Say a major war or hell even an insurgency broke out and a first world nation had to go fight over there, what would be the single worst possible place you could send that army that would almost guarantee they'd get seriously fucked just from being there.
What is the worst possible terrain to fight a modern war in?
Charles Reyes
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Ethan Turner
Mountains have been BTFOing people since we became sentient. Don't see that changing really. They're even nuke survivable.
Jordan Nelson
Your moms basement since that seems to be the only place you can't make it out of
Hunter Wright
I personally wouldn’t want to fight in snow. Jungle sucks in terms of critters and disease. Afghanistan was not an easy place to navigate.
Logan Hill
mariana trench
Nathan Brooks
In what way are mountains nuke resistant? If you somehow survive the blast the entire place is still irradiated
Nicholas Sanchez
Around Lake Vostok would probably be pretty bad, especially in the next few months. Warmest temperature ever measured there is -14°C, the average for winter (April to October) is -65°C, and the cold record is -89.2°C. There's also just about no moisture whatsoever in the air, average winds are 5m/s with bugger all for shelter, and it's nearly 3.5km over sea level so not a lot of oxygen to go around either.
Lincoln Brown
My heart goes out to people working in the mobile research stations, that shit must fucking suck.
James Flores
Worst in a realistic "West vs China and Russia":
>Russian invasion and winter 2.0
Ayden Ramirez
megacities.
Connor Jenkins
>What is the worst possible terrain to fight a modern war in
A dense modern hi-rise urban environment filled with a mix of civilians/insurance/ and conventional forces. Imagine fighting war in downtown NY or LA.
Matthew Cook
Lunar crater
Austin Harris
This.
What are you talking about? That sounds fucking amazing.
Landon Brown
This, the survivors would be poisoned by the burning materials in all the buildings.
Ryan Murphy
>insurance
You might survive, but your wallet's doomed.
Xavier Cooper
lunar surface
Christian Parker
Fuck Lunarians
Ian Miller
depending on the level of radiation, people can still pull a trigger long enough to reproduce
T. Japan
Jackson Murphy
Solar surface
Easton Rodriguez
mountains contain the explosion better, and stop radioactive wind better.
Caleb Ward
Just do it at night.
Daniel Cruz
t. Marine
Alexander Ross
kekek
David Wood
>kek
Also equip soldiers with sunglasses and sunblock.
Lincoln Morgan
This, imagine the siege of Sarajevo but ten times worse.
Joseph Smith
Ever go to Sh*t Jow Forums Says to post spiderman memes on their Loli threads.
That my friend, is the worst environment to fight in.
Brayden Garcia
>3 hours of clearing the parking garage
>totally exhausted
>Lungs dry from burning tires
>eyes burning from vaporized aluminium.
>Sitting down on the curb
>Street was cleared and is in artillery shadow
>Sit down for some well earned rest
>enjoying fresh air
>get wrecked by a 60lb leather chair dropped form 40 stories up.
Just burn that shit down. Saving a skyscraper owned by some shit multinational is not worth it.
Isaac Edwards
You don'r want to engage in urban combat without insurgence insurance!
Henry Cook
I'd say urban environment, especially in a no shit megacity like New York or Mexico City. Urban terrain greatly favors the defenders and will negate the advantages of armor. If there are civilians the attacker can't use their firepower to clear the city.
Matthew Flores
That guy with the PKM has seen some shit
Dominic Adams
Heavily resistant to blast propagation in the event of a ground detonation and airbursts are unlikely due to the resilience of mountain complexes. Prevailing winds would carry fallout up and away rather than distributing it evenly.
Daniel Scott
Luke Morales
Literally impossible. You would need millions of men to even "occupy" Long Island
Jack Hughes
Swamps. They are the worst. Between Florida style or Alaska style in the summer can be a nightmare for anyone after a few hours. The bugs WILL eat you alive.
Hudson Gutierrez
Volcanos, imagine fighting in one.
Jack Thomas
Boreal forest / muskeg.
All the fun of a swamp, a swampy forest, a frozen waste land and a nearly impassable wilderness.
You can't move vehicles overland. You must build road everywhere. It freezes down to -40 in the winter, and has enough flys and mosquitoes the rest of the year to make work outside nearly impossible for humans.
Maybe the worst part is that you can't get through it, or move around it. It's more or less all of Canada and Russia below the line when it's just rocks. You could advance 1000 km and still be stuck in the swamp.
Logan Russell
Mountains and valleys. Anywhere where the high ground is crucial but it's extremely easy to lose just SCREAMS "pls ambush me daddy"
Thomas Reyes
>A dense modern hi-rise urban environment filled with a mix of civilians/insurance/ and conventional forces. Imagine fighting war in downtown NY or LA.
CW2.0 when?
Austin Young
African rainforest
> hot
> humid
> full of mud
> far from civilizaton
> mosquitoes of many different species
> wild animal viruses and parasites can fuck you up
Josiah Ortiz
>survivors
This is what nukes are for.
Joseph Evans
>Africa
>far from civilization
Redundant af my nigga
Isaiah Hughes
You dumb
Ethan Moore
Based and sunpilled
Justin Flores
This. Anywhere it gets this cold. Where movable metal items start to stick to each other from the temperature. Where exposed skin can end up worse than a bullet wound. Where vehicles fail to start, or liquid lines start to freeze.
Eli Morris
What about a megacity in arctic mountains on the surface of the moons sun? How bad would that be?
Jacob Stewart
Just do it at night in the summer on a holiday.
Wyatt Anderson
Brilliance
Jacob Nelson
+1 for muskeg.
Only passable in the winter unless you're a moose
And then it's so cold you will lose all of your men to attrition
Alexander Flores
You'd just burn it, or blow bridges and let the city starve and burn itself.
Elijah Bennett
This
Urban warfare would be an abject clusterfuck
Nathaniel Sullivan
Shit has been hitting the fan in Appalachia since at least 1792.
Anyone who doesn't respect that is liable to be turned into bitch-burgers
Andrew Williams
>COUNTRY ROOOOADS
Grayson Morris
Check out rain shadows and consider how that might affect wind and rain borne fallout. I'm not saying it's perfect but its a hell of a lot better than being out on the plains.
Xavier Rogers
Wyatt Bailey
Fuck that game for using that song.
Fuck Bob Dylan for using that state.
Mammy used to cry everytime it came on because Great Granpa made her leave her home and move to South America and then New York.
Now I want to cry when I hear it so fuck you for bringing it up.
Josiah Carter
>Bob Dylan
Oliver Brooks
>You can't move vehicles overland.
Anthony Sanders
Shit. John Denver. I need coffee. Fuck John Denver too tho.
Nathaniel Collins
Antarctica because fuck the cold and dark
David Richardson
Who the fuck wants that mound of snow with some penguin sprinkles anyway?
The real shithole would be Siberia since its thawing out so you have swampy bits the cold and having to deal with russian subumans
Ethan Kelly
This. Pick any building in that picture and just think about how long it would take to clear. Then look at the rest of the picture.
Joshua Mitchell
Jose Howard
That's were combat is supposed to go in the future. Once we reach 9 billion in population and more people live in megacity/regions, the idea of asymmetric warfare, coupled with complex and large structures, will essentially make us live in the cyberpunk world of the 80's.
The question then becomes not which terrain is the worst but how to live in the worst terrain of the high-tech-low-life future?
Brandon Diaz
British Columbian insurgency with the federal government trying to retake control of the province
Jeremiah Wright
It would be hell on earth trying to remove insurgents from essentially the Afghanistan of the PNW
Jackson Gomez
Modern nuclear weapons are far more efficient and burn off their fuel much better than they did in the 60s. Fallout isn't nearly as much of a concern and will not fuck you as bad just from being near the explosion. You would still want to get away from ground zero, but getting hit by the wind is not a game over anymore.
Zachary Hill
Antarctic Dry Valleys:
. No rain for 2 million years = no water.
. Antarctica = no supplies.
. 320 KPH Winds = self explanatory.
. Low of -68 Celcius = hypothermia.
Shits crazy.
Joseph Hall
bump
Eli Sullivan
Mangroves, it's like a jungle but worse because your stuck in muddy water
Wyatt White
fpbp
Hill/Mountain people master race
Jose Garcia
Rugged mountains with triple canopy full of locals who will smile to your face and shoot you in the back = stay the fuck out unless you just kill everyone.