Sorry about not commenting earlier... but i've been so busy trying to get the layouts and new artwork drawn for the work i've been doing on The Morrow Project core rule book 4th Edition that i've not really had the time to keep up on the forums..
So please forgive me guys. But Germany in T2k has always been something that I've had fun playing around with (be it as having several of my characters being East or West German soldiers working with the Americans, or the campaign we played as East German soldiers who had been on the Far Eastern Front when the Coupe happened back home).
But there is one thing that I really felt needed to be changed about the first edition of the game...
That's why I have always played the first edition timeline with the Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic Republic NOT unifying. Not only due to the logistical nightmares that would have come from such an action during wartime or that over the nearly fifty year cultural differences that had developed between the East & West Germans... but in an effort to keep the Soviets from using the 'Unified Germany = Imperialists Invaders' propaganda in the other Warsaw Pact states.
The DDR DNVA maintained its definitely Soviet style names and military organization during the war, it did slowly start to adopt BRD DBW designed and for the most part built weapons as the war progressed as their stockpiles of Soviet built and developed weapons were expended.
But also as the war rolled on, the East Germans started to work on the development of their own military hardware with the help of their Western Brothers... such as the state owned weapons arsenals partnering up with the West German manufacturers as H&K to produce replacements for the AK-47 and AK-74.
Thus you could have seen the H&K G36 being developed... but as a replacement for the dwindling numbers of the AK family of weapons in the East German arsenal.
I can't find anything on heavy weapon production for the DDR, if anyone knows anything... please contact me so i can get that so i can work that into my DDR and BRD country articles that I've been writing.
I have created a detailed DDR DNVA OOB that showed a fictional reorganization of the DNVA that happens during the early-1990s that would have happened during the same period of the Soviet Reorganization using the lessons they had learned watching how well the US forces did fighting against Iraq during Desert Storm. One of the biggest changes was the renumbering of divisions and regiments, and the addition of Guards units (the most elite and premier units composed of the most politically loyal troops).
In the articles I've been working on for the two German states. I've included descriptions of military orders & decorations and the like for some flavor text to expound upon the two different cultural identities, and of course the ways that the two where more alike than not... such as both states having instituted the Order of the Iron Cross during wartime, and their own versions of the Honor Cross.
But the DDR instituting the Order of the Red Eagle as one of their highest awards, and the BDR instituting the Order of the Black Eagle as their highest award!
I've been debating on drawing pictures of the uniforms, and digging up pictures of the types of camo patterns and the like to add to the articles.
So, when I get a chance to post my articles I'll start a new thread for each one, so i can get advice on improving them individually.
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