Went back to BF4, felt like coming home.

We lost so much in the last decade, maybe a few new shooters can help bring things back.

How you doin’?

Yeah, it is.

But I don’t know what to tell you, the term predates the nazis by quote a bit.

They adopted it, but it was known from the age of dragoons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_troops

The sacred band of thebes were considered shock troops, and I’d suggest that’s closer to what the Russian idiots meant.

But I also wouldn’t be surprised if they were just copying the nazis without knowing.

A storm trooper is a member of storm troops, also called shock troops, which are trained for sudden assaults. They carried out attacks in World War I and in World War II, and they were a politica militia of the Nazi party (see Sturmabteilung or Brownshirts). The English storm troops is a direct translation of the German Sturmtruppen.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/storm-trooper

They were called storm troopers because they were the ones who stormed trenches during an assault.

It wasn’t considered a bad thing then, they were considered the elite.

It’s a commonly used term now, just like Assault Rifle from Sturmgewehr.

It’s become verbed, like googling.

Sturmtruppen was the German word for ‘assault troops’, much like sturmgewehr is their word for ‘assault rifle’ which was adopted by everyone else.

It means troops to storm a position, the heaviest troops for assaults.

We’d call them assault forces, or honestly, just marines (amphibious assault corps).

Hitler had a bunch of paramilitary followers (think Trump and his Jan 6 crowd) called the sturmabteilingen (sp?), which translated to storm troopers, because he thought it sounded impressive.

He later betrayed and murdered them, to curry favor with the army, which is so Hitler.

So no change for Russia then.

He’s a Midwestern republican, it’s less bad there and they can keep deniability that people are so insane.

A lot of the worst of this spread from the dixiecrats when they joined the GOP, what’s tragic is how Midwesterners keep convincing themselves that this is just normal politics and not the legacy of Jim Crow racism run amok.

I mean, he’s still a politician, but he’s a politician within the bounds of sanity.

Dewine isn’t crazy, he’s mostly a paleorepublican from before the dixiecrat coup.

He’s been fighting this insanity for a while, with mixed results.

Riddle me this:

I never look online for game hints, I played ER for a while, got frustrated.

Looked at hints, they explained how you get tempest like it was the most obvious thing in the game to sleep in the church after level 5.

Wtf?!?!?!

I hate from soft games because they seem to expect you to look online.

It’s a great mmo because it doesn’t have the grind and time Commitments.

It’s not a 2nd job, it’s just something to do for fun with a good story and atmosphere. It’s what an mmo should be.

Enhance!