Aryte

You lecture at a narrow view; your first point notates we escalate gear when faced with trouble. The existence of said gear is present for that purpose. We ought not have anything but handguns if, when we run in to trouble, we question ourselves on a moral dilemma if we should utilize it, lest it make us “scared of losing.” The escalation of gear and use of heavy materials is not founded simply in the “fear of losing.” It’s natural escalation of force during the commission of battle. There need not be any worry about pulling out larger guns when the presence of said guns provides a tactical advantage: that is the entire point of battle, to have the tactical advantage and to ascertain victory. Your second point is irrelevant. We have never put our group into role by judging ourselves on how another group would act. Other groups have the manpower and gear. All groups we routinely interact with have the latter and freely employ it without shame of doing so (ex; Chaos utilizing a virtually immortal tank). Your third point. Arms races are not pointless effort and yield progress. Everything we use is from an arms race. We all battled at once time with G36s that were freebied. No joke. The AN used plane. We developed planes. The AN developed more advanced and efficient weapons. We developed even greater weapons. Armor, attachment air craft—all born out of arms races. No one simply sat there and went “this is a good idea.” We did it out of “this will kill enemy better, it is a good idea.” Training, certainly, impacts effectiveness. But there is no reason we should tie our hands behind our backs and avoid complimenting training with gear. We have the capability to do both: why restrict ourselves to simple means and “train better” to win? We need technology and heavy armaments to cope with the realities on the field. You can’t train to beat a tank with health regeneration that runs laps around a full fireteam dumping ammunition into it. You need the technology to destroy it. It is not demoralizing to accept defeat. The Ordo has been bested on the field of battle and used the opportunity to learn. We aren’t immortal. We’re just damn good at what we do and we’ve a lot of practice doing it. We’ll be demoralizing ourselves if we try to take the high road and expect success from avoiding the use of force in battle, as it’d be militarily, frankly, retarded to do so. You indicate we bend rules to claim victory, and yet I have no reports of such. I have no complaints of such. I have no details, only hearsay. If we so flagrantly abused rules to claim victory, you’d think something would come up from it. Valkeyr congratulation us and welcoming us back on every event? Chaos telling Mercz to leave so they can enjoy fighting Ordo? CO restricting Vanguard’s motions so our battle can continue? Bloody, glorious battles with AN that, although occasionally result in ban, always quickly resolve with unbans and more glorious, bloody battle? 2142, contacting us, asking if we’d like to skirmish in mixed teams with them? The enemy aren’t bitching. Are we that sneaky, then? Loss in a raid does not result in loss of raid privileges. That has not been the case for a very long time. Cite the last time someone was punished for someone who “brought home a loss.” Failure to demonstrate capability will result in loss of privileges. If you are utilizing what you’ve been taught and carry through in a dignified manner, no raid leader would ever see punishment. Carrying through, however, includes use of our technologies within permissible bounds to seek that victory. We aren’t throwing tantrums. And frankly, I’m insulted to have that insinuated as such. I’d imagine the folks who lead us in combat expeditions would be equally insulted, considering the effort they put forth. I remind you that our standards and strive for excellence in battle, victory or not, has been status quo for the Ordo since 2006. And it’s doing us just damn fine. I have personally lead hundreds. /Hundreds/ of raids. There are individuals in this group who rival my numbers at this point. Don’t arm chair politic our capabilities out of concern of being portrayed negatively, when we’re not receiving anything of the short from the folks we’re bringing the rain on. You’ve better things to do with your time than to lecture us on our combat ethos.

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[01:26:08] (COM) Kristian Kit: Youtube is filled with porn, you just need to know where to look

Just tell me if there's anything I can help with! :)

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Good luck, bro.

Results are in. Corrected to 20/10.

ROFL

Everything went well. Sleeping it off, now. ♥

Off I go. Nervousness setting in! Rofl. Thanks for the well wishes.

Afevis don't need no dumb pupils.

:D

Friday, I'm out for the whole day, I will be going in for Lasik at 9AM. This has been a long time coming and I am pretty excited. I probably fucked my my vision some years ago, so it's been a point of intent to get it back to where it was. Speculation is I could correct all the way to 20/10. SO. Wish me luck. Officers will keep things going while I'm out. I will likely sleep all day Friday and be back Saturday. :)

That's a given.

Crash doesn't just love us. He lives Ordo. Ask him about his tattoo.

Everyone please join us tomorrow, 13OCT11 at 6:00 for a little get-together and a good-luck party for Altus. He's off to go join the military and fight for freedom.

I think it's another Nagant.

^ rofl.

No. >:{

Yes. It is. Lol. Thus I want to be sure it stops.

I don't care if you do or don't like the show. My concern is any time someone mentions MLP, there's always someone who has to quickly shout "OMG FUCK MLP LOL~" Someone mentioning they like MLP doesn't hurt anyone, ergo there's no issue with that. Eroding someone self esteem because /you/ don't like MLP, is an issue.

There is no D in Congratulations.

✠ Missing a PRF? Please refer to your unit lead; if you've already done so and said unit lead has not provided a remedy, feel free to notify me. I will remedy it. ✠ Curious why you have not received a promotion? First, consider if you have fulfilled the necessary minimum requirement exams. If you have, feel free to ask me: we can discuss it and provide direction. Otherwise, keep in mind there is always next week! Keep up the good work. ✠ Contact me if you're an [E-5] and are eligible for elevation to [E-6]. We need to figure out what'cha gotta do to get there! Same goes for [E-6] to [E-7]. ✠ [E-1]'s -- please remember to read "Life After Schola" and remember to take your promotion examinations if you wish to seek elevation! The E-2 examination is painless, I promise. Don’t let it pass you up. If you need help finding them, send me an IM. [PRF] Asara Thursday Constantine Giugiario Dave3 Howley Jayce Iredell Kiara Smythe Kithsuneca Eilde Loki Cramer Ookamiwulf Lemton Reinhardt Stenvaag Temian Nightfire [Promotions] Dave3 Howley – [E-4] DaveyDarkStrider Oh – [E-6] Ken Bremer – [E-5] Mackenzie Macbain – [E-5] Radryl Allen – [E-3] Recalibar Zaytsev – [E-5] Reinhardt Stenvaag – [E-4] Temian Nightfire – [E-3] [Merits] Achtai Coronet - [Extended Service] * old! Asara Thursday –[Armatura] * completed Armatura. Havoc Sparta—[Armatura] * completed Armatura. Havoc Sparta – [Alpha] * elite unit membership. Havoc Sparta—[indoctrination] +25 * cited by command for faith and zeal; constantly volunteers to assist. Marc Gravois – [Medicus] +25 * cited by command for exemplary medic skills. Ookamiwulf Lemton—[Comrade Support] +25* cited by command for faith and zeal; constantly volunteers to assist. Reinhardt Stenvaag - [Medicus] +25* cited by command for exemplary medic skills. [Misc] Daeshana Sapeur (20QP) DaveyDarkStrider Oh (205QP) Kaska Czarny (25 QP) Robwolf Dragovar (20QP) Shizzerk Kostolany (5 QP) Tala Spingflower (105QP)

Howdy neighbor.