Setting Questions:

[Rainbow Six]

I’m not sure if this is covered in any of the basic rule sets for T2K so apologies if I’m restating something you are already aware of (it definitely isn’t in the V1 initial material and I don’t think it is in the V2 Big Yellow Book, although I may be mistaken; the main reference to it is the V1 Survivor’s Guide to the United Kingdom) but in the original T2K timeline Ireland was a warzone. To cut a long story very short, after the 1997 nuclear exchanges the Republic of Ireland invaded Northern Ireland (I as a response to alleged British mistreatment of Northern Ireland’s nationalist minority, leading to two warring armies facing off against each other – on one side you had the armed forces of the Republic of Ireland (Irish Defence Forces, IDF) and on the other the British Army, primarily represented by the mainly reservist Ulster Defence Regiment, UDR . Whilst the likelihood of events transpiring as GDW wrote is debatable, I don’t think it is completely implausible, but it would need some serious reworking to fit a 2018 date (for one thing the UDR was disbanded years ago, and events in Northern Ireland have obviously moved on since the mid 1990’s) – just for starters you’d need the peace process to completely collapse in Northern Ireland and a return to the days of the Troubles.

I’m British and I’m struggling to think of anything else which would have two opposed armies facing off in Ireland, although we do have a couple of Irish members who may be able to suggest something.

As to the second part of your question, I have two answers. If I wanted to stay within my comfort zone and work with something that I am familiar with and have knowledge of, I would set a campaign in my own country, the UK. If I wanted to push the comfort zone I would probably go for somewhere in Africa – possibly South Africa.