Personally I dont think GDW's writers really sat down and thought much about how their modules interconnected let alone the different games. (For instance Allegheny Uprising flat out contradicts Kidnapped and HW - it takes place after the drought begins in both, is set in the area that CivGov is trying to move thru, yet makes absolutely no mention of the drought or the fact that most of the Eastern Seaboard and Mid-Atlantic States are being evacuated).
And I agree with what Webstral posted - any famine that kills off 3/4 of your remaining population will kill off the country pure and simple - there is no way the uber drought occurs as written and the United States ever rises again - and certainly not per the timeline in 2300AD.
If you go with 2300AD as the future then HW and Kidnapped, as written, doesnt work, pure and simple. There wouldnt be a US left.
At best, with the HW and Kidnapped drought, even if only one year long,. you would be looking at a fragmented nation that would look more like Germany did before they reunified in the 1870's - a patchwork of small states, city-states, and minor empires, all fighting each other and all claiming to be the true US and none able to have the power to rule much more than the small patches of territory they sit on. If you want to see what that will be like read A Canticle for Liebowitz and see how long it took for something like the US to rise again - it was a long long time.
Especially since HW says that MilGovs' communications will be breaking down - meaning that MilGov and CivGov will both be coming apart at the seams.
Now if you ignore 2300AD then you can have anything happen.
As I have said before - it may be one of the reasons they went back to Europe right after HW - because they had just written the US off as anything other than a place to play Aftermath in.
I.e. it was either tell people "whoops we went too far, please ignore those two modules and we will be refunding you your money after we do a rewrite so we can have playable modules again in the US" or "ok well so much for being able to do anything with the US anymore after painting ourselves into the corner by Loren, hey lets go back to Europe"
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