Best HFY story: Ghost Division | 2541 | r/HFY

[@boywonderrr71]

Chugs mug of coffee and slammed it into the floor "ANOTHER!" We want another chapter of this glorious story!

[@fyrebat404]

calling a bolo a tank is like calling a dreadnaught a war canoe

[@kennethhummel4409]

A Dreadnaught is just a war canoe with a lot of serious upgrades!

[@gillissn]

@@kennethhummel4409 A Pew-Pew Canoe!

[@lucielm]

​@@gillissn Pew-Pew Canoe is a frigate. Boom-boom canoe is a destroyer. Battle canoe is just Battleship

[@AltaniNerdAuRa]

Okay, maybe I am being slow but what is a bolo exactly in this case?

[@kennethhummel4409]

@@AltaniNerdAuRa a very large Tank with an A.I. to run systems and cut down crew size to one operator in the very last models. You have Mk1 to Mk30 as model series. Read Keith Laumer, he invented them for his stories but his estate lets other authors use his universe. The old Steve Jackson game OGRE uses BOLOs and that universe.

[@kennethhummel4409]

A company of BOLOs! That enemy hasn’t got a clue what they’re up against.

[@anathardayaldar]

B: I fire a 1 kilogram bullet.... X: Pfft. Your pea shooters can't harm us from orbit. lamao B: ... at 0.5 C X: Uh... C for celcius? B: lol no. X: FIRE EVERYTHING AT IT! MAKE IT GLOW RED! B: Ah, thanks for the charge up. My batteries were running low.

[@nela9994]

The Dinochrome Brigade for the Win.

[@dan-jacobenglish1559]

The Malevolent Universe likes this.

[@Ibian666]

What truly makes a BOLO a BOLO is the brain. This is just a big gun.

[@thomasmandell3002]

the SHEVA known as BUN BUN😂

[@Shadow.Dragon]

Great story; Excellent narration! Definitely got a "Bolo" vib from the story. Also, I caught the "Aliens" reference. I would like to hear a sequel, but I know what the outcome is already! LOL!!!

[@lofwyr1434]

Sounds like the "SheVa" used in the Legacy of the Aldenata series by John Ringo. There is a story about one named BunBun.

[@yomogami4561]

yep but bolo was first. i've read most of ringo's stuff on earth and enjoyed it

[@lawrencebassett5668]

Loved the Sluggy Freelance reference.

[@thomasmandell3002]

Wonder if there is a BUN BUN.

[@brianmorisset4489]

Shoot, move and communicate

[@Norbrookc]

Ahh.. they decided to do some Sluggy Freelance(ing)

[@merlinathrawes746]

General Patton would be proud.

[@stephiebaldau7593]

So would Rommel

[@jeanannd]

Good story! Thank you yet again for the fine narration of this for us. Long may the algorithm uphold your channel.

[@Wastelandman7000]

Nice BOLOS story. Now we need one for Hammer's Slammers. Cause a full platoon of those firing plasma at a serious percentage of C will also ruin your day LOL

[@thomasmandell3002]

SHEVA not a BOLO

[@Jaegerrants]

Heck one of the stories even states the Slammers tanks can take out satellites, a space ship is just a bigger target.

[@malysyforethought1195]

For the Author, For the Beard, For the rhythm that is Algo. Many thanks.

[@Logajam.]

The Dinochrome brigade and Sheva Corp welcome their little brothers.

[@josephminor1134]

More like Shevas 😅

[@robertstoneking7916]

So we got Kiki, is Bun Bun around? Somebody decided to build proper armor around a SheVa gun.

[@jpitch61]

finally bringing in the BOLOS

[@Ibian666]

There is a new game, Cosmoteer. You build spaceships with exactly the kind of weapons and utilities you like. And now I need another binge of that.

[@redlantern6669]

Fast as the wind, the invasion has begun Shaking the ground with the force of thousand guns

[@kurtismiller9544]

For DA SKWERL and his Nest

[@yomogami4561]

ooooh such a good story and to name the tank model after michael wittman? wonderful! hope to hear more stories from the author and their universe thanks for the narration

[@norsehawk]

Surprise! 14 ships destroyed in a matter of seconds, with 4 more heavily damaged without any warning... That will make anyone have a cold shiver run up their spine equivalent.

[@RealArcalian]

Greetings, Mentlegent! For the Rhyhtm that is Algo TANKS for the memories....

[@jeffkruth2226]

All hail Keith Laumer! The Bolo lives on into the 21st century! Now add AI and see where this goes....

[@PsionNovastar]

“Ghost Division”. I have an overwhelming urge to start singing Sabaton

[@Kamelophagous2]

Someones been reading some John Ringo. SHEVA's

[@Talon19]

Never underestimate the capacity for humans to find ways to throw ever bigger rocks at things.

[@mattbrown5511]

I wanted to see the MANPAD that takes out those behemoths. Seriously, I was a career grunt.

[@carlfranz6805]

Nice to see someone remembers Keith Laumer.

[@brianmeadows1137]

If it had a A.I. mind link with the Tank Commander it'd be a BOLO

[@thatboy5751]

Yes

[@tmac8396]

I know most everyone is describing the tanks as BOLOs, but given the appearance of Kiki from "Sluggy Freelance", I would say it is more of a Shiva Gun from the Legacy of the Aldenata by John Ringo. The primary Shiva Gun we follow in that series has Bun Bun painted on it. Even the rounds sound similar to what they used, though the one in this story was somewhat smaller if I remember; real Shiva Guns drive OVER cities.

[@ICountFrom0]

If that BEAUTY has a clip that can go POING I.... I think I'm in love.

[@453tye65e65e65e65]

I thought this was a reference to First Contact by Ralts Bloodthorne. I didnt know he borrowed the term BOLO. But he also uses large multi hunderd tone + tanks.

[@literalsarcasm1830]

Long live the Dinochrome Brigade!

[@453tye65e65e65e65]

I love First Contact by Ralts Bloodthorne

[@literalsarcasm1830]

@@453tye65e65e65e65 Bolo! by Keith Laumer is really good as well. It's all about the galaxy spanning war with the Melkonians and its aftermath.

[@snidecommenter7117]

Good old shoot and scoot.

[@mackenziedrake]

That's excellent.m Many thanks!

[@EllenbergW]

Haven't listened yet, but I'm really interested how 7th Panzer made it into space :)

[@nela9994]

Well, not all of them, just their ammo, mostly … *grin*

[@Pudyisgood]

It's a Sci-fi Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte

[@timobrien2813]

Good little story, thank you both. UKUK

[@ombrepourpre7562]

Ah, BOLLO tank in the planet. And 18 of them, if some low tech and early iterations of the proud war machine bloodline. Take this world and take the orbit will be costly 🤔

[@spencersmith9469]

Kiki's delivery service he's a 💯 satisfaction rating

[@GnarledStaff]

Wait, was that a reference to Kiki’s delivery service? I haven’t seen that since maybe kindergarten.

[@larsharris]

It’s good they found a way to negate the enemy holding the HIGH *Ground*. A Enemy in high orbit. *did I hear only 6 kilometers I space?*. IIRC that’s under 20k feet? That’s lower than most passenger jets can fly. Space starts at 100 kilometers I think. I would think they would stay at least 150kilometers up. Enjoy protection of gravity well, and boost to KEWs from gravity well. *plus really hot when it hits*.

[@JosephKano]

506 kilometres. Not 6 kilometres.

[@larsharris]

@@JosephKano ok I misheard.

[@Alex.H.B.1970something]

Bravo Sir Encore! Sorry I'm late. Edit, I think that the Ukraine war has proven that tanks are mobile coffins...

[@wolfoffenris9951]

Only if you use them like the both partys use them, just siting in the open without cover from above... yes they are still a high value target. But also a high value asset

[@Tiewaz]

Well, the Russian ones are definitely mobile coffins. They haven't really improved their tech for decades, much less their techniques, and are running out of actually trained tankers. Back in the Soviet era, they literally gave bad maps and only commanding vehicles had much for communications equipment...to keep anyone from making a run for it and defecting. It says something for the quality of leadership if the troops are implicitly trusted and have a mission they are willing to give their lives for.

[@bf-696]

So, basically a manual Bolo.

[@jgkitarel]

As others have noted, it is more a SheVa (for Shenandoah Valley, where it was first designed and made), from John Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenata series. Don't underestimate humanity when we thinks our back is to the wall, we tend to throw all the shit at it to see what sticks and then add things like rocks, explosives, guns, more guns, and bigger guns to it. We may lose, but we will make whatever is coming HURT and pay for its victory.

[@SLEPhoto]

For the all-gorilla

[@MarcelinoDanielsson-le4mz]

arf arf arf arf ! !

[@Jakes3130]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@carldooley9344]

Well, it was either Ringo or Weber. Which one did the Bolo series again?

[@thomasmandell3002]

@@carldooley9344: Keith Laumer.

[@davidbaldwin9830]

Your selection of stories seem superior to most. Some character development, humans are not constantly "determined", "resilient" ", " it's not over", and humans are not so INCREDIBLE compared to the thousands of other species in the universe. Those stories are boring and I guess AI generated. You funny voices are fun to.

[@gerardchartier9016]

My one criticism is that the super-tanks shouldn't have been named Wittmans. Michael Wittman was an officer in the Waffen SS, not someone we should be commemorating. Should have named them after someone like Lafayette Poole.

[@robertstoneking7916]

Waffen SS despite the uniforms weren't the same as Einsatzgruppen. They were soldiers, not the extermination squads. Their hands weren't clean but neither were the Wehrmacht's, even US troops did many things that would never fly today and weren't admitted to then.

[@CaptainShield]

For the Algorithm!

[@JosephKano]

That's no hill...

[@TheRealInscrutable]

200K

[@earmunchermuncher7639]

Fta

[@merlinwizard1000]

3rd, 7 October 2024

[@HeilTec]

👍

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