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[jimmy olsen]

It would have better for the Japanese if they had discovered the Manchurian oil fields and tapped them in the early '30s.

So, Episode 5?

That was two pages ago.

Still, I remain confused why anyone would edit that into an old photo like that.

Empire Strikes Back featured "Episode V" from release on. Only Star Wars had retroactively added "Episode IV - A New Hope" into the rolling credits.

Kindly turn in your nerd card when you leave this thread. Thank you.

Really? Oh, well, not like I was old enough to see it in theater and remember that.

Please just die.

You're taking this a bit too seriously.

[Tonitrus]

[CountDeMoney]

It would have better for the Japanese if they had discovered the Manchurian oil fields and tapped them in the early '30s.

So, Episode 5?

That was two pages ago.

Still, I remain confused why anyone would edit that into an old photo like that.

Empire Strikes Back featured "Episode V" from release on. Only Star Wars had retroactively added "Episode IV - A New Hope" into the rolling credits.

Kindly turn in your nerd card when you leave this thread. Thank you.

Really? Oh, well, not like I was old enough to see it in theater and remember that.

Well, we did and we do.  So go fucking die in a combo-suicide with Lettow running the car in the garage, you fuck.

[DGuller]

Please just die.

Really, "just die"?  You don't want him to suffer, not even a little bit?

[Habbaku]

It would have better for the Japanese if they had discovered the Manchurian oil fields and tapped them in the early '30s.

So, Episode 5?

That was two pages ago.

Still, I remain confused why anyone would edit that into an old photo like that.

Empire Strikes Back featured "Episode V" from release on. Only Star Wars had retroactively added "Episode IV - A New Hope" into the rolling credits.

Kindly turn in your nerd card when you leave this thread. Thank you.

Really? Oh, well, not like I was old enough to see it in theater and remember that.

Please just die.

You're taking this a bit too seriously.

You're taking this a bit too seriously.

[Habbaku]

Please just die.

Really, "just die"?  You don't want him to suffer, not even a little bit?

I am nothing if not humane. 

[Syt]

Really? Oh, well, not like I was old enough to see it in theater and remember that.

Neither was I, but I considered this common knowledge, at least in nerd circles.

[Ideologue]

Depose the Mongolian puppet government with a Mongolian puppet gov't backed by Japan that seeks to bring all mongols under its borders and has a nationalist sentiment more palpable to Mongols than the red dictatorship they languish under;
menace the trans-siberian railroad, occupy the entirity of the primorsk region

The infrastructure to defend is pretty miserable too. If the soviets decide not to defend the frozen wastes, why, they are Japan's for the taking!

And needless to say the inevitable Axis victory in barbarossa will result in further Japanese territorial gains, probably extending at least to Irkutsk.

Again - how do they do any of that?  How to they depose Mongolia?  How do they threaten the TSR?  And for what strategic purpose to Japan?

I once thought as you did (and as a kid I thought that was the optimal A&A strategy).  But A&A is a very poor simulator for the actual war.

Yeah, I have no idea how that got through even basic playtesting, even 40 (or whatever) years ago.  I mean, the USSR gets knocked out every time against remotely competent Axis players, unless something ridiculously lucky happens (like terrible dierolls in the battles for Leningrad ).

Also, the game economy rewards boring play: infantry with a column of red chips underneath.

Oh, and the "Siberian reserves" had far less than the decisive effect traditionally attributed them.  Iirc, they didn't even start removing them in large measure till December, which was some weeks after the tide had broken.

[Lettow77]

 Without American involvement, and with Japan nipping at Siberia, the USSR would have been much more eager to come to terms- if indeed it could prevent its own collapse.

[Tamas]

Seriously? Tim did not know Episode V was Episode V from the very beginning? But he knows all there is to know about shitty anime, I bet.

What a disgrace.

[Ideologue]

Without American involvement, and with Japan nipping at Siberia, the USSR would have been much more eager to come to terms- if indeed it could prevent its own collapse.

You realize, of course, that just asserting it ad nauseum does not make it so.

The Germans overextended themselves and got beaten outside Moscow by winter and by the RKKA, the Russian Far East was meaningless to the survival of the USSR as a political and military unit, and the IJA had one of the worst armies of the major belligerents anyway, barely capable of badly occupying a part of China.

[Lettow77]

 Are you sure your CCCP sympathies aren't clouding your judgement?

The USSR lived and died on a lend-lease they may never have received if the Japanese did not attack America. Irrespective of the forces tied down by an IJA attack, that alone seems pretty fatal.

The IJA's army was amazing. Gyokusai! Noblesse Oblige.

[Razgovory]

I think the Soviet Union did attempt to come to terms up until 1943.

[Caliga]

Why can't tornadoes ever come through the area at, say 2 pm?  WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO WAKE ME THE FUCK UP?

[Razgovory]

Why can't tornadoes ever come through the area at, say 2 pm?  WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO WAKE ME THE FUCK UP?

They like to hide in the dark.  We had the sirens go off around 7 PM a few days ago.  The tornadoes that destroyed Lambert.