I want an invading army from beyond this dimension. Tell me about it.

[Mathew_Freeman]

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What advantage? My wand of fireball trumps your weeny pistol!

Great Idea btw

To borrow from www.irregularwebcomic.net - Nazi science sneers at your wand of fireballs!

And to return to the thread (which must be the thread that has lasted the longest after Nazis were mentioned that I've ever seen) - how about a simple invasion of kobolds?

Thousands of them, with various monsters enslaved as shock troops.

Then later, you find out what they were running from.

 

[DMH]

Depending on how developed your underdark is, intelligent purple worms would make a lethal invasion. Young (ie those under 30 feet long) are "foot soldiers". As for their tunnels, they are either verticle to the surface or crumble after the worm passes. How does one fight an army that is almost impossible to track?

 

[The Ubbergeek]

Huh-what? I guess I need to break out my FF9 again... I don't recall any Nazis floating around.

Totally loved it when Odin made that rat-town go boom though.

edit: FF6's (III in the states ) "Magi-tek Empire" were kinda Nazi-ish... although its been a decade or more since I've played it.

Not nazis, but 'humans from elsewhere'...

Spoilers;

In Phantasy Star 2, after Mother Brain, you find that there is peoples behind her 'madness'.... Human beings from a gone world called 'Earth'..

I remember less in FF9, but the plot have something to do with an alternate world, and there is a man called Garland from this world who is key to the plot...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Other possibilities:

1) To borrow from Dr. Who: An invading army of Cyberm...er...Warforged.

2) Flying Monkeys.

3) Dethklock.

4) Beings from higher dimensions collecting denizens of the PMP to raise and train for battle in gladiatorial matches...

5) Almost any unusual race from RIFTS.

 

[00Machado]

Humans. Greedy power hungry humans. From Earth. I'm thinking of The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub for inspiration.

Dragon Magazine's Incursion campaign

 

[Tonguez]

I was thinking the same, myself.

It would depend on the size & nature of the Nazi force making the trip.

Even in WWII, the tech for attacking over the horizon existed, and no wizard out there could envision attacking from 30,000+ feet in the air. Once the Nazis realized what was going on, any wizard who wasn't paying attention would hear a mysterious whistle and then their world would light up with a fireball bigger than they'd ever seen...one that would pierce their tower walls, to boot..

Storm of Vengeance
Range: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level)
Effect: 360-ft.-radius storm cloud

 

[Twowolves]

Anyone ever read "Guns of the South"?

 

[Thurbane]

Not exactly "other dimensional", but I'm working on a remote continent in my homebrew that is ruled by Karsites (ToM) - as they cannot cast spells, they have become reliant on two things:

1.) Technology - their tech is well in advance of the rest of the world, with very basic black powder weapons, improved armor etc.

2.) Slavery - making slaves of magic capable races, like gnomes.

...with a heavy nod towards the Wheel of Time...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

By Harry Turtledove? Most excellent!

Storm of Vengeance
Range: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level)
Effect: 360-ft.-radius storm cloud

So, a max range of 1200' and a 360' radius, as compared to a single precision WW2 Era 500kg bomb dropped from Ju87d at 27,000' (about 1/3 of its total payload), killing everything within a radius of 100', with a total blast radius of 1500'+?

Advantage, Nazis.

 

[Imp]

Well, a hundred-foot margin of error is pretty tight for a WWII-era bomb, even a "precision" one... though a total lack of return fire would help things a good bit for the bombardier...

But then why focus on bombs when plain ol' arty will do?

Though personally as far as invaders are concerned I would go with hyperintelligent shades of blue, stat 'em as living spells or something.