I mean if it's Patton then I expect WW3. Having those two guys in charge would lead to nothing but trouble.
It won't be Patton.
I think Patton is retired for good unless Mac decides to give Patton his battlefield death by sending him to some advisory role in Vietnam or something. No doubt knowing Patton would want to advise from the front and likely want to go out guns blazing at some VC or other commies. Hell, that would give Mac cassus belli to go into Vietnam/wherever if he wanted to.
I did at one point consider the idea of having Patton request to join the Foreign Legion explicitly so he could go to Vietnam... figured it would be a bit too silly for what I'm trying to do here, so I won't.
Victory disease. Helluva drug. Nobody opposed him, so he figured he could win no matter what, even against a hero like Patton.
Yep, that's my line of thinking too
If there's no more North Korea what's happening to the leadership? Did the Chinese leave them to rot. Or is their some kind of government in exile going on? I could imagine any NK soldiers who made it to China "volunteering" to go to Vietnam.
The NK elite escaped to either China or the USSR (depending on the character involved), where they vanished from the public eye. Most of the remaining NKPA surrendered to SK (a lot of whom are now being purged by Rhee), some of them escaped across the Yalu.
Mao isn't supporting a government in exile - he dragged the war out only because quitting after two months is a worse look than quitting after six, but he doesn't want to be reminded of his failure and a surviving NK would be a very public reminder.
- BNC