A New History of the Twilight War, v4.

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by comped

So I guess that every sourcebook except for perhaps the Korean one may or may not be actually useful as written. Modules? Who knows, we'd need to see specifics, but it seems as if the previous edition's sourcebooks (your own included) are probably not going to easily be useful for this timeline if it's as you say.

Almost all have been rendered essentially useless, including Korea.

[comped]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Almost all have been rendered essentially useless, including Korea.

Well, Free League did say they wanted to disconnect with the previous versions - I just didn't think they'd spit in the faces of the fans producing content for the game before they got the contract.

[Fallenkezef]

Am I the only one who just uses the original timeline but spins it back to the 80's?

If you set the Twilight war between 1986 and 1989 it just works. Most of the kit fits perfectly, just ditch stuff like the G11.

I never understood the fixation with keeping it in the 90's when it works so much better from an 80's perspective. The guys behind the Team Yankee game figured this out, setting the game in 1985.

My gaming group has even started mixing the two together in our Twilight 2000 games, using Team Yankee rules to play out large scale encounters.

[Raellus]

Originally Posted by Fallenkezef

Am I the only one who just uses the original timeline but spins it back to the 80's?

Maybe. It's a bit embarrassing, but the idea never occurred to me.

Originally Posted by Fallenkezef

If you set the Twilight war between 1986 and 1989 it just works. Most of the kit fits perfectly, just ditch stuff like the G11.

True, except the name of game, Twilight 2000, doesn't really make sense if the game is set in the late 1980s.

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[Fallenkezef]

Originally Posted by Raellus

Maybe. It's a bit embarrassing, but the idea never occurred to me.



True, except the name of game, Twilight 2000, doesn't really make sense if the game is set in the late 1980s.

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Sure if you want to be picky

Yeah, Twilight 1990 doesn't have the same ring to it but could rename the game to "The Twilight War" or summat similar. Either way, setting it in the 80's works in every single way. The original timeline fits, all the kit from the sourcebooks work etc.

[Ewan]

I created a campaign back when the game originally came out and called it BAOR 1985.