WW2 Cliches

Thande

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Here are a couple of ISOT ones:

1) Any ISOT of any Western nations or forces from the future immediately causes the Nazis and Soviets to become all buddy-buddy, even if they're in the middle of Stalingrad, just because it's more convenient for the militarywank writer to have all the dictatorships on one side.

2) Rommel is always willing to turn traitor to the Allies, because obviously you can't be a Nazi general and honourable. :rolleyes:
 
The only ones I can think of are the ASB Pole-wank threads...I'd love to see a more-or-less plausible Poland wins scenario, though!
You can read this scenario by Scott Palter where Czechoslovakia decides to fight Germany in 1938 with some limited and clandestine help from the Soviet Union, and Poland conquers Berlin. I cannot say whether it is realistic, but it is not a joke, not ASB and not an obvious wank scenario.
 
The only ones I can think of are the ASB Pole-wank threads...I'd love to see a more-or-less plausible Poland wins scenario, though!

on the completely Implausible front: HoI2 game as Poland.. there's a thread over on the paradox forums somewhere about someone winning that by building nothing but HQs.

and another one for HoI3 where ditching the entire command structure between division and theater levels and building mostly militia and a few light tanks results in a polish Europe.

the down side to AH generated largely by AIs, really. heheh.

so, yeah, there's your '...-or-less plausible' one :D [yes, yes, i know that's not serious]

I'm not sure it's a cliche, and it's certainly not just ww2 but...
ignoring the existence of NZ. completely.

it's somewhat excusable. geographically we're not at all significant, and even the Germans often mistook our troops for Australians...

but it's mostly a side effect of Americans writing the histories :D

if you look around and can actually compensate for the American tendency to list us as British during the early 20th century, and the British and German tendency to list us as Australians, there's some distinctly interesting moments in there :D [calling us Imperial troops in ww1 would be correct in ww1, mind you...]

i have no idea if I'm on topic or not here...

*thinks* is 'carriers fail to be awesome' a cliche of ww2 AH? if it's not, it really should be :D
 
random cliches of WW2

1. ME 262 would have been much more effective if not forced to turn into a bomber (I know jets have been mentioned before - but it's such a big one that I have to list it again)

2. German military were basically honourable and didn't REALLY want to take orders from Hitler to do unpleasant things to Poles/Russians/Jews/unicorns; they were just too fond of duty to say "no".

3. The Italian Mafia was really helpful to the Allies

4. The successful units of the French Resistance were simply motivated by patriotism (dubious - Nobody seems to remember the Communists)

5. Only Anglophones have a sense of humour. Italians are allowed to have one after September 1943
 
The german jet program suffered from lack of tungsten or chromium for making stronger jet engines to last longer.
 
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