01-29-2016, 12:41 AM | #1 |
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Techno-Sorcery and The Nazis
So Let's say I'm a Applied Xenology™ style RPM mage from a TL12 universe and I find myself in Germany circa 1939. I quite like this Hitler chap and his message about ethnic purity (also those uniforms are fabulous!), so I decided to help the fella out.
How do I do that SJGames? Assume no future gear and a skill level of 16 for all paths. |
01-29-2016, 02:35 AM | #2 |
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Re: Techno-Sorcery and The Nazis
Convince him not to invade russia lol
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01-29-2016, 05:06 AM | #3 |
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Re: Techno-Sorcery and The Nazis
Well, he has a significant problem in understanding how the society he's inside works, and what its weak points are. The Nazis' most fundamental problem is they took on too many opponents at once, and lost the battle of GNP. Your outsider's actual best tactic is to become a special envoy for Hitler and spend his time mentally influencing the leaders of states with which Germany isn't yet at war.
So the UK and France don't go to war over Poland, and maybe even ally with Germany against the Soviets, as Hitler hoped. That should deal with the USSR. You then keep Hitler from declaring war on the USA when the Japanese attack (This is easier because the U-boats haven't been sinking merchant ships in the Atlantic). However, I suspect this isn't the kind of answer you're looking for. |
01-29-2016, 07:01 AM | #4 | |
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Furthermore, militarism was an inherent part of the Nazi platform. It appealed to the desire to reverse WWI, in the sense that a new coach rouses a team that had a bad year. If somehow the rest of the world could have contrived not to get into a war with Hitler, he would have been sorely disappointed.
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01-29-2016, 07:34 AM | #5 |
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Re: Techno-Sorcery and The Nazis
Step one is to cure his syphilis before it makes him crazy(er). Then, you use Voluntary Sacrifice to get a few hundred thousand energy, and magically wipe a country or three off the map. That pretty much goes a long way towards conquering the world.
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01-29-2016, 08:47 AM | #6 | |
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01-29-2016, 08:58 AM | #7 |
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Re: Techno-Sorcery and The Nazis
Does the technowizard have even a single computer of his own to run spells on? Until he does that he's not going to be able to do any magic.
If he can get the nazi's making the gear he needs to run spells (especially the hardened ones) he can pull off all sorts of nifty stuff. But that's very advanced tech for the time period, and just building them runs into the stacking magic rule. If he's limited to just his own spell casting on one computer, He can wreck the havoc that RPM is famous for. Reconnaissance is a powerful option. As is mind controlling Hitler to be more reasonable. You can't stop the nazi ideology, no, but you can stop (I mean slow down) the declarations of war to a reasonable level. The dangerous part about the USSR, though, is that you can't wait forever. Stalin WILL launch an attack if given enough time.
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01-29-2016, 10:23 AM | #9 | |
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01-29-2016, 01:43 PM | #10 | |
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Going down 6 TLs is like one of us trying to invent a computer that can be built with Roman-era technology: there's a real problem with communicating the ideas, and we have no idea how to do things efficiently with the tools available, which is likely to make the locals dismiss us as crackpots. Taking a whole lot of TL12 computers, and some very robust power converters with him seems more practical. |
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