chankljp
Donor
This certainly took me a while, but here are some of the highlights from the Chinese TNO community's reaction to the more recent leaks:
- This is an infantry model for a 1970s' era Japanese soldier in the mod:
A user quickly noticed that he was wearing WW2-style puttee leg wrappings to protect his feet, instead of the much more modern gaiters like the OTL Japan Ground Self-Defense Force of that same era did. This demonstrated a few things that could perhaps give us some insight into the TNO world's Japan:
(1) With TNO Japan having to maintain a garrison across the entire Pacific instead of only focusing on defending the Home Islands (Not to mention the lack of support from the US), unlike the SDF, the IJA will have to be much, much larger, meaning that even with all of East Asia under their heel, they could not afford to spend as much money on giving their individual soldiers the most modern equipment possible.
(2) While having gaiters are much more modern and easier to wear as foot protection, puttees are better at sealing your trousers to your boots, which is very important if you are going to engage in jungle warfare in say... Indonesia or Vietnam, Something that the OTL SDF does not have to deal with.
(3) Also, the OTL SDF have a doctrine based on high-tech mechanised warfare, taught to them by the Americans, in which infantryman would not be expected to march around on the battlefield as much with the extensive use of trucks and APCs, an approach that the TNO IJA might not have adopted.
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- On the Iberia breakup event, users have once again compared the dynamic between Franco and Salazar to that of a married couple, and that there needs to be a romantic drama based the two of them.
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- People complaining about the font of the mod hurting their eyes to read, with some jokes about it being a secret Burgundian plot of making untermenschs go blind.
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- Comments about Manchuria have the 5th largest GDP in the TNO world due to it being the Co-Prosperity Sphere's industrial core. With jokes that maybe Wang Jingwei and his collaborator government was correct after all.
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- With the leak about Persia and the country's status as a German puppet, some speculation about the CIA sending covert support to Khomeini and his Islamic fundamentalist so that they will overthrow the Shah...
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- The few users that commented on the US focus tree for a Barry Goldwater presidency actually having a positive opinion on him. Since in their eyes, no matter what his political views might have been, Goldwater is true believer, and someone that derive his policies from sincerely held first principles... Compared to modern day Western politicians, who are seen as a bunch of careerist that will say whatever the public wants them to say in order to get elected.
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- As as result of the focus tree about 'psychological revolution' on an unidentify left-wing Russian warlord, complete with experimentation involving the subconscious, lots of jokes about how one of the warlords is actually a puppet mind controlled by Yuri from the Red Alert series. With comment about building a genetic mutator to create brutes in order to beat back to Germans, using cloning vats to create a flood of conscripts in overwhelm RK Moskowien, or using a psychic dominator on Germania.
