Atomic Eagle II: The Price of Freedom Development

[Sarsstock]

Ah well, t'was just a suggestion.

[Cyrion]

Originally posted by Sarsstock
Ah well, t'was just a suggestion.

And not a bad one, mind you!

But Harry's writing has that definite something...

[Broken_Erika]

Here are some trucks with machineguns, ( Partisans Mabie?)
They are nothing special but you are free to use them if you want. I didn't include the blue one beacause it looks cartoonish and sloppy,

[Harry Tuttle]

Those actually look pretty good Erika. I'll think about it.

[Harry Tuttle]

In case you guys were wondering I've been a bit busy and a bit tired lately to work on the scenario much. I've been hashing out the stroyline in my head though, so at least the story is coming along.

[Harry Tuttle]

On that note, does anyone know of any restrictions on the ToT avi movie format? How big can it be screenwise?

[Sarsstock]

Harry, for the calibre of story your dealing with here by all means feel free to take as long as you wish!! Given the chance, I guarentee you this would make a great suspense thriller of a movie one day. If not a movie, at least an exciting trillogy of novels.

Atomic Eagle... Volume One: The Hand of the Reaper, Volume Two: The Price of Freedom, Volume Three..???.

[Sarsstock]

Here's an idea I just had while watching an old sci-fi movie from 1957 called "Kronos" about a gigantic maurading robot. Now this idea may be just plain ridiculous and most likley is in fact ridiculous, but imagine German robot units.

I don't mean sleek android's or cyborg's, I mean the stainless steel box robots from the 1950's best science fiction movies. Got from "The Day the Earth Stood Still", Robbie the Robot from "Forbiden Planet", a machine along those lines.

Now I realize such technology for "fighting robots" doesn't exist in any form today let alone five decades ago, but I thought it might make for an interesting scenario featuring undead soliders and rocket pack commando's.

[valmont]

GawDaingit, this is starting sound like the G-8 scenario I wanted to make onceuponatime. And, who or what is G-8, you ask? Only one of the coolest heroes of 1930's pulp fiction; the star of what must surely be the weirdest war adventure stories ever told!

G-8 was a flying ace/spy in WWI, whose arch-rival, Herr Doktor Krueger was a mad scientist whose bizarre weapons and creations sent to confound G-8 and his buddies included:

robot soldiers
armies of walking skeletons and armies of re-animated zombies (perennial G-8 enemies)
an invisible plane
panther-men
vikings thawed from blocks of ice (!)
giant magnets attracting planes
and my favorite weird weapon:
a giant plane-crushing fist in the clouds

Here's a nice web page about the pulp:

The Hero Pulps: G-8 and his Battle Aces

[Broken_Erika]

Have a unit compilation, i hope some of the units are useful,

[Harry Tuttle]

Thanks guys. and girl I'll think about what neat units I can put into the scenario in a bit. Right now, at least tonight, I've been writing the full fledged story behind the scenario. Here's a tidbit of the backstory...

"Historians of the late 20th century surmise that the real turning point in the war was not any great battle or overall strategy. Rather it was the simple clotting effect of blood, brought on by a dislodging of scar tissue near the main artery supplying blood to Adolf Hitler's brain. It was this random occurance that cut off the oxygen to the cortex, leading to a rather public stroke in front of his thousands of his loyal followers at a political rally in Berlin.

The death of Hitler, on September 5, 1941, should have been a death blow to the German High Command and would have halted the advance into Russia if it were not for the actions by one Erwin Rommel. Rommel's decision to appoint a surbordinate, a man that can only, to this day, be named by his code name: "Hand of the Reaper", and leave North Africa has been greatly debated. Rommel was viewed by most major sources as a general first and a political animal second. The decisions that he made almost immediately following Hitlers death have led some to believe that he either was waiting for the right chance to play his hand or that he, or some unknown group, had advanced knowledge of Hitler's death. Such "outlandish" theories have largely been ignored by the historical community..."

[curtsibling]

Ripping stuff!

It's true that Rommel would make a great villain in the 'Atomic Eagle' movie!

Y'know, as a young whelp, I used to ask my grandmother about the WW2 era,
since she had lived through the Blitz, etc.

She told me that she thought Hitler was a consumate scumbag;
But many considered Rommel a gentleman general.
My grandfather (who fought in North Africa) had a grudging respect for the desert fox.
It seemed to be known even back then that old Erwin was
imperial 'old school', and contemptous of the new nazi thugs.

That's history, eh? :bounc:

As a footnote, my grandmother once told me that she
and her fellow girlie workers (in 1945) heard about
the jet aircraft, but no-one could believe a plane could
move without a prop-engine!



I just wonder how those munition worker gals would react to the 'Hand of the Reaper'!

[Broken_Erika]

I agree, Rommel was a great general, he knew when to give up, like when the americans landed in north africa, rommel told hitler that the war in north africa was lost and asked if he could pull the afrika korps out and retreat to italy, hitler told him to stand and fight, even though he was horribly outnumbered.

[techumseh]

Rommel was forced to commit suicide after being implicated in the plot to kill Hitler.

[Harry Tuttle]

...enter the ominous "unknown group" from stage left...