Embrace_goto_statements said:
At least until we have a deputy chancellor that can handle the administrative tasks when both Visha and I are away from Berun. When this war is over, I'll be able to be away from Berun for a few days just to watch the war criminals hang or be shot after their trials.
Still no choices? There should be someone. I was suggesting Johann Dressler before. Hmm, maybe if reunification happens before a deputy is found, one of the previous leaders could take that job. That Pull guy's dream would probably be to work directly under Tanya.
Embrace_goto_statements said:
It clicked in my head. I need to start working on a healthcare plan to address those problems before the soldiers return home. Last thing I want is a repeat of the Vietnam War where the US had a large number of neglected, suffering veterans.
Or a repeat of the European first war, I suppose. That war had constant shelling. In this war, they aren't even the ones being attacked by artillery. I would think that treating shell shock and combat fatigue would have been something that would have come up earlier.
Embrace_goto_statements said:
I was reading through the newspaper and saw that my plan of using Dertinge as a wedge issue wasn't working as intended. Elya reported that Conrad appeared astonished if not downright shocked when he was told about Dertinge's nomination. Sure, we lost a few members from the GWP, but not enough to allow me to get out of office.
Just the choice of a this guy is enough to actually have parliament members quit the party? Would they be sitting as independents?
Embrace_goto_statements said:
I try to think of an answer but come up blank. She had a good point -- It's been a while since I had time for myself… but it can't be helped.
She just had a nice long vacation in Bharat though! It's Visha that has been going without a break.
Embrace_goto_statements said:
"A lot of that can be done by mages as well. We already have an orb in development that might allow a C-tier mage to hover for a short duration."
I was asking this earlier, but how much magic is in the world? If everyone could to a tiny amount of magic, like being an F-tier mage, then an orb developed for them could have all sorts of useful quality of life improvements, such as using it to change channels before the remote control, or attaching the poles of the trolley cars to the wire grid.
Embrace_goto_statements said:
"In their notes, they believe that a reactor accident is unlikely to happen as long as the reactor is properly supervised and maintained."
Not good enough. Active Seems a lot of work will need to be done to drill into everyone's heads on the theme of safety first.
Embrace_goto_statements said:
"Then I expect the containment structure to be an overkill if they want to use an easily removable reactor vessel lid. There will not be a nuclear disaster in Germania, ever, and if there is one, that containment structure will hold all of the radioactive sh*t inside."
What? She's letting them do that? Is the benefit really good enough to allow the increased risk?
Embrace_goto_statements said:
"If the Allied Kingdom finds out about our foreign training program, they will think that we're making a play for South Bharat. The last thing I need is a second anti-Germania coalition being formed with the Allied Kingdom leading it, when I'm busy dealing with the Russy Confederation's and the CSR's activities."
Couldn't Tanya set up a joint training to help ease tensions? Maybe half go to Germania, half go to Abia? Or maybe invite Albia instructors to join in?
Embrace_goto_statements said:
Training the mages to use the Type 97 orb was also its own annoyance with the high rate of failures, although for now all he could do was keep cycling through a large number of mages to find competent users for the scarce orbs.
I'm honestly surprised that the Russians managed to get so many half decent mages using the 97, considering their worker pool. I wonder how many imprisoned mages Tanya managed to release. Would they still be able to do anything? Most would have been prisoners for 20 years... I guess not. Probably they are mostly dead at this point. There were still a lot of them though when they got released in canon. That was around 1925, and the war ended in 1943, so... Yea, can't imagine enough are still alive to scrape together an additional division.
Embrace_goto_statements said:
How did they get the tanks so far inland to flank the river defenses and run down his mortars and artillery guns? The Unified States brought in their old First Europan War era landing crafts.
I've always wondered how the D-Day landings during the first war went. Nice to see a call back to that.
Embrace_goto_statements said:
Kang Sheng continued. "Something concerns me is that our informants in South Bharat reported South Bharati officers and mages traveling to Germania. The ones that have returned have demonstrated excellent performance against North Bharat's trapped army. I'm afraid that the army might collapse before we can rescue them."
That's fast, how long was this training course? I thought it would take at least a year, and it's more like 3-6 months?
Embrace_goto_statements said:
His first first topic was our foreign policy. I laid out that my end goal for the Bharati War was a free and democratic South Bharat that is safe from North Bharat's interference. And while some may believe that South Bharat was the Allied Kingdom's responsibility, if South Bharat was reunited under the North Bharat's control, that would almost guarantee the rest of southeast Asia would be pressured to be communist or at least communist friendly.
Alright, so it's just right off the table to conquer the North? Even with India, in our world, the area is pretty firmly on the communist/dictatorship side, and this is going to be a smaller country. Although, it's possible that South Bharat does a better job of developing itself than India did, so maybe it ends up even stronger?
Embrace_goto_statements said:
Some might call those veterans 'weak willed', but I would be deeply concerned if someone was not bothered at all with watching thousands of civilians being needlessly slaughtered as bullet sponges or calling an airstrike on a fortress that turned out to be filled with hundreds of forced laborers. I certainly wouldn't want such a callous monster in the military like what the communists are doing."
Bit of a wonder none of Tanya's men don't have debilitating from Arene, or the rest of what they did, honestly. That unit was the absolute workhorse of Germania.
