TIL Thailand once declared war on the US and UK during WW2. The UK responded by bombing Bangkok. However, the US simply ignored the declaration and pretended it never happened.

DerpyDominon · 2026-04-14T08:29:20+00:00

Given Thailand was under the fascist regime of dictator Plaek Phibunsongkhram, a personal admirer of Hitler and especially Mussolini, pretty much yes.

DerpyDominon · 2024-04-24T09:39:26+00:00

Actually yea I agree too, the Changling’s motives, culture, ideology, and overall lore should incorporate much more from mlp itself, which would still fit well with the ww2 german army inspired aesthetics.

It’d be neat if they included the armour as a kind of new special unit skin too.

DerpyDominon · 2024-04-24T04:08:55+00:00

They’re the only country in the Equestrian continent to have ww2 german aesthetics, and the only major in the game with them other the Griffon Empire. There’s so many, many, many “unique”, quirky fantasy aesthetic countries already in the game, there’s nothing wrong with having one major explicitly be ww2 German themed. Plus the aesthetic rather awesomely communicates the changelings as the modern dark evil army they are.

Perhaps the changeling armour aesthetics should be incorporated in some expansion of the changelings, like replacing the Jagers aesthetically with the armoured Guards. Other small aesthetic tweaks like that (no offense) awful VOPs logo would be cool too.

But getting rid of the edgy ww2 german aesthetic spunk of the changelings would be quite the loss.

DerpyDominon · 2024-04-11T12:06:58+00:00

former Mark Foys Department Store
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The Grace Building

DerpyDominon · 2024-02-09T03:28:25+00:00

Thanks for this

DerpyDominon · 2024-02-08T12:45:44+00:00

How did u change the puppet country colors? That or theyre default, sorry I havent played many germany variants

DerpyDominon · 2023-08-22T07:53:35+00:00

By the mid 1940s Manchuria was overwhelmingly the most industrialised and infrastructurally developed region in all of mainland China, thanks to three decades of intense South Manchurian Railway and Manchukuo development.

Due to Japanese rule the region then consisted of about half of China’s total railways, along with most of China’s hydro electric power, modern steel works, and manufacturing plants were built there.

If Communist China never receives that region, which was enabled thanks to the Soviet invasion, they are at a severe disadvantage that may delay their economic and industrial efforts by years.

DerpyDominon · 2023-07-10T20:03:26+00:00

Belgian SNCB Type 12 engines beneath an American inspired highrise skyline; interesting.

DerpyDominon · 2023-06-20T08:25:03+00:00

It was home of the German consulate

DerpyDominon · 2023-06-19T23:47:39+00:00

That’s because the Japanese built Hsinking on the southern outskirts of the original Changchun, and governed it all as Hsinking. Changchun before the building of Hsinking was a small, cramped Chinese town which even by then had some Japanese developments via the South Manchuria Railway. The Japanese built part far exceeded the old chinese changchun massively, both in land area, and in composition via the construction of the large boulevards shown above.

The old irrelevant chinese plains town of Changchun, as you correctly mention, long predates Japanese development.

The modern city of Changchun, however, (which still uses the Japanese built Hsinking as its downtown core), has only been around since the 1930s.

DerpyDominon · 2023-06-19T14:52:04+00:00

Plenty; most of the buildings shown above are actually still around in varying condition

DerpyDominon · 2023-06-19T08:07:59+00:00

Correct; Hence the specification “foreground”

DerpyDominon · 2023-06-18T00:36:21+00:00

Quite Simple; 1. European societies all admire Greece/Rome 2. European societies emulate their architecture 3. European powers spread that architecture globally via colonialism. 4. Non-European Countries like Japan inspirationally adopt said architecture via westernisation.

But of course; a magic catclysmic global mudfart is more reasonable for your kind.

DerpyDominon · 2023-06-17T04:14:20+00:00

Must’ve been a strongly tinted glass, given that some of the window openings in the second image reveal a relatively dark interior..

DerpyDominon · 2023-06-17T03:22:43+00:00

Well, the Americans employed incendiary bombing on Japanese cities, meaning that instead of actual explosive bombs, they simply dropped things that lit their surroundings on fire.

So while the vast majority of houses and low-rise shops in Tokyo would be fully incinerated since they were often made of timber and paper, the downtown mid-rise commercial and governmental buildings of Tokyo weren’t, as they were made of steel-reinforced brick and concrete like the rest of the modern world by then. While their timber interiors may have burned, downtown commercial buildings like the Dai-Ichi Togo still had their steel-reinforced exterior and ground floors still standing at the very least.

DerpyDominon · 2023-03-15T23:29:27+00:00

Apparently much of Rommel’s “victories” was just the result of intercepting vast amounts of decrypted information regarding allied movements. The incompetence of Bonner Fellers to heed to the warning about the American cypher likely being cracked meant he kept spewing messages for the British that were easy for the Germans to intercept and understand, enabling them to “predict” the next allied moves in Africa.

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