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MadeOfAxes Not Literally Me Since: Feb, 2010
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#276: Jul 18th 2010 at 7:08:07 AM

Is all good. I'm leaning towards the fey/mystic side myself, so they should compliment each other. Now, who is playing as the African Resistance?

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#277: Jul 18th 2010 at 7:33:15 AM

I'll play the Africans, then; their culture was a sizeable component of my Universe of the Arts class in Cegep (although nowhere near as big as it could have been, thanks to the European bias of my teachers), so I have some understanding of the various groups that make up the African peoples.

Now if I can just find those textbooks, I'll be all set...

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#278: Jul 18th 2010 at 7:43:05 AM

Awesomeness.

As I don't think anyone responded, where in Africa is this set?

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#279: Jul 18th 2010 at 7:45:28 AM

Gonna have to ask the same question—where it's set will influence my portrayal of the resistance.

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#280: Jul 18th 2010 at 7:48:47 AM

Seems at the moment we have balanced sides. Two for each faction. So about when will this start?

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#281: Jul 18th 2010 at 8:10:39 AM

After flipping through my old textbooks, and remembering that most African cultures were Animistic, I'd have to say that most of their Diesel Punk tech, while powered by internal combustion and fossil fuels, would be alive in some sense; after all, the primary belief of animism is that everything, whether living, dead, inorganic or part of nature, has a spirit and lives.

Also, the primary reason I ask the exact location is that, prior to the arrival of the British, Muslims from the Levant established far-ranging trade routes throughout much of Africa in the 14th century and converted roughly a third of the continent to Islam. Thus, depending on where it is set, the African resistance might be friendly to the Mossad and/or not have a culture to reinstate.

edited 18th Jul '10 8:11:33 AM by SullenFrog

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#282: Jul 18th 2010 at 8:22:13 AM

If we're sticking to where the actual North African campaign took place, we're mostly on the northern coasts of Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Egypt, maybe with some forays deeper into the desert (battle at the Great Pyramids?).

Or maybe some of the places seen in Indiana Jones, when he is hunting the Ark.

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#283: Jul 18th 2010 at 9:17:51 AM

Somewhere Sub-Sahara.

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#284: Jul 18th 2010 at 9:27:28 AM

Okay, so that cuts out Egypt and Nigeria, but on the plus side this averts the whole Islam problem as most of the converted territories were within the Sahara...

that narrows it down somewhat, gives me more room to work with. Thank you; now I can play with anything from roughly Benin to Zimbabwe cool.

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#285: Jul 18th 2010 at 10:08:39 AM

I just had an idea...

Either have it near a river, or near the coast somewhere...

MadeOfAxes Not Literally Me Since: Feb, 2010
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#286: Jul 18th 2010 at 10:10:29 AM

I want it near the coast for my characters to work properly, as well. Although they don't need to be there for long, just start there.

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#287: Jul 18th 2010 at 11:56:43 AM

Coastline it is! Remember, it has to have been a British colony.

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#288: Jul 18th 2010 at 12:27:40 PM

The Cameroons? South Africa? Rhodesia? Sierra Leone?

No, wait, I've got it— Zanzibar! (a.k.a., modern-day Tanzania)

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#289: Jul 18th 2010 at 12:40:17 PM

Cool. I care little as to where exactly it is, barring that it is on the coast

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#290: Jul 18th 2010 at 12:41:22 PM

So. When can we expect this thread to be up and running?

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#291: Jul 18th 2010 at 12:42:56 PM

Don't worry about that—Zanzibar is smack-dab on the coast of East Africa. Now if you'll excuse me, Tanzania was not one of the African nations covered in my course, so I have to do more research on the subject...

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MadeOfAxes Not Literally Me Since: Feb, 2010
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#292: Jul 18th 2010 at 12:46:51 PM

Be patient, Ridley. It will be up soon enough, I imagine.

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#293: Jul 18th 2010 at 12:49:29 PM

Tanzania/Zanzibar then. I'll have to rethink a bit, I was more set for a far, open desert environment. Tanzania doesn't seem to have that. Anyway, looking forward to it.

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#294: Jul 18th 2010 at 12:50:29 PM

The desert's over-used, anyway.

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#295: Jul 18th 2010 at 12:55:33 PM

But I was thinking of SAS troops with overloaded Landrovers armed with dozens of machine guns... *sniff*

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#296: Jul 18th 2010 at 1:02:16 PM

Don't worry, the SBS/SAS/Royal Marines will be there!

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#297: Jul 18th 2010 at 1:05:37 PM

Who do you want to play as then, Flanker?

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#298: Jul 18th 2010 at 1:08:20 PM

...I shall be a member of the British. Our colonies need... taming.

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#299: Jul 18th 2010 at 1:08:53 PM

Just done some research on Tanzania. This is but a small sampling of the country's wildlife:

Big cats (cheetahs, leopards, lions), zebras, striped- and spotted-hyenas, nine separate species of mongooses, countless different species of bat (mainly fruit but also a few carnivores, some of which get really big), Savannah hares, numerous rodents (mice, rats, porcupines surprised), the common chimpanzee, Galagos, Colobus monkeys, killer whales, dolphins, dugongs, bush elephants, antelopes, African buffalo, warthogs, hippopotami, gazelles, blue wildebeest, kobus and of course the A-A-R-D-V-A-R-K!

What can we infer from this regarding the terrain/environment of Tanzania?

edited 18th Jul '10 1:16:05 PM by SullenFrog

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#300: Jul 18th 2010 at 1:21:50 PM

You could just look at the "Geography" section of the Wikipedia article for that...

Mountains in the north east. West of that (Serengeti National Park today) is savanna and rainforest. Even further west (borders with Kenya/Uganda) is Lake Victoria. A large plateau at the centre, with woodland and arable land. Another lake in the west. Hot and humid at the coast.

So, if we need water, ocean or lakes?

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