Twilight 1964

[hell-fish]

I was a long time fan of T2K from when I was a kid and I stumbled upon this site a few years ago when I was between deployments/jobs and had some time. I ran out of bandwidth and despite my desire to keep plugging away at these, but it's been a few years now and I'll throw in the towel.

I started building off of Nathan Decke's original America sourcebook (http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=1356) and all my attempts to contact him went unanswered, but I wanted to continue and expand upon his work.

https://i.ibb.co/g376zk6/T1964-America-Sourcebook-cover.png (https://ibb.co/Msh9MF9)


I also started making some American and SovBloc military guidebooks.


https://i.ibb.co/189hDwj/T1964-American-Cover.png (https://ibb.co/ChnNkTD)
https://i.ibb.co/mSRTjv5/T1964-Soviet-Cover.png (https://ibb.co/25Fh983)
They're all very much works in progress but, as I said, I ran out of steam and I'm offering them here for posterity. Maybe someone will get some ideas from them for other works.

These were all done right before the T2K v4 rules were published by Free League, so take that for what its worth. I'm posting pdf versions for browsing and then the raw pptx and docx files I was working with. I have more notes, resources, etc. in my working files that I'm keeping but am happy to provide to anyone that needs them.

Hit me up at hellfish6 at the google emails if you want to tinker with this stuff and have questions or need anything else.

Raw, working, editable docs: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AZnWF0D3rI6OHAhrL6h9l4R7YjMjAxwf?usp=sharing

PDFs for casual browsing: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EA1KGig9mrt4CEu1BbIKr_7dhzkv-axp?usp=sharing

[Red Diamond]

I hope to take a look at this in the near future!

[Nyrond24]

I can't tell you how long I've been waiting for this to appear again, especially the Soviet guide.

[Ewan]

Excellent :firing:

[Vespers War]

Very nice. One thought is that the Handbooks could include some things that were expected to see use in the 1960s but never did, like the fused silica glass bolt-on armor for the M60, the American T95 medium tank, or the late 1950s Soviet heavy tanks (Object 277 and Object 770). For air defense, either the T249 Vigilante, M163 VADS, or MIM-46 Mauler would also be potential options. The VADS was rushed into production in 1965 after the Mauler failed in development, while the Vigilante had been canceled because Mauler was supposed to be gun-based air defense obsolete. If people want to keep the main sections of the book purely historical, maybe a "what-if" section could be added with the plausible equipment that never actually saw service or was just barely too late for this timeline.

[hell-fish]

Very nice. One thought is that the Handbooks could include some things that were expected to see use in the 1960s but never did, like the fused silica glass bolt-on armor for the M60, the American T95 medium tank, or the late 1950s Soviet heavy tanks (Object 277 and Object 770). For air defense, either the T249 Vigilante, M163 VADS, or MIM-46 Mauler would also be potential options. The VADS was rushed into production in 1965 after the Mauler failed in development, while the Vigilante had been canceled because Mauler was supposed to be gun-based air defense obsolete. If people want to keep the main sections of the book purely historical, maybe a "what-if" section could be added with the plausible equipment that never actually saw service or was just barely too late for this timeline.

That was a thought I had, actually. I made the vehicle profiles from plastic model kits people made and posted pictures of online... so for vehicles that don't exist I never had a good solution. That said, my first priority was to get all the vehicles that were most common and/or emblematic of the era. What-ifs would have come later.