American Midwest Research

[irishboy]

So I've finally managed to get my hands on a few of the modules, but what I've seen has all been focused on either Poland or the East Coast of the US.

I'm interested in trying to put together what occurred in the American Midwest (North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisonsin, Michigan, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio).

I've found information in the BYB (yes, I'm working off the v2.2 timeline) and the American Combat Vehicle Handbook, but was hoping for:

Any additional canon sources that I might have overlooked and/or don't know about.

Any analysis that's already been done, i.e. homebrew timelines that anyone has already worked out involving these areas.

Any insight that anyone is willing to offer about the area, at least as far as rebuilding it in a post-nuclear world goes. I've lived my whole life in this area, so I'm already familiar with it IRL.

Thanks in advance.

[Legbreaker]

Howling Wilderness can also be considered for 2.2, in fact virtually all the 1.0 books dovetail almost seamlessly into 2.x.

[HorseSoldier]

And Howling Wilderness is about the only game in town for that part of the country, if I remember right (though it's just an overview at the national level). The T2K detailed supplements pretty much don't touch that part of the country. Might be some stuff in Challenge that I'm forgetting or didn't see along the way. (Actually I think there is at least one that covers the Wright-Patterson AFB area, now that I think about it.)

[Adm.Lee]

Originally Posted by HorseSoldier

And Howling Wilderness is about the only game in town for that part of the country, if I remember right (though it's just an overview at the national level). The T2K detailed supplements pretty much don't touch that part of the country. Might be some stuff in Challenge that I'm forgetting or didn't see along the way. (Actually I think there is at least one that covers the Wright-Patterson AFB area, now that I think about it.)

The same author wrote two adventures set in Ohio. He was an Ohio native, I think I recognize his name from local cons. I made a list of Challenge scenarios:
-"Crazy Horse" (#73) is set in South Dakota.
-"A little recon mission (#58) around WPAFB in Ohio
-"Westward ho" (#57) shepherding civilians across Kentucky to Memphis
-"Lima incident" (#56) northwest Ohio, around the Lima tank plant

Off the top of my head, from Howling Wilderness: the region is a lighter-armed version of the rest of the country: no Mexican or other invaders, not much Milgov or Civgov to speak of, and only scattered New America. But lots of marauders and famine.

[irishboy]

I would have thought that the region would be a hotbed, with constant skirmishing. After all, the Civgov capitol is in Omaha, Nebraska & the Milgov capitol is in Colorado, just west of there.

And considering how much of the Midwest was agricultural before the Twilight War began, I was thinking that it would be fairly easy to re-establish small farming villages (50-150 people, everyone shares one tractor, people work a half-day in the communal village fields & a half-day on their own land or projects... just a few ideas off the top of my head).

[Legbreaker]

That may well be the case but info is relatively scarce.

...and then comes along the drought to turn the region into a parched dust bowl...