Real-life Warfare

[IVhorseman]

Wanna know the replacement San Diego is in the Fallout universe?

The Glow.

We've got one of the biggest naval bases in the world, AND Camp Pendleton. Gonna be nukes ALL OVER this bitch if thermonuclear war breaks out.

[Zupponn]

Wisconsin has cheese.

[Silverdream]

The only country we have to worry about invading is the USA, and even then most of the fighting would take place in the east.

Does anyone else miss the days when Japan could have invaded?

[Pwnerade]

A successful invasion of North America by the Empire of Japan doesn't seem like a feasible scenario.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto

[Keldoclock]

Iowa .

[Ben-Jammin]

"I would never invade the U.S., as there would be a gun behind every blade of grass" -Isoroku Yamamoto

He couldn't have been more correct.

[Whiteagle]

Iowa .

Fee, more like pray to God no crackpot with a dirty nuke is smart enough to hit America in the Breadbasket.

[Ben-Jammin]

Well, all I can say is whoever decided to put nuke silos in the middle of a grain field is one smart cookie.

[Ross_Varn]

On the note of ridiculous war stories-

G.I. Joe is based off of a Real American Hero.

Hasbro approached retired US Marine Mitchell Paige back in the day, asking to use his face in a new line of toys that they were putting on the shelves.

Paige's claim to fame?

During the Pacific war, Guadalcanal was another one of those ridiculous islands that the Japanese and American troops pushed back and forth over.

When the enemy broke through the line directly in front of his position, P/Sgt. Paige, commanding a machine gun section with fearless determination, continued to direct the fire of his gunners until all his men were either killed or wounded. Alone, against the deadly hail of Japanese shells, he fought with his gun and when it was destroyed, took over another, moving from gun to gun, never ceasing his withering fire.

In the end, Sgt. Paige picked up the last of the 40-pound, belt-fed Brownings and did something for which the weapon was never designed. Sgt. Paige walked down the hill toward the place where he could hear the last Japanese survivors rallying to move around his flank, the belt-fed gun cradled under his arm, firing as he went.

Coming up at dawn, battalion executive officer Major Odell M. Conoley was the first to discover how many able-bodied United States Marines it takes to hold a hill against two regiments of motivated, combat-hardened infantrymen who have never known defeat.

On a hill where the bodies were piled like cordwood, Mitchell Paige alone sat upright behind his 30-caliber Browning, waiting to see what the dawn would bring.

The hill had held, because on the hill remained the minimum number of able-bodied United States Marines necessary to hold the position.

[Keldoclock]

Semper Fi indeed.

[Ben-Jammin]

Sheer bad-assery. that day.

[Zupponn]

[Robot Monkey]

Since I got into 40K, I've been really interested in WW2 recently, and I'm considering using blitzkrieg-style tactics, since my guard army will be mostly composed of armored units.

[Keldoclock]

Depends on the tank options you're using. IG lends itself *very* well to a shooty game, running circles around the other guys whilst hitting them with heavy weapons. Flamers and such can make good frontline assault dudes, but I wouldn't really know much about that- I don't play 40k, just given the rulebook and a few codexes a read.

[Pwnerade]

"I would never invade the U.S., as there would be a gun behind every blade of grass" -Isoroku Yamamoto

He couldn't have been more correct.

Except he didn't actually say that.