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Originally Posted by Webstral
There was a time, going back at least four years now, that the forum was working towards building a common vision of the Twilight: 2000 world. The regulars had areas they liked a lot and upon which they focused their energies. Material would be posted, and folks would provide some helpful feedback. I got lots of helpful feedback during the early stages of Thunder Empire. Other members of the forum, some of whom are still around, gave me some very useful ideas on coping with the obvious food problems in southeastern Arizona.
Then that changed. New members started to arrive, and not all of them were interested in building consensus. I put up some posts regarding the potential positive impact of airships in the wake of Airlords of the Ozarks. Some posters replied with items to be taken into consideration. Others replied “That won’t work”. I’m paraphrasing, but one gets the idea. I didn’t see the pattern at the time. However, the blowout over the DC Group’s very ambitious scheme for the Operation Omega forces demonstrated conclusively that not everyone who was frequenting this forum wanted to work together to expand on the existing body of material—emphasis being on the phrase “working together”. Many of the old hands have moved on, and what was once a pretty darned cooperative community has become markedly less so.
For my own part, I’m still interested in developing a common vision. Our individual products only benefit from feedback. Of course, delivery and intent really do matter. I’m glad that Olefin is taking an interest in the Middle East post-Operation Omega. The region is rich with potential. As he posts material, I will do my best to provide feedback in the way we used to do it here. People who have come aboard in the past couple of years can see how it used to go and decide for themselves whether this is desirable.
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Agreed: There is plenty of room to expand on things in the TW2K universe, be it V1, V2.2, or V3. And frankly there is a lot of knowledge in quite a few of the posters here that can make some fantastic user generated guides.
One of the reasons I posted the breakdown of forces taking part in Omega (Or not as the case may be) was to illustrate that even within Canon, there is four supported chains that can be followed: Those units that gave the whole US chain of command the middle finger - The new Austrian Duke for example - and stuck around in Europe, those that stayed within the chain, and stayed anyways - Have two options here: The guys stuck out on a limb to the east and those that stayed in Germany proper, 5 Corp heading to the Middle east, and yes, looking at the numbers in the books, there is solid evidence that more than a little heavy equipment headed that way, and yes, the Tarawa is a perfect means for that equipment there: Helo's on Deck, and you can pack a lot more than 14 tracks in the hanger. A lot more. Add in a few figs, and a couple of other transports, you got a decent sized force that is powerful enough to be left alone, and small enough to avoid being the sort of threat that demands all the stops being pull out to stop it. Then, for the forth, you have the manpower that headed back to the states: So many ways that path can be followed.
So yes, lets see what can be done with this. I have played a lot in the Austrian Alps in a lot of the games I have run, and more often than not, the groups I was with tended to do the duchy thing as well. So might have to sit back and think that over some and see what comes of it.