Enemy Exchange Program: Difference between revisions

 

Compare [[Monster Allies]].

 

* In ''[[Dune]] 2'', the Ordos faction's "Deviator" tank could temporarily turn enemy units to Ordos control.

* [[Real Life]]: During [[WW 2]], this was an integral part of German war strategy. On field level, German forces often captured and used enemy tanks, cars, and cannons (even horses were used). But it was also extended to larger scheme with strategical resources: Germany produced most of light tanks in Chechoslovakia, and heavy tanks were produced in France, after both lands were captured. Also additional planes were constructed in the Netherlands' existing factories, not to mention Austrian ones, which supplied antitank cannons. This explains how Germany was able to fight successfully against Allies while having much less resources.

** The Soviets did the same--The 5th Guards Tank Brigade even got their first T-34/85 by capturing it from the Germans who had previously captured it from some other Soviet unit.

** The Nazis also recruited a sizable amount of soldiers from the occupied territories. Volunteers, that is. If they hadn't been so blindingly stupid (and, you know, racist), they would have had a much easier time in the Soviet Union, where they were initially ''welcomed'' by the populace. Though they were tot necessarily volunteers. Stories exist where the 'volunteers' turned side at first sight of Allies, and about one chinese who was captured during war, taken into red army, transferred to eastern front during WWII (western from POV of soviets), captured by Nazis and transferred to Normandy where he was captured by Allies.

** The Waffen-SS was the only branch of the Wehrmacht which recruited outside Greater Germany. A great deal - perhaps a full half - of the SS was non-German when the war ended. The last troops defending the Reichstag were from a French SS unit.