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Offline Papa Spanky

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Re: A Very American Civil War of today
« Reply #60 on: 25 December 2012, 06:26:05 AM »
Girls with tramp stamps vs girls with navel rings.  :-*

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Re: A Very American Civil War of today
« Reply #61 on: 25 December 2012, 07:23:46 AM »
Girls with tramp stamps vs girls with navel rings.  :-*
Or White Trash vs Ghetto baby mamas, Next on Springer.
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« Reply #62 on: 25 December 2012, 01:07:10 PM »

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« Reply #63 on: 25 December 2012, 01:29:34 PM »
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Re: A Very American Civil War of today
« Reply #64 on: 25 December 2012, 09:19:26 PM »
Hahahahaa!



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Re: A Very American Civil War of today
« Reply #65 on: 25 December 2012, 09:48:52 PM »
LOL! just wandering around the thread and saw the pic. lol

Offline Dezmond

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Re: A Very American Civil War of today
« Reply #66 on: 25 December 2012, 11:30:19 PM »
There are even flags!





Naturally, the religious fundamentalists of Jesusland adopt the same approach to scientific thought as the Texas school board, and within a generation they are burning people at the stake for suggesting the Earth revolves around the sun. Meanwhile the conservative 'war on women' kicks in to overdrive, and the female population is swiftly reduced to the status of property of their male relatives. Indeed, soon only white male landholders are eligible to be citizens.

And for reasons no one is entirely sure of, all their soldiers start wearing night vision goggles with glowing red lenses.



(The Handmaids Tale is the ur source here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid's_Tale , in the same way that the Richard III movie is for the VBCW)

(This cartoon from 2008 gives some idea for units:-

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Offline palaeomerus

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Re: A Very American Civil War of today
« Reply #67 on: 26 December 2012, 12:18:16 AM »
Yeah, that's about where I figured this would end up. Sigh. Same ol' cartoons.

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Re: A Very American Civil War of today
« Reply #68 on: 26 December 2012, 12:32:23 AM »
Another north vs south mesh-up. Boring  :P

But the Handmaidens tail, seems like an interesting base.
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Re: A Very American Civil War of today
« Reply #69 on: 26 December 2012, 12:34:15 AM »
Yeah, that's about where I figured this would end up. Sigh. Same ol' cartoons.

Voted for Romney and the Nasty Party*, huh? :0)

You have to then consider the advantages of being able to lead the godfearing stormtroopers of Gilead against the all drone armies** of the USC, given that they are too cowardly to fight in person.

Or possibly legions of librul supersoldiers enhanced by unrestricted stem cell research, whose powers are fuelled by constant injections of the neck fluid of aborted foetuses?

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasty_Party

**Naturally, the first thing the USC did was to ban guns, and the first thing Gilead did was to ban violent video games. Obviously, this means that there is a massive surge in aggression in the USC, and soon every pupil has around a 50% chance of being gunned down in a mass shooting every time they attend school.

So, the armies of the USC, raised on their asses playing violent video games, tend to be more aggressive but less physically fit than the soldiers of Gods Army. As a result, they rely far more heavily on drones, which the Gilead Stormtroopers avoid, in part for philosophical reasons, and in part because (as the failure of Project ORCA shows) no one who votes republican knows how to use a computer. Indeed, the USC hopes its warfighters will soon be able to conduct the war entirely through facebook while sitting in a coffee shop.

Naturally, the soft hearted nature of the Stormtroopers is a source of some embarrassment to the junta of former Fox News pundits who rule Jesusland, and they are secretly making moves to reintroduce violent video games in to the society in order to toughen them up.

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Anyway, it is worth noting that the VBCW setting consists to a great extent of a series of extended gags, like the militant Anglican Church or the Somerset Freedom Fighters, or the BUF who owe a lot to the Brownshorts of Jeeves and Wooster.
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Re: A Very American Civil War of today
« Reply #70 on: 26 December 2012, 05:27:45 AM »
Like I said, same ol' cartoons. Nothing much to do with real life but I guess it feels to good to pass them around and chant and build a sort of cheap, shrill little power fantasy around it.
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Re: A Very American Civil War of today
« Reply #71 on: 26 December 2012, 08:23:07 AM »
The last few comments show why I am sticking to a civil war in the thirties.  The 2012 election offered too many stereo types of voters on the other side, with no belief in any inherent virtue of the other side. 

If I am going to present a game at a convention, and field units of Facists, KKK, communists anarchists etc, I better do so in a less charged setting then the current one. 
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Offline Dezmond

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Re: A Very American Civil War of today
« Reply #72 on: 26 December 2012, 09:02:59 AM »
That is the cowards way out!

If you want people to talk, turn up with an army of modern US soldiers with NVGs painted as Helghast



and carrying Jesusland flags, lead by a Sarah Palin figure





(with special rules that you have to roll a dice before you can deploy her - on a 1-5 she doesn't show up for the battle. And if she does show up you have to roll a dice every turn - on a 1-3 she quits the battle to take up a lucrative position with the media)

and with Fox News commissars/political officers.

Doing anything else is just self censorship and skirting around the issue.

(Course, I am British, so that probably provides the necessary distance that people would find it funny, rather than it starting an actual fist fight.)

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Re: A Very American Civil War of today
« Reply #73 on: 26 December 2012, 09:49:46 AM »
Nah, no one cares about Palin any more, she is old hat like the Simpsons or beepers.
But i won't stop you from having sci-fi WW2 Germans running around with some stars and bars, or cross, or ziggurats.  lol
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Offline Dezmond

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Re: A Very American Civil War of today
« Reply #74 on: 26 December 2012, 10:35:52 AM »
For what it is worth, I think a wargame that does for US politics what this does for the internet:-



would be entertaining.

 

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