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- 10/21/2003 9:51:39 AM

Mr.Frag

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This is a joke to aggrivate NICKADEMOUS, right? You weren't REALLY able to even forcefully manipulate such an occurance out of a "test" version of the game..., were you? Please say it was. The real chances of such an event
should be right down there with "the earth stopped spinning on it's axis this
morning". If it's even possible to manipulate such an event, the whole design
is open to serious question.

Mike, relax :D

Me and the editor had a score to settle with a Yank who thinks he has better beer on the wrong side of the border.

I put the 25th Army in Seattle for some fun. Note I say ARMY! This is the entire group that holds the Brits out. You will have noticed the extreme numbers of troops. (135571 troops, 1260 guns, 418 vehicles), you also might have noticed that the size 9 fortification was gone in 2 turns ;)

To land the 25th Army would require about 200 transports to get through the CD's in Seattle. I should post one of my Singapore runs where roughly 250 troops out of 6 divisions actually make it to shore. Trust me, no one will be taking on a Coastal Fort. Anyone wanting to will have to travel overland.

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- 10/21/2003 10:27:00 AM

Raverdave

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[QUOTE=Mike Scholl]As you are an Aussie, let's ask the question. Had you been around in 1942,
would you have gone into a panic of defeatism and screamed for your Gov't
to get out of the war if the Japanese had landed somewhere on the North
Coast? Even if it were Darwin?

Or would the effect be just the opposite?

Maybe I was a bit harsh calling Darwin the "left end of nowhere"---I'm not an
Aussie. As an American I was describing the feeling I'd have had if someone
told me the Japs had landed at Juneu Alaska. Not panic, but outrage.[/QUOTE]

Nope, I think that the general feeling would have been to fight.......it would not have been politically viable to surrender......having said that there was some panic in the southern states, more so QLD and NSW than Vic SA and TAS. There WAS a lot of local panic in Darwin after the first air raid IIRC.

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- 10/21/2003 2:32:59 PM

Aussie

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[QUOTE=Mike Scholl]As you are an Aussie, let's ask the question. Had you been around in 1942,
would you have gone into a panic of defeatism and screamed for your Gov't
to get out of the war if the Japanese had landed somewhere on the North
Coast? Even if it were Darwin?

Or would the effect be just the opposite?

Maybe I was a bit harsh calling Darwin the "left end of nowhere"---I'm not an
Aussie. As an American I was describing the feeling I'd have had if someone
told me the Japs had landed at Juneu Alaska. Not panic, but outrage.[/QUOTE]

No smiley faces on this post I'm afraid folks.

Let's put things into context here: I think a nation's reaction to news of the enemy landing on some tin pot territorial island, compared with that of an actual invasion of the mainland would be quite different.

In answer to your question (as best I can since I wasn't around pre 1974): No. Neither I nor the vast majority of Australians would have gone into a panic of defeatism. However, there would have been widespread concern and anxiety amongst Australians to a mainland landing � as well as outrage.

Lastly, I don't think people during wartime would be outraged over a simple 'nuisance' either.

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