Western Scotland In T2K

[Mohoender]

Interesting thought that you have here, especially as you know the area very well. Nevertheless, I came up with similar ideas for my campaign and the highlands are a good place to be.

Marauders are long gone since they were hunted down by the various clans. In addition, as clans are ruling over certain areas, they also provide some kind of stability.

The main problem of the people overthere comes from the fact that the weather is harsher than today. However, limted electricity is available and there are plenty of alcohol to run a number of vehicules.

The reason certainly comes from the fact that the highlands certainly are the area of the world I prefer.

[Littlearmies]

What appealed to me was that there are probably enough differences between the islands for survival to take very different forms from island to island. It would be an area where you could run something akin to a "Free Trader" campaign (a la Traveller) using a Puffer (I also found an interesting ship based in Rosyth in the 1990's that a GM could get going again - http://www.maritimesteamrestorationt...l_history.html ) or some other vessel.

Although canon says HMG have abandoned Scotland you could well have some units left up there. There were RAF personnel at several of the RAF bases on the West Coast (obviously) but also Royal Marines and US Navy Seals at Machrihanish - indeed you could have something more exotic up there if you wished:

http://www.dreamlandresort.com/black...hrihanish.html

I think Islay could come out pretty well - they already have arable farming, ample stocks of Scotch that would be a useful trade good (and obviously ample stills for production of fuel) and some fishing boats. The climate there is relatively favourable thanks to the Gulf Stream - it wouldn't be paradise but better than most places.

Other islands could be much harsher - and I think anywhere on the mainland would have a huge influx of refugees to contend with. I think Oban and Ullapool could be pretty rough places to live. And I've alway found Glencoe pretty creepy even on the sunniest of days (never trust a Campbell!). On the other hand some of those Scottish peninsulas are pretty isolated today so you would need to be a pretty determined refugee to make it all the way out to some parts of the coast.

Re Fort William - I would think that both Fort William and Inverness would become pretty strategic places to control as holding them would mean that small vessels could transit the Caledonian Canal - you could have waterborne operations on Loch Ness patrolling for marauders etc.

[Rainbow Six]

I think you have some great ideas for a campaign there.

Machrihanish is a GM's dream...you really could use it as the justification for encountering all sorts of strange NPC's, not to mention the possibility of having an Aurora (or similar) located there. Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen that before.

Interesting that you mention Rosyth...I was actually born and brought up about three miles from there. I'm going from memory but I don't think Rosyth was a nuclear target in canon? I also don't recall Faslane being targetted (never quite figured out how GDW managed to leave all the major RN bases in the UK off their list unless you go with the theory that they got hit by weapons of less than 0.5mt). I could be wrong of course...my pdf copy of the Survivor's Guide to the UK is on my old PC so I can't check at the moment.

[Littlearmies]

The only Scottish targets listed were Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Grangemouth. I can't really see any justification for whacking Dundee (although personally I think it's a fairly ugly city so deserves to go on aesthetic grounds perhaps....).

Now I have to say that I'd have added Faslane (and RNAD Coulport) to that list without a seconds hesitation. Rosyth probably and my other choices would have certainly included Kinloss (a quick way to knock out Britain's airborne ASW capability).

Perhaps they were hit by small MIRVs or (in the case of Kinloss) conventional SLCMs?