the math from HW and Kidnapped basically shows that drought as killing off the country - half is still alive - but there is only enough food that can be grown due to the drought to feed 1/4 of what is left - meaning 1/8th the pre-war population - so now you have a huge die off in a very short time among already weakened survivors combined with fighting for whats left ruining whats planted, widespread disease finishing off the survivors from millions of dead bodies rotting unburied because there wont be anyone left to bury them, etc. - meaning by years end most likely you are looking at 1/16th to 1/32nd the population still left alive maybe (in an optimistic projection)
That's not Twilight 2000 - that's Morrow or Aftermath
and yet somehow per 2300 the US reunites within 20 years of a catastrophe like that and gets back into space that same century?
that's why I go with the earlier modules - and stay with Twilight 2000 style gaming
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