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Old 06-29-2018, 03:10 PM
Olefin Olefin is offline
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I personally go with the shocking error theory. Keep in mind that the units he mentioned were all ones from the US Army Sourcebook and specifically the ones that were on American soil at the game start. Have a feeling he had a book to get out, it was behind schedule and he just literally went right down the list and only mentioned the units that were in the US at the game start since trying to figure out the fate of all the European divisions would have either made the book too big or taken too long.

Plus keep in mind that he basically ignored events from other books throughout Howling Wilderness. Now it did say it was as of April 2001 - but he also extrapolated to the end of the year - so these events should have been mentioned for sure -keep in mind every campaign changes the timeline for the players only - but if he says that the Corps in OK would break up by the end of the year or LA and NYC would be abandoned by later in the year then its pretty easy to say that the sub gets back in early June or whatever and that the first reactor designed by the scientists goes online at Cape May by Nov of 2001 and there you go - events of Last Submarine trilogy finale and after events now in HW

No mention at all of the events of Last Submarine as to the submarine coming home - those scientists had the formula for easy fusion reactors - should have definitely been mentioned that the sub made it back and that at least a couple of reactors were online. Or even if the sub was being used to generate power.

No mention at all of Reset - which is strongly hinted at that it was recovered by the US given the Krakow descriptions

No mention at all of the recovery of the equipment in Allegheny Uprising - getting those Bradleys would have added to the firepower of that unit significantly.

No mention of what happened with Satellite Down - getting that data would have been crucial as to where to plant.

No mention of the refinery in Lone Star Red Star - getting that much oil going again would have changed the whole situation in South Texas

No mention at all of the turncoat Russian units in Alaska - two divisions joined the US Army - they should have been mentioned with US forces

No mention at all of what happened to the remaining Russian and Mexican forces on US soil - it strongly infers that the Soviet Division Cuba fell apart but doesnt out and out state it - same with the units in Alaska and along the Canadian West Coast or for that matter if the Mexican Army continued to fall apart by years end

Thats why I see HW as possibly only being accurate up to April 2001 - and from there then you could work on the omissions being added to the canon - which I plan on doing

FYI adding in some of the missing units or events doesnt mess up canon - they are canon already - its more an issue of putting them back in where they belong and correcting the oversights

Last edited by Olefin; 06-29-2018 at 03:42 PM.
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