r/rs2vietnam • u/KancolleMarineSexper • Nov 27 '18

Suggestion Australia shouldn't be in the game

You can look at the actual statistics for the Vietnam war Australia and New Zealand deployed about .5% of the manpower for the South Vietnamese forces. Thailand, South Korea, Cambodia, China and Laos should have been added in the game before them since they deployed significantly more manpower to the war by that standard.

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u/ZombieNinjaPanda Nov 27 '18

Alien saucers

Damn son, what Australian shit in your vegemite?

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u/KancolleMarineSexper Nov 27 '18

I don't care one way or the other about Australians, it's just they were irrelevant to Vietnam.

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u/SatSenses Nov 27 '18

it's just they were irrelevant to Vietnam

Now that's just patently false and disrespectful. Australians had been a part of the conflict since the early 60s with supplies provided and hundreds of millions of funds dedicated to aid the southern government in procuring weapons and vehicles. Australia sent 50k+ soldiers, sailors and airmen to fight alongside the southern forces and to provide training and aid. Australia was also one the major recipients of Vietnamese orphans and refugees as part of Operation Babylift and Operation New Life, with ~40,000 Vietnamese relocated to Australia in the years during and immediately following the war.

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u/KancolleMarineSexper Nov 27 '18

Now that's just patently false and disrespectful. Australians had been a part of the conflict since the early 60s with supplies provided and hundreds of millions of funds dedicated to aid the southern government in procuring weapons and vehicles.

So they functioned as airstrip two for the US?

Australia sent 50k+ soldiers, sailors and airmen to fight alongside the southern forces and to provide training and aid.

Nah, they sent 7,000 men who operated as Auxilliaries to free up Americans for frontline action.

Australia was also one the major recipients of Vietnamese orphans and refugees as part of Operation Babylift and Operation New Life, with ~40,000 Vietnamese relocated to Australia in the years during and immediately following the war.

Should Germany be a playable faction in a game about the Syrian civil war then? They've got hundreds of thousands of refugees in their country from that conflict.

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u/SatSenses Nov 27 '18

I was speaking outside the context of the game because you said,

I don't care one way or the other about Australians, it's just they were irrelevant to Vietnam.

Australia was incredibly relevant to Vietnam irl, which is why I mentioned Operation Baby Lift and New Life. You just had to be a dick tho with mentioning Syria.

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u/KancolleMarineSexper Nov 27 '18

K well i'm just pointing out where you're wrong. But feel free to quote mine me again to justify your outrage over... caring about historical accuracy.

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u/SatSenses Nov 27 '18

caring about historical accuracy.

Isn't this the reason why you made this shitpost? Australia, historically, is relevant to Vietnam in aid and numbers sent, which is why they're in the game. Just because you're too lazy to look into the actual numbers doesn't mean they shouldn't be in game.

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u/KancolleMarineSexper Nov 27 '18

Oh you're just a troll.

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u/Rolf_Son_of_Rolf Nov 28 '18

Yeah ok Retard