Planetary Politics Can Get Crazy: On the planet Wiz-Guy, political parties can get permits from the global government to own mechs for both security and voter-outreach purposes. Players are pilots working for the Hardsell City Utility Workers Party. The parties popularity/electoral success depends on Hardsell City’s utilities not breaking down, so the pilots will primarily have to respond to disruptions that may have been caused by sabotage. Pilots will also have to distribute holographic posters, protect UWP VIP’s, and deal with problems facing constituents.
Basically Darkest Dungeon but with Mechs: The Patriarch of The House of Fading Embers has disappeared after bequeathing his isolated estate to his three surviving grandchildren. Players are adventurer pilots recruited by The Heirs to help them salvage the estate in exchange for treasure, fame, and other foolish notions. They will be fighting against mega-fauna bioweapons, renegade mercenaries, malfunctioning robots, and paracausal cultists that have taken over the estate. As the campaign goes on, The Patriarch’s connection to every evil faction is revealed. Also, the player’s characters will gain stress points and deal with emotional breakdowns.
Siege of Starport City: HugeTech Corporation has conquered most of the continent except for the independent Starport City, this is a situation that HT Corp’s Board of Directors don’t like and are going to change with violence. Players are pilots that are working for Starport City’s Office of Crisis Management on the day The Siege Started. They will have to defend various sections of the city from a myriad of HugeTech Security Task Force Groups. The players and all other city dwellers have to hold out until Albatross and other allies arrive to break the siege.
"Scenes as Residents of St. Vincent and Sydenham Leave New Tank Range," Owen Sound Sun-Times. October 1, 1942. Page 6.
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The northern tips of St. Vincent and Syndenham Townships are today a new Canadian Army tank range. Rolling farm-lands which for years have been devoted to feeding Canadians are now serving another purpose, being used to train men to guard Canadians against the loss of those things they prize more than life itself. All residents of the area have now departed for their new homes. Here are scenes as the evacuation was in full swing. Upper left, Carol Jane McKee, aged 7, and Yvonne McKee, aged 9, 4 sit the steps of the Balaclava school, their books in their arms, as they any well to this school house. They are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Russell McKee and will reside near Allenford. Top centre is a view of a Sydenham group, helping Mrs. Margaret Eagles pack her belongings into a truck for removal to her new home at Owen Sound. From left to right are Jimmie Lemon, Carewood White, Miss Katherine Lemon, M. Donald Lemon, Mrs. Margaret Eagles and Clifford King. Upper right is scene familiar in the district in the past few weeks, a truck-load of hay. Standing on the hood of the truck is Rae Bumstead, while at the left is the owner of the hay, John Cathrae, who is moving to a farm in Keppel Township. Lower left is sbown one of the warning signs erected along the boundaries of the area. The man on the right Josh Gammon of Hawkestone, Ont., who was directing William Briggs and Geedon Hedekinson of Meaford in the work of erecting barriers across the roadway. Lower right is a picture of S.S. No. 12, St. Vincent, closed because it stands four rods inside the tank area, although eleven of the school's fourteen pupils reside outside the area and will now have to go as far as five miles to St. John's school. Standing is the school door in the picture is George Moire, a member of the school board of S.S. No. 12 - Sun-Tunes Staff Photo
Anyway, I think I'm hilarious. @cod-dump @totally-not-fandom @midnight193 This is based off of an incorrect quote I submitted to cod-dump, and the visual just wouldn't leave my mind until I drew it. Alt text has an image ID.
"Near Victory Turned to Defeat for British Forces," Kingston Whig-Standard. June 26, 1942. Page 10.
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When these pictures were made in Libya a few short weeks ago things were going well for the British German tanks like the captured one above were being tested. German prisoners like these at left below were being taken. South African gunners like those at right below were blistering the desert with bullets. But Rommel came back with bigger, better armored tanks to take many more thousands of British prisoners, a large part of them South Africans.
The recent uncovering of a fully preserved, 2,500-year-old Greek-Illyrian helmet in Croatia, shines light on the warrior cultures of old in this region.