Legbreaker wants to play Aftermath then he should play Aftermath. The rules state a lot of things - but they also state there are working vehicles that have electronic ignitions, working reactors (Colorado Springs, the USS Virginia), that there was power still being generated in the US in 1998 in places AFTER the TDM, that there are still jet aircraft flying (and that it was fuel and spare part issues not fried electrical systems that made the military park them), that there are missiles that still work, targeting systems, etc. that still work
In Germany - where there were a hell of a lot of nuke detonations - there is a reactor that is being put back online- which is pretty hard to do if all electronic systems were fried and gone for thousands of miles. Also France still has power as does Belgium - again very hard to do if all electrical systems for thousands of miles were fried.
And Great Britain managed to get power working again on their oil platforms to make them operational
And FYI Bash is right - the M88A1 and M88A2 - both vehicles that I was directly responsible for - have literally no electrical systems that can be fried by EMP except their radios. It would be the same with all kinds of older systems - i.e. that P-51 sitting at the airfield wouldnt be affected at all. Neither would that old Sherman tank. Or a car built before they used electronic ignitions. Or the systems that ran the power generators at Niagara Falls - all very old equipment that EMP would basically leave untouched.
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