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Old 08-01-2013, 10:42 AM   #1
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Default Why is there no Modern Military issue on the Wish List for Pyramid?

Really, why? It'd be perfect for the magazine format, one article on boot camp and what comes after, one article on recruitment and career promotions, one article on decorations and field promotions (referencing the previous article thoroughly, of course).

Military matters play a huge role in many modern era campaigns, yet many of us know so little about it. It's just this big khaki-coloured box you enter, and then 4X years later, you come out and you have some special combat skills and maybe some physical or psychological trauma, ready to get involved in adventuring, but nobody has a clue about what went on inside the mysterious box.
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Old 08-06-2013, 02:14 PM   #2
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Default Re: Why is there no Modern Military issue on the Wish List for Pyramid?

Don't you guys have mandatory military service? Even if you were excused service or something, you must know literally hundreds of men who can tell you about day-to-day life in a military organisation.

For that matter, last time I visited Denmark, I met some five career soldiers, among maybe fifty Danes that I spoke with. Two of them had been stationed abroad, as peacekeepers.

Not that I'm objecting to the idea of such a Pyramid*, but you must surely have ways of obtaining such information other than waiting for a gaming company to collect it.

*Indeed, it strikes me as a fine idea.
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Old 08-06-2013, 03:02 PM   #3
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Default Re: Why is there no Modern Military issue on the Wish List for Pyramid?

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Don't you guys have mandatory military service?
Even if they don't, I know for a fact there's Danish volunteers. Also he could always get a US green card... :)
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Not that I'm objecting to the idea of such a Pyramid*,
I think if there was such an item, I'd actually have an idea for an article for it...
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Old 08-06-2013, 04:32 PM   #4
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Default Re: Why is there no Modern Military issue on the Wish List for Pyramid?

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Really, why?
Because we just haven't done one yet. It's a good idea for a theme, though. I know Steven will be reading this thread and I'd be surprised if he didn't agree, considering how well our "future military" stuff has been received.



As an aside, I don't know if you're aware that this post seems somewhat confrontational and demanding. It implies that there's a reason that we've consciously chosen not to do an issue with this theme, and that would just be silly. We're always looking for suggestions for themes, so why not just suggest this? Something like this would have been far more polite:

"I'd like to see a Pyramid issue about Modern Military. It'd be perfect for the magazine format, one article on boot camp and what comes after . . ."
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Old 08-06-2013, 05:16 PM   #5
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Both Pyramid #3/57: Gunplay and Pyramid #3/55: Military Sci-Fi had some elements of this. If you haven't picked those up yet I would recommend it, even if they don't cover everything that you are looking for.

I would welcome a Modern Military issue. Hell, I could probably fill the entire thing up myself with more Modern Warfighter material I already wrote :)~
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Old 08-06-2013, 10:29 PM   #6
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I'd like to see such an issue as well :) There's all kinds of corners of the modern armed services of the world that could be explored.
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Old 08-07-2013, 05:08 PM   #7
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I'd also be keen on this.
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