Mrsnugglesworth said:
Therumancer said:
feather240 said:
As long as there's no- JESUS CHRIST RAPTORS!
Raptor Jesus went extinct for your sins! Do not mock his sacrifice!
That said I think there is still a lot you can do with World War II based games, without reaching for things like this. Albeit I don't think the world is quite ready to abandon political correctness enough to give the genere a real breath of fresh air.
Unless the Dinosaurs are REALLY exagerrated, I see no real point when you have tanks and planes.
I'd go with its scary.
What would be scarier....
A brown tank
or
OVER 9000 VELOCIRAPTORS!
I'd rather have the tank. I'd meet the 9000 Raptors head on and simply not hit the brakes (bump, bump, bump). Granted we'd be picking pieces out of the treads for a while afterwards but still... Raptors would only be scary to infantry.
T-Rex? One shell should do the trick there.
Unusually serious answer given the comments, but still... the idea just seems ridiculous to me. I mean think about it, with the damage bombs were doing to things like the German industrial complex (from planes), and the focus on tanks, I really don't think Dinosaurs would matter. World War II shooters and such aside, the war really wasn't won by infantry until the very end. One of the things that makes the war distinctive was that it was an arms race as much as anything, and truthfully all the time spent on developing Dinosaurs or even Zombie troops would be better spent on developing better tanks and planes.
So let's say I was Hitler, and on one hand I've got the Evil Nazi Geneticist with his brain under a plexiglass dome, he wants to resurrect Dinosaurs. On the other hand I've got the evil Nazi sorceror who wanders around 24/7 in a gas mask/submission hood who wants to appeal to the elder gods and summon an army of zombies. Then I've got some regular old mechanical genius who can make me faster and more efficient tanks, planes, and boats.
I don't have endless resources, and really one of my problems is logistics to begin with. I mean I have to feed and supply my troops, and there are issues with transporting a bunch of giant lizards never mind feeding them. Plus being designed for tropical enviroments it's not like I can use them when I need to go after the Russians, and in no way is that going to help me in a war increasingly being decided by naval power. The Zombies are cute, and it fits with my occult hard on, they don't have to eat, and aren't going to be affected by the cold, but they are effectively mindless and getting them under cover when people drop bombs is going to be a pain. I mean it's not like you can really get a zombie to understand the concept of "cover" and to give them orders would take constant micromanagement. On the other hand the industrialist who says "hey let's build this massive Battleship, called the Bismarck and use it to terrorize the navies of our enemies" and "Let's build better planes to shoot down their planes and make sure we can bomb and they can't" or even "let's build better tanks to kill their tanks and destroy the infantry" and can provide evidence that what he can produce is better than what the enemy has and (allegedly) we'll get it out there faster... well that could very well win the war.
Not meaning to be a downer, but sometime if you ever think about large scale comic book villainy it's pretty silly when you think about the big picture and what your going to do with it.
I'm one of those guys who for example think that someone is more likely to develop a Keith Laumer style "Bolo" long before super soldier projects or personal powered armor.