Best HFY story: The humans charged | 2595

Best HFY story: The humans charged | 2595 | r/HFY7

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@urbypilot2136 Ай бұрын

Hmmm, a surprising lack of shovels.😅

@JakTheRipper-01 Ай бұрын

"We pray for one last landing On the globe that gave us birth Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies And the cool, green hills of Earth."

@merlinathrawes746 Ай бұрын

I'm not sure of the origins of that, but I believe it was repeated in Robert A. Heinlein's "Methuselah's Children".

@JakTheRipper-01 Ай бұрын

@@merlinathrawes746 Try "The Green Hills of Earth". It has all of the blind poet Rhysling's stories.

@robertstoneking7916 Ай бұрын

@@JakTheRipper-01 A jetman from Earth's early days in space. When the power piles still failed somewhat often.

@Aminuts2009 Ай бұрын

"Whats that sound I hear Sargent?" asked the concordance officer. "A human music group I believe sir. Sabaton." said the Sargent.

@Wastelandman7000 Ай бұрын

The Attack of The Dead Men I wonder?

@vonkug Ай бұрын

I can hear the baseline reading this

@fenrir6002 Ай бұрын

@@Wastelandman7000 I'd go with stormtrooper.

@oblivion_rose1889 Ай бұрын

@@fenrir6002 offworld itteration of Primus Victoria would go hard

@Jaegerrants 16 күн бұрын

Allways ask What is the price of a mile as you go To hell and back

@mikehenthorn1778 Ай бұрын

Alien " why ? " Human " because I have a rendezvous with death at midnight in some flaming town"

@MarrockV Ай бұрын

And the humans brought their war-crime sticks, nice.

@tarrantwolf Ай бұрын

Of course we brought Canadians with us. Ohhh, wait, you said sticks not people.

@derekstein6193 Ай бұрын

@@tarrantwolf Canadian soldiers: "I came to kick ass and eat pancakes. And I am all out of maple syrup."

@aeternusdoleo4531 Ай бұрын

@@derekstein6193 And then they apologize before the asskicking starts...

@mansfieldtime Ай бұрын

The greatest thing about humanity is in it's pure determination to improve, explore, and create. Though in a word, humanity is curious.

@merlinathrawes746 Ай бұрын

Well do we know trench warfare. At least these soldiers had some type of shield. That's more than the Doughboys of WWI could say.

@whyjnot420 Ай бұрын

I like the idea that we are talking about something used more like a ballistic shield is used today. The idea of some all encompassing energy field that functions as a shield works good at times. But given the amount of energy and tech someone would presumably need to make something like that, I think it really only works with high value objects or people. Giving the grunts something that is essentially "good enough" comes across as more believable. The majority of any real military will be at least a little behind the curve when it comes to innovation. Simply because they are fielding things that work, not things that might possibly work if more money is thrown at its development (if they aren't being run by and filled with morons). I think this is the perfect excuse to allow for a good range of kit in any fictional setting. So I love details like this. One other thing. To be fair, it is not as if the soldiers of WW1 were totally denied armor. Perhaps at first this was true, but before too long serious thought was going into it and implementations like the helmet soon followed. It wouldn't be true for the doughboys, since the US entered late. Simply being able to produce a helmet out of a stamping reliably is somewhat challenging (it is very easy to stretch the metal too thin, making them ineffective or just tearing it apart while making it). Can you imagine what it took to mass produce them by the millions and then get them to the troops? Can we make it? Can our boys use it? Is it practical for them to use it? Can we make it by the billions? Can our boys use them by the billions? And so on... this basic idea goes far when talking about massive militaries.

@tarrantwolf Ай бұрын

One thing I haven't seen is anyone talking about a dual shield system. A normal sci-fi shield for energy weapons but also an inertial shield for kinetics. It absorbs the kinetics emergy and just makes it stop, undamaged midair. All sci-fi has inertial dampners so why not inertial shields?

@whyjnot420 Ай бұрын

@@tarrantwolf So, what, Instantly transforming kinetic energy into something, what? Energy needs to go somewhere and you can't 1:1 it when you transform it. How does it take the energy from the thrown rock? You need some interaction to stop the projectile. That interaction is already accounted for when talking inertial dampeners in space ships a la Star Wars. The people are already in the ship, standing on deck etc. Any movement external to that is dampened within. When the rock comes at the shield, they are two distinct systems, that point of interaction has not occurred. Another thing: The inertial dampeners are generally the kind of thing meant to stop the ship from turning crew into a fine tomato paste. Generally speaking they are making 200g turns feel like 2g turns or something. Presuming we are talking sci-fi, lets move to the g forces involved in stopping a railgun shooting a 1% or some other significant fraction of the speed of light. Basically said, it would have to dissipate not just a couple hundred Gs worth of force, but thousands or tens of thousands or who knows.

@tarrantwolf Ай бұрын

@whyjnot420 yes, it would have to be able to absorb enough of the kinetic energy, hence also, a weakness. An object with too much energy can overload the system or it might not be able to process the energy fast enough to slow down the object. Therefore, not a god mode shield. As for interacting with the object. We have no idea how an inertial field would work, it doesn't exist, yet, if ever. It could produce a field like a magnetic field that interacts with an object at a range, or maybe it's something that can be directed and a computer has to detect an incoming object, which means you could possible overload such a system with to many objects. It's sci-fi, the points it's imaginary based on what we think might be possible someday. And if we learn how to modify inertia there's no telling what we could do with it. For example, implants that let you maneuver in microgravity as easily as we can walk around a room.

@tarrantwolf Ай бұрын

@whyjnot420 or manipulate the objects around us as if by telekinesis, if you're willing to expend the increased energy costs.

@bigjay875 Ай бұрын

Thanks, that was a very good one

@liamdevlin5980 Ай бұрын

Wonderful story and well read!

@Jakes3130 Ай бұрын

The onion ninjas almost got me.

@christinepearson5788 Ай бұрын

Strange that they didn't have a creeping barrage and troops on the ragged edge .

@CharlesAhner Ай бұрын

I guess the human's tanks were on the next wave of transports as well.

@alganhar1 Ай бұрын

Most HFY authors have no frickin idea of how WWI was actually fought is why.

@anathardayaldar Ай бұрын

I guess with space age tech, pin point artillery would be finaly possible.

@mc-145-mc Ай бұрын

Man time sure does fly quickly it's already December of 2024

@vinnyganzano1930 Ай бұрын

Don't bloody remind me, 22 days to Christmas and I'm more broke than a French infantry division at Waterloo😉🇬🇧🥳

@mc-145-mc Ай бұрын

@vinnyganzano1930 “there is nothing we can do"

@Lawrence0S Ай бұрын

Wasn't covid last week? 😅

@noahkleugh9323 Ай бұрын

Fun flies when doing time.

@kdmbigpig Ай бұрын

Damn, I hadn't even noticed

@goldosprey Ай бұрын

*Begins playing Stormtroopers* Also I knew that trench gun was hapenning

@derekstein6193 Ай бұрын

Well, you can't NOT use it in trench warfare; otherwise, that would be false advertising.

@alganhar1 Ай бұрын

@@derekstein6193 Its also so much effing propaganda. Do Americans honestly believe that no one else experimented with shotguns in the trenches? They absolutely did. What most people these days do not realise is that shotgun ammunition in 1914 - 1918 is NOT THE SAME as modern shotgun ammunition. The shell casing was made of waxed cardboard. Let that sink in. Waxed cardboard. So you know what happens to ammunition made of waxed cardboard in the trenches of North Western Europe? A place known for being a tad on the damp side? It fails. A LOT. Those 'trenchguns' had around a 50% feed failure rate, and to add insult to injury also had around a 50% chance of failure when you pulled the damned trigger. The ammunition would be deformed or swollen either through damp or simple damage and would fail to fire or feed most of the time. As a result most doughboys issued with 'trench guns' lost the damned things as soon as an officer was not looking and replaced them with rifles, a at least with a rifle they knew it would probably feed in a new round when you cycled the bolt, and would probably go bang when you pulled the trigger.... It was not until 1919 that a brass shotgun shell entered service, and not until well into the inter war years that a plastic type shotgun shell was developed. And here is a fun little fact, if you were to offer a Ukrainian soldier a shotgun or a bag of hand grenades for trench clearing, I bet you everything I own he would take the grenades. The king of trench clearing weapons for the infantry was the grenade, not the trench shotgun which is an overhyped, over propagandised piece of garbage for trench operations.

@aeternusdoleo4531 Ай бұрын

Slightly disappointed that the flamethrowers were not broken out of storage. "War is hell. When it isn't, we'll make it hell."

@alganhar1 Ай бұрын

Whoever wrote this knows sweet FA about how battles in WWI were ACTUALLY fought. The artillery does NOT stop when the infantry go over the tops, it continues. There would be a phased creeping barrage, part of it dropping on the objective trench to supress it, part dropping on the area between the objective and the rest of the enemy lines to stop reinforcement, part dropping on enemy positions to the rear, again to stop reinforcement. Artillery would also drop to either side of the objective to stop reinforcement rom the flanks. The barrage on the objective would ONLY lift a few seconds before the infantry assaulted it, and ONLY the barrage on the objective would lift. The main box would be maintained, as would the fire on what is now the new no mans land to break up any potential counter attack. And that is all done WITHOUT modern communications, fifteen years BEFORE the first man portable radios were invented. As for the shotguns, no one else used shotguns not because they were stupid, but because they found that they did not work. They did not have the range to be effective in defence, and were not destructive enough to replace the hand grenade in offence. Or in defence for that matter, the king of trench clearing was not the damned shotgun, it was the holy hand grenade. This was a fact recognised by the American troops who actually had to use those shotguns. Most of them 'lost' them as soon as an officer was not looking and replaced them with a rifle and a bag of grenades. Even today, I bet you everything I own, that if you were to offer a Ukrainian soldier a bad of grenades or a shotgun for trench clearing, they will take the grenades....

@liamdevlin5980 Ай бұрын

This is a sci-fi story... try to enjoy life a little friend.

@KMCA779 Ай бұрын

creeping barrage was a Canadian invention. Maybe a Currie could step in.

@nirfz 5 күн бұрын

I think i remember hearing that the shotgun ammo was the biggest problem, as plastic wasn'T around, and the damp conditions made the waxed cardboard the cartridges were made out of (in front of the brass casehead) soggy and sticky. So they would not go in or out. And if you can't reload your gun it's just a heavy cumberome stick. Also some fractions viewed the shotgun use equally as bad as poison gas. (as causing unnecessary pain) Something else about the ww1 reference made in the beginning: in the speech of the commader, he said "...unlike our ancestors, our cause is just.." Who is he talking about here? Every single nation involved saw their cause as just.

@taliawtf6944 Ай бұрын

Happy gasmask noises while reading entrenching tool

@GaryPaschkeSrGaryFPaschkeSr54 Ай бұрын

A most excellent story! Well written and made more enjoyable by the narrator!

@wildwikedwanderer1208 Ай бұрын

So this was a German unit if the leaders speech was anything to go off of.

@majorgrumpybum3161 Ай бұрын

I thought confederate soldiers. Pickett's Charge

@merlinathrawes746 Ай бұрын

@@majorgrumpybum3161 Maybe the yell. But The Civil War didn't see trench warfare.

@hanswurst5479 Ай бұрын

Germans where not the bad guys in ww1. They just stood with their allies and those allies had a legit reason to go to war.

@KwaterbugBUTCHER Ай бұрын

For the Algorithm ,For the Author(s), For the Disembodied voice! For the Squirrel 🐿

@khazdor Ай бұрын

Beautiful story.

@stevensanders-vp6vq Ай бұрын

May we all be more "Human".

@roberthayes7679 Ай бұрын

Over the top

@SansearX Ай бұрын

Thanks for a great history

@blehbleh8552 18 сағат бұрын

You know, I think bullet resistant shields would've helped a lot in WW1

@samsignorelli Ай бұрын

So.....World War One tactics....

@Kualinar Ай бұрын

But, with way more advanced weapons, protections that didn't exist back then, and more determination.

@noppornwongrassamee8941 Ай бұрын

So advanced that charging on foot is preferable to using APCs and tanks to cross No Man's Land? Sure didn't feel like it.

@merlinathrawes746 Ай бұрын

@@noppornwongrassamee8941 Have to agree with that. I would think some kind of tanks and APCs with shield generators would be preferable to an open charge, even with personal shields.

@tarrantwolf Ай бұрын

@noppornwongrassamee8941 maybe the shields just couldn't stand up to enemy fire and the vehicles were to large a target. No aircraft either so maybe orbitals can take out vehicles to easy but can't target trenches very well.

@alganhar1 Ай бұрын

@@Kualinar You, do not know what you are talking about. More determination my rear end.

@r.kellycoker9387 Ай бұрын

Making their mark in the universe.

@homoerectus6953 Ай бұрын

If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever Earth. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom Earth, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam; A body of Earth's, breathing Earth's air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

@balzdagger7834 Ай бұрын

Praise the Squirrel! For the Algorithm

@RealArcalian Ай бұрын

Greetings, Mentlegent! For the Rhyhtm that is Algo wrong story link Humans: WW1 tactics? Pfeh. We mastered those centuries ago.

@GnarledStaff Ай бұрын

Well done.

@johnnikitakis876 Ай бұрын

Apologies in advance if this makes me sound like a smart @=se. It would have been really cool if you had posted this one on th 11th hr of the 11th day of the 11th month.