Susano Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 Something for your mad scientists to cook up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 Re: 1945a Gearkrieg! ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted January 27, 2010 Report Share Posted January 27, 2010 Re: 1945a A little impractical, but fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted January 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2010 Re: 1945a It's Pulp, it's not supposed to be practical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted January 28, 2010 Report Share Posted January 28, 2010 Re: 1945a love it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest steamteck Posted January 28, 2010 Report Share Posted January 28, 2010 Re: 1945a Very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted January 28, 2010 Report Share Posted January 28, 2010 Re: 1945a It's Gear Krieg! Still, could have also sworn I saw that same thing in a Blackhawk Comic back in the day. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordGhee Posted January 29, 2010 Report Share Posted January 29, 2010 Re: 1945a Fear the War Wheel cool find rep to you Lord Ghee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Re: 1945a Yay, now the Nazis will have a chance to win, after all! I know, I know, it's all in fun, but I can't help feeling just a little queasy. After all, consider this scenario: Plummy BBC Announcer: "We interrupt tonight's broadcast of Frightfully Stuffy Classical Music of 1940 for a special adress from His Majesty the King." George VI: "My fellow Britons, loyal subjects of the Commonwealth: As some of you may be aware, there have been unfavourable developments in our ongoing war with Germany in the last few days. Last night, my Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field-Marshal Dill, confirmed that German forces have broken through the French army's line along the Meuse on a wide front, and that German spearheads have reached Arras, at the head of the estuary of the Somme, cutting off the northern group of armies. Although the German Air Force has not yet attacked London, it has already demonstrated the ruthlessness of the Nazi regime against Rotterdam and Warsaw. None of the beautiful and gracious cities of Europe is safe from the indiscriminate terror of National Socialist Germany. Therefore, with great reluctance, I have authorised the armed forces to immmediately deploy in action many weapons which have been on the secret list for as many as ten years. As I speak, Avro Vulcans of Bomber Command are striking at German targets such as the Bielefeld Viaduct, Ruhr dams, and Rhine bridges. Handley Page Victors are attacking marshalling yards throughout western Germany, while Vickers Valiants are attacking factory targets throughout Germany. Front-line support for our forces is being provided by Westland Canberras, while Hawker Hunters of Fighter Command and Supermarine Scimitars of the Fleet Air Arm provide frontline support and naval interdiction. On the ground, the army is now using its Centurion tanks and combat engineering vehicles to reinforce a defensive position along the Dyle line. Although the army has previously characterised the units to which the Centurions are now issued as "light" armoured brigades, the nation, and the Germans, will shortly see an even larger tank, the Conqueror, in action. Infantry are now authorised to use their FN Self-Loading Rifles, PIATs, and suchlike. With God's help, and all this kickass military technology whose sudden appearance on the battlefield is still way more credible than the idea of a laser on a tank in 1945, we will kick Nazi butt all the way back to Berlin, with the result that, although there will be way fewer cool SS units to cosplay in the future, there won't be a Holocaust." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSgt Baloo Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Re: 1945a Yay, now the Nazis will have a chance to win, after all! I know, I know, it's all in fun, but I can't help feeling just a little queasy. If that's the case then maybe you had a head start on us? Relax. 90% of pulp is the Nazi Menace©. Nazis are good, reliable, shootable badguys, no two ways about it. This isn't about Nazis über alles but "Who will Save Us Now?™", as in "what a neat idea for the Super-Allied Genius Nazi-Hunters to have to counter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Re: 1945a Fair enough, Sarge. It's just that I was on Youtube the other day looking for "Prinz Eugen, der edle Ritter," and made the mistake of clicking around. There's a lot of Neo-Nazis out there, and this video didn't end with the good guys winning. It pretty clearly implied that the imminent end of WWII was going to be reversed in the "1945a" timeline. I'm pretty sure that the inference was intended from a Neo-Nazi perspective, but, well, I'm sensitised now. ..And Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Re: 1945a I can see where Lawnmower Boy's coming from. If this was a trailer, it would be awesome. It would promise a nigh-unstoppable menace and desperate heroics. As a complete project, it promises a Thousand Year Reich, for real this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Re: 1945a The snippet is only, what? 4-5 minutes? To me, it's not "the Nazi's win" it's "here's the prologue to the adventure." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Re: 1945a The snippet is only' date=' what? 4-5 minutes? To me, it's not "the Nazi's win" it's "here's the prologue to the adventure."[/quote'] I can see that, too. I just think I'd have liked it a little better if there had been some foreshadowing of a possible Allied countermeasure, or at least a dogged determination to put this thing down or die trying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Mackinder Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Re: 1945a More shock value than anything else, really. Kind of like the Blitzkrieg tactics the Germans used early in the war - the armies they faced were simply unprepared for that kind of warfare. As here. In this case, we saw one Sherman tank get in a fair shot. If there had been a bunch of Shermans there (which was how they were best used), it would have gone much much harder for the Nazis. Also, the battle was at night - the Allies OWNED the sky by then, and I think that, say, a squadron of Hawker Typhoons would turn that thing into modern art, at first light. The video was well done, anyhow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Re: 1945a Indeed. It is a good time. Would tie in well with the Iron Skies one too. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Re: 1945a If that's the case then maybe you had a head start on us? Relax. 90% of pulp is the Nazi Menace©. Nazis are good' date=' reliable, [i']shootable[/i] badguys, no two ways about it. This isn't about Nazis über alles but "Who will Save Us Now?™", as in "what a neat idea for the Super-Allied Genius Nazi-Hunters to have to counter! Well, there's a slug of Yellow Peril phobia in there too, for those stories that go on in East Asia or elsewhere around the Pacific basin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSgt Baloo Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Re: 1945a Well' date=' there's a slug of Yellow Peril phobia in there too, for those stories that go on in East Asia or elsewhere around the Pacific basin.[/quote'] You have a point. I prefer to downplay the "Yellow Peril" aspect of my WWII and earlier campaigns. You can blame a criminal cartel or a warlord for the peril instead of an entire continent full of people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yansuf Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 Re: 1945a I can see that' date=' too. I just think I'd have liked it a little better if there had been some foreshadowing of a possible Allied countermeasure, or at least a dogged determination to put this thing down or die trying.[/quote'] Come on, it is the prologue. Such always shows the menace, never the solution. For that you have to see the show/buy the book or whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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