Looking at the Reactor 1 incident in 1975, it seams feasible for it have replicated Reactor 4 had the actions leading up to or surrounding it been a little different.
What would the consequences be of a Chernobyl style incident at Reactor 1 in Leningrad in 1975?
It seems that the reactor is...
If the game narratively structures a US and Nazi victory as being essentially equivalent and denies the US player any agency....while ALSO allowing a Nazi player achieve to fully reform Nazi Germany, it makes the narrative structure feel as if it is a contest between two more or less equivalents...
Maybe there could be a neutral toleration like with OTL Yugoslavia....but it seems very hard to fathom that there wouldn't be a hard reaction against any Nazi, fascist, or fascist lite governments (or even generic right wing strongman). Italy and Japan are not Nazis, but both are also enemies...
Why on earth would there be a second red scare in the US? That makes negative sense. The TNO USSR is substantively more kind and less atrocity prone prior to the Nazi invasion than OTL, is completely destroyed and poses no threat to the US or anyone else for that matter....AND the US had already...
The argument is not being made for a some sort of flawless America. But
1. The OFN just liberated them from literal Nazis and the better the player does it the more they're punished
2. There is NO option to not turn into the second coming of McKinley. In a world that has Taboritsky's Russia...
I'm still struggling with why US rule over the mandates will end up so horrible. Even with total victory....why would the OFN, especially an OFN that is the battered underdog rather than an OTL global Hegemon, try or want to set up massive mandates without a clear independence timeline. That's...
I actually think one of the best ways to make the OFN morally ambiguous would be to expand US issues with Japan.
The truth of it is is that there's not really any even vaguely plausible outline of a US-Japanese war that results in Japanese occupation of CONUS. I mean it basically takes straight...
The problem with the OFN being morally grey is.. why are they? They back democratic governments (and overthrow Guyana when it goes anti-democratic), they don't back any colonial powers ( and explicitly back the reformist side of the SAF war), and they seem generally allied with local nationalist...
I'll admit I'm still somewhat skeptical that there would be a substantial local opposition to the SAF government when it's considerably less racist and oppressive than it's OTL counterpart (and actively fighting the more racist component) and actively fighting the Nazis.
But then that ties into...
A Korean War analog really doesn't make any sense to me. What parallels even are there other than one nation is invading another? An Iraq War even less so as again what more than the most basic and generic of parallels are there?
The mechanics around popular discontent, focus on guerilla war...
Does the nature of the South African War as an equivalent to Vietnam feel....forced to anyone else?
The two sides aren't remotely morally equivalent, there's pretty much zero reason why any part of the local population would support the Nazis outside the Boer heartlands so it feels unclear why...
I wonder if they really believed it or just planned for it that way because if it didn't work nothing would? Many he British accounts from OTL I've read have a heavy air of defeatism amounting to "we will plan for it to work this way because if it doesn't the situation is hopeless" when...
It is always fascinating to read the contentious arguments, no doubt echoing the exact ones had centuries ago, being had about this sort if thing. Both highly informative on the subject and just how muddled the issue of the "rightful heir" could be
This makes it clear your views on Haig are not worth further discussion. The idea that a borderline fascist and notable Nazi collaborator is substantially morally superior.....
Wow I can't believe Haig didn't think of that. I mean he only preceded Somme with a bombardment with twice as much artillery as any before it for five days using almost the entirety of the high explosive shells possessed by the entire military. And definitely his fault for not inventing the...