still try to help as many people as I can though, which I'm not sure what that says about me; either that I'm cynical and trying not to be, that I'm an idealist who turned cynical, or that I'm just trying to prove myself wrong or what.
>>44602438
Gotta be honest, this sounds like the product of a fevered imagination.
I mean, where does he live that the only place he can play hockey is against adult women?
>>44602468
I don't think anyone's disputing that women are better at passing undetected or seducing information out of men.
>>44602467
Sounds like a shitty game desu
>Have all these penalties, person-who-wants-to-pay-halflings! I'll just sit here in my ivory tower laughing at you
>>44602451
Well, they are. Everybody else is either a schlub with a gun or a desk jockey.
>>44602461
Jokes are supposed to have a kernel of truth anon
>>44602478
The bin.
>>44602483
You misunderstand. What he was good at was beating women in hockey. He had to fight hard to be allowed to keep doing that. He was a brave, brave man who wouldn't give up.
>>44602489
That gave me a giggle.
>>44602262
>The only way to balance this
The thing is basically that you are paying a certain level for a certain level of strength. What you should do is instead assign male and female NPCs appropriate strengths, but it shouldn't affect PCs -- because, again, they pay for strength 10, strength 15, or strength 18, or str 1-5 in WW, or whatever.
In the RPG I'm working on, you basically just select a size for your character, some characters are going to be fitter than others, but by and large how rough and tough your char can be will depend on your size. Most girls are going to be smaller, so most girl chars will be weaker. That's how i see it anyway.
>>44602382
Gods, don't remind me.
Two years ago I got a fat black chick. We're talking tubby, angry, expects everyone to treat her like a queen walking talking finger-wagging stereotype here (and people wonder why we always go for white women). It was very clearly implied to us that bitchqueen lardo here was our commitment to equality. In other words, she was gonna pass.
Luckily, there's one thing you can't smooth over, and that's keeping hash in your asscrack. Certainly this one was never going to be infantry, but we managed to keep our standards high enough for even the desk workers, even if just once.
This is why waaay back before "in the day" you couldn't actually be any kind of elected official without having had gone to war. Because chickenhawks pull off these stunts.
>>44601709
Oh look, /pol/'s anti-semitism has leaked.
>>44602486
How many people with drawfism do you see join the infantry.
There's a reason.
>>44602489
I think you missed his that kinda did.
>>44602512
>being anti-isreal violations of Palestinian humanity is being anti-jew
>>44602505
Why didnt he play against guys?
>>44602478
Noncom duties where they perform just about as well as any man. Medical, intel, supply, logistics, the background stuff that really makes 90% of everything possible.
It's all very boring and also it matters more then anything the very best, very fittest, most highly trained soldier in the entire history of world could do, which right away dispels the entire myth of the importance of the individual and his skill.
A lot of this shit both in the military and out of it about women comes down to some folks basing their automatic assumptions that everything will work at 100% efficiency at a BASELINE, which in my practical experience is so far from being true it can't even see what the truth looks like from where it's standing.
>>44602511
>Gods
Indian pls.
>>44602486
To be fair, they're not intended to be playable as such, and the stats are in the bestiary. Literally anything from the bestiary would be playable if the DM allowed you to, since it tells you the stat rolls that you can use to generate a creature, as well as the average stats.
By default, only humans are playable.
Oh, and I guess halflings have a bonus to dexterity and intelligence, since they're nimble and smart. But those bonuses are much less than the penalties. Of course, Runequest does not try to be a balanced game and the default setting from the Book of Quests puts forward that minotaurs might totally be a PC-eligible race.Minotaurs have literally inhumanly high physical stats and this is a game where a normal human can kill or maim another with one good weapon blow. A minotaur would be fucking ridiculous as a PC
>>44602522
I was also making a joke anon. I understood the joke being made, I was you know, adding a secondary joke referencing holocaust denial.
>>44602512
Those /pol/ guys are always saying Jew this, Jew that. The Jews are behind everything, the Jews are bad.. and now they're just up and making cruel jokes now, it's always about how the Jews are stingy, Jews are cheapskates; that's nothing but an anti-Semitic canard perpetuated by mindless parroting bigots, I'm not buying any of this crap.
>>44602524
>Jews are the only Semites
>>44602438
how old was this boy? 10 year old males, 14 year old males and 17 year old children are very different.
And people do mature at different rates.
>>44602467
I don't mind small races being smaller and weaker but they do pigeonhole 'em into certain weapons.
>>44602527
Because he was so good against women, duh. Why would he play against guys when beating women was what he was good at?
>>44602487
They're still military, actual combat personnel is like 10% of the total, but all the remaining 90% is still military.
>>44602524
>>44602539
>the Jewish state doesn't have the right to defend itself from genocide
>but I'm not an anti-semite!
>>44602559
>>the Jewish state doesn't have the right to defend itself from genocide
>genocide
Slow down.
>>44602336
Military training is about making the slowest guy (there is always a slowest guy) be above a certain line. That's it.
What this thread is all about is that women on average would be the slowest guy (girl) and that it would be more difficult to bring her up to the line.
The factors that cause this are innumerable and mostly biological.
Also you all know that the -4 STR thing is more or less correct.
>>44602559
>"we have to genocide them before they genocide us, if we don't oppress them they might try to take the land we took from them back!"
Why the hell are you dickbats posting about Jews? Who the fuck even cares about the Jews?
What a gigantic waste of time that is.
>>44602556
If the desk monkeys count as military then I count as a policeman.
>>44602559
Israel is one of the best equipped countries in the Middle East. If you're still getting genocides, it's for the best.
>>44602549
Well I can see the appeal of constantly beating people over and over but there isnt much point unless there is something approaching an equal match up.
>>44602556
Yeah but while that 90% might keep the 10% running most of the time the guys you are fighting arent going to be as worried by the guys doing reports as the guys whos job it is to kill them.
>>44601529
>how does the female body work?
That about sums up /tg/.
>>44602573
Well their goal, as that of Iran, is the destruction of Israel as a thing, without necessarily wanting the death of every jew in it (they're totes metaphorical bro). Still genocide though, 100%.
>>44602576
>Military training is about making the slowest guy (there is always a slowest guy) be above a certain line.
That's real helpful info coming to the guy who was one of the guys passing the aforementioned line. Just super contributory there.
I'm just arguing in the end matters a lot less then people think it does, mostly because physical fitness is one of the absolute last factors (and a non-determining one) in determining actual military success.
>>44602579
If the Israelis wanted to genocide the Palestinians, there wouldn't be Palestinians anymore.
>>44602622
You know, the same could be said about a certain event in the 1930's/1940's with the Germans and the Jews...
>>44602614
Now now you can't go tearing away the dreams of neckbeards with something silly like facts or nonsense like that.
>>44601882
>>44601808
He executed the favourite concubine because they were all goofing off, and got them to drill like a professional army because he showed he meant business
>>44602559
Well first off, the countries that created it should've fucking known better than to put ANYTHING into the fucking middle-east. Because there's never historically been already way too much going on in that fucking hellhole.
That said: no one has a problem with people defending themselves.
... EXCEPT when the "Defending themselves" is "from the other guys continuing to breathe in what we decided is also our fucking land", and the "Defending" is done by systematic and deliberate annihilation of civilian infrastructure using numerous weapons that constitute grave violations of numerous conventions purposefully against unarmed noncombatants.
We don't like what those monsters in the US did with their little "enemy combatants" stunt and guantanamo over in the west either, just so you don't think you're the only one we have a problem with. But "all the other genocidal torture tyrants are doing it" is not a good excuse.
Taking issue with Israel for being murderous assholes with a penchant for blowing the heads off children after forcing them out of their homes with sustained bombardment and white motherfucking phosphorous has not a fucking thing to do with Judaism, and quite frankly it's a goddamn disservice, as it paints the entire religion in a horrific fucking light whenever someone tries to hide atrocities behind it.
YWHW didn't do it, a bunch of assholes did it and claim everyone hates them for loving him when they're called on being dicks.
Okay imagine you need to create an organism to survive. You make it as smart strong and agaile as possible. Now imagine you need to make a secondary model that for large amounts of time is physically incapable of strenuous activity and can't afford to spend calories on anything but the kid it's creating. The concessions to that fact that evoltion had to make are why women are biologically incapable of outdoing men physically.
>>44602614
>mostly because physical fitness is one of the absolute last factors (and a non-determining one) in determining actual military success.
What? No. As he said, its about BASIC physical fitness, and BASIC physical fitness is an absolute requirement for military success. Again, we're talking about BASIC physical fitness, people's bodies not being a nonfunctional wreck.
>>44602335
Another big issue is (unflatteringly) infection. Woman hygiene objectively requires more care than a man's, particularly their lady parts.
And when you consider some of the harsher conditions soldiers end up in, having one of your troops in a life or death situations with persistent pain between their legs is a big issue.
>>44602635
The hell I can't.
I got to both get shot at and decide who gets to be shot at, the least I'm allowed to do is dispel illusions even if I'm not equipped to clarify the overall issue.
>>44601529
Go ask the army. This isn't a new question, and the military as an instituiopn has years of experience trying to figure out what should be expected of women and men in terms of physical ability.
Minimum requirements for Arm Basic Training Physicla Fitness Tests (PFT):
Age Group Gender Push-Ups Sit-Ups 2-Mile Run
17 - 21 Male 35 47 16:36
17 - 21 Female 13 47 19:42
22 - 26 Male 31 43 17:30
22 - 26 Female 11 43 20:36
We see that on upper body strength (Push-Ups) women are expected to perform at 35%-37% of male capacity, or just over 1/3.
In core strength (Sit-Ups) women are expected to perform as capably as men.
Finally in endurance (2-Mile Run) women perform at about 15%-20% worse than men.
This indicates is that women would reduce the speed of an army on the march to about 85% of it's potential, and would not be reliable on the front lines, as using most weapons and holding-up a shield requires significant upper body strength. The core strength equivalency indicates that women would be a suitable substitute for men in more generalized physical activity, like setting up a camp. This is why historically women have served as support personnel (i.e. camp followers) but not front line soldiers.
If you really want/need women as combatants then you should emphasize special training in martial disciplines which emphasize core strength over upper-body strength and technique over endurance. In RPGs this would mean monk/rouge/assassin classes, and/or an emphasis on martial arts skills/feats.
No, not even with guns.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/09/11/marine-study-women-in-combat-injured-more-often-than-men.html
>>44602622
Okay, so the Israelis aren't taking part in an actual genocide.
They're still forcing Palestinians to live in a virtual apartheid. Which is..better but still pretty shitty, all things considered.
>>44602634
Yeah, there are a lot of parallels and it is probably the most ironic apartheid state to ever exist.
>>44602646
Periods suck but they shouldn't be crippling unless you're doing something retarded like drinking alcohol or eating foods that pisses the body off.
>>44601529
The average woman is fairly unsuited for combat. Recent studies by various Western militaries that are trying to get woman put into combat roles have shown this. Women in Army Rangers training suffered huge dropouts, not because of psychological pressure or anything gay like that, but because of microfractures to the hips and legs sustained during training.
It's literally a matter of bone structure and muscular development which are both largely governed by hormones in childhood and adolescence. Exceptional individuals do exist, and in history we have seen women fight in wars many times, but it should not be construed as a normal activity that most women could do.
There's also the matter of sanitation, which effects women far more negatively than men (the less said about that, the better) and of course, social issues. Mixed-sex units have repeatedly performed more poorly than all-man units in every test.
And this is with guns. Imagine how horrible it would be if it were with halberds and axes. Yes, there are certainly women out there who could hold their own in that environment, but those instances would be extremely rare.
I'm not normally one to try and spoil peoples' fun, but right now in real life there are militaries lowering the standards for entry so that women can take on firefighter and military positions because denying them would be considered sexist. This is how Hultgreen died, and she almost took one person with her. It's only going to get worse if we continue the trend en-masse.
>>44602640
Fighting back is just, not an atrocity.
>>44602398
Good point, I didn't think outside the box
>>44602614
But it doesn't. Read the article that was linked to in the thread somewhere. You had all-male units outperforming gender integrated units on all areas (marksmanship, performance, tactics etc) as well as women simply not being able to do stuff that men are able to AND having a higher injury ratio.
In reality that would translate to the women being the slowest guy and the entire unit being brought down because of them. In other words, women in combat roles is a bad proposition because it makes the unit perform worse.
>>44602657
>If you really want/need women as combatants then you should emphasize special training in martial disciplines which emphasize core strength over upper-body strength and technique over endurance. In RPGs this would mean monk/rouge/assassin classes, and/or an emphasis on martial arts skills/feats.
Assuming a realistic RPG where the characters aren't heroes already capable of doing impossible bullshit at a baseline of course. Which of course means not D&D, which is probably what OP was talking about by laws of averages.
Actually, you know what?
This isn't a world building thread anymore and it's not even about traditional games in the vaguely only barely related way things like Quest threads are, and that's just fucking sad, contributing less then a quest thread. No system has been mentioned, no game has been brought up, no play experience has been mentioned, no game theories have been brought up, and no world building has been done.
>>44602643
You need to stop using arguments like this to explain evolutionary theory.
Evolution does the PATH OF LEAST EFFORT OR RESISTANCE
You know why women are physically poor? Because men would either take care of them OR they would just rape them and pass on the genes anyway. That is the sad truth, and is why women are not physically capable. They never had to be.
>>44602622
But then they wouldn't be "At war" and "Threatened" anymore.
And any department that exists for specific reasons can tell you it's not good if that reason goes away.
Israel doesn't want the palestinians completely gone (just reduced to scavenging tribals that occasionally can still fire a rocket but are mostly just enjoyable to watch languish in despair and agony) because that would be bad for politicians that got where they are thanks to current conditions, bad for the military top-brass (as opposed to the soldiers who occasionally *do* get fucking rockets shot at them) and contractors who depend on this "war footing" for maximum lucrative goodness, bad for the intelligence services who'd just lost the 'need' for their newest budget increases, and thus also bad for international relations with their closest allies who are mostly this despite what's going on because they get paid a lot of money selling them materiel.
It's just like the DEA, who'd lose most of their operating raison d'etre (that's french for budget) quickly if all those cartels and smugglers stopped dealing drugs and guns across the border every day.
And just like the FBI and NSA, who need regular terrorist activity (and are quite adept at making some, no less) because if we're not "being attacked", we don't need them to be anywhere near as monolithic or powerful as they are and will become.
There's no firemen without fire, no police without crime. And people in charge of things that have placed them above the law who don't want to lose THEIR jobs?
They're gonna make damn sure they get to keep it a long time.
>>44602697
>This isn't a world building thread anymore and it's not even about traditional games in the vaguely only barely related way things like Quest threads are, and that's just fucking sad, contributing less then a quest thread. No system has been mentioned, no game has been brought up, no play experience has been mentioned, no game theories have been brought up, and no world building has been done.
I'll repost my earlier post and expand
>Setting has 1960's level technology, every faction primarily uses firearms
>Drugs suppress the menstrual cycle to the point where females can serve in the armies just fine
>At the end of the day, it doesn't matter your race of gender- the Things From Beyond can eviscerate you no matter your STR stat
>>44602659
>They're still forcing Palestinians to live in a virtual apartheid.
The Palestinians are totally vicious and intractable, 89%ish support terrorist attacks on civilians, flat out. It is of absolutely no relevance to me who is to blame -- but yes, the Israelis have been offered all sorts of lush, cozy lands for free that are uninhabited, but because Israel was founded by fanatical theocrats they wanted their nasty chunk of desert from the Brits, and who used terror tactics even to persuade other jews to come with.
And yet -- who fucking cares? The Palestinians having a legitimate reason for their grudge (most grudges have a legitimate reason behind them). Ancient history is not relevant.
When you have a population who almost entirely supports terrorist attacks on your civilians, obviously you have to keep them separate to some degree and keep armed forces on high alert.
When you have a group of completely vicious people who genuinely cannot be reasoned with, whether the 'occupiers' are good or bad, they're going to have lots of opportunities to be made to look bad. The Palestinians do their very best to try to discredit the Israelis.
Me? I don't have a horse in that race, except that Israel's our greatest ally. I do know that if I go to Palestine, I'm going to be fucking kidnapped or killed because of ancient history, and if I go to Israel, I'm not going to be.
>>44602262
Women are less likely to be colorblind since the more common type is an X chromosomally recessive trait.
Of course no one is going to want to roll on a table for X chromosomally recessive diseases.
>>44602772
That sounds like something FATAL would have.
>>44602772
>Women are less likely to be colorblind since the more common type is an X chromosomally recessive trait.
You need not roll for it in a system like GURPS.
>>44602680
That entirely depends on who you're targeting.
If you shoot at me, and I respond by napalming your entire village, particularly when I'm fairly sure you're not even there right now anyways... That's not just.
It's the *disproportionate* responses, and the responses deliberately targeted at unrelated shit miles over like schools and hospitals, or never so much as disciplining our guys when they decide "oh look children playing with a ball I'm gonna make their heads explode" that are the problem.
They're also cause for much of the retaliation. Because even if you get the guy that threw a grenade your way, you now have two dozen people who've lost everything to your response, may not have all that long to live themselves either due to complications (and an expected lack of medical supplies), and can't see anyone dressed like you are without vivid flashbacks of when they dug out their mother's torso from the childhood home that's now several craters.
I mean what exactly do you think that guy is going to do now with what time he has left?
Of course, Israeli leaders *know* this. They're not stupid. But they're not at risk of being killed, some nameless civvies or shmucks forced to patrol the strip are the only ones available for one-arm-billy over there to retaliate against.
>>44602588
>Israel is one of the best equipped countries in the Middle East
Literally the only reason why Israel still exists. Well, that and Arab militaries being fucking horrible even if they have the technological upper hand. The Samson option helps too.
>>44602640
When you get down to it, the bottom line is that in these conflicts, you will have one side that makes an effort to avoid killing civilians and one side that makes every effort to kill civilians.
Yup.
>>44602226
I think >>44602207 was thinking of [pic attached], though this woman was a Marine, not Army.
>>44602640
>by systematic and deliberate annihilation of civilian infrastructure using numerous weapons that constitute grave violations of numerous conventions purposefully against unarmed noncombatants.
I hope you're not talking about the Geneva Convention, since if you have read the Geneva Convention, you'd be aware that merely performing military actions out of uniform or at least without a weapon drawn is itself a war crime, and that likewise according to the Geneva Convention, blowing up whole city blocks to wipe out the enemy's facilities are perfectly legitimate. The Geneva Convention is nothing like a code of playing nice. In virtually all the ways regarding the Geneva Convention the Palestinians cannot win and the Israelis cannot lose.
Its like a more modern version of the code of chivalry, which endorses fights being 1v1, etc. Its about ensuring the underdog loses, if you want to be cynical about it.
>>44602735
The French for budget is "budget".
Fuck all this bellyaching and whining. Let's go along with the assumption that women are in fact physically weaker than men. What advantages do women have over men and how can these advantages be integrated into an RPG?
I can think of a few off the top of my head, such as better social/emotional functioning. I also remember reading somewhere that women are better at identifying colours than men due to their evolutionary history that involved them gathering fruits, berries and plants while the men were out hunting. The ability to see the minute difference between one kind of edible red berry and one kind of poison berry with a very slightly different shade of red meant all the difference between life and death.
Come on, I want shit like this. No more dumb arguing over MEN STRONK/WOMEN STRONK, I want to know what women can actually do better than men. Let's be productive you fucks.
>>44602044
Found the Euro
>>44602734
This is also why in some species they're *huge* in comparison to males.
Doesn't happen where the offspring have extremely high energy requirements (don't let the vegan hiding his ten artificial supplement bottles fool you: we literally cannot live on just grass. Not humans) due to high density brain structures though, because as it turns out, that plus slow development/long-vulnerability-stage in offspring is fucking draining on the female.
Being smaller isn't just a matter of "not needed". It's also a positive trait, as much lower energy requirements make a massive difference in survival once you factor making kids.
>>44602794
Yes, it's just a -1 points perk in GURPS. The -10 disadvantage version means your character can literally see no colors other than shades of grey.
>>44602576
>Also you all know that the -4 STR thing is more or less correct.
It's only 50% off from RL, yes.
>>44602820
I think you know the answer already; in the end, no one in this thread actually cares and it's all probably about something very different.
>>44602810
I was making a funny.
That's french for 'drole'
>>44602795
The Israeli response is disproportionately mild.
>>44602795
The Israelis have a responsibility to stop rocket attacks on their communities, which, ineffective as they often may be, the goal is to kill civilians. This is like the Bajorans and Cardassians all over again; the goal is to provoke them into a disproportionate (but still 100% legit by the Geneva Convention) counterterrorist action.
And note, while the Israelis have a responsibility to protecting their people, they have no responsibility to protect the enemy.
If this was WW2, we'd deal with terrorists by carpet bombing their city into bloody rubble until they either surrender or until their city is GONE. And that's if you're lucky.
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>>44602823
Man no, I'm euro and my military is made of people who want to go to exotic lands, meet foreign people and culture, and shoot them until they stop moving, and that's plenty ok.
Watching over the country when there's a terrorist threat or helping in disasters' just a side job.
>>44602820
If women have lower strength on average, you're just assigning that strength to other stats.
I play female chars for a number of reason, but one is so I can dump stat str.
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>>44602809
Actually, independents AND the UN investigations have found no evidence whatsoever of palestine doing any out-of-uniform attacks in this way. Every time they've gone in on israel's claims to such acts, it turns out to be unrelated unarmed civilians.
Blowing up city blocks to wipe out enemy facilities when your intel shows there are none is not perfectly legitimate. It's a war crime.
>>44602820
For non-adventurers? Basically nothing.
Adventuring women are statistical outliers, far more than men, is all. THEY get to HAVE an 18 that they put somewhere else, or even have it in STR themselves. Sure, they'll never be Heracles, but like 95% of the population doesn't have a fucking 18 strength either.
>>44602886
>For non-adventurers? Basically nothing.
Is this an active admittance of 99% of this thread being a waste of time then?
>>44602820
The problem is that a lot of the stuff they're good at tends to be social stuff, which is a morass of nature vs. nurture.
Physically, they seem to be good at making and having babies. Which is pretty important. I believe they have stronger immune systems and since they more easily store body fat and tend to have slower metabolisms they're better at surviving periods of starvation?
>>44602861
>Actually, independents AND the UN investigations have found no evidence whatsoever of palestine doing any out-of-uniform attacks in this way.
The rockets? The suicide bombers? Remember?
>Blowing up city blocks to wipe out enemy facilities when your intel shows there are none is not perfectly legitimate.
Its not exactly a secret that Hamas attacks from civilian positions whenever possible to minimize counterattack and maximize propaganda -- and while I may be hesitant to blow the whole city block away, its 100% legitimate by the Geneva Convention to do so.
Just from their mass out-of-uniform attacks on Israel, Hamas is a mass of irredeemable war criminals by Geneva Convention standards.
To come up with a way to crucify Israel in this respect, one needs to come up with a new definition of morality in which the side that minimizes killing civilians is evil and the one that maximizes killing civilians is good.
>>44602904
>>44602904
Yes. There are no remotely popular RPGs where stats and stat distribution are intended as simulationist in nature, even if their *effects* may be.
You get a char of a given race and of a given set of stats. Its up to you to rationalize it.
And for the record, yes I do give female chars typically about -4 to -8 str points lower than their male counterparts, whenever possible.
>>44602934
Is that a man or a woman?
>>44602670
No, I meant vaginal infections like thrush, the environments soldiers are in are a breeding ground for infections like that.
>>44602810
I think it's a joke, just like some US official (I think it was Rice, but don't quote me on that) saying that the problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.
>>44602820
>I want to know what women can actually do better than men.
sandwiches
>>44602940
I'd tap it either way.
>>44602940
It's Ally Sheedy.
>>44602944
It's even funnier when you realise France has more economic freedom (and thus entrepreneurs) than the US because all the help to new businesses means even more people get to try and succeed.
>>44602940
It's Meg Ryan ffs
>>44602366
i got a solution for you, stop hanging out with the "popular" croud and stard with the normals/nerdys ones. Most women are chill as long as you take them for drink and nod for two hours from time to time, this gets all the bullshit out
>>44602957
>>44602965
So, uh...
... I mean, not to be an asshole or anything, but that doesn't answer my question.
Man or woman?
>>44602898
>you can tell because of the way none of the men are concerned about protecting her
Wow, that's a fucking clever detail.
