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Raskolnikov38 posted:True but I'll settle for Maurice Rose kicking Patton's rear end up and down the Carolinas. I'd settle for Omar Bradley calling "Dugout" Doug MacArthur a oval office to his face.
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Juvenalian.Satyr posted:There is a long pattern of leftists turning towards fascism for one reason or another. Populism is a pretty sharp sword and it cuts both ways. Racism is the usual road that they take.
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Nov 11, 2014 01:14
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Surprised that the US gave up Washington without much of a fight.
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Nov 12, 2014 20:12
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Chief Savage Man posted:The way I've been doing this is that I'll play the game for a long time, getting like hundreds of screenshots and thats enough for the next X updates. It's the only way I can keep this thing going on a regular schedule because not everyday is a Paradox day, you know. I'll try to get more wide mapshots as I go on but I'm sure you all know how into it you can get when you're playing for an extended period of time. The Mexicans and Canadian Royalists are loving crazy in this timeline. Yeah, the US is in the thick of it now, but whichever group comes out on top is going after them next.
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Nov 21, 2014 15:47
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Well there's always the Ronald Reagan gets killed flavor event that exists for no clear reason. No reason other than to put a little smile on my face.
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Nov 25, 2014 08:09
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Agean90 posted:The guy who campaigned extensively for trust-busting measures, anti-imperialism, and a Silver standard that was supposed to weaken the financial influence of banks? Leftist butthole sniffing is an international problem with deep roots in history. It's arguably one of the big reasons that leftist causes tend to implode. As for the game, I'm surprised that the AUS doesn't have a surrender mechanic after the loss of Atlanta.
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Nov 25, 2014 17:17
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Once the US is sewn up the Syndicate will be in a commanding position to conquer the world.
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Nov 28, 2014 15:00
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Those borders.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_naGYiSJ6k&t=20s
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I would like it if you named one of our battleships or carriers the USS John Brown. Thanks.
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This is a dark world.
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Dec 11, 2014 17:38
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Kavak posted:Kaiserreich in general or what The Mad Baron is building right now? The Mad Baron playthrough. At least in the CSA playthrough the good guys won the civil war.
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Dec 11, 2014 17:56
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Lustful Man Hugs posted:Wait, Mongolia doesn't even start off with Russo-Japanese naval tech? Mongolians haven't given a toss about naval theory since Kublai Khan wanted to add Japan to the empire.
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Dec 16, 2014 18:43
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Communist Zombie posted:Since the Mad Baron gets an event chain to be Ghengis Khan why is there no event chain for the American Tyrant to be Julius Ceasar? Isn't there? I thought MacArthur had the option to be an American Caesar if he wins the war.
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Rincewind posted:I was wondering about that, too! Obviously the CSA is the superior option, but given how totally hosed the USA seems in Kaiserreich I was wondering if something that even vaguely resembled OTL USA could emerge. I know that MacArthur can decide to restore democracy to the US, but I couldn't remember if there was an option to make him a dictator instead.
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Chief Savage Man posted:They can go either way, this time they turned over the reins to MacArthur and it became a right wing military dictatorship. Yeah, "Dugout" Doug can go either Cincinnatus or Caesar. Though if left in the hands of the AI he should always go Caesar because MacArthur was a Caesar-y kind of guy.
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I'm actually a bit surprised that the Germans aren't reacting even more strongly to the rise of Syndicalist America and the Reds in Russia.
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Feb 2, 2015 07:42
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Is the Georgian Line something that you can go around by going through New England?
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Feb 11, 2015 22:57
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The Romanovs were inbred shitheaps, but any result that sees Lenin and Stalin going to the wall is a brighter world than the one that we live in.
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Chief Savage Man posted:Lenin has been dead a long while and Mr. Jugashvili is currently in the service of the Transcaucasian Socialist Republic. Well, maybe they bagged Trotsky.
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Chief Savage Man posted:I think the lore is that Trotsky is a miserable failure in exile in Paris or he might be dead. Either way Bukharin is the guy this time. Well, at least in this timeline he wasn't murdered by his "friends".
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Waters might be a good character to add to an event, but the Bonus March probably wouldn't have happened if the US had stayed out of WWI since it was directly tied to how long a soldier served during wartime. Adding events for the major Modernist authors would be fairly easy. What kind of book would John Steinbeck write in the event of a SA victory? What does Scott Fitzgerald think of Hemingway's involvement in the CSA government? For that matter, what's Hollywood doing during all of this? The studio system was in full swing and hundreds of classic movies were made during the Kaiserreich period. What film does Charlie Chaplin make instead of The Great Dictator? How is the PSA benefited by having the vast majority of the biggest stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood working for them? Major League Baseball is easily and by far the most popular entertainment in the USA at the time. Does it start back up after the war?
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Mister Bates posted:Holy poo poo, capitalism is imploding in this timeline and we're not even having to do anything. "Wait. Fight the US? Nope, gently caress that. We out."
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Kavak posted:Strategic bombers kinda suck in Darkest Hour, from what I can tell- either you lose a ton of them targeting a high-IC, well-defended target, or you hit low-IC, no-AA targets and do poo poo for damage to the enemy. Better to spend that IC on tactical or naval bombers. That's a bit of a flaw considering that strategic bombing took us a long way towards winning the war.
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Mar 2, 2015 03:25
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I liked the touch of Huey Long meeting people at the bar.
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Kavak posted:On that topic, you gotta wonder what Star Trek could look like in this timeline. Exactly the same but considered a rather conservative view of a syndicalist future? More militant Starfleet dedicated to defending the Federation and bringing the light of equality and socialism to the galaxy. Ferengi are powered up by joining forces with the gengineered super-soldiers of the arch-Capitalist Khan, and the android infiltrators of the mad Imperialist Dr. Nunyen Soong.
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Kirk is the only human on board the Enterprise, he leads a diverse crew of aliens who hail from all across the Federation. He only keeps his command as long as he has the support of his crew, and with the approval of Science/Political officer Mr. Spock.
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Kavak posted:We're trying to craft a positive future, dammit! My version of Spock and Kirk are still best friends because they respect each other, love exploring the galaxy, and are deeply committed to battling tyranny and uplifting the workers on every planet and in every culture.
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Mar 5, 2015 02:26
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Star Wars in this universe is radically different from the one that we know, but oddly enough Spaceballs is exactly the same.
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Mar 5, 2015 03:43
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Yeah, that was a fun little story.
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Kavak posted:The Internationale has a remarkably progressive attitude towards gays in a time period where they were often considered mentally ill. I understand lesbianism wasn't seen in the same light as male homosexuality, but it seems a little too modern. This is the good timeline. As such, the people in it naturally make better choices.
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Chief Savage Man posted:People still support McCarthy? I thought we were at the point where the only two viewpoints are opposition and pretending he never existed. Come to the FReep thread, we have such sights to show you.
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Drone posted:At the risk of going back through the revolving door of this discussion: there's a really good case to be made that there are no good guys in the Kaiserreich world. This timeline is much, much more many-shades-of-grey than our own (with the exception of the Totalists/Baron von Sternberg-style National Populists, they're just legit badguys). Von Sternberg did nothing wrong!
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Dibujante posted:I lived there for four years; can confirm. Pretty much the only way to pass the winter on the Great Plains. 
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Pretty much assumed that they're irrelevant if MacArthur cancels the elections, or marginalized and ignored in the lead-up to the civil war if the elections go through.
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Mister Bates posted:An invasion of the Ottoman Empire to recapture Constantinople for Christendom. There was a point before Ataturk pulled things together where that might've gone off almost bloodlessly, but no one in Western Europe gave a toss about the idea and the Russians were busy setting the stage to fail at Communism.
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Wasn't there an event in Vicky for the Russians that gave them some big bonus if they took over SE Europe and beat the poo poo out of the Ottomans? I haven't played that game in years.
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A White Guy posted:Wars have been fought, millons have died, thousands of years of history changed, all to make the borders look pretty. Almost all of my strategy in Paradox games is rooted in either pure spite or a desire to have pretty borders.
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To be fair, Hemingway would probably have been a terrible general.
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CommissarMega posted:I remember one anecdote from the liberation of Paris where Hemingway wanted to go out and hunt down any remaining Nazis with a machine gun, or summat of the sort. So yeah, I think this characterization of him as some gung-ho madman is perfectly all right. For Hemingway, shooting Nazis in a European capitol would be old hat.
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Mantis42 posted:Rightwing anti-government rhetoric is based around propertarian ideals, not egalitarian ones. The cry of "state's rights" is really about reinforcing the power of local elites. Basically a kind of feudalism I guess. Mister Bates posted:This comic scene still appears exactly as depicted, only Anti-Flag is the hero and Captain AUS is the villain: Wait, how is this guy the bad guy? Zeroisanumber fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Mar 19, 2015 |
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