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Chalk River is too close to the American border.
 
Chalk River is too close to the American border.
And far too convenient, only a wimp would chose there. The Empire has deliberately chosen a remote, undeveloped and peversely difficult place just to be more manly.
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It wasn't me! It was the Prime Minister! *hides away map of Kenia*

Honestly though, I had them choose the location they use mainly because of security concerns. There is something of a Red Scare going on in Canada right now, and it was decided that the risk was too great. Not the best desicion, but nobody is perfect, they have to bungle now and then. :p
 
I am not really a fan of post-sealion occupied UK fiction, mainly because Sealion itself was so utterly ridiculous. Whenever someone says that after the defeat of the RAF Britain would have fallen, I answer with two words: Royal Navy.

they gamed sealion out at sandhurst after the war with the germans who would have been running it. turned out to have been a worse disaster for the germans than even the most pessemistic had predicted.
personally never figured why there was such a worry. you had 2 canadian divisions in place by then and given what we did to the german paras at ortona i cannot see an open field fight going even slightly better for them.
 
Canada has at the very least 1.5 to 1.7 times the normal population thanks to a massive influx of American loyalist refugees throughout the 1930s which allows for larger industry, larger agrigculture which does indeed produce something of a surplus that is sold at very generous and definitely below world-market prices to Britain.

cannot say for this time line but in otl the dominion of canada provided vast amounts of equipment and supplies free of charge to the british and other allies. the dollar value was staggering and i believe there was a fair bit of aid post war while the british were getting back to something like normal.
 
I am not really a fan of post-sealion occupied UK fiction, mainly because Sealion itself was so utterly ridiculous. Whenever someone says that after the defeat of the RAF Britain would have fallen, I answer with two words: Royal Navy.

they gamed sealion out at sandhurst after the war with the germans who would have been running it. turned out to have been a worse disaster for the germans than even the most pessemistic had predicted.
personally never figured why there was such a worry. you had 2 canadian divisions in place by then and given what we did to the german paras at ortona i cannot see an open field fight going even slightly better for them.

At least. From what I've learned since then the loss of the Rhine river barges in the invasion fleet would have crippled the German war effort.

cannot say for this time line but in otl the dominion of canada provided vast amounts of equipment and supplies free of charge to the british and other allies. the dollar value was staggering and i believe there was a fair bit of aid post war while the british were getting back to something like normal.

Very generous prices = technology and political influence on things. Hell, the Canadians have a full Field Army in Yugoslavia...
 
Probably, but considering that he has to contend with exiled leaders from four occupied countries and another four who are Commonwealth Members and contributing troops. The Politics must be godawful.

doubt we canucks would cause him any grief. long as the british provide us a steady supply of germans and russians to chew up we're pretty much happy campers. the odd "thanks guys" wouldn't hurt though.
 
I am not really a fan of post-sealion occupied UK fiction, mainly because Sealion itself was so utterly ridiculous. Whenever someone says that after the defeat of the RAF Britain would have fallen, I answer with two words: Royal Navy.

they gamed sealion out at sandhurst after the war with the germans who would have been running it. turned out to have been a worse disaster for the germans than even the most pessemistic had predicted.
personally never figured why there was such a worry. you had 2 canadian divisions in place by then and given what we did to the german paras at ortona i cannot see an open field fight going even slightly better for them.

Everything I've read suggests the same. The only potential down sides I can see are:
a) The possibility of a panic and break-down of the will to resist if the Germans actually got forces ashore - although this seems very, very unlikely.

b) That it might wake the Germans up enough that they actually prepare for a long war against Britain and forget about the east - but if nothing else that would require something happening to Adolph and possibly also Joe.

Otherwise they are going to get hammered badly which can only have a positive effect on moral.

Canada has at the very least 1.5 to 1.7 times the normal population thanks to a massive influx of American loyalist refugees throughout the 1930s which allows for larger industry, larger agrigculture which does indeed produce something of a surplus that is sold at very generous and definitely below world-market prices to Britain.

cannot say for this time line but in otl the dominion of canada provided vast amounts of equipment and supplies free of charge to the british and other allies. the dollar value was staggering and i believe there was a fair bit of aid post war while the british were getting back to something like normal.

I suspect it may be even higher in terms of population, especially later in TTL [Trek's more recent stories on AH]. Not only will there will be the refugees but there will be people from Canada not going south and the immigrants who OTL went to the US are very unlikely to and many might go to Canada and other parts of the empire instead.

I have read this as well. They were a little cautious about committing ground troops after WWI, initially although they had an entire beach for Overlord, but did a huge amount in the N Atlantic and along with the other dominions supplies large quantities of supplies to Britain without any of the Lend-Lease strings.:D If we hadn't gone for massive arms production above all else we might have been a lot better off after WWII:(

At least. From what I've learned since then the loss of the Rhine river barges in the invasion fleet would have crippled the German war effort.

Very generous prices = technology and political influence on things. Hell, the Canadians have a full Field Army in Yugoslavia...

The only question I have about this, which I have heard often before, is that didn't the Germans have the river barges tied up in northern France for about a month or more while awaiting the invasion? Know I have heard reports of BC bombing them and doing a fair bit of damage. Never heard of this causing much disruption to their economy but might be something that historians talking about the invasion overlook because their concentrating on the BoB and the possibility of actual landings.

doubt we canucks would cause him any grief. long as the british provide us a steady supply of germans and russians to chew up we're pretty much happy campers. the odd "thanks guys" wouldn't hurt though.

Thanks guys. By the way we're increasing you're rations.:D:p

Steve
 
I can't remember the exact figures nor the source right now, but IIRC it was that long-term the loss of the transportation space on the river would have overloaded rail and road network while at the same time the germans wouldn't have had the capacity to spare to replace the barges.

As for Canada and rations: The U-Boats are on their last legs. Very early in the AAR it was established that the Depression was less bad for the Commonwealth, and thus the Navy was not as underfunded and increased the number of escorts which translates (together with the US no longer being a potential convoyer)into fewer convoys, into increased U-Boat losses, a larger RN which translates into the KM and the Red Navy falling from grace after failing to deliver and being ripped to tiny bits by the Imperialist Britishers. :D As a result rationing isn't as severe in the UK as it was IOTL, and will be stopped much, much earlier too.
 
doubt we canucks would cause him any grief. long as the british provide us a steady supply of germans and russians to chew up we're pretty much happy campers. the odd "thanks guys" wouldn't hurt though.

As for Canada and rations: The U-Boats are on their last legs. Very early in the AAR it was established that the Depression was less bad for the Commonwealth, and thus the Navy was not as underfunded and increased the number of escorts which translates (together with the US no longer being a potential convoyer)into fewer convoys, into increased U-Boat losses, a larger RN which translates into the KM and the Red Navy falling from grace after failing to deliver and being ripped to tiny bits by the Imperialist Britishers. :D As a result rationing isn't as severe in the UK as it was IOTL, and will be stopped much, much earlier too.

Trek

Actually my comment about rations was a joke reply to Ehran's post above, that you're keeping the Canadian forces fed with plenty of Germans and Russians.:D

Steve
 
The Canadian Army will always be well-fed in that regard, with also a few Japanese for variety through the RCMC (Royal Canadian Marine Corps).
 
Does "Slap Shot" count as "seeing ice hockey"?

I prefer rugby. More civilized.


:D:D:D

Keep it up fellas... enjoy your sports but don't knock ours... Unless you want me to start in with Socce.. No... For the sake of courtesy I won't use that slanderous term.

you have a sport? hockey was invented by the indians and rules added by the canadians, football and basketball are both canadian games and baseball was played in england more than a century before abner's efforts. is there perhaps another commonly played "american" game i'm not familiar with?
 
Ehran, why the heck are you answering questions that are lost in the midst of times? The rugby joke one is older than Rome! Keep reading, but to answer, concentrate in the present situation of the AAR, man! It's more than enough to keep us busy! :d

@Trekkie:

Update!

BOTH ones, you know what I mean :D
 
The next NoW update is almost done, but the next AAO-update needs some careful deliberations, as it's very combat intensive.
 
Trekaddict

Good chapter and nice tie up. I think such prolonged mistrust of Ford Motors would be counter-productive as you can't really blame a company a couple of decades down the line for what a former CE did and it's more likely to mean less competition and the employees of the company having a reason for mistrusting Britain in turn.



Steve

a measely couple decades of grudgeholding is nothing. a proper scot can hold a grudge for centuries.

to wit a man went to work for a construction company in new york. an fridays the old man who had founded the company liked to come in and meet the new hires. upon being introduced to the new guy the owner promptly fired him and demanded he get off the company property never to return. having no idea what he'd done to deserve this treatment he went to the employment equity guys and filed a complaint. the owner explained that the fired man's clan had failed to show up for a battle in scotland in the early 1600's and as a result many of the owner's clansmen had died. as such there would be no one by that name ever employed in his company. the equity guys had to drop the complaint as the legislation protects you if you are black, religious or whatever but there was no provision to protect you for being descended from a particular scots clan. now that's grudgeholding.
 
Ehran, why the heck are you answering questions that are lost in the midst of times? The rugby joke one is older than Rome! Keep reading, but to answer, concentrate in the present situation of the AAR, man! It's more than enough to keep us busy! :d

been posting comments as i got caught up with the aar. most of which wound up on just a couple pages naturally.

really been enjoying this aar though the death of the King and Queen were a nasty jolt to the system.