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it feels weird to have a wargame without the soviet.
 
To be fair, a good deal of people get a stick up their somewhere if you say empire in ww, even if correct, sometimes it is easier to just say commonwealth simply to avoid the sticks lol.
 
EUG_MadMat said:
I know that I just never realized that speaking of "Commonwealth" for WW2 was anachronical. :)
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In a way, it's not. Some politicians and statesmen within the British Empire referred to it as a Commonwealth of Nations as early as the 1880s, due to the growing Independence of the dominions of Canada and Australia. In the 1921 Anglo-Irish treaty, the British Empire was referred to as the British Commonwealth of Nations. However, I feel this term applies more to the independent countries at the time (Canada, Australia, New Zealand), rather than the places like India that weren't as Independent.
 
Commonwealth is interchangeable with Empire at this point, not anachronistic. The only difference from the modern day is it's referred to specifically as the British Commonwealth.

From the Statute of Westminster
And whereas it is meet and proper to set out by way of preamble to this Act that, inasmuch as the Crown is the symbol of the free association of the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and as they are united by a common allegiance to the Crown, it would be in accord with the established constitutional position of all the members of the Commonwealth in relation to one another that any alteration in the law touching the Succession to the Throne or the Royal Style and Titles shall hereafter require the assent as well of the Parliaments of all the Dominions as of the Parliament of the United Kingdom:
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From Their Finest Hour:
But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
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Mikeboy said:
Commonwealth is interchangeable with Empire at this point, not anachronistic. The only difference from the modern day is it's referred to specifically as the British Commonwealth.

From the Statute of Westminster


From Their Finest Hour:
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I would argue that it's a commonwealth with new zealand, Australia, canada, but still an Empire over India and Burma. King George VI was still Emperor of India during WW2.

so it's not really interchangeable within some context. It's like saying Hawaii and Alaska were States during WW2.

Madcat's original statement referred to Burma, so Empire would be more accurate.
 
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Aus Askar said:
Waiting for Finns, Romanians and Hungarians. Bring on the theatre which actually decided WW2.
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TBF, the whole "japan invading the empire" thing caused several hundred thousand to a couple million men from the british army and british empire at large to have to go fight another war/sit in reserves to fight said war alone (not even going into the massive American force sent there along with other stuff), if anything, Japan helped to stop the war ending early by more than enough to make it a major theatre of war :)
 
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