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Originally Posted by ericthered
On the other hand, the super-science elements are pretty rare. In the same way that we don't ride helicopters to work, you probably don't replace all war vehicles with hover tanks.
Actually, without world war 1, a lot of military technology that looks obvious to us is a matter of great debate to them. World war one overturned centuries of military thought, and it did so very painfully. You may not so much get tanks as armored cars. You are unlikely to get the idea of suppressing fire either.
Flying battleships will be awesome, and should certainly be included though. They're just going to be insanely expensive.
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So most armored vehicles might be more like armored cars/light, light tanks armed with maybe a 20mm cannon at most and more like just several machine guns?
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Originally Posted by ericthered
To be fair, World war 2 artillery was towed into position by mule teams much of the time, and world war 1 artillery was almost exclusively drawn be beasts of burden after it got off of trains.
I think its awesome to embrace the bad combat assumptions these people have.
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I wonder how those nations with advanced and massive industrial capacities, like the United States especially, would benefit from all this. Because in WW2, the US was the only nation to pretty much have everything mechanized. Other countries, like Germany, often relied on animals for moving stuff around.