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Mod News Sandy Wastes Mod for Silent Storm: Sentinels

Sol Invictus

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Tags: Silent Storm: Sentinels

I've recently been informed of the development of a post-apocalyptic mod for Silent Storm: Sentinels entitled <a href=http://www.strategycore.co.uk/forums/index.php?s=f82b58e471635cc8dc231f3e1e4d45f0&showtopic=3735&st=20&p=47945&#entry47945>Sandy Wastes</a>. Seeing as how we've got some pretty slow news days I thought I'd post this one up. Here's some overview:
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<blockquote>Among the scientists that worked on ‘the gadget’ (the first atomic bomb which was tested at the Trinity Test Site in New Mexico) there was a traitor. Through unknown means he was able to leek almost all of the research and designs to Japan. The Japanese shard the information with Germany and the two began their work on their own bombs. Their combined efforts proved exceptionally fruitful. Both countries had a sizable stockpile by the time that America decided to use ‘Fat Man’ and ‘Little Boy.’ This resulted in the obvious: nuclear retaliation by the Japanese. Las Angeles was first hit on August 12, 1945, then again on the 13. Few survived, the bombs that the Japanese had developed were far superior and deadlier than the American versions.
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The Russians, however, had discovered the German’s nuclear nerve center, deep under Berlin. The technology was beyond anything that had been seen before, hundreds upon hundreds of ‘little gadgets,’ each with their own means of propulsion and guidance. The Russians attempted to launch a counter-attack. Unfortunately, the German system was not operated properly: thousands of drone bombers were launched, targets chosen at random- seeming to favor the most populous places…. By August 14 little was left.
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What technology that remains is all from the ‘40s – little progress was made towards rebuilding the world. Some of the survivors found the new world strangely appealing.- The individual was king- no governments. The lawlessness was rampant- people could not see past living through the day- this sped civilizations decline. By the ‘60s women had almost vanished- their lives had become quite terrible as one could imagine- it seemed that the current generation would be the last generation.
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Raiders have garnered much power. They used to simply be more aggressive scavengers, but they have organized and started building bases underground where they horde what goods are left.
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Small thriving towns have sprung up- seeing the eventual end of mankind they are people banding together to form a semblance of a normal life. Usually completely untrusting of outsiders, it is quite difficult to enter their walled towns.
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The Church of the Rubicon and its followers ‘the cleaned’ try to bring about contentment in their current life through the technology of the old- They have developed an irreversible process that allows one contentment and inner-peace even in the harshness of the waste.
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Into this world has come a sweeping plague- ‘vapor sickness.’ Red clouds that can paralyze, blind or even kill. You have gotten word that the one female you have ever known, Polly, has been exposed. You immerge from the waste to help her.</blockquote>
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Thanks <b>Slaughter</b>.
 

Balor

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Btw, I wonder if they may want to wait for the 'Hammer&Sicle'- cause it has more features (like item weight, for instance, etc).
 

obediah

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Jesus, what a historical fucking shit pile. We rushed the bombing of Hiroshima so much there is no way Japan or Germany could have had a retaliatiatory strike ready. A japanese bomber making it to L.A. in late summer 45? I mean fuck, I'm willing to play ball, but you can't shit all over reality and tell me it's chocolate pie. Hell according to this timeline, Germany built a thousand nuclear missles with guidance and range beyond the V2, months after surrendering? Fuck, that's dumb.

Is their next game going to concentrate on the "what if?" the confederates had stolen rail gun techonology from ghengis khan and used them to gain independence in the war of 1812?
 

Sol Invictus

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They should probably change "Germans" to "Elements of the former Nazi regime, whom the SAS had not managed to locate."
 

4too

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The Most Implausible ...

The Most Implausible ...



Pardon this self indulgence, I am almost finished with a book about various national 'war efforts' in WW2. It has some curious relevance to present day political economies, and that made it worth 'the long march'.


The most implausible aspect of this game variant's timeline, this science fiction,
is the assumption that the Nazi politicians and the Japanese generals would be science savvy enough to know what an atomic bomb was unless it bit them on the butt.

Neither could manage their industrial economies to save their arrogant asses.

It goes beyond "what if", ... to a spiritual, space and time, leap of faith to marshall enough attention span to stay with the 'story' and see if it works on any level of narrative. It has all the look of a garment meant to be striped away, once one is at intimate distance to the software.

These supermen, these samurai patriarchs couldn't even supply their forces with relevant conventional weapons.

The sad fact is that the Japanese were a WW1 infantry army. Their navy and air force never recovered from the loses in 1942. Japan had insufficient oil to run it's economy much less fuel any competent number of ships and planes.

Even with Albert Speer in charge, the Nazi 'military industrial complex' was a byzantium maze of self seeking sycophants. The germans NEEDED horses ALL THROUGH THE WAR. Development and procurement was insanely ineffective;
Too many changes during development, too many changes in production.

Sure a nazi might have a wonder weapon, but only "A" wonder weapon, and by 1945 he'd have to deliver it on horseback. Most Wagnerian, very "Gotterdammerung"".

Sorry, I have no nostalgia for the 'arms and the men' of these 20th Century losers.

As for entertaining science fiction, ... , I guess it depends on how good this game engine is. If it's got the tits and ass to turn one on, it don't matter what color panties, what silly hat, she's wearing when she struts through the door.




4too
 

4too

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Yes

Yes



Could you be any more pretentious?

Guilty as charged.

And with a 'title' of NeutralMilkHotel you could be an expert on rampant egotism, but more likely a purveyor of dry humor.

With another cup of expresso, I could be positively pompous. Aware of the standards of most forums I - fail - to restrain my verbiage none the less.

I will conform to the minimalist style of this forum and quote the final sentence.

As for entertaining science fiction, ... , I guess it depends on how good this game engine is. If it's got the tits and ass to turn one on, it don't matter what color panties, what silly hat, she's wearing when she struts through the door.






4too
 

NeutralMilkHotel

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Hmm. I wonder which is worse, having an unoriginal forum name, or spouting nothing but pretentious bullshit on said forum?

:idea:

p.s. I want to E-punch you in the face.
 

Sol Invictus

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I didn't think it was all that pretentious. In fact, the content of his message was rather loud and clear. Verbose, but necessarily so - as to impart upon the reader (us) the very nature of the Axis' military industry complex in so few words was rather impressive.
 

NeutralMilkHotel

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I wasn't accusing this one post as much as every post he does on here and NMA (some worse than others).
 

ladylove

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I found it to be intelligent and fairly witty, which is a radical change to the majority of posts on the majority of forums these days.

Unfortunate, but oh so true.
 

Saint_Proverbius

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Yes, you have to learn to read 4too's posts. The first time I read one back on Vault13.net, I couldn't make heads or tails of it. After a while, you get the hang of it.

He's right about the Japanese arrogance, though. The United States had their code broken in the first months of the war. They never figured out we broke their code even after we assassinated Yamamoto and ambushed them at Midway. The Japanese thought that any code they came up with would be too advanced for us stupid white Americans.
 

Murk

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click the link Rex posted and the conversation in there has like 4 more posts in june of 08, so it looks like SS is still 'alive" or at least on life support
 

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