Note, this post is very spoilery if you care about that, but given the relatively low probability of an actual game getting off the ground I did want to answer the questions - and besides, a lot of this can be surmised from reading what's been said in this and other threads.
Well, a little of one, a little of the other. Europe is the only place where Earth's militaries were concentrated and fortified enough to avoid having the main invasion fleet roll them under, so the Axis has equivalent or better production capacity post-Bombardment. The active war does slow down to only the occasional skirmish since both sides have to deal with Zzard thrusts, and as previously noted the main sticking points are Stalin and Hitler both wanting to be in charge of any final alliance. Japan is blasted to a few scattered islands, the East Coast of the USA is a hundred miles further inland in most places if very shallow, and the San Andreas did what all those disaster movies predicted and dropped that seaboard as well from the geological shocks. The Tuskegees were in the middle of a major exercise and the beams too spread out to destroy battroids, the surivors flew to Britain because they were chased all the way. The surviving Pacific and India/Burma forces headed for an inland crossing to rejoin with the forces in Europe and counterattack instead of back across the ocean because of, again, overwhelming alien forces sweeping out from NA airspace, with the other main landing site in Africa blocking a southern route with patrols extending out to the Arabian peninsula and western India.
The Variable V-2 is somewhat larger and has, as the name implies, a battroid form, used to rampage about once it arrives in the target area via its exceptionally fast and difficlt to interdict ballistic flight pattern, and also has both a nose/shoulder blaster and a pair of side turrets which become the head in the humanoid form. They fight to destruction or until radio contact tells them they can withdraw without incurring retribution on the hostages used to motivate them, it's what the Nazis do with untermensch espers, you see. Most are kind of insane anyway, since they only have a sense of touch on twenty pressure pads on each hand and six on each foot, while little attention is given to not leaving the organs included in the biopod in constant pain. You really, really DO NOT want to be a Kreigerakete pilot. There's a reason Germany's top ace is willing to be party to treason to free the camp full of hostages and let them all escape to the Allies after she finds out the more secret details, and it's not a lack of devotion to the people of her country.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Well, a little of one, a little of the other. Europe is the only place where Earth's militaries were concentrated and fortified enough to avoid having the main invasion fleet roll them under, so the Axis has equivalent or better production capacity post-Bombardment. The active war does slow down to only the occasional skirmish since both sides have to deal with Zzard thrusts, and as previously noted the main sticking points are Stalin and Hitler both wanting to be in charge of any final alliance. Japan is blasted to a few scattered islands, the East Coast of the USA is a hundred miles further inland in most places if very shallow, and the San Andreas did what all those disaster movies predicted and dropped that seaboard as well from the geological shocks. The Tuskegees were in the middle of a major exercise and the beams too spread out to destroy battroids, the surivors flew to Britain because they were chased all the way. The surviving Pacific and India/Burma forces headed for an inland crossing to rejoin with the forces in Europe and counterattack instead of back across the ocean because of, again, overwhelming alien forces sweeping out from NA airspace, with the other main landing site in Africa blocking a southern route with patrols extending out to the Arabian peninsula and western India.
The Variable V-2 is somewhat larger and has, as the name implies, a battroid form, used to rampage about once it arrives in the target area via its exceptionally fast and difficlt to interdict ballistic flight pattern, and also has both a nose/shoulder blaster and a pair of side turrets which become the head in the humanoid form. They fight to destruction or until radio contact tells them they can withdraw without incurring retribution on the hostages used to motivate them, it's what the Nazis do with untermensch espers, you see. Most are kind of insane anyway, since they only have a sense of touch on twenty pressure pads on each hand and six on each foot, while little attention is given to not leaving the organs included in the biopod in constant pain. You really, really DO NOT want to be a Kreigerakete pilot. There's a reason Germany's top ace is willing to be party to treason to free the camp full of hostages and let them all escape to the Allies after she finds out the more secret details, and it's not a lack of devotion to the people of her country.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows