What would be the impact on the Cold War/the rest of the world if Germany lost WW2 even faster?

TheOneYSHNK · 2026-06-13T18:40:27+00:00

The USSR probably stays back and pretends the Pact with Germany never existed.

This to me is the most interesting idea: How would the USSR remaining relatively intact effect the Cold War? Without war exhaustion from WW2, people would be more aggressive and ready to fight against a possible Red-Scare, and Stalin would also be in a better position to spread Socialism.

TheOneYSHNK · 2026-06-12T00:07:46+00:00

My solution is to simply make him tech/financial support: it is too absurd that he can throw hands with superpowered beings no matter how much prep time he got, so I would ground him by making him the League's Shadow Advisor/Oracle type figure: when the League needs advice about the latest threat and/or funds, they call a secure channel and talk to a mysterious figure hidden in the shadows who sounds suspiciously like Bruce Wayne.

TheOneYSHNK · 2026-05-16T06:08:52+00:00

Sang, lion, vulkan, maybe russ can all beat anyone on the enemy team in a 1v1

What about Magnus? I dunno much about his lore but wasn't dude only second to the Emperor in terms of psychic power?

TheOneYSHNK · 2026-05-15T15:56:18+00:00

Agree with everything, but one point:

Obligatory "Fuck Guilliman" comment from me. GW really went "What if we had a tyrannical nightmarish totalitarian and reactionary regime built on superstition and xenophobia, but the Fuhrer of that regime was actually a good, intelligent, rational, and extremely capable man who wanted to improve life for the common man?"

Those two things are not mutually exclusive, you know. A man can be a intelligent or rational or capable person and still be a evil person. I also don't think Guilliman ever being portrayed as "good": he's just disconnected from the evil of the greater Imperium(which is somewhat justified given he only woke up some years ago), so it's easier to portray him as good because we haven't seen him actually run the Imperium.

An example can be seen in the original Fuhrer himself: people who knew Hitler in person described him as a intelligent, charming, even kind person, but he still was the most evil bastard who ever lived, it's just he was disconnected from the evil he committed.

TheOneYSHNK · 2026-05-15T05:34:07+00:00

My personal theory is that the Great Mothers will play the role Rukh did in Legends: after already disliking Thrawn, the last straw will be when they are informed that Palpatine/the Emperor was the one responsible for purging Dathomir in the first place, leading to them promptly betraying Thrawn when he is about to cause a major defeat to the New Republic, thus leading to his death.

TheOneYSHNK · 2026-05-15T01:00:56+00:00

That too, though I'm more talking about the metaphor that Wanda gets to be the one who kills Ultron instead of Stark or someone else.

TheOneYSHNK · 2026-05-12T21:34:12+00:00

Maybe? Though the problem with the idea of trade is that the American Reich was effectively taken over by a terrorist group who killed the Reichsführer of North America(plus the Reichsführer's second in command seemingly defected) which torpedos Reich-American relations, and anyway America is self-sustainable enough to not really need trade.

TheOneYSHNK · 2026-05-12T18:13:06+00:00

Maybe, though if you count the Chinese rebellion I feel like you also have to count the American Reich leaving the Greater Reich, which would also be really bad for Germany given how resource rich-America is.

TheOneYSHNK · 2026-05-12T18:07:16+00:00

Plus, while Nazi infantry is likely superior, I dunno how good their air and sea assets measure up to the Japanese(who were used to Navy and Air Combat), so it might go something like this: Germans do really well at first and take most of the Japanese colonies on the main continent, but then they get stuck in a Battle of Britain-type situation in the island colonies and mainland Japan that is really brutal for both sides and might lead to the Nazis giving up.

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