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Offline Volkodav

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #450 on: February 25, 2019, 09:55:25 PM »
New idea:  WWII in Sth America.  Basically, extend the war in an active way to the Sth American continent.

Battle of the River Plate somehow drags one or more South American countries into the war?

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #451 on: February 26, 2019, 01:42:03 AM »
Maybe.  I haven't really given it any more thought.
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #452 on: February 26, 2019, 02:28:40 AM »
Bolivia and Germany were close in the 30's and Peru has a large Japanese population and ties to Japan, so there are your Axis powers.

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #453 on: February 26, 2019, 05:30:38 AM »
Argentina was also super-close to Germany and Italy in that period with a large immigrant population of those nationalities living there. If you wanted to make it a more competitive conflict, you could throw them in. Maybe have Japanese subs operating from Peru, German ones operating from Argentina, etc. You could have the Graf Spee sheltering in Buenos Aires (maybe even instigating the whole thing), Germans occupying French Guiana or Suriname after the fall of Metropolitan France, launching an attack on the Panama Canal, and more.

Also, less plausible, but if you're looking for even more candidates for the Axis bloc, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia all have their own reasons for potentially aligning with the Axis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America_during_World_War_II#Axis_activity

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #455 on: March 01, 2019, 03:04:39 AM »
New suggestion:  All things Swedish GB
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #456 on: March 01, 2019, 06:16:09 AM »
New suggestion:  All things Swedish GB

Better yet, expand it to All Things Scandinavian.

This would cover a lot and maybe broaden participation.

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #457 on: March 02, 2019, 12:34:12 AM »
I can live with that.
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #458 on: September 28, 2019, 07:59:39 AM »
Some broad brush ones:-

Crazy paint schemes
Sci-Fi
Helecopters (Inc autogyros)

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #459 on: September 28, 2019, 12:15:48 PM »
From Denmark to Finland? Include Greenland and Iceland?

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #460 on: September 28, 2019, 06:39:35 PM »
From Denmark to Finland? Include Greenland and Iceland?

Would that be a Scandinavian one?
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #461 on: September 28, 2019, 08:06:19 PM »
Greater Scandinavia, perhaps? ???
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #462 on: September 28, 2019, 10:58:08 PM »
Should have been, could have been, might have been but for....

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #463 on: September 30, 2019, 02:47:41 AM »
Norway, Sweden, Denmark are historically considered as defining Scandinavia, and
the meaning of the term as used in those three countries.

The term Nordic is used to include those three plus Iceland and Finland, along with
associated territories: Greenland, Faroe Islands (Denmark), Svalbard (Norway), the
Åland Islands (Finland, but linguistically and culturally Swedish with a complicated
relationship with Finland).


Finland is the linguistic, and cultural, outlier, thus inclusion in a regional GB would be for
geo-political reasons and would be excluded from a GB based on cultural and linguistic
factors. The regions that became Finland were under Swedish or Russian rule, which is
why Swedish names are not uncommon in Western Finland, the Finnish national identity
as we, meaning non-Finns, know it came about in the 19th century.

A Nordic Countries GB including Finland, or maybe a Children of the Vikings GB,
limiting it to the linguistically linked countries/territories. The Åland Islands would be
part of the former GB, and possibly part of the latter GB if the linguistic and cultural
factors are considered to be the most important definition.
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #464 on: September 30, 2019, 10:21:21 AM »
Great background stuff Jon!  :smiley:

... or maybe a Children of the Vikings GB ...

Ooo, I like that one  :D
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #465 on: September 30, 2019, 11:03:58 AM »
Denmark does own Greenland and they intend to keep it, as our president found out.......
What if the Nordic countries formed a NATO style common defense organization? Assuming the world political situation is much different than it really is.

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #466 on: September 30, 2019, 12:41:55 PM »
We done these before, they worked out fine.   Can be done again.

1 >  Unarmed
2 >  Floaty
3 >  Scaleorama

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #467 on: September 30, 2019, 06:46:52 PM »
 Good call,  those ones are normally well subscribed

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #468 on: September 30, 2019, 07:01:12 PM »
Floaty GB was a bit light-on for entries this year, maybe give it a year or two to recover.

Unless it was just me being the moderator. ::)
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #469 on: October 01, 2019, 01:38:59 AM »
I’m sure it’s not that. Speaking for myself I had a couple of build ideas but no time to build them. I’ll save it for next time.

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #470 on: October 01, 2019, 01:45:13 AM »
Great background stuff Jon!  :smiley:

... or maybe a Children of the Vikings GB ...

Ooo, I like that one  :D

Ditto
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #471 on: October 01, 2019, 01:11:55 PM »
Clean, green, emissions free?

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #472 on: October 02, 2019, 03:09:00 AM »
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #473 on: October 08, 2019, 12:16:52 AM »
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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Reply #474 on: October 11, 2019, 09:05:31 AM »
Law and Order

Just Law & Order, or SVU and CI as well?  ;D
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