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Out of the way, comrade sunbathers! The Red Army is here!

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Siege wrote:With ample help from PeZook, who knows a lot more about the history of Poland than I do, we have arrived at the following summary of the pivotal events of 1976:

1976...

This then simultaneously explains (broadly) how Zhadanova dethroned Brezhnev and also why the Poles are BFFs with Moscow in the Zhadanova-era and beyond when historically they were anything but.
Hmm... thus as reward, the Polish military might not get its own nukes, but may become one of the most lethal and heavily fortified laser defense grids in Europe, with swarms of point-defense and long-range patrol interceptor UCAVs?

Man, did you guys ever make the Soviet next-gen MiG-31 replacements? Dedicated interceptors for chasing down fast movers?
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Probably, although they're a bit more subtle than the smash-in-your-face tech the Russians throw around. We came up with a bunch of pretty cool stuff though, like the stealth amphibious assault ship Academics of Warsaw* and its contingent of Hussar attack hovercraft.

With regards to the interceptor, there's the Skarżyński Polytechnika SKA-52 Safir mentioned in ye olde WarPac aircraft thread. Made by a fictional Polish manufacturer which is kind of odd, now that I think of it, because I'm pretty sure the "cyber Poland" idea came way after that article was written.

* The name refers to those students whose heroic rioting precipitated Brezhnev's doomed voyage to Poland, directly causing the fall of the Tyrant of Moscow and the Second Revolution itself! And after the great bond of techno-socialism they helped forge with Zhadanova's not-so-bad-after-all Russians! And also possibly after the Warsaw - Moscow Trans-Atomic Railway they helped design! Many great things were accomplished by the Academics of Warsaw!

Also, the American Navy totally refers to this ship as 'the Polish frathouse'.
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for Comix also :P
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... that guy's tasche.... its out of control mang
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Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart[1] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was a British Army officer of Belgian and Irish descent. He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War; was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a POW camp; and pulled off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. Describing his experiences in World War I, he wrote, "Frankly I had enjoyed the war."[2]
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A FISTFUL OF BAYLORS

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More concept sketches!

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And the full-sized versions.

I'd been practicing getting back up to speed, though a lot of the RE character influences in my mind should be obvious - Lennox always looked like Wesker or Cyclops in my mind, while Baylor evolving from Leon to Chris with getting a faceful of cybernetic improvements (along with shorter hair) was something I had in mind. Teague always was a grumpy big boss-alike, even if he eventually grows out of it by future chapters. Also note that Storm, by STB2, isn't actually rocking the glasgow grin, but would probably do some war paint for effect if need be.

I'm still super rough - Teague Teagle's and Follow's faces both look like shit, as does any sense of depth on the SHADOW TEMPEST - plus I overbuffed STB2 Baylor to an insane degree.
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those are some cool drawings moby. I like how baylor sort of takes a level in grizzzled bad ass between stb and stb 2 and then again between 3 and 4.
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And on the truly random ideas front: SHINGEKI NO TEMPEST. More in the art thread, I guess, but for reference.
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Well, this is something to keep in mind...
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http://englishrussia.com/2013/10/05/las ... cosmonaut/

Thought of this setting when I stumbled up on this article.


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:) That gun was one of the earliest things we discovered when we started doing this 'verse. I mean, Soviet laser guns! You can't not have them!

Y'know, after giving it some thought I think Great Britain ought not to be in the WEU. Share a single market, sure, but Britain being outside the WEU and thus not privy to its scheming and plotting just jives better with what we've established about the UK, means we can pit Ridley against the Star Chamber and altogether seems to make a lot more sense.
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"When we worked on what we thought was the Star Chamber's weather warfare infrastructure we put skypipes up around Daneborg Point on Greenland and the air station at El Menzel in Morocco. In the former case we could see constant, swirling storms being generated at certain precise locations. In the second case however weather patterns across the Sahara remained unchanged even though the air was so charged with radiant orgone you could taste the exotic particles. Local nightmare patterns helped confirm our psychics' impression that El Menzel was used for something quite different indeed."

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Is that ... is that a photograph of the apocalypse ...?
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:) If the end of the world looks like that it'll at least be pretty! It's a photo of the Catatumbo lightning.
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That's an interesting looking vehicle. Would fit quite nicely with Polish 21st century stealth amphibious landing nonsense, I think :D.

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Operation BANNERET
It's christmas 1944 and the British 21st Army Group commanded by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery is tearing through the Belgian countryside on its way north. To the south, the American 12th Army is bogged down in the Ardennes under furious attacks from Model's Army Group B.

It is at this time that the recently re-estblished Section IX of MI6 becomes aware of the location of a top-secret German factory in the forested Eifel hills near the German city of Aachen. This is the location where Maring-Nehren AG produces experimental liquid-fuelled rocket engines for the Luftwaffe, and it is likely to fall into the hands of the Americans soon as they break Model's forces. MI6's higher echelon, aware of the 'Paperclip' efforts to recruit Nazi scientists for employment by the United States and already worried about the Empire's tenuous post-war position, decides to mount a commando operation to relieve the factory of any plans worth having and blow up the rest.

Operation BANNERET is hurriedly put together by British operative Kim Philby, and tasks a small group of five Special Operations Executive commandos to infiltrate behind enemy lines, find the factory, steal the plans and make their way back to British lines alive. They are Corporal Thor Hastings, who fought with Tito's partizans on the Balkans; Lieutenant Adam Chevalier, formerly of the Free French Army but now an 'independent contractor'; and Second Lieutenant Findlay Breckenridge, who ran resistance movements in Malaya and Singapore. They are commanded by Major Atticus St. John Ridley, a grizzled veteran of Monte Cassino, Dieppe and El-Alamein, and accompanied by Zelma Iranek. She is one of very few female operatives; one of the Cichociemni, "the Silent-Dark Ones", the Polish Secret Army's elite special-operations paratroops. Iranek, codenamed 'Blacker' by the SOE, is a survivor of operations in Belgrade, Stalingrad and Berlin and is arguably the greatest marksman MI6 has access to.

BANNERET will prove in many ways their most difficult operation yet: when the anticipated christmas lull in the fighting fails to materialize the five seasoned commandos must leverage all their deadly skills to navigate a landscape crawling with German troops and armor, only to find out they are not the only ones looking for the engine plans...
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In the American military-industrial complex Charlie Saint is often referred to by the sobriquet "Queen of Clubs", a veiled reference to her past reputation as a party girl of loose morals.
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"Balls."

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