Baktrian D-Day in Greece

**Ayce** · 06-22-2008, 22:38

Yep, Seelöwe would be more suited.

**The General** · 06-22-2008, 23:12

Maybe it's just me, but I've usually considered the nazi humour to be the kind of humour you just don't do in 'public'. Meh.

That, and considering it's tha internets, y'know never know, really.

**Cadwalader** · 06-22-2008, 23:33

What would've made this ace is if someone actually chose to defy the awesome strength of the Baktrian reich, but who would possess such foolhearted bravery!

**Irishmafia2020** · 06-23-2008, 02:21

Role playing Indo-Greek Nazi's, - that is original. I suppose I would tend to want to role play the resistance to such a huge empire, but then again you can justify all out extermination this way... Plus you get to use the language of propaganda, and at least you aren't using the Sweboz (that would actually be offensive)! Perhaps the Romans are really communists willing to die for the proletarian struggle as well...

**General Appo** · 06-23-2008, 09:41

Originally Posted by Irishmafia2020

... Plus you get to use the language of propaganda, and at least you aren't using the Sweboz (that would actually be offensive)!

It would? Hmmm.... perhaps in the future I shall start an AAR from my old 1.0 Sweboz save, and we´ll see just how offensive I can make it.
Surely, my empire is dangerously short of Lebensraum.

**Jolt** · 06-23-2008, 02:23

I don't see any problems with Nazi jokes. Their jokes because Nazism is past. And most people's ankward reactions to this joke proves just that.

**The General** · 06-23-2008, 09:59

I've accustomed to nazi jokes, we've had them aplenty in our group of friends.

However, what is not so okay is when a (certain) friend, drunk, starts throwing nazi/white supremacy "jokes". In a bus. With a few black guys in it. Not cool. He says they're just jokes and that he just tries to irritate me, but sometimes he just sounds a bit too serious. Not cool.

Then you read/watch stuff like this (digg-link'd yesterday). Reminds you, that all that bullshittery called nazism etc. isn't completely in the past, unfortunately. Makes all those nazi jokes etc. seem like not so funny anymore. So, I've become less inclined towards such jokes.

Although, I must say, a certain Monty Python skit cracks me up each time.

But, on the whole, most likely, this was overreaction from me, caused by reading/watching neo-nazi/white supremacy-related articles and video clips just before finding this thread.

As I said in my previous post... Meh.

PS. I agree with the Unternehmen Seelöwe-thing.

**keravnos** · 06-23-2008, 10:21

Patris= "Land of our fathers", from "Pat(e)r"=father and the ending -"is" which denominates place.
Later on by the time of EB, it had evolved into "homeland".

compare that to

Country= "land of the count".

I think it is time to re-legalize some of the most important words in IndoEuropean common dictionary that the Nazis appropriated and never quite gave it back. "Fatherland" is too important to be left to them.

What it all comes down to, and this is why I think this AAR is hilarious, is that the Ubermensch (superman in german) of the Baktrians would be IndoIranians like the Kamboja (light IndoIranian cav.) or the Bahlikas (Baktrian cav.) and one of its elite infantry would be the Sreni swordaxe carrying guild infantry. They would be the big bulk of the army with hellenic phallanx and Baktrion agema as a smaller part of the army. Elite cavalry and the bodyguard would deffinitely be Hellenic, but the majority of the troops wouldn't.

In fact Baktrians were the most accepting and "non-xenophobic" of all the Diadochoi. Which makes this AAR all the more amusing.

**Swordmaster** · 06-23-2008, 15:05

Originally Posted by keravnos

I think it is time to re-legalize some of the most important words in IndoEuropean common dictionary that the Nazis appropriated and never quite gave it back. "Fatherland" is too important to be left to them.

And the symbols, too. So we don't get stupid tourists asking what the Nazis did to the floor of the Amiens cathedral.