I've finally started playing some HOI at long last. After reading several fantastic AARs involving almost every country i've been wondering, what can i do different? Well I've always been into the Sci Fi thing regarding alternative history, and after reading Max Brook's Magnficient "World War Z" and as a fan of "Resistance: Fall of man" I couldn't resist trying this idea out.
essentially an oral history is a collection of interviews and first hand accounts. Hopefully I can do this justice, but this does give the added advantage of writing about whatever interests me as the day goes by.
There will be no gameplay pictures or mentions of it, this is purely narrative and i'm sorry to disappoint, but i want to set up the atmosphere for the coming chapters
For those of you who are fans of resistance or have played it, this is a history explaining the rise of the chimera and their war in Europe. For those who haven't the slightest clue what im talking about, read on
With my other AAR and other obligations, I'll try my best to update this as time permits, that doesn't mean I wont have fun doing so!
------------
Selected 1/03/08 as an excellent example of alternate history by the Tempus Society: Charter and Roster
AUTHOR'S NOTES
July 25, 1951
They go by many names, such as The “Deathless Plague” or in the earliest recorded mention of them, “The Angry Night”. I personally go with the official military term for them. The “Chimera”. No one knows exactly where they came from, or how they came to be. But we know this for sure, they are winning. Europe and Asia have fallen, and even as I sit here now in my New York office typing this away, they are no doubt preparing for the next step, an invasion of our shores.
My boss has advised against this, telling me how it was more important to focus on other issues such as the latest emergency wartime powers granted to the President by congress or the steady flow of refugees from Europe. They say that my work is too (expletive deleted) premature to be much use in the present. The memories were “still too fresh, with too many opinions and feelings that may obscure the true facts.”
It might do well for future historians to have the past as cold hard data. Statistics of dead and dying, guaranteed to be free of bias, free of the human factor. But I could not agree with this. Humanity should be present in history, it is what connects us to the past and it’s how we identify with it. Besides, with the Chimera knocking at our doorsteps, how can my superiors think about what future classrooms would think about this stuff? Would there even be future generations at the rate we’re handling this? Perhaps even by examining this, we can finally learn something about the Chimera? To get a better picture of the puzzle.
There are countless millions who have landed on our shores, each with their story to tell. This is a record of the greatest conflict in human history thus far, and I am resolved to have their voices heard.
This is not a book, far from it. I realize it is a presumptuous of me to start writing a ‘history’ as it is still happening around me. No…this is more like a journal. A compilation of memories and scattered documents which will hopefully, in the little time we have left, give a voice to those who were silenced forever.
This is ultimately their work, not mine. I have done my best to reserve judgment or commentary, if any human factor must be absent from these writings, let it be my own.
essentially an oral history is a collection of interviews and first hand accounts. Hopefully I can do this justice, but this does give the added advantage of writing about whatever interests me as the day goes by.
There will be no gameplay pictures or mentions of it, this is purely narrative and i'm sorry to disappoint, but i want to set up the atmosphere for the coming chapters
For those of you who are fans of resistance or have played it, this is a history explaining the rise of the chimera and their war in Europe. For those who haven't the slightest clue what im talking about, read on
With my other AAR and other obligations, I'll try my best to update this as time permits, that doesn't mean I wont have fun doing so!
------------
Selected 1/03/08 as an excellent example of alternate history by the Tempus Society: Charter and Roster
AUTHOR'S NOTES
July 25, 1951
They go by many names, such as The “Deathless Plague” or in the earliest recorded mention of them, “The Angry Night”. I personally go with the official military term for them. The “Chimera”. No one knows exactly where they came from, or how they came to be. But we know this for sure, they are winning. Europe and Asia have fallen, and even as I sit here now in my New York office typing this away, they are no doubt preparing for the next step, an invasion of our shores.
My boss has advised against this, telling me how it was more important to focus on other issues such as the latest emergency wartime powers granted to the President by congress or the steady flow of refugees from Europe. They say that my work is too (expletive deleted) premature to be much use in the present. The memories were “still too fresh, with too many opinions and feelings that may obscure the true facts.”
It might do well for future historians to have the past as cold hard data. Statistics of dead and dying, guaranteed to be free of bias, free of the human factor. But I could not agree with this. Humanity should be present in history, it is what connects us to the past and it’s how we identify with it. Besides, with the Chimera knocking at our doorsteps, how can my superiors think about what future classrooms would think about this stuff? Would there even be future generations at the rate we’re handling this? Perhaps even by examining this, we can finally learn something about the Chimera? To get a better picture of the puzzle.
There are countless millions who have landed on our shores, each with their story to tell. This is a record of the greatest conflict in human history thus far, and I am resolved to have their voices heard.
This is not a book, far from it. I realize it is a presumptuous of me to start writing a ‘history’ as it is still happening around me. No…this is more like a journal. A compilation of memories and scattered documents which will hopefully, in the little time we have left, give a voice to those who were silenced forever.
This is ultimately their work, not mine. I have done my best to reserve judgment or commentary, if any human factor must be absent from these writings, let it be my own.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Antebellum
Sergei Zhelyabov - Former officer of the White Army (First Accounts)
Katrín Baldursdóttir - Seismologist (The Tunguska Hypothesis)
Eva Kellerman - Red Cross Aid Worker (The 'Red Volga' Incident)
War Documents 1: Last Transmission
'Vasily' - Anonymous Russian (First Contact - The Forgotten War)
Sir Archibald Campbell - British Diplomat (The 'Blackout', The Runner)
Captain Bruce Lockhart - OSSI Agent (Warnings from Asia, Project 'Manhattan')
Xu Jing Wei - Chinese Soldier (First Warnings in the East)
Sergei, Vasily ('Escape')
Nick Murdock - Allied Scientist (Chimera 'evolution, weaponry'. It begins)
Chapter 2 - Invasion
Maria Kowalczyk - Polish Refugee (Invasion - Fall of Warsaw)
Voices from the Warsaw Line (Fall of Poland)
Captain Pratt - Airborne infantry (Allied Rout - Stalkers - 'Carriers')
Sergeant Bruin - French Condor Legion (Battle of Danzig)
David Corrison - Disaster and Relief Division (Missing refugees - Vanishing populations)
Major Wolff - German Artillery, Oder defense (The Battle of Germany, Part 1)
Major Wolff - Enter the Goliaths (The Battle of Germany, Part 2)
Major Wolff - End at Oder, Nazi Insurrection (The Battle of Germany, Part 3)
Otto Von Reich - German Civilian Conscript, Nazis, Battle of Berlin (The Battle of Germay, Part 4)
Otto Von Reich - The end in Berlin (The Battle of Germany, Part 5)
War Documents 2 : US Isolationist League Poster
Carlos Oliveira - UED Medic (Chimeran Infection) War Documents 3 - Allied Broadcasting Standards
General Sinclair - Allied Commander (Logistics of Chimeran War, Operation Deliverance)
Chapter 3 - The Darkening World
Takuya Yamazaki, IJA Officer. - Propaganda
War Documents 4: Siege of Genoa, American soldier interview
Yamazaki, IJA Offcer - Invasion of Asia, Japanese Soldiers, Kamikaze, Breakdowns + War Documents 5: Autospy
War Documents 6: Influenza Outbreak?
Gunther Krech, U-boat commander - Fall of Venice, Sea Creatures? + War Documents 7: Howler
War Documents 8: Vehicles
Operation Deliverance: Day 1 + War Documents 9 (Stages of Chimera)
Operation Deliverance: Day 2 - Conversion Centres
Operation Deliverance: Day 3 - Battle of Thermoplyae
Operation Deliverance: DAY 4 - India consumed
Operation Deliverance: Final Day - Angels? War documents - Effects file
Frank Xing - Chinese Medic (Siege of Nanking)
Chapter 1: Antebellum
Sergei Zhelyabov - Former officer of the White Army (First Accounts)
Katrín Baldursdóttir - Seismologist (The Tunguska Hypothesis)
Eva Kellerman - Red Cross Aid Worker (The 'Red Volga' Incident)
War Documents 1: Last Transmission
'Vasily' - Anonymous Russian (First Contact - The Forgotten War)
Sir Archibald Campbell - British Diplomat (The 'Blackout', The Runner)
Captain Bruce Lockhart - OSSI Agent (Warnings from Asia, Project 'Manhattan')
Xu Jing Wei - Chinese Soldier (First Warnings in the East)
Sergei, Vasily ('Escape')
Nick Murdock - Allied Scientist (Chimera 'evolution, weaponry'. It begins)
Chapter 2 - Invasion
Maria Kowalczyk - Polish Refugee (Invasion - Fall of Warsaw)
Voices from the Warsaw Line (Fall of Poland)
Captain Pratt - Airborne infantry (Allied Rout - Stalkers - 'Carriers')
Sergeant Bruin - French Condor Legion (Battle of Danzig)
David Corrison - Disaster and Relief Division (Missing refugees - Vanishing populations)
Major Wolff - German Artillery, Oder defense (The Battle of Germany, Part 1)
Major Wolff - Enter the Goliaths (The Battle of Germany, Part 2)
Major Wolff - End at Oder, Nazi Insurrection (The Battle of Germany, Part 3)
Otto Von Reich - German Civilian Conscript, Nazis, Battle of Berlin (The Battle of Germay, Part 4)
Otto Von Reich - The end in Berlin (The Battle of Germany, Part 5)
War Documents 2 : US Isolationist League Poster
Carlos Oliveira - UED Medic (Chimeran Infection) War Documents 3 - Allied Broadcasting Standards
General Sinclair - Allied Commander (Logistics of Chimeran War, Operation Deliverance)
Chapter 3 - The Darkening World
Takuya Yamazaki, IJA Officer. - Propaganda
War Documents 4: Siege of Genoa, American soldier interview
Yamazaki, IJA Offcer - Invasion of Asia, Japanese Soldiers, Kamikaze, Breakdowns + War Documents 5: Autospy
War Documents 6: Influenza Outbreak?
Gunther Krech, U-boat commander - Fall of Venice, Sea Creatures? + War Documents 7: Howler
War Documents 8: Vehicles
Operation Deliverance: Day 1 + War Documents 9 (Stages of Chimera)
Operation Deliverance: Day 2 - Conversion Centres
Operation Deliverance: Day 3 - Battle of Thermoplyae
Operation Deliverance: DAY 4 - India consumed
Operation Deliverance: Final Day - Angels? War documents - Effects file
Frank Xing - Chinese Medic (Siege of Nanking)
Last edited: