Great idea for a topic of discussion.
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Originally Posted by Heffe
Great topic! 
The Balkans - the break up of Yugoslavia had enormous repercussions for the entire region. The rise of Milosovic in Serbia, the fighting in Bosnia, etc, I think is an area that probably doesn’t get enough love in most campaigns. Most all of those former pact nations were grappling with their own identities all through the 90s, trying to determine who they were and who they wanted to be in the “ashes of an empire”. I suppose this area may hold less or more interest depending upon the timeline you’re playing in, though. |
I agree. I think that the Balkans is potentially a very interesting place to set a campaign as you have some foreign forces present as well. From memory the US forces are CIVGOV aligned, making that a bit different to normal campaigns. You also have Greece and Italy nearby and, if your timeline has them joining the Warsaw Pact, that is some interaction that is rarely explored. Personally, I think that the whole region is primed to collapse into petty warlord kingdoms who keep fighting each other and that would make a great setting.
I think that another interesting region (I have no idea what canon says on this) is southwest of the Black Sea with loyalist Soviet (particularly Russian and Armenian) forces fighting against Georgian and Azerbaijani separatists who are alied with NATO forces in Turkey.
I've also set a couple of games in the Ukraine, and they have focussed around a Ukrainian civil war with pro NATO, pro Soviet and isolationist factions. That's probably not one to discuss much further in the current climate though.