TOTAL WAR 1985

[Palle]

Originally Posted by wulfir

The Dutch..., IIRC there was something about Dutch troopers having too long hair..., but look bad, I dunno - the Danes and Italians get hammered..., so too the Austrians..., the Finns don't even fight...hmm...

Sounds a bit dubious to me. It is no longer 1940 and we Danes at least were NOT prepared to go down without a fight in the late 80-ies despite the "Footnote-Policy", as an example of Danish determination the Home Guard peaked at 71000 members in the late 80-ies.

In the Danish armed forces at that time (which I have been a mamber of since 1988) that we would probably be overwhelmed by sheer numbers unless reinforced. But that we expected to go down fighting hard and would be reinforced on Day 4+ of an invasion. That the WAPA expected to take us out in 2-4 days but that we could hold for 5-6 even without support and would then go Guerrilla to the end. We would never- EVER be taken without a fight and that 9th of April burned us with shame.

Italians... dunno, it is no longer 1940, seems to me that their pros are pretty good and Italy was made for defence as the W.Allies discovered in WWII. Austria is very defensible as well, and Finland not even fighting is ridiculous. Finland... anyone heard of Sisu?