[Ogre] Ogre-list Digest, Vol 20, Issue 1

[Herb Diehr]

Enough nukes make for a complete surrender.  No infantry needed.

Ogres to pacify trouble-spots are terrifying enough.


Herb

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> > From: "Dominique Sumner" <sumnerd2 at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: [Ogre] How exactly did Japan conquer China?
> > While I think the Nihon Empire may have conquered China, I don't think
> they
> > ever completely pacified the countryside.[...]
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> More than likely -- there's a lot of China to cover.
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> > I can see them releasing huge numbers of Hunter/Killer drones
> > to track down and deal with guerillas hiding in the countryside.
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> Wouldn't work -- the drones listed in _BS_ are flight-capable-only;
> the Chinese need only go underground, a la the Viet Cong, and the
> drones are rendered ineffective.
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> As the sayign goes, one doesn't control a piece of land unless and
> until one places a foot-mobile infantryman on it -- and Nihon flat
> doesn't have the population to pull it off. (For a "dark Nihon" cam-
> paign like what is suggested in _GO_, this leads to a strategy which
> is perfectly logical, perfectly doable, and utterly f***ing horrifying.)
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> >>While I think the Nihon Empire may have conquered China, I don't think
> >they
> >> ever completely pacified the countryside.[...]
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> >More than likely -- there's a lot of China to cover.
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> A cooperative effect then? A joining like Austro-Hungry? A fellowship of
equals with the Japanese being "more equal" than the Chinese.
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> Japan had the tech & China had the people - good combo.
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