We can't be
too serious. Notice how the other OZ Comix! theological examples Siege (and others) have mentioned involved naked Greco-Romanic spectacle-hedonists and pre-teen Buddha girls?
By the way, that sounds so wrong.
SiegeTank wrote:Why can't they just be an odd bunch of cybernetic preachers at first sight, but with a vastly bigger and higher-tech organization lurking behind them?
I like the whole commie craziness as much as the next guy, but this is pushing it. The TTC should not ally with Stalin. If anything the USSR and the TTC should have been at odds with each other the whole time, vying for control over the populace of the Warsaw Pact. No laying low and abiding their time, just hard-core covert war, techno-religion vs. the Power of Communism. We could have state psykers rooting out TTC underground churches, TTC cyborgs raiding KGB prisons, and Stalin and the Patriarch unleashing increasingly more terrible Teslatech onto each other's minions. Which, to my mind, should prove far more interesting than adding another layer of needless complexity to the whole 'rar Stalin' rigamole.
Hell if they're at that much at odds with each other that at least would explain how the USSR managed to fall in the end. Lord knows it is already hard enough to explain how they could ever possibly fail, what with the time machines, communist-empowered heroes, tesla-tech and so on.
YES
Siege, I want your childrens.
The TTC vying against Putin and his KGB hardliners for modern Russia's future - plus the goddamn vampires and cultists crawling all over Russia and Eastern Europe! Intrigue! Espionage! Mystery! HIND Ds!
Still, perhaps a temporary TTC-Stalin alliance could've happened in World War 2? Who knows
what the Goddamn Nazis had to be totally badass.
Magister Millitum's article on Austerlitz, Nemesis, mentioned cyber-mechanical Teutonic Knights. I wonder if it would be cool if these Teutonic Knights were imbued with those dark Chernobog magics. It would all be Chaos Sorcery... with Nazis! And Germanic symbolism! With glowing runes! And swastikas (or Iron Crosses)!
Inform Heir Himmler immediately.... we've found him.