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<blockquote data-quote="sotterraneo" data-source="post: 940175" data-attributes="member: 3296">I was flipping the pages of Dragon magazine 308 and I noticed at page 13 the ad for &quot;Armoured Companies&quot;, a supplement for Armageddon 2089. The truth is: I noticed most the cover art, with the Eiffel Tower hit and in flames and the text &quot;They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong&quot;. Now, I haven't read the entire Armageddon 2089 book but I have read some of the posts about the background during the development of the game. I thought at the time the designers &quot;read their papers&quot;, but mainly the Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Economist (wait... I read this too...) and Tory europhobic literature (the EU as a possible tyrannical state, an economy ossified and quite socialist, the UK attemting to 'flee'&nbsp; and evil continentals invading it to stop such secession, etc.). with the poor European Union being a quite close cousin of the Good Old Evil USSR. OK, perhaps I'm a bit prejudiced, but this is not the point.I was curious to know if that ad was a deliberate attempt to get attention on the US market using a little of French bashing, a specialty seemingly popular in the US at the moment, from the White House. I had this impression: am I wrong? Somebody else noticed this?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sotterraneo, post: 940175, member: 3296"] I was flipping the pages of Dragon magazine 308 and I noticed at page 13 the ad for "Armoured Companies", a supplement for Armageddon 2089. The truth is: I noticed most the cover art, with the Eiffel Tower hit and in flames and the text "They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong". Now, I haven't read the entire Armageddon 2089 book but I have read some of the posts about the background during the development of the game. I thought at the time the designers "read their papers", but mainly the Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Economist (wait... I read this too...) and Tory europhobic literature (the EU as a possible tyrannical state, an economy ossified and quite socialist, the UK attemting to 'flee' and evil continentals invading it to stop such secession, etc.). with the poor European Union being a quite close cousin of the Good Old Evil USSR. OK, perhaps I'm a bit prejudiced, but this is not the point. I was curious to know if that ad was a deliberate attempt to get attention on the US market using a little of French bashing, a specialty seemingly popular in the US at the moment, from the White House. I had this impression: am I wrong? Somebody else noticed this? [/QUOTE]

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