You barely see anything about the Chinese occupation, the fight in Africa, the French resistance, or anything dealing with the Italians. I know these games are largely a propaganda device, since it's really the last time America looked good, but you'd think someone would fund these games.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Anything about China is a problem because the CPC likes to pretend it fought off the Japanese while in reality it hid in the hills and waited for the war to be over.

    TIL that the Hundred Regiment Offensive was not a months long offensive operation involving 200,000 soldiers and resulting in as many as 40,000 Japanese and collaborator casualties. It was, in fact, a pleasant mountain camping trip.

    The CCP didn't "wait for the war to be over" any more than Soviet and Yugoslavian partisans "waited for the war to be over."

    • Malikto [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      The KMT fought the Japanese hard for eight years. Yay on the CPC for launching a single campaign.

      In any three-sided fight, the right move is to let your two enemies fight until they exhaust themselves, and then swoop in at the last minute to grab the victory. It worked, didn't it?

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The KMT fought the Japanese hard for eight years. Yay on the CPC for launching a single campaign.

        My bad for assuming you understand the concept of an example.

        • Malikto [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          I'm something of a student of the era, and the idea that the CPC contributed anything substantial to beating the Japanese is ludicrous. They did the smart thing and sat out the war, and beat the crap out of the KMT as soon as the Japanese were gone. How do you argue with a winning strategy?