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Post by lordroel on Nov 26, 2019 4:57:22 GMT
What if LOTR elves were armed with light sabers instead of bows? Well depending on how effective those are against Maiar or even Valar that could make a hell of a difference - especially if say it meant Fingolfin was able to defeat Melkor in their duel. They would be less powerful at a distance but especially if Jedi level abilities were common among the elves their going to be bloody lethal against just about everybody and everything they come up against. Unfortunately you might end up with some d**k-head like Feanor or one of his sons ending up ruling much of Middle Earth.
The what about something realistic, what if LOTR elves were armed with Martini-Henries instead of bows. |
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Post by stevep on Nov 26, 2019 10:41:42 GMT
Well depending on how effective those are against Maiar or even Valar that could make a hell of a difference - especially if say it meant Fingolfin was able to defeat Melkor in their duel. They would be less powerful at a distance but especially if Jedi level abilities were common among the elves their going to be bloody lethal against just about everybody and everything they come up against. Unfortunately you might end up with some d**k-head like Feanor or one of his sons ending up ruling much of Middle Earth.
The what about something realistic, what if LOTR elves were armed with Martini-Henries instead of bows.
Well that could be bloody although how effective they might be against dragons and balrogs I don't know. Possibly also trolls without armour piercing ammo. However if they have the technology to produce and support those weapons its going to make a difference and they still have their bows for long range stuff.
Likely that such tech would get passed onto the Edain which would also be very effective and once the Dwarves get it look out. Anything from simple canons to MLRS! Mind you the Noldor were pretty good at mining and manufacturing so could see something earlier from them as well.
Tolkein wouldn't like it as you can't support such technology without pretty much a full scale industrial revolution so Middle Earth wouldn't be the largely rural 'paradise' he desired.
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Post by Zyobot on Nov 26, 2019 13:07:43 GMT
‘Wilhelm II To Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg’.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 27, 2019 4:41:50 GMT
‘Wilhelm II To Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg’. What year if OTL Wilhelm II i presume from, 1914 ore 1918 ore even 1941 before he died. |
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Post by Zyobot on Nov 27, 2019 14:53:42 GMT
‘Wilhelm II To Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg’. What year if OTL Wilhelm II i presume from, 1914 ore 1918 ore even 1941 before he died. How about the good Kaiser from right after his death in 1941? To some extent, he’ll have seen the murderous, war-crazed, totalitarian nightmare that his beloved Germany has become under that “goddamned Austria-born lunatic with a stupid mustache”. As such, I imagine that waking up in a Kaiserreich universe where Germany won World War One and Hitler perished long ago (?) will be a nice change of pace, at least at first. |
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Post by lordroel on Nov 27, 2019 15:15:34 GMT
What year if OTL Wilhelm II i presume from, 1914 ore 1918 ore even 1941 before he died. How about the good Kaiser from right after his death in 1941? To some extent, he’ll have seen the murderous, war-crazed, totalitarian nightmare that his beloved Germany has become under that “goddamned Austria-born lunatic with a stupid mustache”. As such, I imagine that waking up in a Kaiserreich universe where Germany won World War One and Hitler perished long ago (?) will be a nice change of pace, at least at first. The 1941 Kaiser is healthy i hoop. |
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Post by Zyobot on Nov 29, 2019 16:49:07 GMT
'Libertoons Characters To The Giver'. Oh man, imagine that havoc that superpowered anarcho-capitalists like Listen to Reason, Shane Killian and Mr. Dapperton would wreck in the rigid, sterile, arguably communistic Community that Jonas and the Giver have to cope with living in.
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Post by Zyobot on Nov 30, 2019 17:17:56 GMT
‘Skylanders To Game Of Thrones’.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 30, 2019 17:43:48 GMT
‘Skylanders To Game Of Thrones’. Will they survive there. |
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Post by Zyobot on Dec 1, 2019 21:31:25 GMT
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Post by Zyobot on Dec 3, 2019 1:10:30 GMT
'Sheev Palpatine For POTUS'.
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Post by lordroel on Dec 3, 2019 15:10:01 GMT
'Sheev Palpatine For POTUS'. What year, 1931 is a good year for him to wreak havoc. |
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Post by Zyobot on Dec 3, 2019 16:18:56 GMT
'Sheev Palpatine For POTUS'. What year, 1931 is a good year for him to wreak havoc. Good point. I was originally thinking he'd run in 2020--probably in a world where Star Wars doesn't exist or its development is altered to the point where no one recognizes that he's the evil Sith master behind the scenes--but 1930s America might work, too. Maybe he'd campaign on a New Deal platform like FDR did, with the caveat that Palpatine plans to transform the United States into an actual dictatorship, rather than one characterized by "merely" unusual amounts of executive power entrusted into the POTUS. |
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Post by lordroel on Dec 3, 2019 16:20:12 GMT
What year, 1931 is a good year for him to wreak havoc. Good point. I was originally thinking he'd run in 2020--probably in a world where Star Wars doesn't exist or its development is altered to the point where no one recognizes that he's the evil Sith master behind the scenes--but 1930s America might work, too. Maybe he'd campaign on a New Deal platform like FDR did, with the caveat that Palpatine plans to transform the United States into an actual dictatorship, rather than one characterized by "merely" unusual amounts of executive power entrusted into the POTUS. And he then plots as like no other a bigger version of World War II with only him as winner. |
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Post by Zyobot on Dec 3, 2019 16:48:03 GMT
Good point. I was originally thinking he'd run in 2020--probably in a world where Star Wars doesn't exist or its development is altered to the point where no one recognizes that he's the evil Sith master behind the scenes--but 1930s America might work, too. Maybe he'd campaign on a New Deal platform like FDR did, with the caveat that Palpatine plans to transform the United States into an actual dictatorship, rather than one characterized by "merely" unusual amounts of executive power entrusted into the POTUS. And he then plots as like no other a bigger version of World War II with only him as winner. Indeed. With his powers of orchestration and America’s sheer economic and military potential even during the Depression, President Palpatine will probably endanger liberal-democracy and human rights throughout the world more than the Axis Powers across the Atlantic ever could. |
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