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A couple elections from the Green Revolution 2010 elections.


i, of all people, am not usually the one scoffing dramatically at high concept ah, but this feels needlessly edgy.Any of y'all remember Phineas Gage, the guy who had a metal spike go through his head and lived, only to have his personality alter dramatically?
Louis Mountbatten was apparently approached twice, in 1968 and 1974, by a group of rich entitled businesspeople who wanted to perform a military coup against Harold Wilson. Both times Mountbatten laughed at them and said he wanted no part in it.
But lets say he survived the 1979 bombing that took his life OTL, just, and came out the other side...different. Different enough to go to back to those very same rich entitled businesspeople and let them know he changed his mind?
Edgy?i, of all people, am not usually the one scoffing dramatically at high concept ah, but this feels needlessly edgy.
allow me to demonstrate:Edgy?
I mean, it was never my intention to have it be edgy? I feel slightly mischaracterised here, I just used a fun little trope to try and make something different :/allow me to demonstrate:
”Bro, bro, what if there was that guy who got blown up by the IRA, but he survives and is now INSANE, and becomes a dictator, wouldn't that be so cool?!”
it reminds me of early TNO lore. In fact, I think it literally was early TNO lore for Kaukasia, where Prince Joachim was tortured by Partisans and went insane, which they changed for obvious reasons.
Exactly! Most write ups I see about the plot against Harold Wilson paint Mountbatten as this stilted old dude at the center of the conspiracy, where in reality he thought the guys planning it were dumb and didn't want anything to do with it.I will mention @Blackentheborg that Mountbatten was considered ridiculous pink for a Royal Relative, from his support for Attlee, his crushing on Barbara Castle and his soft support for Irish Republicanism…
The more likely answer is, if Mountbatten was per se over throwing a David Stirling coup and placing a grumpy Peter Shore into power.
Having your brain altered by bomb shrapnel would be the only plausible explanation for such a sudden shift in personality needed for the scenario.
The concept required a plot against Wilson with Mountbatten at the helm. Thems the brakes...or they could just ask a different general.
It's a bit like the Business Plot deciding to ask Smedley Butler of all people.I mean, it was never my intention to have it be edgy? I feel slightly mischaracterised here, I just used a fun little trope to try and make something different :/
Exactly! Most write ups I see about the plot against Harold Wilson paint Mountbatten as this stilted old dude at the center of the conspiracy, where in reality he thought the guys planning it were dumb and didn't want anything to do with it.
Having your brain altered by bomb shrapnel would be the only plausible explanation for such a sudden shift in personality needed for the scenario.
That's my bad. Fixed that shit.I don’t think it’s too edgy. My biggest gripe is that Mountbatten survives the 1979 bombing, gets Gaged, and seizes power... in 1977?
And yet there's plenty of scenarios where the Business Plot goes ahead and Smedley seems completely fine with it.It's a bit like the Business Plot deciding to ask Smedley Butler of all people.
Doesn't mean they're good, does it? Like, I love Chasing Shadows, but the whole point of that is that Smedley is actively misleading the plotters in questionAnd yet there's plenty of scenarios where the Business Plot goes ahead and Smedley seems completely fine with it.
idk man it feels like you're being unnecessarily critical here. It's not that bad, is it?Doesn't mean they're good, does it? Like, I love Chasing Shadows, but the whole point of that is that Smedley is actively misleading the plotters in question
It's not awful, don't worry, but it's just the kind of AH I recognise from HoI4 mods, and that tends to ring alarm bells for me.idk man it feels like you're being unnecessarily critical here. It's not that bad, is it?
You have my word that I've never so much as touched a Hearts of Iron game, let alone have the patience to install a mod.It's not awful, don't worry, but it's just the kind of AH I recognise from HoI4 mods, and that tends to ring alarm bells for me.
...or they could just ask a different general.
Good Job, you just made Walter Walker and David Stirling cry.The concept required a plot against Wilson with Mountbatten at the helm. Thems the brakes