So, I was doing some reading into why Benedict Arnold has become a byword for treachery in America, and through cultural osmosis the rest of the world.
I'm actually a bit curious; what would have happened if his plan to surrender Fort Arnold (as it was known at the time, now the site of the...
Hey@carlton_bach, loved the read of this. Jolly fun.
Do feel like I have to ask, did von Rathau, or whatever his full name was, have his chickens come home to roost yet, about supplying material support to the Russians?
It's a bit complex; the setting, which I have been working on with a friend of mine, is basically a big mash-up of a lot of 'real world' anime and western animation, but primarily Sailor Moon.
It's set about 1200/1300 years from now; a couple of centuries after the end of the "Great Freeze" of...
Hey, I hope this is the right place, but I was looking for some help to create a world map for a roleplaying game I'm working on at the moment. Think that you all could help?
Well, one of the things I remember reading about L-L was that, almost as soon as V-E Day ended, the US sent the metaphorical debt collectors around to London, saying "Return the stuff we L-L'ed you, or we start charging you for 'em."
Hope so; I had another look, and here's what I found about the "De Havilland DH. 9 Hornet" (the aircraft described as the RAF's mainstay).
It was fast, manouverable, and made the Japanese Zero look like an A-10 Thunderbolt, with only two weak popguns and two rockets for armaments.
What if he tried to volunteer earlier in the war, but missed the cut for medical reasons? That's what happened to Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army; he spent years trying to get into the army, and eventually did so, in 1919, too late to win any medals, but in time to deal with the post-war...
The one thing I do hope in this setting is that the RAF gets some decent kit; the Balmorals are okay-ish, given that they're not front line bombers any more, but the description of the fighter that the RAF was mentioned to have in the game books is frankly insulting.
The first occasion was of an RAF officer flying in Northern Italy, Squadron Leader James Eric Storrar, being gifted a Yak-9D from a unit that was operating nearby in Yugoslavia after taking a flight in it, which he used as a personal hack until the oil tank was ruptured and unable to be repaired...