I believe that Albert Einstein said, " I do not know what weapons will be used to fight WW III, but WW IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
I think this is the issue we as a group are trying to understand. As a LONG time Morrow Project player, I can see several similarities.
1) Man was stupid enough to unleash his newest toys. Mankind suffered as a result.
2) In the aftermath, there would be VERY long periond of reconstruction.
3) Most reconstruction would revolve around a group of armed persons trying desperately to keep the wolves at bay so that what ever farmers were left could raise enough food for the entire group to survive the next winter.
4) Most reconstruction would revolve around small groups or towns. Easier to defend and easier to grow enough crops to survive the comming winter.
5) A small group is also easier to set up some sort of self government. There is not enough time or energy to dedicate to professional politicians. Every one has to work together to survive.
6) Craftsmen will be VERY important to survival. A person who can fix broken things will be in great demand.
7) Only after there is enough food for the existing group, do you look outside of your group. Maybe you can exchange some of your iron worker's items for some of the wood worker's items from the next village. Trade/barter/swap meets whatever, become the predominate form of economics.
8) If you find a pre-war cache of ANYTHING, you do your best to bring it all to your village. Who knows, maybe something usefull can be gleaned from this pile of what ever it is you salvaged.
9) Books/libraries become vital resources. You may not know how to build a windmill, say. But this book MIGHT just help....
Yes the T2K nuclear war was not as devistating as the one in Morrow Project. But the resultant chaos would have caused just as much damage as nukes would have. Just not as quick.
Yes there is some form of National government, be it MilGov or CivGov. That is more than Morrow project had. However with the chaos and resultant insanity, how much control either of these two entities could exert is questionable.
Yes there are some coherent US military forces that are still in place. THis happened very rarely in TMP. THis does give either government a group of trained (?) professionals to draw upon. However you have to FEED them first before you can use them.
These are a few thoughts I want to throw out there.
My $0.02
Mike
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