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Indeed, indeed. Except for maybe the Blue Falcons. And I bet you get that. Good meeting you, Major.

Likewise, but I always say there's no need to thank me for service gladly given. Really, I prefer to thank civilians for providing something worth fighting for. You get extra thanks from me on a personal level for being a medic. I'd tell the story but this isn't really the place. Suffice it to say that somehow I had no problem facing bullets that might blow my head of at any second thanks to training, but I lost that head when dealing with my first casualty despite training. If it hadn't been for our Corpsman, he might have gotten sepsis or worse from my fumbling, panicky attempts to treat him. I got better, but never better than trained medics. Thanks again for all you did.

Well, I don't imagine this requires its own thread because it's probably not a topic important to most people, but did Rockstar do their research on these horse breeds? Obviously, they studied them enough to know what they look like, but then you go into the stats and it seems like all they did was look at pictures. Don't get me wrong, I'm loving the game so far, but I am a gamer and gamers complain. I can't see any gameplay balance reasons for getting almost every horse's characteristics and history wrong. For instance, the Tennessee Walker you start with is not a working horse or a fast horse or a particularly strong one. It's a gaited breed made for casual riding and pulling light carriages, prized for its elegant step, not work or range utility. Imagine my surprise when I bought a Morgan, the standard breed of the US Cavalry, and found it to have low health and stamina, lower than a Walker. That's ridiculous, Morgans are legendary for their stamina and resilience. I have personally seen one pull a bull to its knees by the horns, and I owned one. Best damn horse I ever had. Every pasture I put him in, he was the dominant horse, which is saying something because Morgans are so small, rarely topping 14 1/2 hands. Yet he could out-pull anything short of a draft horse, outlast any trail horse, and even out-sprint some quarterhorses. That breed is built for the sprint, their name comes from being fast in the quarter-mile, they're like horse drag racers, with enormous rocket-engine butts, and a Morgan can beat some of them. They're light enough that they can accelerate quickly, even hauling my 6'2" carcass around. I's a consequence of the inverse square law. Increasing the size of something has a direct squared relationship to how much energy it takes to move. Yet somehow, quarterhorses have more stamina in the game They absolutely do not. Riding a quarterhorse is like riding a lawnmower most of the time. They can sprint, sure, and they can canter for a couple of miles at best, but the rest of the time, you have to let that horse eat. They eat while they're walking, and they get hot fast. It's the cost of all that junk in the trunk. Cowboys used them a lot to sprint after cattle, which are comparatively slow, and they are ideal for that application. You don't want any cattle breaking away and dividing the herd, while the rest of the time, you can walk as slowly as they do. Cows graze on the move, too. I know it's just a game and you can't expect everything to be perfect. IRL, horses will not run off a cliff, or into any unbroken barrier, that's allowed so the player has to actually play the game, rather than falling asleep in the saddle, which you can do. Well-trained horses have an innate cruise control. That's what most people experience when they go on paid trail rides. The horse knows that if it follows a certain path, based on a certain set of stimuli, it gets food and rest. Couldn't care less what the rider is doing, which is why such attractions are safe for kids. This thing about breeds just seems like something that could be easily addressed and changed with only a few hours' work. I don't know much about modern programming, but I know QBASIC and I know variables. I also know other horsemen who are generally satisfied with the way riding is treated in this game, I certainly am, especially that lovely gallop mechanic. Western riding is all about moving with the horse. It's not quite the same in the game but it's close. How do you do everything so right and then screw up the simple part, Rockstar? Alright, that's the end of my little rant. I don't expect anyone to go back and do more work when it's clear that you already put a lot into this game. Maybe the modders will, if and when they are allowed. Maybe just consider this as advice for the next installment, which I am looking forward to seeing, even paying for.

Semper Kill, sir. Always good to meet another communications specialist. I'd be even more impressed if your wife says you communicate well. I know mine says I don't when I can read back everything she says word for word. Whenever that happens, she insists that I didn't understand what she meant. Being married, I bet you know a thing or two about that. Don't worry, though, while she acts like pretty much every woman I have ever known in that way, she has other personal qualities I'd never leave. It's clear you love your wife, just from your name. I wish y'all the best. And no, I'm not saying y'all because this is the RDR2 forum. I'm actually from Texas.

I just began playing, new here, this seems as good a place to start as any. My name comes from The Marine Corps Communications Electronics School in 29 Palms. Their motto is "We train C4 warriors" with the C4 denoting Command, Control, Communications, and Countermeasures. Of course, most people just think it means I am fond of the plastic explosive, which I must confess I am, very, and so the name still works. Normally, I get two questions after this. The first is "Why didn't you pick something with 'Marine' in the name?" Well, because while only around 1% of the US population has ever been in the Corps, approximately 500% of the population has such screen names, and at least half of those are new Marines naming every single account they have that way. I would have been one of them if I had found an available one. The next question is "What were you doing with C4 if you were in electronic warfare?" The same thing I was doing driving a truck for three tours: being in charge of a platoon armory, the generator refueling crews, setting up election stations, searching houses, searching for weapons caches, mines, accompanying infantry...….you get the idea. I did whatever the Corps needed me to do, including help the other Comm bubbas make sure hat Comms were up 100% of the time, at least 80% of the time. It's not my fault if people don't change batteries, crypto, hopsets, or the ionosphere. It is certainly not my fault when people point the SatCom antennae at satellites that aren't there, or the Microwave dishes backwards. Still, Explosive Ordinance Disposal thought I was competent enough, or expendable enough, to put C4 on weapons caches, so I did. I'm pretty sure that's NOT the way they're supposed to handle disposal of firearms, based on observing them in the field. To their credit, they never let me blow up any unexploded ordinance that might have killed me if I touched it in a bad place, but they were more than happy to teach me how to place plastic explosives and detonate them. The excuse they gave me was that they were busy and bored of blowing things up, anyway. I think the real reason was that they were filling out paperwork indicating they had followed the proper procedures and wanted a fall-guy if they got caught. I hate to damage the faith civilians have in us, but a surprising amount of military professionalism consists of "Let's not, and report it like we did." Don't worry, you can still count on us 100% in a fight. Well, the Marines at least. Then most of the army. You can count on the Air Force and Navy, too, just always late and over-budget. Not that I'd ever truly look down on the other services, it's a combined-arms force. Indeed, I owe them a great deal for leaving out gear that Marines desperately need. We'd buy it ourselves, but the Navy needs money more for nuclear-powered stealth laser destroyers. They're really important for all those times when a suicide boat is attacking, but you just need to kill the one guy driving it, as his buddies were only cruising. They also have to be computer-guided, which adds expense, because the Navy doesn't do so well in marksmanship training. Just kidding. You know we love ya, squids. Sorry for the rambling, but that's the story behind my name. I've been using variations of it for almost twenty years, so it's just stuck with me, and so are y'all for the time being.