Talk:Virginia (1983: Doomsday)

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new flag
how about the current flag woith the confederate bit removed: a white two thirds and a single red stripe? --HAD 11:11, November 24, 2009 (UTC)

tanks and guns
Would I be correct in assuming that Virginia operates other tanks? like M60A3's, for example? and other guns, like the M16? --HAD 11:11, December 2, 2009 (UTC)

Yes, and they have as many as the local National Guard/Army armories and motorpools would have. This is true, but the weapons of post-DD manufacture, like the Thompson tank and the many "new and improved" versions of the Thompson submachine gun are what the Virginians are focused on. And isen't the M16, or one simmilar to it, the overall terrible assault rifle with the fragile plastic stock and screwy aiming mechanism? If it is then the militaristic Virginians would not even consider using it. --Yankovic270 15:24, December 2, 2009 (UTC)

it's not that bad. they improved the design after the Vietnam war ended.--HAD 16:16, December 2, 2009 (UTC)

But if you are going to judge an assault rife on quality, then the AK-47 and its decendants win hands down. It is reliable, easy to manufacture, and its simplistic design makes it very reliable. In fact it is such a goood weapon that I will give it only to Viginia's elite.That is if the can overcome the anti-Soviet bias created by the Cold War. --Yankovic270 23:59, December 7, 2009 (UTC)

i would think the AK-47 would equip all the militray. --HAD 15:41, December 30, 2009 (UTC)

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what on earth is up with the new flag? why was it changed? --HAD 15:41, December 30, 2009 (UTC)

Someone asked me politely to replace the flag I had previously. Since I can't draw to save my life, I decided to have a contest where people submit flag designs, and people voted on them. The current flag design won, and what is the point of having a contest if you are just going to disregard the results?

Simply put: Had a vote. New flag won. End of Story.

--Yankovic270 16:36, December 30, 2009 (UTC)

i won't argue with democracy. i had a break over christmas, so i caan't complain. --HAD 19:10, December 30, 2009 (UTC)

also: differtent pages show different flags to that of virginia. this needs adressing. --HAD 12:08, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

Lee Whiskey Company
I assume 25 million employees in a nation of 1.5 million is a typo. If this is a large alcohol conglomerate with worldwide sales(which I doubt as Virginia has yet to secure a port), and multiple brands then I could accept 2500 employees. (Diageo, which OTL owns Guinness, Crown Royal, Johnny Walker, Smirnoff, etc. has 22k employees)

Other Languages
Under "Other Languages," when it says "Indian," does that mean East Indian or Native Amerindian?

Nyssa sylvatica 20:48, January 24, 2010 (UTC)

Americana (?) Games
Why would the American survivor states use the latinized form "Americana" for Regional Olympic Games? I would think that it would be simply "American" as in the "English" language spoken by most nations that will be participating.SouthWriter 16:02, February 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe North American Games? "American" could either mean "USA" or "The Americas", and neither one is accurate. Benkarnell 18:22, February 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yank explained on my user talk page. Americana is analogous to Europa -- and the invitations seem to be going out to former USA states.  But I think the Canadian states will be probably be included as well (though with the war going on up there, maybe not).  Though the Virginian leader appears to consider the efforts of the CRUSA to be hopeless, it appears that they are still "patriotic" enough there to want to use the Games as a uniting -- in spirit anyway -- force for the continent.SouthWriter 00:52, February 20, 2010 (UTC)

Targets in West Virginia
We have assumed since this article has been created that there have been no targets in West Virginia. However there are two potential targets that should be considered. First off the The Greenbrier hotel near White Sulphur Springs housed a bunker for the US Congress in case of nuclear war. Now public knowledge of this bunker did not come until the 1990s, but I am curious about whether the Soviets would now about it.

Also there are the steel manufacturing plants in the WV panhandle. There is an old Nike missile site near my neighborhood that was used to protect the steal mills of Chicago and northern Indiana from Soviet bombers. I think its likely that the Soviets would target the mills in West Virginia, unless they are a smaller number of them than I thought.

I don't believe the canon history of the Virginia Republic would be changed by these places being nuked. Mitro 20:22, February 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * The Greenbrier is listed in the 1983:DD Timeline as the place where Bush was taken to after the attacks. If the hotel was nuked, then it probably wouldn't affect Virginia very much, but that portion of the timeline, and the GHW Bush article, would have to be revised.BrianD 21:50, February 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, good point. Yeah I had my doubts about whether it would be a target since the world did not know about until after our POD, so scratch that.  What about the other target?  Mitro 21:52, February 24, 2010 (UTC)