Brandon replied to me: > I'll note it will be easier for the Martians to land in Axis controlled > territory, then attack from there (much like how the US used England) than to > directly try to land in Allied territory.
Hello Brandon, that just about follows from my suggestion to carry expendable TL6 forces in the precious few TL9 shuttles. They're loaded in Axis airfields, and then delivered to the drop zones in Allied territory, within easy driving range of a ball bearing factory, a tank assembly plant, or an oil refinery. The TL9 shuttles have global range, and they can overfly any AA defense 'belt'. The Allies would have to reinforce their rear area security troops to an unimaginable degree. Now that I think of it, the Allies could use an equivalent of the 88 (like the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90_mm_Gun_M1/M2/M3) in a true dual-purpose mount, equally at home in the anti-air and anti-tank roles. They could fire both at incoming shuttles and at overland attacks which dropped a few miles away. > Oh, two rather significant alternate history events: > * Russia was knocked out of the war in 1941 Defeat or stalemate/armstice? Who rules from where? > * Turkey joined the Axis in 1942 Who got Iran and the Gulf? > All but one of the gates are known to be active (turned on) and their > approximate locations known. The PCs destroyed one in an underground temple in > Madagascar and just recovered a gate in Brazil stolen by Soviet forces (and > that gate was in an underground temple, as well). I was wondering if the gates on Mars were equally hidden. A 10' by 10' gate right into the killing zone ofa fortress is a different proposition from a gate in the wastelands on Mars. > Franz Josef Land (Arctic) > New Caledonia > Mato Grosso (Brazil) > Mount Kailash (Tibet) > Madagascar > Newgrange, Ireland > Timbuktu, Mali Are the Allies in control of the Ireland site? Who controls Mali and Tibet? Maybe the drive to Iran wasn't just about oil. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
