The Armchair General: Can You Defeat the Nazis?

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In one particularly absurd scene Tomohiko and his friend get into a heated argument about whether or not Japan really needed the "divine wind" —aka " kamikaze"—to escape being conquered by the Mongol Empire. WarGames Defcon 1, being a Real-Time Strategy game, have the player spending the entire game controlling one of their units to destroy enemy bases while defending their own.

Armchair General online hosts forums – public meeting places for open discussion of various topics, sometimes referred to as a bulletin boards or discussion areas. He takes this philosophy to such an extreme that his chess strategies often involve the king being right out with the rest of the pieces, making offensive moves. Offscreen in Remembrance of the Fallen, Tiana Lanstar overheard some random civilian saying he could've come out of the situation her brother died in against the Orion Syndicate with his skin intact. John Simpson is originally portrayed as armchair military when he cites his service as, "having served in the Pentagon".

The men responsible for organizing the Battle of Yonkers in World War Z were armchair military types. In both cases, these individuals claim to be more capable of analyzing combat conditions and making strategic judgments than past military commanders who have been responsible for such analysis and decisions ( see also Armchair theorizing ). Snake - who spends so much of the level out in the rain and cold that he's capable of catching a cold - grumbles that whoever is receiving the broadcast must have a cozy room with a limitless supply of hot coffee. Less literally, their superiors are the Orcish equivalent of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant legacy students.

Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you realize that the way each Battle Commander handles his men reflects the attitude of their forces in-game: Karrde's hands-on A Father to His Men style inspires them to fight harder, as opposed to Rawne, who deliberately stays detached so he can apply We Have Reserves thinking to the Nod forces, who in a one-to-one fight get slaughtered. Putting more resources to the naval war might work better, perhaps defeating the U-Boats earlier than OTL, but it hard to be sure because the Germans would still be deploying U-Boats. The disconnect is especially notable in Night Watch, which features several scenes of two officers discussing the situation in their tent while Vimes (and the rest of the Night Watch) are engaged in the real fighting. The defences were weak – true – but American troops weren’t ready to fight Germans and the British could not afford a major disaster.On the Wings of Eagles – Legion Wargame’s “Aces of Valor” Brings You to the Skies of the Western Front. The fact that he was up against talented and experienced generals like Cao Zhen and Sima Yi didn't help. They had to make decisions based on what they knew at the time, not on truths that seem self-evident to their descendents. What really put the nail in the coffin at Yonkers seems to have been the lack of ammunition for the infantry.