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The Pacific Twilight Tournament is finaly over.

after a year of battling it out across the Pacific in battles ranging from the chilly Atleutians, the Australian desert, the jungles of Gudalcanal to the sandy shores of Midway Island, covering the period from 1942 to 1945, the Allies have finaly conceded defeat.

Imperial Japan has won the day and now rules unchallenged from Hawaii to China, an empire spanning across the Pacific and from the Bearing sea to Tasmania at the bottom of Australia.

Congratulations to all who took part, to the Japanese players who helped to change history and to the Allied players who tried valiantly to stop it, all of you will now have to go out and buy a copy of Phillip K Dick's the "Man in the High Castle" to find out what life is like after the war.

Finally to any players who may be intrsted in seeing if history can be changed in Europe there will Be a Europa Twilight/or Twilight Europa (I cant decide the name yet) coming soon.

klanx171 Wrote:all of you will now have to go out and buy a copy of Phillip K Dick's the "Man in the High Castle" to find out what life is like after the war.

one of the very famous books I was deeply disapointed about. After readings tons of crics' rewievs I expected something spectacular and found nothing inthere. What you guys think about that book ?

In a way your right its not an action packed book like a lot of the more recent alternative histories (ala turtledove) are, it is more of a commentary on the cold war by reversing the victors of WW2 and showing that no matter who won the world wasnt biggest enough for two.

What makes its a classic is that it has a book inside a book about an alternative history of WW2 which thw characters in the book read and how it looks at the politics of the time.

The US spilt down the middle (just like cold war germany) between Japan and germany, political tension and the gradual rebirth and rise of the US (just like Japan in our time) under the teutalage of a somewhat benevolent overlord, secret plans for war, the death of hitler and the power struggles afterwards, are what makes it such an intresting read.