Jim Raynor isn't Jim Raynor

I love you too babe.

And Jim Raynor shaping up seems to be the only option for Blizzard to advance him through the plot.

That, or he spirals even further down... and goes insane.

...Which I think would be a cool twist.

 

Well with branching missions maybe that would be a possibility.

 

I have a soft spot for dark characters. I'll admit it

 

Instead i thend to like the Mengsk type character, Fidel like people, you know, although el Che is one of my favourite figures of all time, he bought the dignity of my whole race with his blood.

Hasta siempre comandante!

 

Im more of a General Patton man myself, but that is besides the point.

I think Raynor might take a turn to the dark-side, but only after everything has gone further downwards then they already have. I believe that would mean most of his followers are killed and fleet destroyed. Otherwise i dont see how he can fall any further down.

 

General Patton was a real a$$. He took the credit of other generals and also was the reason we called a cease fire in the Korea War. Sigh I'm gonna stop now before I go on too much more of a rant of how much I hate General Patton.

 

I wont disagree with you there he did mess up in Korea, but he did do some good in WW2 during the Italian and French campaigns. He just got a bad rep after he slapped those two soldiers, which doesn't seem like a big deal to me. Eisenhower though, now he was a general.

 

Eisenhower was a good general. Patton took credit for some battles that he arrived late for. Sure he was there, but the fighting just finished by the time he'd get there with troops. Anyways sorry for getting this thread off topic.

 

Yeah, sorry off topic chat, just two history nuts here.

 

A better General was Zukov, he beat the crap out of the nazi armies on the east, now, going back to topic...

 

Now here is someone who knows what he is talking about :yes:

 

I'd rather put this in the history thread so as not to take away form this thread but I doubt it's get moved their so I'll say it here. From what I learned in history class what did the germans in the east so bad was their equipment. They charged into the then Soviet Union without the proper equipment. Then the snow came and they were forced to retreat or freeze to death. That gave the Russians a huge advantage. Plus the germans then had a two front war. So that just spelled the end for them.

 

Your history profesor really doesn´t know that much, does he? The german equipment was by far superior to the soviet equipment at the begining of the war, especially on the logistics way, the soviet union despite having excellent tanks and artillery didn´t have enough trucks to supply or move them all, and only a fraction of the army had some of the modern equippment, the rest having old and useless supplies. The Germans also counted with initial numeric superiority on the first weeks of the campaign, and combined with the tactical surprise they achieved, many soviet formations were completely routed and forced stalin to pull back and evacuate factories.

The German north army tasked with capturing leningrad was halted in the outskirts of the city by ferious soviet resistance, which would contiue for 4 years until the soviet army broke the siege. The south army stopped due to a combination of tactical planning, lack of fuel and soviet resistance. the central army moved towards moscow, reaching within miles of the city, but General Zukov beat them with a massed counterattack on the winter. Germann troops lacked enough winter clothing, and as the soviets attacked across the whole front the fascists were forced to fall back, with soviet armies hot on their heels.

After the winter passed, in order to avoid most Soviet forces concentrated on the northern and central fronts, Hitler launched the Caucasus offensive in order to take stalingrad and open the way for taking Asia and the middle east, hoping to strangle the Soviet Union before it could fully regroup. On stalingrad, after a titanic effort, the Red Army held out the elite german 6th army, while the soviets built up dozens of divisions on the other side of the river. Finally, the soviets launched a second counterattack and encircled the 9th army, beating back any attempts from outside to break through. inside the city, the soviets retook the city house by house, and finally destroyed the german army. The destruction of the 6th army saved the rest of the south army, giving Hitler an excuse for not letting the 6th army attempt a breakthrough.

Finally, Hitler deceided to commit one last offensive on the south/central front in an effort to anihilate the Soviet army that just retook stalingrad, a spy gave stalin the plans for the offensive and the soviet army dug in, totally breaking the backbone of the panzer Divisions in the battle of kursk, setting the stage for the soviet push towards Berlin and the end of the nazi Germany.

 

now why cant we have this in the history topic in the lounge, lets try to get back on Jim raynor here.

 

If people are interested in WWII, Cold War and Socialist history I may open a full thread to answer questions and stuff, what do you think, should I?

 

Already done. There is a history thread for this I put my whole knowledge there of WWII. You want to talk about to there let's do it there.