World War Two Campaign

[assault]

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Obviously the retro-GA isn't for genre-fiends...

[Captain Obvious]

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I am a retro-GA genre fiend.

[assault]

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Of course the heyday of the retro-GA was the 70s and 80s, so it's actually kind of retro in its own right. We're talking about a retro-retro-GA.

[TheQuestionMan]

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Check out my Links below for Golden Age Champions. it originally started as a World War Vehicles Thread that I briefly derailed.

 

 

Cheers

 

 

QM

[kahuna's bro]

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did the geneva convention exist during ww2? that cuold explain why supers aren't on the front lines using thier powers violate the rules of warfare

[SSgt Baloo]

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That's not how the Geneva convention works. Unless "superpowers" had been discovered and outlawed in a prior conflict. Then all bets are off. Unless your superheroes are unstoppable juggernauts, however, there are plenty of ways to make battle sufficiently dangerous to them that the hit against morale should one of the supers be lost might be considered a greater risk than the benefit of a possibly-shorter war. They might be ordered to stay clear oif the battlefield unless called upon for tasks that suit their specific suite of powers. They would probably be then withdrawn from the front until need arises.

 

Adventures could then center around how to help out behind friendly lines. Finding sleeper agents, looking for a specific soldier who is needed for whatever reason (as in Saving Private Ryan), getting out in the local economy on leave (and perhaps discovering secret plans left behind by the Nazis as a surprise for "our boys").

 

Unlike most superheroics, military action consists in large part of figuring out what the other guy expects you to do, then figuring out something else to do that will catch him off-balance and unable to respond effectively. You don't confront your enemy at his strongest point and slug it out. If supers were involved in combat without official sanction (and official orders) they would be considered loose cannons, liable to tip a battle the wrong way without intending to. TPTB would be frantically calling in supers they did have under orders to go get those "lunatics" out of there before they do more damage.

 

If supers are used militarily at all, they would probably be used for commando-style raids rather than just tossed into the war-zone to duke it out with enemy tanks of opportunity.

[kahuna's bro]

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thanks

[Cassandra]

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The Germans and Italians signed the Geneva Convention, but very loosely followed the agreement.

 

The Japanese did not sign the Convention because it was considered dishonorable to surrender. They treated Allied Prisoners with contempt, and nearly one in four would die from brutality and neglect.

 

Interesting enough, those Japanese who were captured caused few problems and provided information for two reasons. One was they were taught to obey officers without question, even Allied officers once they were prisoners. Another was the fear that the Allies would inform their government through the Red Cross they had been captured, thus bringing same to their families.

[kahuna's bro]

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how interesting

[Cassandra]

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Best Book on the Japanese during Pacific War to me was The Rising Sun by John Toland.