And the explanation of how the nuke worked is that the Midgard Serpent starts manifesting from some extradimensional space, starts to grow, gets hit, is mortally wounded but not dead yet, continues to grow, and _then_ dies after getting bigger than it was but carrying the wound.
Part of the snake's corpse seems to lay on top of the Alps, and I don't think that it would be able to fully crush a mountain range no matter how large the beast is, which makes me imagine that in some parts there's probably passages under the snake. Just picturing what it must look like to walk through a ruined valley between mountains with a giant snake's dead body serving as roof is really trippy.
It's funny how it went from the worst logistical travel route in Europe to the only one that takes you West and East lol, depending on how deep the Mediterranean Sea is though, it might be possible to use a Submarine to go under the snake, but you'd be underwater for days and I don't know if that's even feasible
The vibes of this setting reminds me a lot of "Dust 1947", another tabletop game that take place in alternate 1940s with heavy pulp fiction vibes. Just instead of giant magic snake summoned by nazis they have superweapons based on alien technologies found in Antartic as starting point premise. Still they also have Lovecraftian cult controlling Middle East and army of intelligent ape-people!
@@alicorn3924 Something like that but WW2 is still going on, Germany under Dönitz control that ousted Nazis yet keeped totalitarian state, Soviets ditched Allies and created their own bloc with China where Zhukov slowly takes control from Stalin, while US even after blowing atomic bomb over Ceylon still cannot outpower other factions and face several land invasion on its soil. Not to mention sudden attack from awaken Lovecraftian monsters all factions now need to face
@@alicorn3924 Yep, although it's not a place but european name of the whole island back in a day. According to lore Japan successfully captured it in mid-1945 and out of fear that it could damage Allies supply roots in the region Americans nuked Ceylon by modified with alien technologies atomic bomb. Due to that the island was completely vaporized and consumed by ocean. Then out of shock every side just agree to not use such weapon again on battlefield, fearing the level of rough destruction it could bring to the Earth
I mean the world is interesting though I do think it would have been better to have the Soviets have some major problem here. Just feels like a wasted potential to have them not only suffer no big problems from this but to actual get a their major rivals completely destroyed, magical giants, and their western border having the snake as wall which they can mine resources from.
The GURPS Alternate History of both 3rd and 4th edition are excellent sources for both specific alternate timelines, and the philosophy of writing AH. I highly recommend reading them even if you know nothing about rpgs.
So instead of "Everyone is nazi but a few holdouts, plus eldritch horrors and air pirates" it's "Everyone is Red, plus eldritch horrors and air pirates"? Hardly Hite's best effort.
7:20 90% of whats left of England is not Cornwall Cornwall is the tiny thin sticky out bit on the end of the peninsula. south England people will get very mad Devon, Somerset and Dorset. people (Especially Devon people) get very mad at this.
I suppose the Americans were busy dealing with the apocalypse while the soviets eventually overpowered the Germans and occupied whatever land they could, without America, France or Britain to stop them they just took over pretty much anything they felt like while stopping at the snake
As far as I know, no. It’s still around the same length, it’s just that when the nazis summoned jormungandr, the snakes corpse fucked over the Americans so hard that Japan was able to keep some colonies.
Honestly, I'm kind of tired of all these "WWII, but occult magic !" type of settings. They're a cliché by this point, even allowing for pulpy, campy ideas. I like that, for a change, the setting isn't focused on nazi and fascist malarkey, their defeat is just the starting point, but it's still a rather unappealing setting overall. Especially when it's a textbook soviet/communist wank, with essentially the entire rest of the globe being on the backfoot and disadvantaged. The whole thing with Norse mythic giants is also rather rote, I feel. I'd prefer an alternate setting for gaming purposes where you might not even have a superpower of any sort, and there are loads of smaller and varied countries, with unusual but plausible histories and cultures from the perspective of our history. (E.g. Tony Jones' Cliveless World feels like one underrated AH setting that could be very cool and original for RPG gamers.) Kenneth Hite has designed some good alternate history RPG content for GURPS (Alternate Worlds, Infinite Worlds rulebooks/modules) and other systems (including Savage Lands, no doubt), but these "20th century war + occult fantasy" takes have, IMHO, become the new "your protagonist is a cigar-chomping space marine in powered armour" of game premise design.
I don’t think it was a wank that the Soviets came out overall alright. I’m pretty sure it was done as a more “the evil guys are doing good” notion then a “And then the communist befriend the Giants and spread communism everywhere. It seems like them and the Japanese are meant to be the big evil world powers, for incase the GM wants to run a espionage setting.
As a fellow Chicagoan, the b29 hit Jormungandr in the eye and nuked it's brain which is what killed him.
They deployed the Trinity Device on it, yes.
And the explanation of how the nuke worked is that the Midgard Serpent starts manifesting from some extradimensional space, starts to grow, gets hit, is mortally wounded but not dead yet, continues to grow, and _then_ dies after getting bigger than it was but carrying the wound.
@@johanlundstrom1561so it's like getting cut as a kid but it never heals and as you grow so does the wound until you die?
@@toobig7150: Well, except it happened over merely hours or days.
This blasted, seeping eye is part of why Egypt is so messed up.
I was going to suggest a nuclear shaped charge, but those other ideas sound more plausible.
Part of the snake's corpse seems to lay on top of the Alps, and I don't think that it would be able to fully crush a mountain range no matter how large the beast is, which makes me imagine that in some parts there's probably passages under the snake. Just picturing what it must look like to walk through a ruined valley between mountains with a giant snake's dead body serving as roof is really trippy.
It's funny how it went from the worst logistical travel route in Europe to the only one that takes you West and East lol, depending on how deep the Mediterranean Sea is though, it might be possible to use a Submarine to go under the snake, but you'd be underwater for days and I don't know if that's even feasible
What if you crawl up the snake? Also I wonder what effects it rotting would've had on the environment
The vibes of this setting reminds me a lot of "Dust 1947", another tabletop game that take place in alternate 1940s with heavy pulp fiction vibes. Just instead of giant magic snake summoned by nazis they have superweapons based on alien technologies found in Antartic as starting point premise. Still they also have Lovecraftian cult controlling Middle East and army of intelligent ape-people!
sooo... Wolfenstein + Eldritch Gods?
@@alicorn3924 Something like that but WW2 is still going on, Germany under Dönitz control that ousted Nazis yet keeped totalitarian state, Soviets ditched Allies and created their own bloc with China where Zhukov slowly takes control from Stalin, while US even after blowing atomic bomb over Ceylon still cannot outpower other factions and face several land invasion on its soil. Not to mention sudden attack from awaken Lovecraftian monsters all factions now need to face
@@Ocelot835 Ceylon, the place in Sri Lanka?
@@Ocelot835 also, when's a UN-like organization when you need it? (or atleast for the non-major powers who aren't already in a bloc of a major)
@@alicorn3924 Yep, although it's not a place but european name of the whole island back in a day. According to lore Japan successfully captured it in mid-1945 and out of fear that it could damage Allies supply roots in the region Americans nuked Ceylon by modified with alien technologies atomic bomb. Due to that the island was completely vaporized and consumed by ocean. Then out of shock every side just agree to not use such weapon again on battlefield, fearing the level of rough destruction it could bring to the Earth
I bet the nuke gave the snake an eye cancer the size of Sudan, so it'd probably kill it.
that's a hilarious explanation.
@@aksmex2576r snake dies from dirt getting into open wound
I mean the world is interesting though I do think it would have been better to have the Soviets have some major problem here. Just feels like a wasted potential to have them not only suffer no big problems from this but to actual get a their major rivals completely destroyed, magical giants, and their western border having the snake as wall which they can mine resources from.
I mean they'd have to deal with instability in all of Europe
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The GURPS Alternate History of both 3rd and 4th edition are excellent sources for both specific alternate timelines, and the philosophy of writing AH. I highly recommend reading them even if you know nothing about rpgs.
So instead of "Everyone is nazi but a few holdouts, plus eldritch horrors and air pirates" it's "Everyone is Red, plus eldritch horrors and air pirates"?
Hardly Hite's best effort.
Wow this crazy but very interesting Alternative world.
Really fascinating scenario!
Just for future reference, Gloucester is pronounced Gloster
7:20 90% of whats left of England is not Cornwall Cornwall is the tiny thin sticky out bit on the end of the peninsula.
south England people will get very mad Devon, Somerset and Dorset. people (Especially Devon people) get very mad at this.
As a Devonian, I did get mad at it.
Nice
Only Fire dinossaurs? Meh things are as usual in brasil them
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~7:33 Gloucester is pronounced "Gloster." I know, it's weird, that's just how older English spellings be sometimes.
Is the implication of this that WWII happened very differently and lasted longer than it happened in real history?
I suppose the Americans were busy dealing with the apocalypse while the soviets eventually overpowered the Germans and occupied whatever land they could, without America, France or Britain to stop them they just took over pretty much anything they felt like while stopping at the snake
As far as I know, no. It’s still around the same length, it’s just that when the nazis summoned jormungandr, the snakes corpse fucked over the Americans so hard that Japan was able to keep some colonies.
What if Biafra gained independence
If the snake was maybe like 1000km long it would be more understandable
Love hite's gurps alternate earths
Shout out to B Munro!
Honestly, I'm kind of tired of all these "WWII, but occult magic !" type of settings. They're a cliché by this point, even allowing for pulpy, campy ideas. I like that, for a change, the setting isn't focused on nazi and fascist malarkey, their defeat is just the starting point, but it's still a rather unappealing setting overall. Especially when it's a textbook soviet/communist wank, with essentially the entire rest of the globe being on the backfoot and disadvantaged. The whole thing with Norse mythic giants is also rather rote, I feel. I'd prefer an alternate setting for gaming purposes where you might not even have a superpower of any sort, and there are loads of smaller and varied countries, with unusual but plausible histories and cultures from the perspective of our history. (E.g. Tony Jones' Cliveless World feels like one underrated AH setting that could be very cool and original for RPG gamers.)
Kenneth Hite has designed some good alternate history RPG content for GURPS (Alternate Worlds, Infinite Worlds rulebooks/modules) and other systems (including Savage Lands, no doubt), but these "20th century war + occult fantasy" takes have, IMHO, become the new "your protagonist is a cigar-chomping space marine in powered armour" of game premise design.
I don’t think it was a wank that the Soviets came out overall alright. I’m pretty sure it was done as a more “the evil guys are doing good” notion then a “And then the communist befriend the Giants and spread communism everywhere. It seems like them and the Japanese are meant to be the big evil world powers, for incase the GM wants to run a espionage setting.
As another fellow Chicagoan, I like how Chicago is still mentioned on the map while New York and D.C. just don't exist.
We like GURPS ^^
yah its a very interesting RPG. haha
Commie giants
XD
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id love to see this as a hoi4 mod...