OK, scrap that idea for Walkure, then. Having players sub in for alternate-nation doubles of their main characters can work, but it feels inelegant, somehow. A pity...
Hmm. Or that could work...
OK, so, assume that the historically modeled Operation Walkure uses a larger bomb, or that Eva just panics, and rather than Der Fuhrer being treated on-site, she whisks him away by teleportation to some secret hospital or bunker that she knows is secure - leaving the conspiracy to assume that he's been killed, and move ahead with their plans with all due force and speed. So the plan works, and nobody knows he's alive.
Until he contacts the SS, secretly, and gains their support to come back and regain control over the Reich, MUAHAHAHAHAA. Depending on how you want do set the silliness dial, he could be limping on canes, in a wheelchair, or Der Unaufhaltsam Cyberfuhrer! And it'd be during the counterstrike against that, that Eva and Carmen get their appointed duel.
Moving the L-133's engine intake to the wing roots rather than the nose will do a lot for its looks, yeah.
I hadn't considered the possibility of one of the German aircraft filling the fighter/bomber role I'd pictured for the Avenger, but in retrospect it makes sense. I'm still not convinced that the US Navy would be willing to let an Army bird like the Lightning be the US's only variable fighter in the immediate pre-war era, or that the US in general would leave the niche unaddressed, and I like the transformation I worked out for the Avenger a lot, though, so I'll keep up the puppy eyes about that for another round... It could also be adapted to the Wildcat, if you'd prefer that the Navy's entry be a fighter, although I admit I prefer the value of a bomb-bay full of boomstick.
I actually don't recall ever seeing a picture/description of the Raven - a flying wing, I take it?
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
Hmm. Or that could work...
OK, so, assume that the historically modeled Operation Walkure uses a larger bomb, or that Eva just panics, and rather than Der Fuhrer being treated on-site, she whisks him away by teleportation to some secret hospital or bunker that she knows is secure - leaving the conspiracy to assume that he's been killed, and move ahead with their plans with all due force and speed. So the plan works, and nobody knows he's alive.
Until he contacts the SS, secretly, and gains their support to come back and regain control over the Reich, MUAHAHAHAHAA. Depending on how you want do set the silliness dial, he could be limping on canes, in a wheelchair, or Der Unaufhaltsam Cyberfuhrer! And it'd be during the counterstrike against that, that Eva and Carmen get their appointed duel.
Moving the L-133's engine intake to the wing roots rather than the nose will do a lot for its looks, yeah.
I hadn't considered the possibility of one of the German aircraft filling the fighter/bomber role I'd pictured for the Avenger, but in retrospect it makes sense. I'm still not convinced that the US Navy would be willing to let an Army bird like the Lightning be the US's only variable fighter in the immediate pre-war era, or that the US in general would leave the niche unaddressed, and I like the transformation I worked out for the Avenger a lot, though, so I'll keep up the puppy eyes about that for another round... It could also be adapted to the Wildcat, if you'd prefer that the Navy's entry be a fighter, although I admit I prefer the value of a bomb-bay full of boomstick.
I actually don't recall ever seeing a picture/description of the Raven - a flying wing, I take it?
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."