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Sadurian Mike, if it makes you feel any better, the US is not mentioned at all in all but one of the Harry Potter books. And the mention it does get is merely naming a group of people from Salem, Massachusetts.
The IL2 boards are dominated by posters from Britain, nearly shutting us poor Yanks out of the discussion. The supplement for the major US theater is widely regarded as the worst one of the series. In fact they are so vocal the developer is making a Battle of Britain sim (the most popular flight sim setting by a very wide margin). And the UK got a book about them, Japan and USSR didn't! How must the Russian gamers feel about essentially being written out of GURPS history when they did the lion's share of the fighting? Hans is correct, it's an American company, in a mostly American market with a small export market. That makes a product that has an American perspective. That means pounds and inches, color instead of colour, stripper clips instead of chargers, steering wheel on the left, trunk not boot, hood not bonnet, elevator not lift, smoke not *** (interesting what gets censored when there isn't a context checker), and the discovery that there is a world outside our borders on 08Dec1941. Are you mad or smiling? I hope smiling. From dealing with Brits while I was in Germany, I am convinced you guys should get English translations of this stuff instead of what we use for language and call English. I tend to agree with you about what was omitted, it seems hard to do a pre-D-Day campaign if you are not playing German, USSR or Eastern Europe. My favorite (favourite?) campaign area is North Africa. Gobs and gobs of missing stuff for that theater (theatre?).
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I know you can't cover everything in one book, but this is the problem I see with GURPS: WWII. It not only doesn't cover everything, what it does cover is too heavily biased towards the US. As a core book and a springboard for future work, I would have preferred a wider purview and more examples from other nations. The vehicles section is a an example; 4 US, 4 German and 1 USSR vehicle. Fine for (as you say) post D-Day US versus German, but not a lot of good for the rest. Bloody hell, you guys only turned up once the party had been going for two years! You can't turn up that late and then expect to get all the booze and best seats. ;oD |
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But, yeah, I'd have loved that USSR book. Guess I need to break down and buy those PDFs, though I am not normally much of a fan of them. |
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01-21-2008, 07:59 AM | #35 |
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Also Sadurian Mike, Lend/Lease means US proliferation of vehicles waay before US troops joined UK forces on the line. Even though the UK held on/held out so the world could rally.
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I don't think anyone would fail to acknowledge that us equipment was prevelant later in the war, but it would have been nice to see some write-ups for equipment from France, Britain, Italy, Poland, or one of the smaller nations in the core book to show a breadth of coverage. Sure, other nations get covered in supplements, but then the US also has its own supplement. I accept that conventions like US spelling and the US-style $ are going to be in a US-written book; you have to choose some standard presentation and your native one makes sense. Coverage of WWII, however, is a different matter. |
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