Ah TeeDee's enthusiasm! Spoken like someone who has never had to shovel out barn stalls! Though these guys may need small caterpillar tractors to cleanup after them...
Tell her how much it would cost to FEED. Then explain that would be all her money that she uses for buying new weapons. So she couldn't get any more with the murder-turd.
And while the murder-turd is quite dangerous, it doesn't work very well as a weapon. Kind of hard to direct on target. :-P It is more an appetite than a weapon.
You know the real problem with red shirts? Having to buy new uniforms to issue to the replacements. The gaping holes in the old uniforms would clue the new guys right away!
Unfortunately, I don't think most of those uniforms are going to be recoverable, not from the gut of a murder-turd. And the murder-turd seemed to be gobbling them down along with the meat.
That's why the British Army had red uniforms - they figured that the soldiers were dumb enough that if they couldn't see the blood, they wouldn't realise they'd been wounded.
they probably loaded a non AP slug, since a good HE round should have jellied its innards even if it didn't penetrate, and there is no way in hell that thing could move with something to stop a good AP round (unless it penetrated and failed to kill because the sabot just didn't hit anything that important)
To take this out I'd probably use a HEAT round with a copper penetrator. Not much can survive once its inner juiced have been boiled and a hole the size of a man has been blown out the side of it (actually on the opposite side of the round interestingly enough).
Honestly, what step 1 would have been in the whole process would have been sensitivity training for the troopers.
Step two would have been something like a panzerfaust (relatively small fire and forget rocket with a HEAT warhead)
Step three would have been 120mm cannon armed tank with HEAT ammo (or flechette canister and just reduce everything downrange to the consistency of hamburger)
If that all fails, tank shock. Tank shock always wins eventually.
Anyhow, redshirts? Dear god guys, always have a path of retreat when traitor scum might be involved.
Seriously, you have no plot armor and while it's a good pulse rifle, it's an anti-personnel weapon, not meant for use against armor.
This was the unfortunate result of an attempt to make what again?
Nice to see some music survived, however; I really Don't Think, Born Free, was ever meant to be use in this instance. As I recall it was from a movie of the same name.
In-universe, nobody knows any more WHAT they were supposed to be. Out-of-universe, I believe the closest Cent and I ever got to actually deciding was "meh, fuck it, some kind of lizard thing". It does serve a useful purpose in that it's gradually detoxifying the environment it lives in by consuming various contaminants and either neutralizing them or concentrating them in its waste*.
Presumably, Nature looked at this abomination and went "that thing is uglier than a jar of smashed assholes, but I can figure out a use for it anyway."
"Born Free" would have been a much different movie if it had ended with the lioness eating everyone and wrecking up jeeps.
* Yes, before anyone asks. Yes, it is possible to prospect through scythe lizard feces for heavy metals, scrap parts from non-digestible things they've eaten, and so on. It's not a job anyone wants, but it does pay pretty well. (Most of the payoff goes directly into buying soap by the pallet-load.)
I could see a heavily armored vehicle that drives around scooping up murderturd feces and has an internal machine that can extract metals from the poop, and then it poops out the rest of the poop behind it.
And for that reason alone, the other murder turds thinks it's a fellow murderturd and therefore they leave it alone .. attack it relentlessly.
You had to resurrect "Born Free"? That's really digging up the old chestnuts.
(Not that I didn't have to clean all the soda spit off my monitor screen after reading that, and I saw Elsa and her cubs at the theater with my soon to be wife.)
And I might add it would appear that Nova Roma and Italy share a certain commonality in their quality and effectiveness of tank construction.
Teedee isn't making a conservationist statement; notice that she's still enthusiastic about the idea of domesticating one. She's just entertained by the spectacle of the murder-turd rampaging around breaking Roman stuff.
He would have gotten into the mountains, the lizards would have gotten hungry and EATEN his army, Hornet. I mean, how would you CONTROL it, for real? :-O
I think she fully powered it up to put a shield up around her, Ada and TeeDee so they can't get munched or hit by a stray round from the dying red-shirts.
TeeDee is awesome. I want her and Dolly to move in next door. On that note, I want to borrow the lizard-thing to remove the people who currently live next door to me because....trust me....they deserve it.
Also, how about TeeDee on a lizard for the next incentive? :)
TeeDee may have a petite female body, but her personality is more that of an angry bouncers. (link not quite safe for work, a bunch of suggestive stuff in it)
She carefully pick them up and wraps them lovingly in giftpaper and sends them to all her enemies as "surprise presents". :)
Only the the very best for the worst of her enemies. :)
And while the murder-turd is quite dangerous, it doesn't work very well as a weapon. Kind of hard to direct on target. :-P It is more an appetite than a weapon.
GAH. That critter is something else. I figured a TANK would be able to deal with it. Apparently it needs better ammo... or a BIGGER gun!
Unfortunately, I don't think most of those uniforms are going to be recoverable, not from the gut of a murder-turd. And the murder-turd seemed to be gobbling them down along with the meat.
To take this out I'd probably use a HEAT round with a copper penetrator. Not much can survive once its inner juiced have been boiled and a hole the size of a man has been blown out the side of it (actually on the opposite side of the round interestingly enough).
Honestly, what step 1 would have been in the whole process would have been sensitivity training for the troopers.
Step two would have been something like a panzerfaust (relatively small fire and forget rocket with a HEAT warhead)
Step three would have been 120mm cannon armed tank with HEAT ammo (or flechette canister and just reduce everything downrange to the consistency of hamburger)
If that all fails, tank shock. Tank shock always wins eventually.
Anyhow, redshirts? Dear god guys, always have a path of retreat when traitor scum might be involved.
Seriously, you have no plot armor and while it's a good pulse rifle, it's an anti-personnel weapon, not meant for use against armor.
Place your bets quick!
Nice to see some music survived, however; I really Don't Think, Born Free, was ever meant to be use in this instance. As I recall it was from a movie of the same name.
Presumably, Nature looked at this abomination and went "that thing is uglier than a jar of smashed assholes, but I can figure out a use for it anyway."
"Born Free" would have been a much different movie if it had ended with the lioness eating everyone and wrecking up jeeps.
* Yes, before anyone asks. Yes, it is possible to prospect through scythe lizard feces for heavy metals, scrap parts from non-digestible things they've eaten, and so on. It's not a job anyone wants, but it does pay pretty well. (Most of the payoff goes directly into buying soap by the pallet-load.)
And for that reason alone, the other murder turds thinks it's a fellow murderturd and therefore they
leave it alone.. attack it relentlessly.(stomach... still... churning... )
(Not that I didn't have to clean all the soda spit off my monitor screen after reading that, and I saw Elsa and her cubs at the theater with my soon to be wife.)
And I might add it would appear that Nova Roma and Italy share a certain commonality in their quality and effectiveness of tank construction.
And TeeDee too, for that matter.
You are Bad People.
(So is the writer.)
Great Connie is save.
Awwww... poor Ada *hugs her*
Edit: PS: @alt text: well, at least those pets she would choose herself... ;)
About a murderturd?
No way - She wants one!
Also, how about TeeDee on a lizard for the next incentive? :)
"I don't know, but I wanted to thank her."
"All she left was this depleted Uranium hollow point."
"Hi-Yo, Craptail! Away!" *cue music*
No! No no no no no no noooooo.
She doesn't have the charm for that.
(Love that scene though :-D)
TeeDee may have a petite female body, but her personality is more that of an angry bouncers.
(link not quite safe for work, a bunch of suggestive stuff in it)
Oddly, their lips came off pretty fantastic.
Most end up with stiff and boring lips, but this girl has saucy ones. :)
And Boy........I really am Feelign bad for the Roma military if one Pissed off murderturd is kicking their butts this badly...
Buuuut I agree....Put this to music pst if on the Web Make a fortune....