Northern Europe

[Trooper]

V1 purists can relax, I will not argue that the Nordic Source Book information would be "core material". Warning this material isnt “official” in any sense. Some ideas have been stolen from Nordic source book and some are my own. There is also some ideas from Swedish websites.

Norway is very weak nation after three years of war and nuclear attacks didn’t help. Oil industry is thing of past and power generation has been destroyed by air strikes and EMP effects.


Iceland is a isolated country. Fish is sufficient, but lack of other raw materials is huge. EMP caused widespread damage to power generation and transmission.


Sweden is in a poor state. Soviet troops invaded southern Sweden in 1997. Nuclear attacks in 1998 caused massive damage to Swedish urbanized society. In addition, in southern Sweden, the Soviet troops are still operating and have prevented the effective use of the local agricultural land. Hunger is no stranger to Swedish families. There are some hydro power plants still operating in northern Sweden, but the EMP has destroyed transmission networks.



Denmark has survived war surprisingly well. Many cities experienced heavy air attacks on the early stages of war and use of chemical weapons caused massive civilian casualties. The Danish army has experienced a heavy losses in Poland. Certainly the Danish army is unable to launch any offensive operations in 2000.

Electricity transmission networks have been destroyed by the EMP. Small-scale industry has been relocated near wind farms. Denmark is first and foremost farms and domestic animals. Food is sufficient and it is used for the purchase of equipment from Germany (Operation Omega vehicles & equipment). Defense secretary Ole Kock-Olesen is in favor to continue fighting and so far the government has complied with his plans. Danish navy also collects sound dues. You have to you use navy controlled sea lanes or take your chances in dense minefields.



Finland has fought both the Soviet Union and NATO. Officially Finland is not in war. The traditional hatred towards Russians, however, has intensified after the Soviet nuclear attacks. Government control just the souther parts of Finland's most densely populated areas. Northern Finland, has independent towns and some military units in Lapland do not take orders anymore.

As in other Nordic countries, the EMP has destroyed the electricity transmission networks. Tampere has nevertheless succeeded to organize a limited distribution electricity (ancient hydro power plants in downtown area were immune to EMP). The government has also begun to move industry and workers closer to electric power sources.

Russian border is a constant source of unrest. Marauding Soviet military units cross the border at least once a month.

Finnish military administration is not popular because junta murdered civilian goverment. Resistance have not surfaced –yet.

Military Intelligence is also happy to hire mercenaries from NATO countries to train Estonian freedom fighters. The captured NATO weapons are sent continuously over the Gulf of Finland. The ultimate objective is the independence of Estonia. Finland's support is there to ensure the future supply of oil shale. Finns have managed to move one oil production plant to Finland. Local Russian population and the remnants of Communist regime have also received help from Soviet government.