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Frostwerks posted:This is awesome but doesn't it seem like the text for the overview of the savannah campaign is cut off? "It is sufficient for you to know it involves a-" What am I missing out on? I think the missing world is "march". As in, "you don't need to know where we're going. You job is just to march."
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Fojar38 posted:There's a ton of resistance to even the very notion of Canada joining the US among Canadians even though nobody seems to know exactly why. The only context I can see it being considered would be after a breakup of the Canadian federation in the event that Quebec finally seceded. There was some serious discussion of this back in the 70s when the PQ was making a lot of noise in that direction, which largely ended with the referendum of 1980.
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De Nomolos posted:Can't wait til we get some maps for this one, too: Reminded me of the ever-famous:  I'm amazed it hasn't been posted yet.
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McDowell posted:His claim that China had significant fleets until the Emperor banned them is interesting - it suggested that the unified sociopolitical structure of China prevented it from discovering America before Europe. As far as I know, this is true. The emperor feared that exploration would unleash social forces for change that he wouldn't be able to control, and so he destroyed the fleet and banned exploration. He was probably right about that.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Wait is Detroit's transit system literally called the "People Mover"? Yeah, because people had to get out of its way whenever it came around.
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Here's one that's politically loaded for other reasons: (click for bigger) The politics were related to getting there. Fortunately, there are currently no territorial claims under dispute. Higher resolution image available here: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/usgs/I703/150dpi.jpg Ed: And for completeness' sake, here's what the far side of the Moon looks like:  (click for bigger) Deteriorata fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Feb 16, 2013 |
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Fojar38 posted:I used to find the whole "X invades America" subgenre of historical fiction to be fascinating until I learned more about strategy and realized how unless the defenders have basically no army at all it's virtually impossible to invade the North American continent. I would much rather get involved in a land war in Asia than a land war in North America. I particularly liked the presumption that Germany would have the ability to invade the US while being unable or not bothering to take England.
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Dusseldorf posted:I like the 'Japanese invasions of the west coast' fantasy on the backdrop of the fact that the Japanese didn't have nearly the logistical capability to invade Oahu alone. These were published by Life in March of 1942 (three months after Pearl Harbor), so everybody was pretty freaked out. Things were going badly at that point and it was far from obvious that we would end up winning that war. Life was doing some basic scare-mongering to take advantage of people's fears in order to extract money from their pockets. Perhaps it was also some war propaganda to help mobilize people into believing such invasions were actually possible and therefore be less complacent about the impregnability of North America.
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