Dragon's Fury - World War against America and the West

I think we can all agree that the author’s sense of military scale and logistics was simply absent. There is the kernel of an idea here, but it wasn’t well executed.

Luke, I remember reading the original thread on AH.com and thinking that the big problem from the start was that everyone was setting their own pet parameters. Much of it later ended up as great, albeit coloured by people’s areas of interest and some degree of wish fulfilment. The screwiness of events did continue; I remember one chap over on TBOverse posting about an event where the entire Politburo was assassinated in comic book graphic style, thus introducing something a bit troublesome for continuity.

To do something like that properly, there needs to be an agreement from the start as to the general situation before people utterly cut loose with playing. The problem with casually introducing something like a Soviet occupied Britain is that it really limits a large part of the world from the get-go.

Being an order of battle aficionado of decades, I like the idea of a fully mobilised U.S. Army as an intellectual exercise, but it wasn’t fully explored as there hadn’t been the same type of history of its expansion as Jan/Bernard did for the British Army. It removes the baseline.

Rolling this back to Dragon’s Fury, that is part of the problem. By creating imaginarily huge armies at the start, Mr Head limited what could possibly stop those enemies, forcing himself into a vicious cycle of having to create new tech. By not basing the beginning of the scenario in some form of reality, it makes it difficult to adhere to logic down the line.

In my own Dark Earth works, for example, I tried to keep to some recognisable frameworks and numbers in the 1945-50 timeframe, creating a non-outlandish basis for Korean War mobilisation and Cold War expansion. I spent time doing research, reading up US Army divisional histories and postwar plans for the ANG and Reserve and eventually finding the frequently mentioned but very hard to find 1952 Lisbon force goals. I then scaled them up to fit the setting, but worked in what I hope was a logical trajectory of force size. Dragon’s Fury does not do that, creating 20 armoured divisions where in @, there were/are 2.

Why Greece, i always assume Turkey would join the evil side. 

The President of the Russian Federation in this book is someone named Vladimyr Pyuten. Totally unrelated to real-life politicians. As we speak, NATO and neutral Scandanivian countries have contributed to the defense of the Urals. After the Sino-Indian-Arab coalition manages to defeat the Russian-Scandinavian blockade of the Urals, the final showdown in Moscow begins!

Part of the Moscow defenses are 10,000 American personnel who aiding the Russians with the Patriot PAC-2 missile batteries that were quickly deployed around Moscow.

I used to think the Russians have the thickest and best air defense system in the world. Yet, since the author wants to go "America, F*ck Yeah", time to add Patriot Missiles to the A-135s and S-300s because "USA best country in the world".