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Post by pokermind   » Fri May 30, 2014 1:31 pm

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Finished the latest, what roller coaster ride two major battles, an allied convoy attacked by a French Sub, the Surcouf, a new enemy probably Kurokawa's mysterious strangers.

Speculation. Not much other than a prolog on Kurokawa, so you're a crazy Japanese Captain with delusions of Godhood, what do you do? Create a New Japan:

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I think Halik will go sough until he finds Kurokawa who he hates. Kurokawa will keep his Grik army on the African mainland. Any other ideas?

In the West we have USS Donaghey captured by the French Nazis and the Grik wanting Madagascar back and revenge for a dead Celestial Mother. In the West our favorite Blood Cardinal is back commanding the Army of God, while the allies await a royal visit. Hints of an infectious illness Vomito Rjho, and new Dom air cover, the Pope's greater dragons.

Happy commenting and speculating,

Poker

Edited as I hit img rather than i for the foreign words, oops.
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Re: Warning SPOILERS Taylor Anderson's Deadly Shores comment
Post by John Prigent   » Fri May 30, 2014 2:53 pm

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You seem to be short of rather a lot of terrain features, Poker. Little unimportant things like Lake Manyara, the Rift Valley and some quite impressive volcanos will be in the way of New Japan's expansion inland. And I hate to think what large predators might be on the plains of Maasai Mara and Serengeti, hindering the 'good' Griks.

And what on earth are those blocks of colour that look almost like a huge skeleton raptor?

Cheers

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Re: Warning SPOILERS Taylor Anderson's Deadly Shores comment
Post by pokermind   » Fri May 30, 2014 5:18 pm

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John Prigent wrote:You seem to be short of rather a lot of terrain features, Poker. Little unimportant things like Lake Manyara, the Rift Valley and some quite impressive volcanos will be in the way of New Japan's expansion inland. And I hate to think what large predators might be on the plains of Maasai Mara and Serengeti, hindering the 'good' Griks.

And what on earth are those blocks of colour that look almost like a huge skeleton raptor?

Cheers

John


Ugh some of the terrain features you spoke of. Kind of difficult when one does not have feature maps as a base. found one satellite photo to begin adding them in.

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Re: Warning SPOILERS Taylor Anderson's Deadly Shores comment
Post by pokermind   » Fri May 30, 2014 10:26 pm

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Posted this Taylor Anderson's site:

On May 31, 2014 Charles Simpson AKA Poker wrote:.

Posted my latest revision on David Weber’s forums for comments http://forums.davidweber.net/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5752, got a doozie from one of our Englishmen, John Prigent:

“You seem to be short of rather a lot of terrain features, Poker. Little unimportant things like Lake Manyara, the Rift Valley and some quite impressive volcanos will be in the way of New Japan’s expansion inland. And I hate to think what large predators might be on the plains of Maasai Mara and Serengeti, hindering the ‘good’ Griks.

And what on earth are those blocks of colour that look almost like a huge skeleton raptor?

Cheers

John”

You have to reduce the size of the art to fit David’s forums so posted a smaller JPEG on Facebook and got yet another comment from yet another English man, Ian Tregale, “I love those destroyermen books.”

By the by I learned of the series on SciFi Author David Weber’s forums, and Weber himself is a fan. Several of our Aussies there love the series too.


I got the following:

On May 31, 2014 Taylor Anderson wrote:.

Without commenting on how on target–or wildly wrong! Ha!–you might be, I really like your maps. Keep up the good work! Oh, and it goes without saying that I’m a big fan of David Weber’s, and I’m proud to call him a friend. That guy AMAZES me. He is absolutely brilliant, and his ability to summon up obscure details about, well, anything, is jaw-dropping. (And trust me, coming from a minutiae freak like me, that’s saying something!) Oh yeah, and he’s also an all-around swell guy.


Trying to discover who the French Nazis might be sent the following to friend Genkis on Facebook:

Charles Simpson wrote:
Well I have a question for you, I have a question for you ;) In Taylor Anderson's new book 'Deadly Shores' of his Destroyermen series he introduces a new enemy, French Nazis. Their flag is describe as a cross with rockers or a big blue swastika in a red octagon on a white field, below is my interpretation. Not given was the name of the party.

Do you know the name of the party? Is my attempt at their emblem correct? Were any of their members admirals or captains of battleships if so their names and ship name. Any help much appreciated I get no where looking up French Nazis on Wiki.

In the above book the submarine cruiser Surcouf (N N 3, 1929-1942) was sunk, see photo below. As this Sci-Fi yarn is now dealing with France you may be interested. It's an Alternate world where the principal enemy is the reptilian Grik see below, who are planing to exterminate and eat the 'cats' descended from Madagascan Lemurs see below.

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He wrote:

Genkis Genkkis wrote:
Hello Charles, I have friends who visit me at home these days. So I will take time to answer you during the next week.

Have a nice day and see you soon ;)


I'm sure a Frenchman in France has better access to info on French fringe parties than I do in a small Idaho cow town :lol: And better the name of the French commander and the name of his battleship seen in the Epilog of Deadly Shores, evil laugh.

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Re: Warning SPOILERS Taylor Anderson's Deadly Shores comment
Post by Daryl   » Sat May 31, 2014 3:30 am

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Many thanks. Now to see if it has reached Australia yet.
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Re: Warning SPOILERS Taylor Anderson's Deadly Shores comment
Post by John Prigent   » Sat May 31, 2014 4:52 am

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Thanks for the reply, Poker! I rather thought those blocks might be intended to be the mountains, rift valley etc, it's just that they didn't seem to be where those features were when I was last in the area. Small scale makes things difficult, doesn't it!
Cheers
John
PS - I'm another Destroyermen fan, just wish I could get the ebooks here in England as I've run out of bookshelf space.
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Re: Warning SPOILERS Taylor Anderson's Deadly Shores comment
Post by pokermind   » Sat May 31, 2014 6:19 am

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John Prigent wrote:Thanks for the reply, Poker! I rather thought those blocks might be intended to be the mountains, rift valley etc, it's just that they didn't seem to be where those features were when I was last in the area. Small scale makes things difficult, doesn't it!
Cheers
John
PS - I'm another Destroyermen fan, just wish I could get the ebooks here in England as I've run out of bookshelf space.


Scaling is always fun and drawing mountains with a modified satellite photo even more so

Here is the terrain photo I found on Wiki:

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not to mention having to remove the dam to go back to rivers. :lol:

Well after much trial and error cutting and fitting here are the features. Looking at the full map rather than the small slice I used Lake Manyara would be down left of the left border, hmm Wiki said it was Hemingway's favorite African lake. Well here it is with what features I could put on it:

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I didn't care for the Dino bones either but, noticed the ridges ran parallel as shown in the rapter bones :D The great basin in Nevada has similar sets of parallel mountains.

Oh the Surcouf

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if you have trouble visualizing the written discription. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Surcouf

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Re: Warning SPOILERS Taylor Anderson's Deadly Shores comment
Post by John Prigent   » Sat May 31, 2014 8:16 am

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Thanks again, Poker! And now I think I see what was foxing me - your coast line seems a lot farther from the mountains than the one I know.
Cheers
John
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Re: Warning SPOILERS Taylor Anderson's Deadly Shores comment
Post by pokermind   » Sat May 31, 2014 8:23 pm

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John Prigent wrote:Thanks again, Poker! And now I think I see what was foxing me - your coast line seems a lot farther from the mountains than the one I know.
Cheers
John


Third time's the charm:

https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t1.0-9/10342759_488028081329209_3051694492741891051_n.jpg Any one want a BMP version, Damn jpeg bleeds like hell, PM an e-mail drop address.

Probably the next allied aircraft we will see is a military version of the Manila Clipper with radial engines probably similar to the Japanese Kawanishi H6K, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawanishi_H6K a PBB Patrol Bomber Baalkpan courtesy of Lieutenant Walt ‘Jumbo’ Fisher. I wonder if they will have racks to launch two torpedoes? A torpedo plane would be very handy in the next book both east with the vast Dom fleet and the west with the Grik and/or Japanese-French fleet.

Then again several bombers carpet bombing with incendiaries would doom wooden sailing troop ships both Grik and Dom. I wonder if a closely packed invasion armada set on fire via carpet bombing will create a firestorm sucking in undamaged ships, and I wonder if the flashies will appreciate a cooked meal? Grik A’la Napam? Dom burgers?

:lol: Poker
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Post by pokermind   » Sat May 31, 2014 10:12 pm

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French Nazis identified, the Parti Populaire Français see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parti_Popu ... n%C3%A7ais

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Emblem of the Parti Populaire Français.

Enjoy, Poker
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