WW2 Man - Fights with itself because they can't find anyone else to fight with - Is faster then The Race - Are great tacticians and can outsmart the race Race - Invades a less advanced planet and loses - Slower then the Imperium - Dummies
@@buddy5196 Average race pleb: 1 meter tall Reptillian lookin ass Slow and idiotic Weak Average Human Warrior 1.5-2 meters tall (supersoldiers compared to those scrubs) Intensely handsome High IQ and insurmountable speed Strong enough to rip one of those iguana people in half with their bare hands
Someone wrote a fanfiction if the Race came to Earth in 2026 in the Stargate universe called Contact of Races, which is quite enjoyable though you first have to read Contact at Kobol, which is Stargate x Battlestar Galactica
There`s a really cool fan-fiction called "World War: War of Equals" that I would definitely recommend. It's an alternate version of the story in which The Race take a little while longer to get here and arrives in the early 2010's. Suffice to say, humanity stands a *much* better chance.
Alexander Meinhardt Unfortunately, it was cancelled and if the author wanted to restart it again, then it would fit in the current, late 2010s settings that focuses on constant division and polarization and other things....
USA : yo is that a alien im picking up? EU : it is! china russia look at this! russia and china : well thats cool! what they coming here for? USA : looks like fleet of warships Russia : lets nuke there warships and see if that works, i have some nukes hidden in my sattelites everyone except russia : .....im not even suprised..welp lets see if it works "explosions in space" the big 4 : yay we won! now than lets unify efforts and prepare for more aliens, this is gonna be so cool!
Soviet Union: hmm 200m people is not enough what do I do? India, china, south east Asia and Japan: well what do we say? Let’s remove law AND TORTURE THE HELL OUT OF ALIENS, NO LAWS, NO CRIME, NO ALIENS. Ussr: well thanks for assisting Germany: well, finally my gigantic tanks have a use and Poland can into pace after this. The snow and the trees: 🗿🗿🗿 British empire knowing they already colonise the aliens before they even exist: ah yes what a great day to have a cup of tea Switzerland still neutral even after the aliens capture earth except Switzerland: 😮
I was looking for something fun like this. You've convinced me to give it a shot, and I just got through the first two. Here's a few things I've noticed: 1. Somebody needs to weaponize Ginger. It would be the world's most interesting biological weapon. 2. The Race does actually have night vision. They do have thermal optics, but I'm not sure about visible light amplification. It's mentioned a few times in book 2 at the infantry scale. 3. The aliens' technology level seems to be around 1990s level in general (some exceptions of course). Everything they have is better than 1940s tech, but it's still mostly conventional. If it were any higher they would have things like active defense systems on combat vehicles, small scale UAVs, and laser point defenses for their ships and bases. We have those things in development now, but it's probably an artifact of the years these books were written in. 4. Surprisingly, The Race seems to have no concept of orbital bombardment other than dropping powerful nuclear weapons. Lighter precision fire from orbiting ships would utterly wreck any of their enemies' defensive lines and industrial capacity. After all, simple kinetic rods would cause plenty of devastation without all the nasty side effects of fission bombs.
@Icy Knightmare RE: "Somebody needs to weaponize Ginger. It would be the world's most interesting biological weapon." That happens in a later book - in the Colonization series.
Kinetic bombardment only works from orbit if you can decelerate out of orbit not like GI Joe which would just keep orbiting. It would be viable with railguns or even normal guns, missiles would do the trick. Also how does the race deal with 0g in orbit?
So uh if you want to know, there are another three books under the Colonisation Series, then a single book called Homeward Bound after the Colonisation series.
@@spark5558 RE: "Also how does the race deal with 0g in orbit?" The Race rotates at least certain parts of their starships to provide centrifugal artificial gravity.
et 37 It wouldn’t be heard of, and the victory would give Australia a bit of confidence before the upcoming Great War II Also there would no longer be emus
That's too unrealistic. Like, how would that story even be written? That would be like if a bunch of tiny islands off the Coast of Europe was the origin of the USA.
I think of the 1940s as technologically advanced. Guns, bombs, cars, tanks, planes, penicillin, and eventually nukes. Even on the pure science side you already have special and general relativity plus a lot of quantum mechanics, on top of the decades-old near-mastery of electromagnetism. By contrast consider that the hyped genius ancient Greeks fought with bronze shields, spears, short swords, and wooden boats.
We really just reap off what the 1940s started when it comes to warfare, aside from EW. Science went more into computers, transistors, the Internet and electricity as a whole after '45, so while militaristically speaking we didn't advance THAT much we certainly advanced scientifically.
@@buckplug2423 RE: ". . . while militaristically speaking we didn't advance THAT much . . ." Military Advances Since 1945 Automatic weapons Tanks Jet planes A-bombs and H-bombs Body armor Nuclear submarines Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) Antiaircraft missiles Radar and sonar Satellites Spacecraft Night vision goggles
I hate to be that guy, but as a huge fan of the series, I have to correct you on one thing. The initial invasion of The Race occurs in Spring of 1942, so Operation Barbarossa has already taken place. In fact, a large German army (including Heinrich Jager) is trapped in Russia.
Yeah. There's even a seen where he's complaining about the new Russian tanks being too good. If I recall they even have parts where the characters explain how close to Moscow they were.
Our favorite German panzer man turned Red Air force mechanic had a line complaining about advancing so close to Moscow one year, and retreating toward it the next.
"When the fleet lord says we rule this world from space; we hissss! hissss! in the fleetlords face!" Yes! Thank you for finally giving my favourite series from the master of alternate History some love. I first read the Worldwar series as a kid and it is what made me fall in love with the genre. "May your toe claws tingle!"
I read the series twice. It’s just soooooo good. Love the Turtledove bro. Best characters are Sam and Jager in my opinion. One last thing The Race does have night vision tech but not for their Air Force or tanks but only for their infantry.
I think in the first 3 books they say about Race's Night Vision at least 4-5 times and it really gets under my scales. Also, you know that Sam's last name is Jaeger, right? :)) Jaeger and Jaeger. (I know you meant Heinrich). P.S. For those who don't want spoilers, for the love of God, don't go through the Wikis. Also, I've listened to the Audio books. (and basically J and Y have the same pronunciation) But this was fun.
lionhead123 God bless his soul, he goes on a mission but when he comes back, his wife is married to another man. He does another mission but the team doesn’t agree to go to the mission site.
I know you have probably forgotten about this comment but i will enplane it anyway. It wasn't a traditional presure mine. It was a nuke that was hidden in the ground on a timer. The soviets pulled back so the race would move on top of the mine just as it was triggered.
I'm assuming the Soviets calculated how long it took the race to move from square a to square b. Placed a mine in a location, that the race was headed towards, and set a timer, then boom.
First, Napolean gets frozen in Russia and lose there, then Hitler plans on going into russia (where they'll freeze and lose), and finally, the aliens get frozen in Russia and lose there. Lesson: Just don't attack Russia!
Or just attack Russia by coming through Mongolia and/or Alaska, starting just a bit before winter shows up. This way the Russians have to 1) Put in all of the draining effort and manpower to march their shit all the way across this vast barren land. By posting a 'base' of sorts in Russia's extreme outer territories, and doing it just before winter, or at least at the start of winter, the Russians themselves are subjected to a long and ardrous process of moving across the country akin to an invading force. This will stretch out their supply lines and tax the shit out of them, but they HAVE to move across during the winter because if not, they run the risk of... 2) A solid base of operations already being in place in Russia during the spring, serving as a ferry/entry point into the massive country for any other invading force, which can now cross Russia during the significantly less severe Spring/Summer. Plane technology of the 1940's would struggle massively at crossing all of Russia just to bomb or halt the advancement of foreign troops, so it would all become a battle of who has the better supply line and attack/defense/planning in general. If the invading force is capable of forcing back the Russians, then the Russians are now loosing ground in a war that will leave their Western Side overpopulated and on the verge of an economic collapse. You might not even have to cross the Ural Mountains, just let the Russians collapse themselves as they struggle just to effectively cross said mountains to kick you out. Granted, this is all with the mindset of a 1940's era Russia. And this wouldn't be a one-year kind of deal. For every bit of ground an invading force would make during Spring and Summer, they'd have to bust their chops fortifying it against both Russian forces AND the extreme Siberian cold of the Winter. I'd imagine a full-scale invasion of just Asian Russia (Everything between the far Eastern end all the way to the Ural Mountains) to take the better part of three years under good circumstances, because IT'S A FUCKING HUGE CHUNK OF LAND and it's not mapped out very well even by the Russians themselves. Not to mention that this couldn't work in today's world, because Nukes. Nuking a large chunk of land that isn't densely populated or heavily used for the country, with the intent of taking out these MASSIVE forces, and with all of the radioactive effects blowing further eastward/southward into political rivals...it's not exactly a net gain but it sure puts a giant check on any invading force. Even in this hypothetical invasion without nukes, it wouldn't work in today's world because the range and destructive capabilities of aircraft are much, MUCH greater then they were in the 1940's, which would further stall out any advances Westward and would turn an already long multi-year invasion into a crippling standstill, or even more extreme, a total push outward after bombing out key points in supply lines during the Autumn, which would isolate posts that are more central in Russia, and leaving them cut-off and vulnerable to any sort of offensive during Early Spring. And even this is all just under the assumption that the Siberian Winter becomes a total forced cease-fire on both sides, which I would guarantee is not happening. TL;DR - You could invade a 1940's Era Russia from the East/South and take just about everything up to the Ural Mountains without too much difficulty. You couldn't pull that shit off today.
7:40 As I recall from the books, the first German nuclear research facility were near Bremen. And it was a nuclear meltdown not an explosion that killed off that facility. Said nuclear fallout was so bad they were still cleaning it up in the sequel series (set in the 1960's).
6:51 actually the race does have night vision tech. I seem to remember a certain Yi Ming receiving a pair of binoculars that “see in both dark and light”
I know right? I think Ussmack and Nejas even talked about how they had a technology that let them see in the dark but their Commanders thought it risky and chose not to attack, so I think it's moreso being precautios (Because their strategists are just godawful) than a lack of technology.
Another factor in the Race's poor military campaign is that they hail from a planet that's mostly land, without any large oceans, so they're a lot more adept at land wars but are pretty crap when it comes to naval gubbins. In fact, they don't make much headway in dealing with human shipping lanes or amphibious attacks. In addition, the Race's homeworld has very little in the way of oil deposits, so they know very little of it as a fuel source, to the point where they didn't consider petroleum refineries to be strategic targets until six months into the war. Presumably, the Race had previously invaded worlds that were more or less similar to their own, perhaps many of them being "hot eyeball" planets, tidally locked worlds that are in such close proximity to their stars that liquid water is most common around the terminator. ("cold eyeball" planets are far enough away that the sunny side is wet enough to have an ocean, while it's mostly rock and ice past the terminator) Also, fun fact about tidally-locked planets: day and night are not times, but instead they are regions. The sunny side is always lit by the sun, the dark side is always night, and the terminator is a land of perpetual twilight. For cultures living on such planets, it would be quite surprising to see a world like Earth where light, darkness and twilight are not regions, but indeed periods of time. Not to mention, such cultures would likely have some interesting mythologies revolving around the lands of light, darkness and twilight.
Tosev 3 (the Race's name for Earth) is actually only the third conquest that the Race has embarked on. And while tidally locked worlds sound cool, there are none in the Empire. Home (the Race's name for their own planet) is basically on the near side of the Goldilocks zone with a range of climate zones, just mostly hot and dry. Humans do eventually get there in the last book Turtledove has written in this universe.
Not really. But in theory hot eyeball planets would in theory have a large singular dry landmass on the sun-facing hemisphere, which would in theory shape a culture with very little naval experience and a higher chance of early unification due to not having oceans separating them from everyone else. It's more of a general theory than explicitly exclusive to Harry Turtledove's Worldwar. And considering that life in our universe is more likely to crop up in stable red dwarf systems, it's entirely possibly that the first alien culture humanity encounters may originate from a tide-locked eyeball planet. And as mentioned before, the fact that day and night would be like well-defined lands to them, planets with day-night cycles and axial tilts may seem like eldritch locations to them, where the land and sky change in the space of several hours. ...come to think of it, would the cultures of tide-locked worlds even HAVE the concept of days, if the skies don't change on a quantifiable level like they do on Earth? What would their perception of time even be, without the notion of day and night? If their planet had a moon with an orbit, they could probably divide time into weeks, and even if there was no moon to mark the passage of time, at least on the dark side and terminator they could possibly map out the months with the positions of stars. Also, an axial tilt may help define the world with seasons, but without a noticable axial tilt (and thus no easily definable seasons) it would take quite some doing to map out the months and decide when the year ends. Star charts may help if the world rolls on its side, but if it doesn't then the stars would probably just sit there and not change either.
I think it is less intelligence and more determination and risk taking The Race doesn't have a equivalent to our Chernobyl or Global Warming There is always a Price for Power
Do the aliens have their own warring nations/countries? How are they so unified? They seem like a very warlike species, the idea of them being fully united and (seemingly) completely homogeneous is a little absurd to me. Is it just because humanity is a young species, comparatively, so we haven't unified ourselves at that point in history?
@Brenden That's my question exactly. How exactly did they unify their planet? How, because I am wondering why the humans in this book's universe couldn't easily just do the same. And I don't understand how they could be nonviolent if they were literally planning on invading and subjugating the humans when they first discovered them in the 12th century.
This is pretty clear in the book, no nations, no division within the race. The only thing that I would have been curious about and annoyingly hasn't even been mentioned in four books is how long a lizard 's life is? We just never learn about it.
I have wanted to know this for so long. I have assumed it is a long time as it takes them at least 7 years to travel to earth (they travel 7 light years to earth at half the speed of light. Rember one of there light years would be half of one of ours.) 7 years is a long time for a creature with our life expectancy to give up. I can not rember if they sleep when travelling. If they do my point might not matter because they would not be worried about leaving behind family. I have looked it up and it turns out "Their lifespans tend to be longer than humans" but it is not clear by how much.
@@Barabel22 RE: "Their home planet is 24 light-years away, not 7, and it took hundreds of yards for both the conquest and colonial fleets to arrive." Tau Ceti is the Race's home star, which is 12 light-years away. The Race's starships travel at 1/4 lightspeed (0.25c). Therefore a one-way journey from Tau Ceti II (the Race's homeworld) to Earth would take 48 Earth years. Cold sleep prevents members of the Race from aging during the trip.
One thing about this series that drove me insane was calling nuclear weapons "Explosive Metal Bombs" that and i HATED Sam Yeager that xeno loving traitor
Cody, I've seen your alternate battle of Midway and wanted to ask a specific scenario. What if the Kyūjō incident had been successful and Japan didn't surrender forcing the Allies to annihilate the nation. This scenario is never explored realistically; all the while we have people bringing up an imaginary race to Tokyo etc. We need a realistic scenario were USSR just stops at Hokkaido to deny the Japanese their most important coal supplies while they shifting their focus into China and Korea while the Americans after the invasion of Kyushu island decide to follow USN and USAAF plan and just blockade the island while bombing to submission. Basically, how would Japan be like after the ' Great Dying ' since millions of civilians and soldiers would die. Military holdouts, empty Japan reclaimed by nature, new prime real estate for exile Koreans and Chinese? Too many scenarios
@Huna RE: "What if there was a United Anglo Empire (UK, Australia, NZ, Canada, USA)" Read "The Two Georges" also by Harry Turtledove. Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Georges
Ive actually wanted to attempt to make this mod but it would require totally reworking the game mechanics and making nukes destroy armies also think the frontline would need to function more like it does in the ww1 mod
This one video is what caused me to buy the entire series this video is explaining as well as the entire southern victory series and Harry Turtledove becoming my absolute favorite author. In other words, Thank you Cody for introducing me to the best books I've ever read.
I've read the entire series, and loved the story. I hope you cover the Colonization Series and Homeward Bound book at the end of the series. Colonization is when a second fleet arrives carrying female Lizards. And Homeward Bound is when Humanity travels to the Lizards' home world. Then a second ship arrives, using an FTL drive to travel to Home.
Papi Shekel Cody couldn't put in a swastika as part of a historical emblem because UA-cam thinks it's 1984. They'd probably ban nazi flying saucers altogether.
You've covered a fictional anime world (Attack on Titan) and now alternate 1940s where the countries of the world are uniting their forces to fight aliens. Does this mean we could get a Strike Witches video in the future?
2 things. 1) What if Lewis and Clark found a Northwest Passage? 2) What if Lewis and Clark found what Thomas Jefferson predicted they'd find? That is: mountains of salt, a race of Welsh-speaking Indians and herds of woolly mammoths, giant ground sloths, and other megafauna.
@@juliomanuel1885 You'd have gaming journalist get angry over that, because the Axis wouldn't be considered the bad guys, and you'd have to work with them.
@@mrbisshie A lot of the book was about how filthy people felt working with the National Socialists. Still, I understand nuance is not a part of many people's vocabulary anymore.
That would be hard to accomplish. The Commonwealth was destroyed over a long period of time due to strong neighbours, lack of military power, lack of a strong government and stagnancy. In order to make the Commonwealth survive until now you'd have to make it into a military absolute monarchy by not allowing constitutional monarchy and making the king into this war-hungry tyrant - kinda like Prussia. And I guess it's fate would be similar to Prussia - a golden age of dominance over Europe. It would probably undermine the importance of Prussia in Europe, at least in the East. Russia may not play such a role in WWI. Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania would probably be Polonized and turned into Polish-speaking states, similar to Italy and Rome - otherwise, they'd rebel and break off. Poland would forever be remembered as the bully and oppressor of Europe - not as the victim. I'm not sure whether they would industrialize like Prussia or keep to farming like Russia; since the industrial capacity of the Commonwealth was undermined by the vast wheat fields of Ukraine. It would most likely be against Napoleon, since the French revolution and his unroyal rule would be completely against Polish policies. After 1815 they would most likely enter the treaties made by their neighbours on quelling revolutions. Anything beyond that is hard to predict.
cody you should do a video about if xerxes managed to defeat the greeks how would the world have been would we all be a zorostrian or would rome not rise
here's a few suggestions for future videos: -what if the nationalists won the Chinese civil war? -what if War Plan Red happened? -what if the nationalists won the Chinese civil war? -what if FDR was never president? -what if the nationalists won the Chinese civil war? -what if Japan remained isolationist? -what if the nationalists won the Chinese civil war? -what if Vermont remained independent? -what if the nationalists won the Chinese civil war? -what if Lincoln was never president? -what if the nationalists won the Chinese civil war?
the monarchy would have likely been restored which would have complicated things because there was no way germany was going to let poland keep its former prussian lands
Computer Decagon the fascists burned the reichtag to have a pretext to ban the KPD. And why would the communists burn the reichtag if they had the majority ?
The Monarchists had the commanding military officers and most of the former military whichever side the military faction sides with is the one that generally wins
Re-reading this now after a long time. Forgotten how cool it is. Wish someone would do a TV series, or just build this world out more visually somehow.
Interesting. I've never known Cody to be so very wrong before. He states at 4:07 that the Race invades Earth before the German army invaded Russia and that just isn't the case.
6:50 Actually it is stated multiple times that the race has night vision technology, they say the race has stuff that "let's em see like cats". And also, the books actually take place in the middle of the german invasion of mother russian, one of the earliest chapters is a russian pilot shooting up german columns
Part 2 will be on my channel on Wednesday!
8 hours ago wtf
EmperorTigerstar oh it’s a two parter? I’ll watch this later then
EmperorTigerstar who's going to narrate
EmperorTigerstar love you dad💓😍😍
EmperorTigerstar I’ll definitely be there!
God.. this video gives me goosebumbs
Oh hey
I like your vids
@Imperium Productions please shut up
@@housedawg-vw9zw wow thats not paticularily nice whatsoever
@@oumardiop1 well he said please so
If poland cannot into space, space will into poland.
Asscrackistan-Mapping well done
Perfect
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Well... (gets a bottle) I let you know.
Yes
yay
I laughed so hard when he said "the Germans! Yay!" UA-cam delstes. "Come on!".
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The Chad WW2 Man vs The Virigin Race
WW2 Man
- Fights with itself because they can't find anyone else to fight with
- Is faster then The Race
- Are great tacticians and can outsmart the race
Race
- Invades a less advanced planet and loses
- Slower then the Imperium
- Dummies
^^^
@@buddy5196 underated
I'm the race and I find this very offensive
@@buddy5196
Average race pleb:
1 meter tall
Reptillian lookin ass
Slow and idiotic
Weak
Average Human Warrior
1.5-2 meters tall (supersoldiers compared to those scrubs)
Intensely handsome
High IQ and insurmountable speed
Strong enough to rip one of those iguana people in half with their bare hands
"Not even the Imperium is that slow".... That made me laugh
Evendur13 it’s nice to see someone talk about warhammer
Someone wrote a fanfiction if the Race came to Earth in 2026 in the Stargate universe called Contact of Races, which is quite enjoyable though you first have to read Contact at Kobol, which is Stargate x Battlestar Galactica
Same here
@@lt.x-02s-wyvern25 Personally I prefer Worldwar; discovering the balance By: AlbertG.
There`s a really cool fan-fiction called "World War: War of Equals" that I would definitely recommend. It's an alternate version of the story in which The Race take a little while longer to get here and arrives in the early 2010's. Suffice to say, humanity stands a *much* better chance.
Alexander Meinhardt Unfortunately, it was cancelled and if the author wanted to restart it again, then it would fit in the current, late 2010s settings that focuses on constant division and polarization and other things....
You mean there's a what if scenario within a what if scenario?
Can I have a link to it?
Can I have the link good sir? It sounds interesting
USA : yo is that a alien im picking up?
EU : it is! china russia look at this!
russia and china : well thats cool! what they coming here for?
USA : looks like fleet of warships
Russia : lets nuke there warships and see if that works, i have some nukes hidden in my sattelites
everyone except russia : .....im not even suprised..welp lets see if it works
"explosions in space"
the big 4 : yay we won! now than lets unify efforts and prepare for more aliens, this is gonna be so cool!
"The Aliens can rush in uncountable numbers"
The Red Army: Amateurs
Soviet propaganda against aliens
Soviet Union: hmm 200m people is not enough what do I do?
India, china, south east Asia and Japan: well what do we say? Let’s remove law AND TORTURE THE HELL OUT OF ALIENS, NO LAWS, NO CRIME, NO ALIENS.
Ussr: well thanks for assisting
Germany: well, finally my gigantic tanks have a use and Poland can into pace after this.
The snow and the trees: 🗿🗿🗿
British empire knowing they already colonise the aliens before they even exist: ah yes what a great day to have a cup of tea
Switzerland still neutral even after the aliens capture earth except Switzerland: 😮
Aliens: "they're divided, ATTACK"
Humanity: [unifies]
Aliens: "uuh..."
Humanity: *[Hell March Starts Playing]*
Aliens: "Oh shit"
All Nation's National Anthems starts together creating an unusual music which freaks out the aliens.
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@@Juliuscaesar0315 I litteraly just wanted to comment that, just imagine the doomslayer going solo into their planet killing everyone
@@zikotarghi7190 I will delete my comment of you want
@@Juliuscaesar0315 lol you seem like a cool guy, wanna kill aliens sometime ?
Error at 3:40. Barbarossa happened in June 1941 and Midway in June 1942 (considering nothing in our timeline before the invasion changed)
@@andrewhoffman8427
RE: "Tosiev"
The Race's name for Earth's star was Tosev and their name for Earth was Tosev 3.
I was looking for something fun like this. You've convinced me to give it a shot, and I just got through the first two. Here's a few things I've noticed:
1. Somebody needs to weaponize Ginger. It would be the world's most interesting biological weapon.
2. The Race does actually have night vision. They do have thermal optics, but I'm not sure about visible light amplification. It's mentioned a few times in book 2 at the infantry scale.
3. The aliens' technology level seems to be around 1990s level in general (some exceptions of course). Everything they have is better than 1940s tech, but it's still mostly conventional. If it were any higher they would have things like active defense systems on combat vehicles, small scale UAVs, and laser point defenses for their ships and bases. We have those things in development now, but it's probably an artifact of the years these books were written in.
4. Surprisingly, The Race seems to have no concept of orbital bombardment other than dropping powerful nuclear weapons. Lighter precision fire from orbiting ships would utterly wreck any of their enemies' defensive lines and industrial capacity. After all, simple kinetic rods would cause plenty of devastation without all the nasty side effects of fission bombs.
@Icy Knightmare
RE: "Somebody needs to weaponize Ginger. It would be the world's most interesting biological weapon."
That happens in a later book - in the Colonization series.
Kinetic bombardment only works from orbit if you can decelerate out of orbit not like GI Joe which would just keep orbiting. It would be viable with railguns or even normal guns, missiles would do the trick. Also how does the race deal with 0g in orbit?
So uh if you want to know, there are another three books under the Colonisation Series, then a single book called Homeward Bound after the Colonisation series.
@@spark5558
RE: "Also how does the race deal with 0g in orbit?"
The Race rotates at least certain parts of their starships to provide centrifugal artificial gravity.
Now do “What If Australia Won The Great Emu War?”
et 37 It wouldn’t be heard of, and the victory would give Australia a bit of confidence before the upcoming Great War II
Also there would no longer be emus
If they are a super power?
That's too unrealistic. Like, how would that story even be written? That would be like if a bunch of tiny islands off the Coast of Europe was the origin of the USA.
et 37 What if Australia-Hungary was formed?
et 37 "What if Humans and Emus Lived Peacefully"
I think of the 1940s as technologically advanced. Guns, bombs, cars, tanks, planes, penicillin, and eventually nukes. Even on the pure science side you already have special and general relativity plus a lot of quantum mechanics, on top of the decades-old near-mastery of electromagnetism. By contrast consider that the hyped genius ancient Greeks fought with bronze shields, spears, short swords, and wooden boats.
We really just reap off what the 1940s started when it comes to warfare, aside from EW. Science went more into computers, transistors, the Internet and electricity as a whole after '45, so while militaristically speaking we didn't advance THAT much we certainly advanced scientifically.
You know they discovered alot of things we are only recently beginning to rediscover
and penises
@JT you have a good point sir.
@@buckplug2423
RE: ". . . while militaristically speaking we didn't advance THAT much . . ."
Military Advances Since 1945
Automatic weapons
Tanks
Jet planes
A-bombs and H-bombs
Body armor
Nuclear submarines
Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)
Antiaircraft missiles
Radar and sonar
Satellites
Spacecraft
Night vision goggles
To be precise: The Imperium actually went backwards with there level of thecnology from the time of the great crusade to the 41st millenium.
Humans: "Ginger. A delicious spice for making dishes better."
The Race: *Stoned.*
Not even. More like orgasmic.
Lets celebrate what unites us all! Xenophobia!
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TheBunkerBuster 105 Wrong channel, dude.
@TheBunkerBuster 105 #humanityfirst
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Stellaris
I hate to be that guy, but as a huge fan of the series, I have to correct you on one thing. The initial invasion of The Race occurs in Spring of 1942, so Operation Barbarossa has already taken place. In fact, a large German army (including Heinrich Jager) is trapped in Russia.
Yeah. There's even a seen where he's complaining about the new Russian tanks being too good. If I recall they even have parts where the characters explain how close to Moscow they were.
Our favorite German panzer man turned Red Air force mechanic had a line complaining about advancing so close to Moscow one year, and retreating toward it the next.
The first four books are amazing the rest not so much except homeward bound but i completely despise Sam Jaeger
I agree. Jens Larrsen did nothing wrong.
He really didn't he got completely fucked over in very way possible
"When the fleet lord says we rule this world from space; we hissss! hissss! in the fleetlords face!" Yes! Thank you for finally giving my favourite series from the master of alternate History some love. I first read the Worldwar series as a kid and it is what made me fall in love with the genre. "May your toe claws tingle!"
I read the series twice. It’s just soooooo good. Love the Turtledove bro.
Best characters are Sam and Jager in my opinion.
One last thing The Race does have night vision tech but not for their Air Force or tanks but only for their infantry.
I think in the first 3 books they say about Race's Night Vision at least 4-5 times and it really gets under my scales.
Also, you know that Sam's last name is Jaeger, right? :))
Jaeger and Jaeger. (I know you meant Heinrich).
P.S. For those who don't want spoilers, for the love of God, don't go through the Wikis.
Also, I've listened to the Audio books. (and basically J and Y have the same pronunciation)
But this was fun.
I liked Jens Larssen. Poor guy.
lionhead123 God bless his soul, he goes on a mission but when he comes back, his wife is married to another man. He does another mission but the team doesn’t agree to go to the mission site.
I absolutely LOVE that entire series
@@lionhead123 I wish he kept jens as a likeable guy, that would make the reader much more conflicted than him turning into an asshole
Do "What if Nazis used a smiley face instead of a Hakenkreuz"
I need a time travel machine ten minutes ago
@Jack the Gestapo Lol
:)
@@Salt-Upon-Woundss you were supposed to say "I, Cato Sicarius, need a time machine so that I, Cato Sicarius, may use it!"
🙂
A nuclear mine? Are you telling me they just randomly buried a nuke hoping it's triggered.
I know you have probably forgotten about this comment but i will enplane it anyway. It wasn't a traditional presure mine. It was a nuke that was hidden in the ground on a timer. The soviets pulled back so the race would move on top of the mine just as it was triggered.
Or it was deliberately triggered by Soviets after they were sure that the aliens already on it (or in it's blast radius, at least)...
Imagine the war ending and you forget you put it there
The whole Iron Curtain was supposed to be mined the fuck out. There were units in the Polish Army which job it was to fuckin dig up those mines.
I'm assuming the Soviets calculated how long it took the race to move from square a to square b. Placed a mine in a location, that the race was headed towards, and set a timer, then boom.
First, Napolean gets frozen in Russia and lose there, then Hitler plans on going into russia (where they'll freeze and lose), and finally, the aliens get frozen in Russia and lose there.
Lesson: Just don't attack Russia!
What if you are the mongols though?
Except the Mongols!
Or just attack Russia by coming through Mongolia and/or Alaska, starting just a bit before winter shows up.
This way the Russians have to
1) Put in all of the draining effort and manpower to march their shit all the way across this vast barren land. By posting a 'base' of sorts in Russia's extreme outer territories, and doing it just before winter, or at least at the start of winter, the Russians themselves are subjected to a long and ardrous process of moving across the country akin to an invading force. This will stretch out their supply lines and tax the shit out of them, but they HAVE to move across during the winter because if not, they run the risk of...
2) A solid base of operations already being in place in Russia during the spring, serving as a ferry/entry point into the massive country for any other invading force, which can now cross Russia during the significantly less severe Spring/Summer. Plane technology of the 1940's would struggle massively at crossing all of Russia just to bomb or halt the advancement of foreign troops, so it would all become a battle of who has the better supply line and attack/defense/planning in general. If the invading force is capable of forcing back the Russians, then the Russians are now loosing ground in a war that will leave their Western Side overpopulated and on the verge of an economic collapse. You might not even have to cross the Ural Mountains, just let the Russians collapse themselves as they struggle just to effectively cross said mountains to kick you out.
Granted, this is all with the mindset of a 1940's era Russia. And this wouldn't be a one-year kind of deal. For every bit of ground an invading force would make during Spring and Summer, they'd have to bust their chops fortifying it against both Russian forces AND the extreme Siberian cold of the Winter. I'd imagine a full-scale invasion of just Asian Russia (Everything between the far Eastern end all the way to the Ural Mountains) to take the better part of three years under good circumstances, because IT'S A FUCKING HUGE CHUNK OF LAND and it's not mapped out very well even by the Russians themselves.
Not to mention that this couldn't work in today's world, because Nukes. Nuking a large chunk of land that isn't densely populated or heavily used for the country, with the intent of taking out these MASSIVE forces, and with all of the radioactive effects blowing further eastward/southward into political rivals...it's not exactly a net gain but it sure puts a giant check on any invading force. Even in this hypothetical invasion without nukes, it wouldn't work in today's world because the range and destructive capabilities of aircraft are much, MUCH greater then they were in the 1940's, which would further stall out any advances Westward and would turn an already long multi-year invasion into a crippling standstill, or even more extreme, a total push outward after bombing out key points in supply lines during the Autumn, which would isolate posts that are more central in Russia, and leaving them cut-off and vulnerable to any sort of offensive during Early Spring. And even this is all just under the assumption that the Siberian Winter becomes a total forced cease-fire on both sides, which I would guarantee is not happening.
TL;DR - You could invade a 1940's Era Russia from the East/South and take just about everything up to the Ural Mountains without too much difficulty. You couldn't pull that shit off today.
wait for it.....the mongols........ horde cheers
No one attacks Russia except the mongols!!!
*GERMAN ENGINEERING IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD*
*_Was That a JoJo Reference?_*
that's why you always see audis sat on the side of the road broken down
Justin Y. Y are you every where
Justin Y. *YOU FOOOOOL!*
Justin Y. And superior to aliens
7:40
As I recall from the books, the first German nuclear research facility were near Bremen. And it was a nuclear meltdown not an explosion that killed off that facility.
Said nuclear fallout was so bad they were still cleaning it up in the sequel series (set in the 1960's).
Yes, I think Avtar even mentioned that it id almost as much damage as their Nuke. Almost.
6:51 actually the race does have night vision tech. I seem to remember a certain Yi Ming receiving a pair of binoculars that “see in both dark and light”
I know right? I think Ussmack and Nejas even talked about how they had a technology that let them see in the dark but their Commanders thought it risky and chose not to attack, so I think it's moreso being precautios (Because their strategists are just godawful) than a lack of technology.
Another factor in the Race's poor military campaign is that they hail from a planet that's mostly land, without any large oceans, so they're a lot more adept at land wars but are pretty crap when it comes to naval gubbins. In fact, they don't make much headway in dealing with human shipping lanes or amphibious attacks. In addition, the Race's homeworld has very little in the way of oil deposits, so they know very little of it as a fuel source, to the point where they didn't consider petroleum refineries to be strategic targets until six months into the war.
Presumably, the Race had previously invaded worlds that were more or less similar to their own, perhaps many of them being "hot eyeball" planets, tidally locked worlds that are in such close proximity to their stars that liquid water is most common around the terminator. ("cold eyeball" planets are far enough away that the sunny side is wet enough to have an ocean, while it's mostly rock and ice past the terminator)
Also, fun fact about tidally-locked planets: day and night are not times, but instead they are regions. The sunny side is always lit by the sun, the dark side is always night, and the terminator is a land of perpetual twilight. For cultures living on such planets, it would be quite surprising to see a world like Earth where light, darkness and twilight are not regions, but indeed periods of time. Not to mention, such cultures would likely have some interesting mythologies revolving around the lands of light, darkness and twilight.
Was it really mentioend in the series that the two other planets the Race conquered were tidally locked? That is something totally new to me.
Tosev 3 (the Race's name for Earth) is actually only the third conquest that the Race has embarked on. And while tidally locked worlds sound cool, there are none in the Empire. Home (the Race's name for their own planet) is basically on the near side of the Goldilocks zone with a range of climate zones, just mostly hot and dry. Humans do eventually get there in the last book Turtledove has written in this universe.
Not really. But in theory hot eyeball planets would in theory have a large singular dry landmass on the sun-facing hemisphere, which would in theory shape a culture with very little naval experience and a higher chance of early unification due to not having oceans separating them from everyone else.
It's more of a general theory than explicitly exclusive to Harry Turtledove's Worldwar. And considering that life in our universe is more likely to crop up in stable red dwarf systems, it's entirely possibly that the first alien culture humanity encounters may originate from a tide-locked eyeball planet. And as mentioned before, the fact that day and night would be like well-defined lands to them, planets with day-night cycles and axial tilts may seem like eldritch locations to them, where the land and sky change in the space of several hours.
...come to think of it, would the cultures of tide-locked worlds even HAVE the concept of days, if the skies don't change on a quantifiable level like they do on Earth? What would their perception of time even be, without the notion of day and night? If their planet had a moon with an orbit, they could probably divide time into weeks, and even if there was no moon to mark the passage of time, at least on the dark side and terminator they could possibly map out the months with the positions of stars. Also, an axial tilt may help define the world with seasons, but without a noticable axial tilt (and thus no easily definable seasons) it would take quite some doing to map out the months and decide when the year ends. Star charts may help if the world rolls on its side, but if it doesn't then the stars would probably just sit there and not change either.
Aliens forgot about the cold....like napoleon!
And Charles XII
Dejan Vezmar LOL
Martin Fawkes never happen in this book
I wish Napoleon won
Dejan Vezmar The cold didn't stop the Mongols
Very interesting that in this scenario humans are a lot smarter than the aliens but the aliens have just had more time to develop technology
I think it is less intelligence and more determination and risk taking
The Race doesn't have a equivalent to our Chernobyl or Global Warming
There is always a Price for Power
KV-2 is stronk tenk! Aliens are no match for Stalinium armor, and powerful Stalin guided 152mm nuclear shell.
Do the aliens have their own warring nations/countries? How are they so unified? They seem like a very warlike species, the idea of them being fully united and (seemingly) completely homogeneous is a little absurd to me. Is it just because humanity is a young species, comparatively, so we haven't unified ourselves at that point in history?
@Brenden That's my question exactly. How exactly did they unify their planet? How, because I am wondering why the humans in this book's universe couldn't easily just do the same. And I don't understand how they could be nonviolent if they were literally planning on invading and subjugating the humans when they first discovered them in the 12th century.
This is pretty clear in the book, no nations, no division within the race. The only thing that I would have been curious about and annoyingly hasn't even been mentioned in four books is how long a lizard 's life is? We just never learn about it.
I have wanted to know this for so long. I have assumed it is a long time as it takes them at least 7 years to travel to earth (they travel 7 light years to earth at half the speed of light. Rember one of there light years would be half of one of ours.) 7 years is a long time for a creature with our life expectancy to give up. I can not rember if they sleep when travelling. If they do my point might not matter because they would not be worried about leaving behind family.
I have looked it up and it turns out "Their lifespans tend to be longer than humans" but it is not clear by how much.
@@lukebushby3908 Their home planet is 24 light years away, not 7, and it took hundreds of years for both the conquest and colonial fleets to arrive.
@@Barabel22
RE: "Their home planet is 24 light-years away, not 7, and it took hundreds of yards for both the conquest and colonial fleets to arrive."
Tau Ceti is the Race's home star, which is 12 light-years away. The Race's starships travel at 1/4 lightspeed (0.25c). Therefore a one-way journey from Tau Ceti II (the Race's homeworld) to Earth would take 48 Earth years. Cold sleep prevents members of the Race from aging during the trip.
*What if events in JoJo actually happened?*
Justin Y. My boy I can't get away from you
Hezekiah McDonald dude same he’s everywhere
ZA WARUDO, TOKI YO TOMARE!
OH MY GOD!
Justin Y. Germany would have won WW2 with their cyborgs, or maybe they would be stopped anyway by russian stand users
Finally you covered my favorite series of Alternate history/Sci-fi books of all time!
I love the high aliens
This series was great!
One thing about this series that drove me insane was calling nuclear weapons "Explosive Metal Bombs" that and i HATED Sam Yeager that xeno loving traitor
0:32 SENPAI NOTICED THE SKINHEAD DREW DURNIL!!!!!!!!
Common Zenoric top 10 anime crossovers cameo
Historical Review R.I.P paintbrush.
Still waiting on that Top 10 CIV 6 Milfs
i knew i saw that!
Man this is history
Cody, I've seen your alternate battle of Midway and wanted to ask a specific scenario.
What if the Kyūjō incident had been successful and Japan didn't surrender forcing the Allies to annihilate the nation.
This scenario is never explored realistically; all the while we have people bringing up an imaginary race to Tokyo etc.
We need a realistic scenario were USSR just stops at Hokkaido to deny the Japanese their most important coal supplies while they shifting their focus into China and Korea while the Americans after the invasion of Kyushu island decide to follow USN and USAAF plan and just blockade the island while bombing to submission.
Basically, how would Japan be like after the ' Great Dying ' since millions of civilians and soldiers would die. Military holdouts, empty Japan reclaimed by nature, new prime real estate for exile Koreans and Chinese? Too many scenarios
This is literally the coolest heckin concept I’ve ever heard of
The Poland ball references are hilarious
Merritt Animation kurwa
Merritt Animation, Poland seems to be the unlucky power in many cases.
What if Jimmy stopped asking questions?
Rofl My Waffles Then he [Cody] would lose lots of inspiration
Things would be less bright.
I could imagine Hitler raging in his office in this timeline.
Isaac Pola He does.
Isaac Pola Fegeleiiiinnnnn!!!!!!!!!
why would he? that humanity has another world crisis that he has to deal with including the jews?
HAHHAHA
Nein Nein Nein Nein Nein Nein!!
What if there was a United Anglo Empire (UK,Australia,NZ,Canada,USA)
So British empire plus the USA?
It's called "5 eyes", and it's more a criminal cartel than an empire.
@Huna
RE: "What if there was a United Anglo Empire (UK, Australia, NZ, Canada, USA)"
Read "The Two Georges" also by Harry Turtledove.
Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Georges
Thanks for making this video! It actually got me to go get the audiobooks and i have enjoyed them greatly!
Don't the lizards get addicted to ginger in this series?
Yes
yeap its like cocaine for them
I think Turtledove mentions this once or twice in the books. Or more accurately, once or twice per chapter.
New netflix orginal series looks nice.
This would be a cool HOI 4 mod
Just go get the DLC for HOI IV, get the war of the worlds mod and fight some aliens that of course only start in the states cause merica'.
Ive actually wanted to attempt to make this mod but it would require totally reworking the game mechanics and making nukes destroy armies also think the frontline would need to function more like it does in the ww1 mod
This one video is what caused me to buy the entire series this video is explaining as well as the entire southern victory series and Harry Turtledove becoming my absolute favorite author. In other words, Thank you Cody for introducing me to the best books I've ever read.
I've read the entire series, and loved the story. I hope you cover the Colonization Series and Homeward Bound book at the end of the series. Colonization is when a second fleet arrives carrying female Lizards. And Homeward Bound is when Humanity travels to the Lizards' home world. Then a second ship arrives, using an FTL drive to travel to Home.
I was expecting Nazi flying saucers >:((((((((((
Papi Shekel Cody couldn't put in a swastika as part of a historical emblem because UA-cam thinks it's 1984. They'd probably ban nazi flying saucers altogether.
Dang Harry turtledove must be famous for his book 📚. I'm probably going to read them after the Last Command from Star Wars legends
these are actually only the first 4 books there are 8 books in total for this the colonization series and homeward bound where humans return the visit
As someone who’s read the books, RIP Australia.
What if Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo?
Impossible, alternative history not impossible history
"The Germans, yaaaaaaa- ah c'mon"
This one is my favorite Turtledove book so far
You've covered a fictional anime world (Attack on Titan) and now alternate 1940s where the countries of the world are uniting their forces to fight aliens. Does this mean we could get a Strike Witches video in the future?
So, the resistance series was just a rip off?
Glad im not the only one who thought of resistance.
Its an awesome rip off though
Salokin god how much I miss that game
A glorious game
Salokin oh shit how’d I not see that? Though I think the books came out before the games
Yey a Warhammer 40k refrence! :D
Agree his but he is comparing it to the flaws of a xenos abomination.
dark angels/space marines boi
Cruz Carrillo Salamanders for life
What about I Cato Sicarius the greatest of them all?!
Cato Sicarius you can stay in the warp...
Literally bought the first book on audible after I finished this video thanks for putting me onto a new series to read was struggling to find one
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: “We must fight the lizard-beasts.”
Will you cover the sequel series about what happens when the colonization fleet arrives in 20 years?
2 things.
1) What if Lewis and Clark found a Northwest Passage?
2) What if Lewis and Clark found what Thomas Jefferson predicted they'd find? That is: mountains of salt, a race of Welsh-speaking Indians and herds of woolly mammoths, giant ground sloths, and other megafauna.
I love this intro
What if the Gallipoli campaign succeeded
Turtledove's series is amazing
Who else read the Harry Turtledove's books?
where is my movie
Usecriticalthinking A video game would be better in my opinion
@@Fluffery k
@@juliomanuel1885 You'd have gaming journalist get angry over that, because the Axis wouldn't be considered the bad guys, and you'd have to work with them.
@@mrbisshie A lot of the book was about how filthy people felt working with the National Socialists. Still, I understand nuance is not a part of many people's vocabulary anymore.
Looks at the title...
Thinks about Stellaris...
EMPIRE OF MAN!
3:33 goddang you made me spill my pasta out my nose.
Hey Cody, can you do "what if the Dust Bowl never recovered?"
Never clicked so fast, and its a fucking colab. Sweet!
The best part is 3:24. Honey to my ears.
Eww!
Do what if the nazis invented the atomic bomb in 1943
Liberty Prime yessssss
*BOOM* War over, Wolfenstein starts.
Augustus Mussolini Rip Moscow and London
Dann wäre dein Kommentar in deutsch verfasst.😜
The Russians enter Berlin in 1945 and the war ends as usual
This series of books was so good! Cool to see a video about them, good show :)
I learned the series from you, and just finished the third one, it was actually really good!!! Thanks for the recommendation!
This sounds like the plot line from The Resistance games
What if the Polish Lithuania Commonwealth never fell.
That would be hard to accomplish. The Commonwealth was destroyed over a long period of time due to strong neighbours, lack of military power, lack of a strong government and stagnancy. In order to make the Commonwealth survive until now you'd have to make it into a military absolute monarchy by not allowing constitutional monarchy and making the king into this war-hungry tyrant - kinda like Prussia. And I guess it's fate would be similar to Prussia - a golden age of dominance over Europe. It would probably undermine the importance of Prussia in Europe, at least in the East. Russia may not play such a role in WWI. Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania would probably be Polonized and turned into Polish-speaking states, similar to Italy and Rome - otherwise, they'd rebel and break off. Poland would forever be remembered as the bully and oppressor of Europe - not as the victim. I'm not sure whether they would industrialize like Prussia or keep to farming like Russia; since the industrial capacity of the Commonwealth was undermined by the vast wheat fields of Ukraine. It would most likely be against Napoleon, since the French revolution and his unroyal rule would be completely against Polish policies. After 1815 they would most likely enter the treaties made by their neighbours on quelling revolutions. Anything beyond that is hard to predict.
The lord has spoken to us again
One of my all-time favorite novel series. Loved all four books. Turtledove is freakin' brilliant!
"They're working on it." Greatest line ever
Russian Winter Beats any army come try g ay boi!
Japan did
And also the Mongols
zama the llamb
Shad up!
But did Japan attack deep into Russia's more fortified areas in the West? nope.
Patrick
Ew! You assumed my gender! Someone needs to get you to quarantine fast!
Alex Jones will be a hero in this timeline fighting the lizard people
Mathieu Leader Alex Jones is the leader of the resistance
yes
Purge the foul xenos
Yes! Thank you for doing this video! I was hoping you would when you did Harry Turtledove's last series
I like that every history chanel knows each other
cody you should do a video about if xerxes managed to defeat the greeks how would the world have been would we all be a zorostrian or would rome not rise
Isn't it established in In the Balance that they do have night vision?
they do not sure how he missed that one it was mentioned in multiple pov's
i know. what if youtube never censored ww2 germans and the confederates
Certain groups would be angry, and call UA-cam "racist Nazis", while history lovers would rejoice.
@@mrbisshie i love history, yay, i get to see swastikas and confederate battle flags on youtube, wowee.
Best video yet man, please keep up the good work. You guys do a very good job with these videos.
YOOOO I have been waiting for this for a ridiculous amount of time
here's a few suggestions for future videos:
-what if the nationalists won the Chinese civil war?
-what if War Plan Red happened?
-what if the nationalists won the Chinese civil war?
-what if FDR was never president?
-what if the nationalists won the Chinese civil war?
-what if Japan remained isolationist?
-what if the nationalists won the Chinese civil war?
-what if Vermont remained independent?
-what if the nationalists won the Chinese civil war?
-what if Lincoln was never president?
-what if the nationalists won the Chinese civil war?
Whoa whoa chill, of course nobody can take our island
"Kurwa"
Your face
2:29 so basically they’re the Grunts
actually Cody, operation Barbarossa already happened by the first book, but I would only know this because you introduced the series, so thank you
Just finished the entire book series. I am obsessed with the scenario.
What if the Weimar Republic never fell to fascism?
the monarchy would have likely been restored which would have complicated things because there was no way germany was going to let poland keep its former prussian lands
My guess is military dictatorship.
Computer Decagon the fascists burned the reichtag to have a pretext to ban the KPD.
And why would the communists burn the reichtag if they had the majority ?
The Monarchists had the commanding military officers and most of the former military whichever side the military faction sides with is the one that generally wins
Communists take over, as hard for them as it might be.
ALIENS
damn i was first
Russell Pope u were first
Make it more appealing, like this:
*ALIENS*
what if Wakanda was real
Isaiah Oglesby we would be the minority. They would be racist against us.
@@christianali5431 I mean Wakanda was an isolationist country so nothing would probably change
@@christianali5431 wakanda closed people are technophobia skynet take over world with advanced technology
Re-reading this now after a long time. Forgotten how cool it is. Wish someone would do a TV series, or just build this world out more visually somehow.
Me too man, me too. Even a comic would be nice.
I burst laughing when he said "what are their hopes and dreams" :D
Interesting. I've never known Cody to be so very wrong before. He states at 4:07 that the Race invades Earth before the German army invaded Russia and that just isn't the case.
4:46 that drunk dude from Independence Day
(I forgot his name)
Lore of Halo? Could be called Alt. History maybe...
Beta Beatle I agree
6:50
Actually it is stated multiple times that the race has night vision technology, they say the race has stuff that "let's em see like cats".
And also, the books actually take place in the middle of the german invasion of mother russian, one of the earliest chapters is a russian pilot shooting up german columns
The aliens are so incompetent that it's really surprising that they managed to go to space.