This is for my why the Chinese play cricket timeline. Can anyone tell me what the terrain of northern Ontario is like? More specifically, is it suitable for 1940s armoured warfare.
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Upper Ontario? As a resident of Ontario I can firmly say that I have no clue what that would refer to.This is for my why the Chinese play cricket timeline. Can anyone tell me what the terrain of upper Ontario is like? More specifically, is it suitable for 1940s armoured warfare.
Thank you
The northern half, basically north of lake nipigon. Hope I've spelt that right
Northern Ontario? (Yes that's what we call it)The northern half, basically north of lake nipigon. Hope I've spelt that right
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The area is more than a little hostile to armored vehicles, particularly the bogs north of Lake Superior. Those will suck up armored vehicles like quicksand. Harder rocky areas don't have that problem, but the dense forests in that part of the world provide a whole other challenge.
Northern Ontario? (Yes that's what we call it)
I struggle to imagine less miserable terrain for any army to have to wade through, it's all dense forrest and precambrian shield pockmarked with bogs and small lakes.
Thank you that's exactly what I wanted to know. It also sounds like good defensive terrain.
Oh no problem. And while it certainly wouldn't be easy to attack through there it also would be a somewhat difficult to defend. It's massive, with nearly non-existent transportation infrastructure. It really is just miserable terrain in the middle of nowhere.Sorry its how I look at things and definitely sounds like quite defensible
It is to a point. Not many natural barriers to observation aside from the forests, but not exactly nice territory for a mechanized army to push through.
Oh no problem. And while it certainly wouldn't be easy to attack through there it also would be a somewhat difficult to defend. It's massive, with nearly non-existent transportation infrastructure. It really is just miserable terrain in the middle of nowhere.
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That last picture I took myself, as another user pointed out probably the worse tank country in North America. Waging armored warfare is for all intents and purposes, impossible.
The time to invade Ontario from the north would be winter, when the ground is hard. And you use the frozen rivers as roads.
This still leaves the problem of trees, though ...
We are talking about ice like this:And the drunken lumberjacks with dynamite. I imagine two or three sticks going off on a frozen river loaded with tanks would not be a good thing for the tanks
We are talking about ice like this:
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Two or three sticks of dynamite will make two or three fishing holes.
Any not-idiot will space out the tanks.
The hole will freeze again once the lumberjacks are dead.
To reinforce the ice you spread straw over it and pour water over it.