1997 hypothetical

[Raellus]

If the writers had PACT nations turning their coats, the T2KU would look and feel very differently. In essence, the game world that all of us know (and most of us love) would be thrown out of balance. Yes, they certainly underestimated the level of anti-Soviet feeling in most of the PACT nations, but I think, as westerners, we tend to overestimate it a bit. We also have to take into consideration the effect that a pre-emptive German attack on two WTO nations would have had on public opinion in the others. Poland, for one, has an almost atavistic fear of Germany. The Czechs too suffered from Germany's attempts at "reunification" in 1938. I don't think that a lot of eastern European nations would have welcomed an aggressive, reunified Germany. To the contrary- it's possible that their collective fear and indignation would have bound them together and more tightly to their Soviet patrons.

My tastes run towards finding ways to make the established gameworld work, rather than tearing it down and starting over again.