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Old 09-15-2020, 08:17 PM
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Thanks for sharing, hell-fish. It's an interesting premise, promising even.

Before I comment on your timeline, I'd like to address your philippic re the worry warts and timeline reactionaries. I'm trying to keep an open mind about the as-yet-unseen v4 timeline, but I understand others' concern. The timeline is a crucial component of the setting. If the setting doesn't click, the game is not going to get much traction. One could argue that Twilight 2013 was doomed by its timeline (I've heard mostly good things about its rule-set).

Regarding your timeline, hell-fish, how does the Soviet economy, which was verging on collapse c.1990 (IRL), survive several years of military rule and civil war? Furthermore, how does the Soviet military fight said pricey civil wars (with a busted economy) and still manage to emerge strong enough to tussle with China and NATO for a couple of years in the late '90s? This, I think, requires a plausible explanation, or a suspension of disbelief above and beyond that required for v1's "the Cold War never ended" premise.

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