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Old 06-10-2021, 12:23 PM
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has there ever been a discussion of the P.I. as a 'career' in T2K? After all people are missing and their friends & family could have the power / influence / resources to get a search started?
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IIRC the P.I. is a career choice in Ver2.2. Not completely sure, but I think I remember rolling a former P.I., who had been recalled to serve with the military police.

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At least it wasn't David Hasselhoff...

And c'mon, seriously guys, I can't believe we're this far into the thread and no one has mentioned Nena. Neunundneunzig Luftballoon for the win (auf Deutsche naturlich - it sounds so much better than the English version).
Arglhh ... The eighties started good, Manfred Mann's Earth Band with "Angel Station" and the unbelievable "You are - I am", Rush with "Spirit of Radio" and so on. But the soundtrack of the reunification -seriously, the Hoff, the Scorps and a lot of songs, you had to think of as disgusting, if you had been into Punk, Hard Rock, Metal und the like. It was, from the musicians and music-fan perspective, not the best soundtrack.

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Thanks, Ursus & BT. I hope I am not frustrating you with my questions and continued attempts at making the v1 timeline work. Here are a couple more:

What if a faction in the Bundeswehr launched a false-flag op to create the illusion of a DDR attack on West Germany?

If that's still too far-fetched, what if the anti-communist DDR military faction decided to launch an attack on West Germany, to give the Bundeswehr a pretext to counter? This attack, of course, would be mostly for show, but it would provide a justification for a punitive Bundeswehr drive into East Germany which would then prompt a coup by the NVA. West Germany would have its fait accompli, and NATO would have a reason to intervene (Article 9 of the charter).

As a bit of an aside, how do you German T2k'ers handle the beginning of the Twilight War?

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Rae, wouldn't that, in a way, be repeating the beginning of WWII? The Soviet Bloc analysists and intelligence guys weren't that dumb.

But than again: Your idea is better, than the "canon" version. I would say: Go for it, it's your world, in the end

I personally play ver2.2, because of two reasons:

1. Although the background is still unbelievable, if you look at the real history, it makes more sense to me, than ver1 did. And after all - it's the background for a game, not history.
2. The career choices and some of the rules (IIRC there was no rule for single shots in ver1, right?) fit my way of gaming better.

I play BAW (You've guessed it: Background as written ), but my group plays so seldom, that the big story and the whole international background do almost never reach our gameplay. When players read the background of T2k, every single German player, that I know, rolls his eyes and utters something that involves 4-letter words (not the nice ones, the used words mostly start with an F).
As I've said: It's the background story for a game. I don't take it too serious. And, whenever I feel, I should do that, I can always adapt the story to my needs.

Phui, this took longer than I thought ...
With socialist greetings ... erh ... Up the Irons ... ehm, you know, what I mean (hopefully), time for my medication, I guess.

Have a nice evening, everybody.

Sorry, Ewan, I was to slow and couldn't read yor question.
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