Warsaw Uprising v. 1.0 (continued)
I see that you (or the PzC designer) took some historical liberties here. The Soviets sat on their asses while this was going on; according to
Wikipedia, "Initially, the Poles established control over most of central Warsaw, but the Soviets ignored Polish attempts to make radio contact with them and did not advance beyond the city limits." And, to my own bit of shame, "Winston Churchill pleaded with Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt to help Britain's Polish allies, to no avail." A bit of shame, I say, because the Soviets were in a much better position to have offered support to the Warsaw Uprising than the Americans, but still.
So it was good to see that the German player will be challenged by the Soviets in this scenario and that the Americans are also represented in the form of air support. This in turn was a nice reminder of when the world viewed the United States as a force for good, an upholder of human liberty and dignity. (Not to say that there haven't been some deviations to that - Vietnam, Iraq - but generally it was true.)
It's only in recent years that I have become wary of admitting that I am an American in forums such as this. To say it bluntly, I have become ashamed of my own country and the buffoon who now "leads" us to the scorn of the rest of the world. I am ashamed that so many of my countrymen now feel emboldened by him to come forward with their regressive viewpoints. Frankly, I fear for our future as a democracy and if we go down, so will democratic institutions all across the globe.
Thread to be continued . . .
