World War III, The 36-Hour War of 1948

[lordroel]

Jul 3, 2016 19:34:44 GMT spanishspy said:

Jul 3, 2016 16:08:49 GMT lordroel said:

With the help of the Netherlands and other countries who want to be friends with the Boer Republic it might.

How would it make money, though? Diamonds?

And gold i presume.

[spanishspy]

Jul 4, 2016 3:15:28 GMT lordroel said:

Jul 3, 2016 19:34:44 GMT spanishspy said:

How would it make money, though? Diamonds?

And gold i presume.

Many precious metals, definitely, and maybe forms of agriculture.

[lordroel]

Jul 5, 2016 13:35:23 GMT spanishspy said:

Jul 4, 2016 3:15:28 GMT lordroel said:

And gold i presume.

Many precious metals, definitely, and maybe forms of agriculture.

The Boer republic would have plenty of people to mine it if you know what i mean, also how about the name United Republic of Africa ore in Dutch Verenigde Republiek van Afrika in place of the Boer Republic.

[spanishspy]

Jul 5, 2016 16:50:28 GMT lordroel said:

Jul 5, 2016 13:35:23 GMT spanishspy said:

Many precious metals, definitely, and maybe forms of agriculture.

The Boer republic would have plenty of people to mine it if you know what i mean, also how about the name United Republic of Africa ore in Dutch Verenigde Republiek van Afrika in place of the Boer Republic.

Perhaps. Maybe "Grand Boer Republic?"

[lordroel]

Jul 6, 2016 0:47:36 GMT spanishspy said:

Jul 5, 2016 16:50:28 GMT lordroel said:

The Boer republic would have plenty of people to mine it if you know what i mean, also how about the name United Republic of Africa ore in Dutch Verenigde Republiek van Afrika in place of the Boer Republic.

Perhaps. Maybe "Grand Boer Republic?"

The thing is the name Boer Republic is not a name to be used world wide, there where many Boer Republics as you can see in the Wikipedia article called: Boer Republics, two of them did achieved international recognition and complete independence: the South African Republic (ZAR or Transvaal) and the Orange Free State.

Also do you think that we can make the United Republic of Africa (URA) into a super state in time of the 36-Hour War in 1948 with out having to turn them into Draka or use the stupid virus.

[spanishspy]

Jul 6, 2016 15:51:18 GMT lordroel said:

Jul 6, 2016 0:47:36 GMT spanishspy said:

Perhaps. Maybe "Grand Boer Republic?"

The thing is the name Boer Republic is not a name to be used world wide, there where many Boer Republics as you can see in the Wikipedia article called: Boer Republics, two of them did achieved international recognition and complete independence: the South African Republic (ZAR or Transvaal) and the Orange Free State.

Also do you think that we can make the United Republic of Africa (URA) into a super state in time of the 36-Hour War in 1948 with out having to turn them into Draka or use the stupid virus.

Perhaps, while still under Britain, they're given dominion of the British colonies in southern Africa (South-West Africa, Bechuanaland, Rhodesia, Nyasaland) and from there they can expand.

[stevep]

I think it still needs a serious stupid virus. Apart from anything else a highly exclusive and religious Boer population which despises other whitee, let alone other races, is likely to have a very small population base and a lot of internal opposition. Even if they gain the British colonies somehow I doubt they have the population or resource base to develop them.

Even in the Draka stories Stering had to get assorted boosts to their population, such as defeated Confederates and other emigrants from Europe which are far less likely in this case.

[lordroel]

Jul 6, 2016 19:21:57 GMT stevep said:

I think it still needs a serious stupid virus. Apart from anything else a highly exclusive and religious Boer population which despises other whitee, let alone other races, is likely to have a very small population base and a lot of internal opposition. Even if they gain the British colonies somehow I doubt they have the population or resource base to develop them.

Even in the Draka stories Stering had to get assorted boosts to their population, such as defeated Confederates and other emigrants from Europe which are far less likely in this case.

Well the enemy in the 36-Hour War are not the Soviet Union because i would not think they would nuke their own capitol as mention in the first page.

[spanishspy]

Jul 6, 2016 19:24:02 GMT lordroel said:

Jul 6, 2016 19:21:57 GMT stevep said:

I think it still needs a serious stupid virus. Apart from anything else a highly exclusive and religious Boer population which despises other whitee, let alone other races, is likely to have a very small population base and a lot of internal opposition. Even if they gain the British colonies somehow I doubt they have the population or resource base to develop them.

Even in the Draka stories Stering had to get assorted boosts to their population, such as defeated Confederates and other emigrants from Europe which are far less likely in this case.

Well the enemy in the 36-Hour War are not the Soviet Union because i would not think they would nuke their own capitol as mention in the first page.

That makes sense, but who else could it be?

[stevep]

Jul 6, 2016 20:07:05 GMT spanishspy said:

Jul 6, 2016 19:24:02 GMT lordroel said:

Well the enemy in the 36-Hour War are not the Soviet Union because i would not think they would nuke their own capitol as mention in the first page.

That makes sense, but who else could it be?

  Well we could use the general standby of US SF stories along this line before the Soviets were accepted as a serious threat.  I.e. a Nazi group that has escaped to a secret base somewhere.  Totally unrealistic but then, without a PoD long, long before ~1940 anything is.

[lordroel]

Jul 6, 2016 20:50:35 GMT stevep said:

Jul 6, 2016 20:07:05 GMT spanishspy said:

That makes sense, but who else could it be?

  Well we could use the general standby of US SF stories along this line before the Soviets were accepted as a serious threat.  I.e. a Nazi group that has escaped to a secret base somewhere.  Totally unrealistic but then, without a PoD long, long before ~1940 anything is.

We could also have evil Belgium being behind the war.

[spanishspy]

Jul 7, 2016 3:14:25 GMT lordroel said:

Jul 6, 2016 20:50:35 GMT stevep said:

  Well we could use the general standby of US SF stories along this line before the Soviets were accepted as a serious threat.  I.e. a Nazi group that has escaped to a secret base somewhere.  Totally unrealistic but then, without a PoD long, long before ~1940 anything is.

We could also have evil Belgium being behind the war.

With missile bases in the Congo?

[lordroel]

Jul 7, 2016 13:31:41 GMT spanishspy said:

Jul 7, 2016 3:14:25 GMT lordroel said:

We could also have evil Belgium being behind the war.

With missile bases in the Congo?

We could have a scenario in which a Belgian general in command of Belgian Congo succeed when Belgium is invaded by Germany in 1940.

[spanishspy]

Jul 7, 2016 13:33:36 GMT lordroel said:

Jul 7, 2016 13:31:41 GMT spanishspy said:

With missile bases in the Congo?

We could have a scenario in which a Belgian general in command of Belgian Congo succeed when Belgium is invaded by Germany in 1940.

That could work, but how would they acquire nuclear weapons?

[lordroel]

Jul 7, 2016 13:35:47 GMT spanishspy said:

Jul 7, 2016 13:33:36 GMT lordroel said:

We could have a scenario in which a Belgian general in command of Belgian Congo succeed when Belgium is invaded by Germany in 1940.

That could work, but how would they acquire nuclear weapons?

He could expand his empire or whatever he calls it be joining the allies and invading French Africa in some place, he will mine uranium ore at Shinkolobwe which in OTL was used for the Manhattan Project and sell it to the United states who in OTL bought more than 30,000 tons of uranium ore, this can be used to upgrade his country.