JcDent

I'm in awe at sheer lack of good judgement that went into making a WORLD WAR 2 MOD FOR ROME I IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2018

Peep the explanation for why China has an IS-2 derivative in WW2:

If you read the text it states that the mod takes place during the 50's as well, cause Rome: Total War doesn't allow the game to end in 1945 - it ends in the 50's. So Dagovax thought 50's stuff could be added.

In the late game it's 50's tanks - and for >Germany it's futuristic tanks like the Mause.

Since Rome I wouldn't let the game end in 1945, they pushed the date forward rather than backwards into the 1930s. THEY WENT DEEPER INTO THE ERA ROME I ENGINE CAN'T HANDLE.

AAAAAAAAGH!

Now, why would you do that instead of relying on your bombers, boomers and nuke fields to end the world? Because it's the Cold War and being paranoid pays the big bucks.

You see, the USSR might just be good enough with their first strike counterforce [^1] (the title of my upcoming arcade shooter, donut steel, TBD) to leave you with missiles that can barely wipe out 50% of Eurasian population - or as MAD/strategic deterrence people would less flippantly say, USSR might feel like it can pull that off, which increases the odds of pulling something.

That's why you get the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison, the US edition of nuke on train. Naturally, the Soviets invented the idea, probably because of some genetic memories of armored trains in the Russian Civil War.

Once the shit is about to hit the fan, you ring the bell, the doom trains leave their protected depots (I think that's what the slide illustrates), and go off into the national rail network. There, they can fire whenever given the order. Since it's a lot harder to nuke the entire rail network or individual moving trains than easily-spotted-from-space silo fields, the enemy can't be sure they'll get them all in one go.

Can't wait till someone makes WW3 mod for Rome I

I usually watch Usually Hapless since he seems both competent and funny, but he only did Combat Mission: Cold War as the Soviets once.