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  • File : 1264689368.jpg-(40 KB, 387x564, jasper.jpg)
    40 KB Solomon One !!WMkFWBtNYI6 01/28/10(Thu)09:36 No.7809544  
    Jasper Maskelyne, a famous British stage magician, worked in British Military Intelligence in WWII. He served in the African theatre, constructing tricks, ruses and illusions on a grand scale to confound the Germans. The culmination of which involved him moving the Suez Canal and the City of Alexandria three miles away to confuse bombers.

    This man is insanely awesome.

    Discuss.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)09:37 No.7809558
    "Where is the target"

    "It's suppose to be right here."

    "Double check the map fritz"

    "I did asshole"

    "This sucks".
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)09:40 No.7809581
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    >>7809544
    Did he have leggy combat assistants?
    >> Solomon One !!WMkFWBtNYI6 01/28/10(Thu)09:43 No.7809600
    >>7809581

    He had, and I quote, a "Magic Squad". This was comprised of around fourteen soldiers, Maskelyne included, who had experience in areas such as carpentry, painting or art.

    They used their skills, in combination with Maskelynes sleight-of-hand, to create the large scale illusions that dicked with the Germans.

    Unfortunately, I believe that they would have all been sweaty Englishmen rather than Glamorous Assistants.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)09:43 No.7809603
    >>7809558

    remember all you had back then was a compass. most pilots used dead reckoning.

    what he did was create a fake city out of wood and light it up. then he had the real city go lights out.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)09:47 No.7809629
    >>7809558
    The offical report read: "Target not found. Hans is a cunt."
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)09:51 No.7809662
    >>7809600
    >Unfortunately, I believe that they would have all been sweaty Englishmen rather than Glamorous Assistants.

    BAH, I chose to believe that they were all pretty women in revealing swimsuits, like real magician's assistants.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)09:51 No.7809663
    So, important question:

    The Brits had a magician on their side. Did the Americans?
    >> Solomon One !!WMkFWBtNYI6 01/28/10(Thu)09:52 No.7809676
    >>7809662

    A fine and noble view, sir.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)09:54 No.7809689
    >>7809663
    I don't think so, no.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)09:55 No.7809698
    >>7809689

    Then it's proven. Britain is better than America.

    Because we have MAGIC.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)09:55 No.7809700
    >>7809662
    >Unfortunately, I believe that they would have all been sweaty Englishmen rather than Glamorous Assistants.

    I'd settle for sweaty English women
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)09:57 No.7809712
    In 1942 he worked in Operation Bertram, before the battle of El Alamein. His task was to make German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel think that the attack was coming from the south when British General Bernard Montgomery planned to attack from the north. In the north, 1,000 tanks were disguised as trucks. On the south, the Magic Gang created 2,000 fake tanks with convincing pyrotechnics. There was a fake railway line, fake radio conversations, and fake sounds of construction. They also built a fake water pipeline and made it look as if it would never be ready before attack.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)09:58 No.7809720
    >>7809663

    Brits - Magic
    Germans - Occult
    Americans - Money
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)09:59 No.7809731
    >>7809663

    No. We had bombs.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)09:59 No.7809734
    >>7809544

    This was the guy that made all the fake canvas planes and tanks didn't he?

    You know it was almost impossible to tell the difference from about 100 yards away? Guy was a genius.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:00 No.7809735
    >>7809720

    what about Soviets? And Japan?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:00 No.7809741
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    >>7809663

    well, Robert T. Frederick disguised a task force of elite commandos as a humble entertainment corps, does that count?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:00 No.7809742
    Handsome motherfucker is handsome and a motherfucker
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:03 No.7809761
    >>7809735

    the soviets are Industry, obviously.

    Japan is just Japan. they were every bit as crazy back then as they are now.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:03 No.7809764
    >>7809720

    Brits - Magic
    Germans - Occult
    Americans - Money
    Soviets - Creativity
    Japanese - Immorality
    >> Solomon One !!WMkFWBtNYI6 01/28/10(Thu)10:05 No.7809774
    >>7809742

    By all accounts, yes, Jasper was a pretty dashing fellow. Tall, athletic build, piercing green eyes and a strong jaw.

    Plus INCREDIBLE COSMIC POWAH
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:06 No.7809780
    >>7809764
    >Japanese: Immorality

    While it may be true, I don't think they are particular balanced.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:06 No.7809785
    >>7809764
    >Soviets - Creativity
    What the fuck are you talking about?

    If anything it should be Soviets- MOAR MANS
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:07 No.7809788
    >>7809774
    And leggy assistants!
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:07 No.7809797
    >>7809761

    The same soviets who would send one man into battle with a rifle, and 3 guys behind him with bullets, ordered to pick up the rifle when he died? Equipment?

    No, dude. Soviets had PEOPLE. Japan had HUBRIS. "Yes, take this stamped-steel gun-to katana. We swear it will cut through the barrel of a cannon if your will is strong!"
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:07 No.7809798
    >>7809785
    Yeah, this. Not wanting to make this degenerate into a flamewar but creative thinking was a hindrance to anyone wanting a career as a Red Army officer.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:08 No.7809800
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    >>7809785

    Soviet secret power: drunkenness
    >> Stran-G-ERR 01/28/10(Thu)10:09 No.7809804
    Japan had Katanas, duh!
    >> Solomon One !!WMkFWBtNYI6 01/28/10(Thu)10:09 No.7809806
    >>7809764

    >Japanse: Immorality

    To be fair, the war was pretty immoral all round.

    America developed and used nuclear weapons, erasing two cities in an instant.

    Churchill let Coventry burn rather than let the Germans know they'd cracked Enigma. They also weaponised anthrax and tested it on Gruinard Island, ready for use on the Germans.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:09 No.7809811
    >>7809780 While it may be true, I don't think they are particular balanced.

    Oh they are.

    They just got kicked the crap out of before they could really master their Ebola Bombs and Bubonic Plague Strikes.

    You know they still accidentally dig up old biological weapons in China?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

    Nasty stuff they did. Nasty
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:10 No.7809817
    >>7809797

    Soviets had best tank in the war = Creativity

    Japan had the most horrific war crimes in living memory = Immorality
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:11 No.7809818
    >>7809785
    Soviets - Goddamn Stalin
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:11 No.7809824
    The guy's a Spirit of the Century character.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:12 No.7809833
    >>7809720
    Brits - Magic - zerg
    Germans - Occult - protoss
    Americans - Money - terrans
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:12 No.7809836
    >>7809817
    >Soviets had best tank in the war = Creativity

    Yes, best tank. Too bad they couldn't make more than one.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:12 No.7809837
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    >>7809798

    Just trying to illustrate my point, if you disagree fine.

    Was trying to think of stuff "outside the box", rather than what we already consider established about them.

    If Brits get "Magic", Russia should have something other than "People".
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:14 No.7809849
    >>7809797
    >Equipment

    no, Industry.

    Industry to create enough tanks to swarm a continent when before they had horse and buggy. Industry build an international superpower when before they were a backwater slum. Industry to design some of the most reliable weaponry ever, who's basic designs are still in use all over the world.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:14 No.7809850
    >>7809836 Yes, best tank. Too bad they couldn't make more than one.

    Do you mean designed more than one tank? Or built more than one?

    Because there was a time when they were building T-34's so fast they would churn them out every few hours into the warzone half a mile away.

    And it was the best damn tank of the time relatively, they didn't need anything else.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:15 No.7809855
    Russian engineers were creative as fuck. It was the politicians and soldiers that weren't.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:17 No.7809864
    I once fucked with an OOB on WINSPMBT so I could field T-34s in the 90s. Against light APCs and AFVs they were still kicking shit.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:17 No.7809870
    Why has this thread stopped being about combat illusionists?

    WHY?
    >> Iron Lung 01/28/10(Thu)10:18 No.7809878
    >>7809855
    Can't fault the soldiers; Mikhail Kalashnikov was a grunt and his contribution to history is formidable.

    Funny thing to forget, but Russia hasn't lacked for brain power pretty much ever. Mother Russia's just an amazing history of madmen in charge; the czars and overlords and political grandfathers that create such a fucked up situation.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:19 No.7809885
    >>7809824

    In D&D terms, I'm thinking Rogue with a lot of UMD
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:19 No.7809886
    >>7809797
    >The same soviets who would send one man into battle with a rifle, and 3 guys behind him with bullets, ordered to pick up the rifle when he died? Equipment?
    You're a moron. At the start of the war, equipment was scarce, true. By the end of it, most formations were equipped with large numbers (by which I mean enough to equip entire infantry divisions exclusively) of SVT rifles and submachineguns, not to mention the massive superiority of Soviet armour (both in quality and numbers) in the middle and end of the war.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:20 No.7809903
    >>7809864
    >Against light APCs and AFVs
    76mm armour piercing shells beat barely armoured machine gun armed vehicles shocker.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:20 No.7809904
    >>7809764

    While it is not widely known, Soviets too was occult as shit. The most notable artefact being the Mausoleum of Lenin, which still acts as a gigantic mind control device. Also they renamed cities by names of their leaders in order to confuse the enemy magicians.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:21 No.7809913
    >>7809878

    Germans were working on ICBMs, nukes, jets, barrel attachments to shoot rifles around CORNERS... and RUSSIA gets "creativity" because they refined tanks and guns?

    Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:23 No.7809932
    Brits- Illusion, in the flavor of classy stage magic. Top hats, canes, skimpily-dressed assistants.
    Germans- Demon-summoning, the occult, blood sacrifice.
    Americans: Evocation. Army units have specialized elite troops to throw fireballs and other raw destructive elemental effects.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:25 No.7809955
    Russia would have weird folk magic and potions made in huge cauldrons.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:26 No.7809958
    >>7809913

    I know I know. But I wanted to try and just do a list with one entry.

    Whatever.

    So.. Jasper Maskelyne vs. The Spear of Destiny anyone?
    >> Iron Lung 01/28/10(Thu)10:26 No.7809959
    >>7809913
    Didn't say that.
    My point's that, whatever else, Russia has smarts in spades...guided by madman, thugs, and insane oligarchs.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:27 No.7809966
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    >>7809904

    the soviets relied on the brits for all anti-occult operations.

    this was best symbolized when britain presented the soviets with a magic blade, the Sword of Stalingrad.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:27 No.7809967
    >>7809932

    I think Americans was the first to invent the Plot Armour. It is evident from the Hollywood movies. By contrast, in Soviet films the heroes often die after saving the day.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:27 No.7809969
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    >>7809958
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:28 No.7809976
    >>7809967

    ohshit. Americans have Dramatic Editing powers.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:29 No.7809977
    >>7809966
    Damn, that's a nice sword.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:29 No.7809980
    >>7809958

    Perhaps Jasper and the Magic Gang are sent to infiltrate Nazi Germany on a super-classified mission and snatch the Spear of Longinus from the hands of the Furher?

    Hell, I'd play that game.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:31 No.7809993
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    >>7809977

    well, it was...
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:31 No.7809994
    >>7809966
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Stalingrad

    Shit this has MCGUFFIN written all over it. Brb shoehorning this into a game somehow
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:32 No.7809999
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    >>7809993

    but then they left it in storage somewhere, and the whole city got shelled to fuck.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:33 No.7810007
    >>7809980
    Jasper and his gang FAKE a top-secret attempt to retrieve the Spear of Destiny, thus convincing Hitler to move it from the well-defended castle in which it is held to a temporary home - they then fake a frontal assault on that site, intercept the Spear when it is being sent away for safe-keeping, and swap it for a fake.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:33 No.7810014
    WHO SHALL REFORGE THE SWORD OF STALINGRAD?

    COMRADES UNITE AGAINST THE BBEG OR WHATEVER
    >> Stran-G-ERR 01/28/10(Thu)10:34 No.7810023
    >>7809993
    Reforge it

    advicecommie.jpg

    Save Russia!
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:35 No.7810027
    >>7810007
    With Maskelyne making the trollface the whole time.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:35 No.7810029
    >>7810014

    The king returns to the two twin towers etc.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:37 No.7810045
    This thread reminds me of a story my dad told me, back from the Falklands war.

    It was about a British base (forget which, I'll have to ask later) that was housing some Americans at the time. One day they came swanning in and showed off some photos. They were spy plane photos, taking of the base without the Brits apparently noticing.

    Their smugness soon faded however, as some British Engineers showed them some spy photos of the Americans spy plane, FROM ABOVE.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:40 No.7810063
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    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:43 No.7810084
    >>7810063

    fapfapfap
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:44 No.7810096
    >>7809999
    According to the wiki it's still in the Stalingrad Museum.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:45 No.7810107
    >>7810063

    Fuckin' Russian dropped it an all the magic fell out.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:45 No.7810108
    The Sword of Stalingrad on display is a fake. The real sword was sent to the front line.

    There are boxes of old photographs, all marked not for publication by the KGB, of Soviet soldiers led by an officer holding a sword that seems surrounded by a haze.

    The wild-eyed officer appears in more than one hundred photographs from virtually every major Soviet battle from the end of 1943 onwards.

    The final photograph is blurry and awkward, with half of the picture concealed by a wall as if the photographer took the shot blind from behind cover. The officer stands, sword held high above his head facing away from the camera.

    In front of him are thirteen human-shaped shadows, estimated to be roughly ten feet tall, with glowing eyes, amoebic shapes of pure white. The largest of them appears to be holding a spear.

    An out of focus advertisement on a wall in the background places the location as a street corner in Berlin, which is now covered by a supermarket.

    The real sword was never recovered.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:46 No.7810117
    >>7810096

    well, yes. they recovered it, obviously.

    and there's three copies of the sword, regardless.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:47 No.7810127
    >>7810108
    Get your /x/ paranoia out of here.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:48 No.7810134
    >>7810127
    Thought /tg/ might have appreciated the sword getting the Unknown Armies treatment. Sorry.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:48 No.7810136
    >>7810108
    If the KGB marked it "not for publication", how come you know of their existence?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:48 No.7810137
    >>7810108
    What?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:49 No.7810149
    >>7810108
    At least one anon approves of this. Well done.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:54 No.7810184
    >>7810108
    So Sword of Stalingrad-wielding Russian commissar vs Hitler with Spear of Longinus?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:54 No.7810186
    >>7810108
    Yoink!
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:55 No.7810194
    >>7810136
    LOGIC WINS AGAIN
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:55 No.7810195
    >>7810136

    Top secret documents are the most widely dispersed government documents, as they're the only ones people find interesting.

    The truth behind all the major conspiracies of this century have been released under FOIA requests, but buried in 400-page documents about wartime agricultural planning.

    The classified documents contain only fanciful lies designed to keep the attention of the weak minded away from the terrifying truth.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:57 No.7810205
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    >>7810195

    You are now manually reading this in this man's voice.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)10:59 No.7810221
    >>7809932
    Brits - Illusion, with a side order of Divination
    Germans - Conjuration (demon summoning etc)
    Americans - Evocation
    French - Abjuration (Lol Maginot line)
    Japan - Necromancy
    Russians - Transmutation, perhaps? (All those little old ladies weren't driving the T34s, they /were/ the T34s!)
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:02 No.7810254
    >>7810205

    Fuck.
    Kudos, Anon...
    Kudos.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:07 No.7810289
    >>7810221
    ENTIRE TANK IS LADIES
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:08 No.7810301
    >>7810221
    FUCKING STOLEN
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:11 No.7810324
    This thread is getting decidedly awesome.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:14 No.7810341
    >>7810108
    You know this is probably going to end up in /x/ in a few months.
    >> Sexual Harassment Anon 01/28/10(Thu)11:16 No.7810354
    >>7809966
    which the soviet office rwho received it promptly dropped it........
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:17 No.7810372
    >>7810108

    Are you stupid or what? They couldn't have had the Spear to defeat the sword, otherwise russians would never take Berlin. It is common known fact that the Spear was stolen by the Brits is perhaps 1943.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:19 No.7810383
    >>7810221

    >Russians - Transmutation

    Those cities were not renamed after Soviet leaders they WERE Soviet leaders.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:20 No.7810395
    >>7810354
    The guy who dropped it was the Soviet COMMISSAR OF DEFENCE. That's the most awesome title ever.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:20 No.7810396
    >>7810372
    These things always come in threes, /tg/. You know that.
    Germany has the Spear.
    Russia has the Sword.
    Who has the third?
    Is there perhaps a second trio of artifacts in the possession of the Allied powers?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:22 No.7810403
    >>7810396

    America had The Bomb.

    Trumped the others.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:23 No.7810409
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    >>7810396
    Excalibur.

    Seen here wielded by Jack Churchill.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:23 No.7810412
    >>7810409

    Dude, Sword of Stalingrad is a magic British sword given to the russians.

    Excalibur is already in the set.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:24 No.7810419
    He was not a traditional game
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:25 No.7810422
    >>7810403

    that only trumped Japan, and they had to use it twice.

    and besides, the nazi's were also developing nuclear weapons. we are talking about unique artifacts, here.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:26 No.7810427
    So the English had the Sword (gifted it to the Russians), and may have retrieved it after the bombing of Stalingrad.
    The Germans had the Spear, and the English had to steal it to allow them to ever take Berlin.
    The Americans had the Bomb, which we gave to the English.

    Uh oh.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:27 No.7810434
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Temporal_Justice#Swords
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:28 No.7810438
    >>7810434

    Awesome.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:28 No.7810441
    >>7810427

    Bomb is wrong because it was developed late and because every motherfucker has it now. Even Chinese! Think about it.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:29 No.7810450
    So what is the third artifact?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:30 No.7810456
    >>7810434
    >Sword_of_Temporal_Justice

    Does it cut through time and space to deliver swift justice?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:32 No.7810462
    >>7810456

    No, it helps to deliver justice. But only temporarily.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:32 No.7810467
    As an aside, the Americans also had Orson Welles doing magic for the troops.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgqOUFcy1Zs&feature=player_embedded
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:34 No.7810477
    >>7810434
    Our monarchs are coronated in the prescence of 5 magical swords. Fantastic.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:36 No.7810498
    >>7810403
    It's a closely-guarded secret that the Americans did not in fact perfect nuclear weapons technilogy until shortly after the war ended. In their rush to deploy the bomb, they were forced to explore a more controversial method of releasing massive quantities of energy; the destruction of minor artifacts.

    The artifacts in question were the buttons from the coat worn by George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Legends of Washington's apparent invincibility have been attributed to the coat, though theory at the time held the buttons were primarily resonpsible. The compression device in each bomb, originally designed to smash a piece of uranium, was modified to accept one of the buttons, which released its energy in catastrophic fashion when crushed.

    It is an even less well-known fact that several of the buttons still exist, given as souvenirs to project leads who knew nothing of their true nature...
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:39 No.7810516
    I remember this guy. I think he's the same one that built an entire battalion out of inflatable tanks at half-scale and fooled the hell out of the Afrika Corps spy planes with it.

    >>7809904
    >renaming cities
    "Alright, we're going to bomb Petrograd- wait, Leningrad- no, St. Petersburg- ah hell, just go here and bomb the shit out of it no matter what it's called."

    >>7810221
    But who gets ENCHANTMENT?
    >> MonkeyToho 01/28/10(Thu)11:41 No.7810541
    rolled 39 = 39

    >>7810450

    Princip's FN Model 1910 pistol.

    The one that killed Franz Ferdinand. Imbued with the murder of the Archduke and, by association, over 15 million people in WW1.
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    IS STILL LADIES
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:46 No.7810585
    >>7810541
    And by weakening Germany and allowing Hitler to gain power, it's indirectly responsible for another 73,000,000 deaths. It'd practically be glowing with evil.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:47 No.7810595
    >>7810516

    Leningrad (St. Perersburg), Stalingrad (Volgograd), Kirov, Kuybyshev (Samara), Andropov(Rybinsk), Brezhnev (Naberezhnye Chelny) etc Those I remembered on the spot, and there are more.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:47 No.7810599
    >>7810516

    Everybody, to different degrees. Everywhere has a history of enchanted items and fay creatures that live in the wild. The practical applications probably differ.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:49 No.7810609
    >>7810561

    That's croatian not russian
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:51 No.7810623
    >>7810609


    I know, it even says so in the title, but it's really hard to find little old ladies in tanks. Also, wasn't Croatia part of the Soviet Union? If so, still fits. They just use the magitech as part of a new country.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:53 No.7810644
    >>7810623

    No, Croatia was not a part of Soviet Union, it was a part of Yugoslavia.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:56 No.7810660
    >>7810644

    Ah well, never mind. It was just an excuse to post a picture of toothless old soldier.

    >>7810585
    If that's the case, would there be other artefacts that have magical resonance?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)11:58 No.7810675
    >>7810660

    The September Boeings. *wink-wink*
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:04 No.7810722
    >>7810675
    Enh, not enough left of them to be useful.

    Now, Osama Bin-Laden's copy of the Qu'ran, THAT would be something.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:06 No.7810735
    Humm.

    Germans: Spear of Destiny
    English: Excalibur
    Russia: Sword of Stalingrad
    America: Liberty Bell
    France: Durandal

    There's your set. I threw in the French one just to make the Western Front more interesting.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:07 No.7810744
    >>7810354

    as far as magic swords go, the Sword of Stalingrad isn't particularly impressive. at least, not at first bluff.

    it doesn't ignite into flames of divine fury. it doesn't fly it its enemies on its own accord. it doesn't slay dragons, shoot lightning, heal the wounds of its wielder.

    what it does do, is something a little more abstract. the Sword of Stalingrad acts as a beacon for all those who lived and died in the Battle of Stalingrad. all their hopes. all their fears. their joys. their anguishes. their brief moment of clarity when they realize: yes, this is my final breath.

    all of these emotions were harvested during the three months it took to forge the sword. it is a physical manifestation of the spirit of the soviet people.

    when Stalin held it, he felt only the deaths within it. the evil man that he was, his own aura of death far outweighed what he felt in the sword, and so he carelessly passed it off to another.

    the second he touched the sword, that man felt the entirety of the Battle of Stalingrad in an instant, and was overwhelmed.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:11 No.7810776
    >>7810744

    ... this has the opportunity to be a fuckawesome "warriors at the end of time" sword. Moorcockfags, who's with me?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:13 No.7810794
    >>7810744

    wow. just wow.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:14 No.7810806
    America has the Mace of Congress. Duh.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:15 No.7810814
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

    America's Artifact?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:17 No.7810831
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    >>7810744
    >>man of steel
    >>they had hearts of steel

    The sword clearly provides the wielder with massive damage reduction or other defensive capabilities in addition to it's other qualities.

    Pic related
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:17 No.7810834
    >>7810814
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_mace

    Britians got loads of them.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:19 No.7810843
    >>7810834

    Britain has magic weapons out the ass. No wonder. America probably has Davy Crockett's bear-killing gun, with which he slew over a hundred bears in the course of a year.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:19 No.7810844
    >>7810834

    Looks like those things are plentiful in any monarchy and are not such big deal.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:25 No.7810899
    America's in a pretty shitty position for legendary weapons.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:28 No.7810925
    >>7810899

    Unless they started to nick 'em from the native Americans. That might have... consequences, however.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:29 No.7810937
    America can basically jack and use other cultures' weapons, penalty-free. It's how we got the Tokugawa Masamune.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:30 No.7810943
    >>7810899
    We haven't been around as long.
    Then again, it's not the length of your history, it's how you've used it.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:30 No.7810946
    >>7810925

    Well, they have the tomahawk missile why not have a artifact tomahawk?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:30 No.7810948
    >>7810937
    It's still pretty shitty not having your own Excalibur or Durandal.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:33 No.7810966
    >>7810899
    Nah, ours just don't last too long.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:33 No.7810974
    >>7810937

    America is basically the republican Britain.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:34 No.7810979
    England gets the Holy Grail. We like hoarding magic shit.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:34 No.7810980
    >>7810899

    America is munchkined for maximum industrial and scientific growth at the cost of any magical bonuses. It's worked well for you the last 100 years or so but now China has rediscovered how to make and animate the terracotta army they've got effectively free labor and can outpace you easily.

    >>7810925

    I'm sure some stone axes and bone tipped arrows will really give you an edge.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:34 No.7810986
    >>7810948
    But that's how America rolls. We don't really establish long-standing shit so much as jack everyone else's.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:34 No.7810987
    >>7810974
    Without the manners, the accents, or trains.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:34 No.7810988
    Paul Bunyan's axe. Babe the behemothic blue ox. Pecos Bill's revolvers. America has its legendary weapons, but you won't hear of them. Bill's revolvers have been passed around from collection to collection for decades, burning with the desire to feel the rekindled spirit of adventure that the Old West poured into it. Paul's axe and Babe vanished into the great forests with the mighty lumberjack.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:35 No.7810996
    >>7810980
    >I'm sure some stone axes and bone tipped arrows will really give you an edge.
    It's not the tomahawk, it's the army of pissed off ghost that come with it.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:35 No.7811001
    Babe Ruth's baseball bath. USA triumphs again.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:36 No.7811002
    >>7810980

    America's super artefact should be finance based, say, the Scrooge McDuck's first dime or suchlike.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:36 No.7811004
    >>7810980
    >I'm sure some stone axes and bone tipped arrows will really give you an edge.

    As much as any sword in this day and age, bro. The magic is the point.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:36 No.7811007
    Find Mike Finn's hat. Become King of the River. No U-Boat will be able to evade your eye, no sea or river can drown you, no boat can sink you.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:37 No.7811019
    >>7810988

    Lincoln's Axe, lol.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:38 No.7811027
    >>7811019
    George Washington's coat. The guy's coat got shot up a ton and yet he was unscathed. That smells like magic to me.
    >> MonkeyToho 01/28/10(Thu)12:38 No.7811030
    rolled 13 = 13

    >>7810843

    John Henry's hammer, which can lay low any mass of stone or fortification.

    Paul Bunyan's ax, able to cleft apart wood with a single swing.

    Jim Bowie's knife, which guarantee's the wielder will live through even life-threatening wounds.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:38 No.7811033
    Woody Guthrie's guitar. Playing any chord kills any fascists in the immediate vicinity.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:39 No.7811039
    >>7811027
    Bullets were terrified of catching gay from him.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:39 No.7811041
    >>7810996
    Oh please every culture has a way of raising a haunted army, Cherokees will still be cut down by Knights Templar ghost or not.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:40 No.7811050
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(soldier_bear)

    Poland get druids. Unfortunately, the Germans knew about this and in the initial Blitzkreig managed to stop their bear cavalry and burned down their main Spirit Oaks, thus crippling their nature-powers for the duration of the war.

    A lone practitioner managed to survive and travelled with the Artillery Corps. To keep things under wraps, he maintained an animal shape throughout the operations, but was listed in the roster and paid in vodka, tobacco, and rations.

    He would scout out enemy positions while in a bird form, but upon returning to camp would assume his bear shape to assist with the loading of the artilery shells.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:41 No.7811063
    >>7811041
    Indians have night fighting and sneak attack abilities. Use them to flank opponents and hit them from the back. Extra Victory points for captured scalps. Plus, tomahawks count as both ranged and melee weapons.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:41 No.7811064
    >>7811050
    There is no reaction image that accurately depicts the grin I had on my face when I read this.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:41 No.7811067
    >>7811039
    I think you mean he looked at the bullets sternly and they pissed themselves.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:42 No.7811076
    >>7811067
    >I think you mea he flailed his limp wrist at the bullets and they pissed themselves laughing, ina testament tot he quality of munitions production.
    >> Iron Lung 01/28/10(Thu)12:43 No.7811078
    >>7811050
    I recall he reputedly had a fondness for saunas and being dexterous enough to smoke despite his paws and muzzle.
    Truly an amazing bear...err, druid. =]
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:44 No.7811084
    >>7811019

    >Lincoln's Axe
    Allows you to chop a fuckton of bad guys but gets you murdered in a theater.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:48 No.7811123
    >>7811063

    Knights Templar have ghostly steel with divine protection, it counts as armor five tech levels above it's normal rating.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:50 No.7811144
    >>7811067

    I heard that...motherfucker had like...30 goddamned dicks.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:51 No.7811158
    >>7811084
    Unless you are REAL HOLOGRAPHIC SIMULATED EVIL LINCOLN.
    >> NG Pally !!UB9AXCUn8mL 01/28/10(Thu)12:51 No.7811159
    >>7809764
    >>7809785
    >>7809798

    Agreed. Soviets has more men, more tanks, and MOTHERLANND.

    >>7809806
    Wait, so it was more humane than killing two million in an actual seaborne invasion of Japan, occupation therefore against an embittered populace, and even more destruction, thus setting Japan back even more? You sure got a cool sense of immorality.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:51 No.7811169
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    Oh, hi guys!

    What's going on in this thread?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:52 No.7811173
    >>7811144
    WASHINGTON

    WASHINGTON

    10 FEET TALL, MADE OF RADIATION
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:58 No.7811215
    >>7811173

    HE'S COMING
    HE'S COMING
    HE'S COMING
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)12:58 No.7811226
    >>7811030
    So while other nations have artifacts powered by actual history or ancient mythology, America's artifacts are sourced by the collective folklore of tall tales?
    That's ... actually beautiful.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:00 No.7811242
    >>7811030

    Marvin Heemeyer's bulldozer. Allows you to siglehandedly level a city but then you must kill yourself.
    >> NG Pally !!UB9AXCUn8mL 01/28/10(Thu)13:01 No.7811247
    >>7811226

    lol, the collective belief of millions of farmers and settlers power the defenders of muricaaaaa
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:01 No.7811252
    >>7811226
    It fits pretty well, I think. We don't really have the ancient mythology to draw on, so we hit up the next best thing.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:02 No.7811255
    >>7811030

    F-19 Stealth fighter. It's so stealthy even it's pilots don't see it.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:03 No.7811268
    >>7811159
    >Wait, so it was more humane than killing two million in an actual seaborne invasion of Japan, occupation therefore against an embittered populace, and even more destruction, thus setting Japan back even more?
    The fuck are you on about?
    >> MonkeyToho 01/28/10(Thu)13:03 No.7811269
    rolled 4 = 4

    >>7811226

    Hey, why not? We haven't been around long enough to have anything mythical on the level of say, Excalibur or Durandal. Having America's magic items powered by human spirit and sheer bloody-minded tenacity seems rather fitting.

    >>7811247

    FUCK YEAH
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:04 No.7811281
    >>7811255
    That sounds like more of a drawback than an advantage.

    "Sir, we lost the bomber. Again."

    "Dammit. Soldier, get out the metal detectors again, hopefully we can find it before tomorrow."
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:06 No.7811319
    >>7811281
    You know the great thing about letting the enemy find out you have a fleet of invisible bomber planes?

    You only need to build one.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:07 No.7811322
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    How about Lincoln's lightsaber?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:07 No.7811330
    >powered by human spirit and sheer bloody-minded tenacity
    FUCK YEAH AMERICAN SPIRAL POWER
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:08 No.7811344
    >>7811226
    OH BEAUTIFUUUUUUUUUUUUL FOR SPAAAAAAAAAACIOUS SKIES FOR AMBER WAVES OF GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN~
    Seriously though, it is pretty cool.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:09 No.7811351
    ..Wasn't Britain largely getting it's ass whooped in Africa? Or was that in direct battle and that's why they chose to opt for epic trickery?

    >>7809663
    We had Patton, Close enough for me.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:09 No.7811355
    >>7811319
    It's quite true. Still seems like it'd be more of a psychological weapon than one that got used a lot though.
    >> Commissar Internet !!49Ay+6zEbfG 01/28/10(Thu)13:09 No.7811364
    So, what does Canada get amidst all this?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:10 No.7811376
    >>7811364

    Moose.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:10 No.7811377
    >>7811351
    Not really.

    And Patton was an idiot.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:11 No.7811384
    >>7811364
    >Implying Canada has weapons
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:12 No.7811397
    >>7811269
    >human spirit and sheer bloody-minded tenacity
    I don't think you really get it, at all. American mystical items would be powered by the power of bullshit because you folklore (and society, doh ho) mostly involves taking incredibly dull, small stories and people and spicing them up with gross exaggerations.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:12 No.7811398
    >>7811364
    Canada matters?

    I disbelieve.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:12 No.7811399
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    >>7811377
    > Patton was an idiot.
    Shut your whore mouth and get the fuck out.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:13 No.7811417
    >>7811399
    He was an idiot and a bloodthirsty idiot at that.
    >> MonkeyToho 01/28/10(Thu)13:20 No.7811488
    rolled 93 = 93

    >>7811397
    >I don't think you really get it, at all. American mystical items would be powered by the power of bullshit because you folklore (and society, doh ho) mostly involves taking incredibly dull, small stories and people and spicing them up with gross exaggerations.

    In the case of John Henry (whether he really lived or not), he had that bloody-minded determination I mentioned; he wouldn't rest until he beat that machine. And beat he did, even if it ultimately killed him.

    That was what I was primarily mentioning, but this can extend to Bowie; if you check the reports of the Sandbar Fight, he took an incredible amount of damage during it but kept on going, and even living through it.

    Paul Bunyan, I don't fucking know. He was a crazy motherfucker.


    Also, Wild Bill Hichok's Colt 1851 .36 Navy Model pistols. Those have GOT to have some magic to'em.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:24 No.7811526
    >>7811269
    >America
    >exceptional human spirit and sheer bloody-minded tenacity
    Yeah, keep believing that, kid.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:25 No.7811543
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    >>7811488

    paul bunyan was from fucking canadia.

    LOOK INTO YOUR SOUL, YOU KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE.
    >> Iron Lung 01/28/10(Thu)13:25 No.7811547
    >>7811526
    Eurofags, so world weary.

    Alas, Paul Bunyan was an advertising character. Not genuinely mythical, though he grew to be so.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:27 No.7811565
    >>7811547
    That's a perfect example of America's style.
    >> NG Pally !!UB9AXCUn8mL 01/28/10(Thu)13:27 No.7811568
    >>7811526
    >>denying an widely-accepted truth
    >> Iron Lung 01/28/10(Thu)13:29 No.7811577
    >>7811565
    Hey, what we lack in grace we strive for in vigor.
    Not that WE has much meaning in this much sexy cultural pluralism, but hey....all AmeriKKKunts are the same, right?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:31 No.7811600
    >>7811577
    Zeitgeist motherfucker, are you part of it?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:31 No.7811606
    >>7809806

    >America developed and used nuclear weapons, erasing two cities in an instant.

    And saved millions of lives by doing so.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:32 No.7811609
    >>7811568
    Not to start a FLAMEWAR, but only Americans believe this, sorry.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:33 No.7811615
    >>7811606
    >And saved millions of lives by doing so.
    Here we go...
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:33 No.7811621
    >>7811609
    Britfag here. So what. Don't ruin a good thread.
    >> Iron Lung 01/28/10(Thu)13:33 No.7811622
    >>7811600
    That'd depend greatly on the when, but generally no.
    I am standing outside the zeitgeist window, little tears leaving glittering streams down my winsome orphan's face.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:35 No.7811640
    >>7809811
    >Prisoners of war were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia.

    >Vivisections were performed on prisoners after infecting them with various diseases. Scientists performed invasive surgery on prisoners, removing organs to study the effects of disease on the human body. These were conducted while the patients were alive because it was feared that the decomposition process would affect the results. The infected and vivisected prisoners included men, women, children, and infants.

    >Vivisections were also performed on pregnant women, sometimes impregnated by doctors, and the fetus removed.

    >Prisoners had limbs amputated in order to study blood loss. Those limbs that were removed were sometimes re-attached to the opposite sides of the body.

    > Some prisoners' limbs were frozen and amputated, while others had limbs frozen then thawed to study the effects of the resultant untreated gangrene and rotting.

    >Some prisoners had their stomachs surgically removed and the esophagus reattached to the intestines.

    >Parts of the brain, lungs, liver, etc. were removed from some prisoners.

    In 2007, Doctor Ken Yuasa testified to the Japan Times that, "I was afraid during my first vivisection, but the second time around, it was much easier. By the third time, I was willing to do it." He believes at least 1,000 people, including surgeons, were involved in vivisections over mainland China.

    Holy fuck...
    >> Iron Lung 01/28/10(Thu)13:36 No.7811652
    >>7811621
    Thanks.
    Generally national delusions are a "lie and let lie" kind of deal. The truth is the truffle ever most rooted for, and rarely does it not go prematurely devoured.

    That said, fuck I'm hungry! I hear the call; two-thousand calories of pulverized processed meat, a quart of flavored sugar water, and mebbe a little snack cake too.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:36 No.7811654
    >>7811640
    Wow. Just, wow.

    There's an incentive not to read /tg/ while eating lunch.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:37 No.7811667
    Yer magician guy: "A report in The Guardian of June 28, 2002, was more blunt: "Maskelyne received no official recognition. For a vain man this was intolerable and he died an embittered drunk. It gives his story a poignancy without which it would be mere chest-beating."

    >>7811606
    LOL japan was already trying to negotiate a conditional surrender to Russia. We wanted to occupy and totally disarm them, thus nukes.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:37 No.7811669
    >>7811640
    That's fucking AWESOME! I want to be a Japanese war criminal!!
    >> Iron Lung 01/28/10(Thu)13:38 No.7811677
    >>7811654
    Yeah, I _was_ hungry....now I'm just sad.
    FFS, Japan.
    I know no one's hands are clean, but look at the shit under your nails!
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:39 No.7811690
    >>7810108

    Sweet.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:39 No.7811693
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    >>7811640
    Japan are the Dark Eldar.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:41 No.7811706
    >>7811693
    Slaanesh is genderbender J-rocker, but Dark Eldar are some dark, fucked up, moontalk hyperfags...

    finfaggotness?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:42 No.7811710
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    >>7811640
    It's okay if it's science.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:45 No.7811737
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    >>7811364

    I like to think of the allies as a sort of "Captain planet" organization

    so, Britain would be wind
    Russia would be Earth
    America would be Fire
    Not too sure who would be water
    Canada would be Heart

    (or something like that)

    by your powers combined... I AM.. CAPTAINNN PLANET
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:47 No.7811751
    >>7810814

    THIS
    >> Iron Lung 01/28/10(Thu)13:48 No.7811760
    >>7811737
    Water?
    The United Kingdom, I'd think.
    The great river Thames (I said as Tames in my head, HA!) and all that.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:48 No.7811766
    >>7811710
    God dammit Fran...
    You make us love you, and then you remind us you're not human, and have no soul.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:48 No.7811767
    >>7811760
    Britannia rules the waves
    >> Commissar Internet !!49Ay+6zEbfG 01/28/10(Thu)13:49 No.7811772
    In before grimdark Axis Powers Hetalia campaign.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:49 No.7811777
    >>7811737
    France is Wind.
    Google Le Petomane if you're not eating.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:51 No.7811798
    >>7811777
    >was the stage name of the French flatulist (professional farter)

    I have a new dream job.
    >> Omnissiah 01/28/10(Thu)13:52 No.7811807
    >>7811737

    Russia would be Earth (tanks!)
    Canada would be Wind (artillery companies, yo!)
    America would be Fire (nuclear bomb, duh)
    Britain would be Water (O Britanniaaaa rule the waaaaaves)
    USSR would be Heart (MOAR MENS FOAR MOTHERLAND)
    >> Omnissiah 01/28/10(Thu)13:55 No.7811836
    >>7811807

    Whoops, big mistake
    >>France would be Earth (Maginot, mothafuckas!)
    FTFY
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:56 No.7811842
    >>7811807
    Swedish would be KNACKEBROD
    and only along as comedic relief.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:57 No.7811848
    >>7811807
    GO PLANET!
    And then humanity died.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:58 No.7811858
    Thomas Edison's original light bulb. Holding it gives the wielder bonus intellect.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:58 No.7811863
    >>7811807

    my reasoning was a bit different (but the idea for France as wind is a good one)

    so, revised list:

    Britain is Water (Britannia rules the waves, the power of water!)
    Russia is Earth (stubborn, tough. the power of the earth!)
    America is Fire (similar reasoning. also applies to their general outlook on war. The power of fire!)
    France is Wind (insert joke about the french, the power of wind!)
    Canada is Heart (because volunteer army, the power of heart!)

    plus, both russia and USSR getting something? oh no le didn't!
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:58 No.7811865
    Why are you posting this on /tg/? What the fuck?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)13:59 No.7811869
    >>7811848
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0MVuWDc5RQ
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)14:00 No.7811878
    >>7811858
    James Swan would like a word with you
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)14:02 No.7811902
    >>7811777

    >His stage name...translates to "the fart maniac"

    ...holy shit that is awesome.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)14:06 No.7811952
    >>7811878
    You mean Joeseph Swan don't you.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)14:11 No.7811990
    >>7809720
    Brits - Magic
    Germans - Occult
    Americans - SCIENCE!
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)14:31 No.7812203
    Kinda unfair to compare almost 2000 years of written history (or more in some places) to barely 200. Excalibur was some Saxon chieftain's iron sword which promptly rusted into uselessness once the git was 6 under. The Spear of Destiny was some Roman soldier's piss-poor javelin that was probably used in some unnamed skirmish and forgotten until Christianity got big. Stop making mythological weapons big in select cases and pointing out history in others.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)14:32 No.7812207
    OP here.

    Pleased to see this is still going strong, even birthed some kind of alternate shadow-war played out alongside the real WW2.

    You know, I'm surprised no-one's posted that crazy Mahjong manga thing yet.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)14:33 No.7812221
    >>7812203

    >baaaw my kkkuntry have no history
    >> Solomon One !!WMkFWBtNYI6 01/28/10(Thu)14:33 No.7812233
    >>7812207

    Whoops, forgot to trip.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)14:36 No.7812266
    Benjamin Franklin's Keys

    Teeth of Washington

    Bloodline of Jefferson

    Shame of Ulysses S. Grant

    Teddy Roosevelt's mustache
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)14:37 No.7812270
    >>7812221
    >bawwwww I have no talent so I cover it up by yammering on about how great my country USED to be.

    STFU GTFO if you won't treat other countries with respect, jackass.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)14:38 No.7812280
    >>7811858
    Nikola Tesla's handheld electricity broadcaster. Improves clarity of thought slightly for all those within its effect radius, but does not strictly speaking make them more intelligent.

    Legend says that if Tesla's device were used to light Edison's lightbuld, it would result in either a miraculous scientific breakthrough or total annihilation.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)14:39 No.7812289
    >>7812280
    Original divide by 0
    >> Solomon One !!WMkFWBtNYI6 01/28/10(Thu)14:45 No.7812353
    >>7812270

    Let's not have this degenerate into a flame war, please.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)14:56 No.7812470
    >>7812353
    Rather nice thread but the crazy 'my country is better then your country' guys on both sides killed it. Alas.
    >> Solomon One !!WMkFWBtNYI6 01/28/10(Thu)15:00 No.7812511
    >>7812470

    Yeah. Might as well let it die, though the idea for Maskelyne and the Magic Gang going after the Spear of Destiny might make a fun game sometime.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)15:19 No.7812683
    >>7811268
    if we didn't nuke, we would have invaded. which basically entails allowing our soldiers to rape, pillage, kill civilians, etc.

    also, japan was training ALL CIVILIANS at that point for combat. which means if we invaded, it would be an extermination war, rather than two simple bombs.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)15:21 No.7812704
    This whole thread be crazy. Good on ya /tg/.
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)16:06 No.7813165
    >>7809700
    u gay?
    >> Anonymous 01/28/10(Thu)16:11 No.7813225
    >>7813165
    >gay
    >women

    You certainly have shown your competence at reading.



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