"New Byzantium: Byzantium in the Cold War era:" Topic
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| Tango01 | 15 Oct 2015 9:43 p.m. PST |
"A fellow club member has been doing some Alternate History/Imagi-Nation work for the Cold War (see here and here) and it has got me to muse about what Byzantium may look like in this era (For non readers of the blog, I imagined Byzantia was created after World War 1 from European Turkey and parts of the German supporting Balkan nations like Bulgaria). World War 2 saw them over-run by Germany after beating back an Italian invasion, and then the rising of a Resistance movement that helped push the Germans out. Both Soviet and Commonwealth forces were in the country at war end. To think through what happened post WW2 I looked at what happened to the "neutral" countries on the Cold War borders, such as Finland, Austria and Yugoslavia. There are a number of common threads from a military point of view:…"
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| Mako11 | 15 Oct 2015 11:15 p.m. PST |
Sounds like a good, fun concept. Kardashia is in the general region as well, and is open to alliances, for the right sum of tribute. |
| bishnak | 15 Oct 2015 11:35 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 16 Oct 2015 12:58 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it my friends!. (smile) Amicalement
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| freecloud | 31 Oct 2015 11:37 a.m. PST |
Didn't realise we'd made TMP fame :) My New Byzantium is an attempt to build a Cold War Imagi-Nation army with Byzantine organisation concepts, to fight my fellow club member's Poles who are in the Cold War ear but using their pre WW2 organisation and equipment manufacturers (Vickers MBTs!) Byzantine TO&E: link Polish TO&E: link Also been some good discussion in the comments about how to translate Byzantium. |
| freecloud | 20 Nov 2015 7:10 a.m. PST |
The war has just gotten hot… link |
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