Decisive Darkness: What if Japan hadn't surrendered in 1945?

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    • F. Marion wrote:

      This RP confuses me.
      Why would the US not be a single player? Why break out these different regions in the US?

      The US Civil War is a thing of history books. It is not reasonable to postulate that Japan not surrendering post Hiroshima / Nagasaki would have the US splinter into a dozen regional interests that are stealing land and resources from each other. The US only behaves like that when there is no outside enemy to be dealt with. The US mood following a canceled VJ-day party would not be one of internal conflict. It would be one where there were no Japanese people left alive on this Earth.

      The embargo of Japan would have caused starvation beyond imagination. The conventional bombing campaign was already making Dresden look like a Boy Scout fire. Add the atomic bomb campaign that would have followed and there would be no Japanese cities. The US military would not set foot on mainland Japan until it had been burnt to a cinder. Why incur casualties in a landing? Burn the place to the ground. Burn the crops in the fields. Drop land mines in the rice fields. Mine the harbors. Sink anything that launches from Japan. Literally treat the entire nation like a cancerous growth that needs to be destroyed.

      This is a very real possibility from the US forces as they looked at Japan. In fact, it is a very real possibility from US forces as they face any foe, even today. The GI is more than happy to share the food in his pockets with the kids in a war zone. He is just as happy to reduce an enemy to a glowing desert of glass as set foot in their land. I won't attempt to justify it. It just is. An enemy who does not "play by the rules" receives no quarter and his family, heritage, way of life and land are all fair game for massive retaliation.

      So, tell me again. How is this RP supposed to work and what is the logic behind splitting the US into multiple players?
      Exactly, very illogical. Seems like he couldn't be bothered with the LS process and just left the map as it is.
    • F. Marion wrote:

      This RP confuses me.
      Why would the US not be a single player? Why break out these different regions in the US?

      The US Civil War is a thing of history books. It is not reasonable to postulate that Japan not surrendering post Hiroshima / Nagasaki would have the US splinter into a dozen regional interests that are stealing land and resources from each other. The US only behaves like that when there is no outside enemy to be dealt with. The US mood following a canceled VJ-day party would not be one of internal conflict. It would be one where there were no Japanese people left alive on this Earth.

      The embargo of Japan would have caused starvation beyond imagination. The conventional bombing campaign was already making Dresden look like a Boy Scout fire. Add the atomic bomb campaign that would have followed and there would be no Japanese cities. The US military would not set foot on mainland Japan until it had been burnt to a cinder. Why incur casualties in a landing? Burn the place to the ground. Burn the crops in the fields. Drop land mines in the rice fields. Mine the harbors. Sink anything that launches from Japan. Literally treat the entire nation like a cancerous growth that needs to be destroyed.

      This is a very real possibility from the US forces as they looked at Japan. In fact, it is a very real possibility from US forces as they face any foe, even today. The GI is more than happy to share the food in his pockets with the kids in a war zone. He is just as happy to reduce an enemy to a glowing desert of glass as set foot in their land. I won't attempt to justify it. It just is. An enemy who does not "play by the rules" receives no quarter and his family, heritage, way of life and land are all fair game for massive retaliation.

      So, tell me again. How is this RP supposed to work and what is the logic behind splitting the US into multiple players?
      nothing ceasar says makes any sense

      cos if it did, he would own 10 yachts, sevilla FC and Manchester united plus an A380 and a 747..

      @Quasi-duck



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