The Military Deployments of T2K

[HorseSoldier]

Well, that and reality caught up with the timeline, which left the game kind of troubled -- and ushered in a serious decline in quality of product for the regional sourcebooks compared to the v1.0 stuff.

I have always been interested in the speculated deployments of places like Hungary, Austria, Czech, and other Pact Nations in more detail. I never got around to purchase the Eastern Europe Sourcebook. Gee wonder why they never made on for Korea... *shrug* or for that matter sundry places like Scandinavia/Iceland/Greenland, Canada/Alaska, South Pacific, anything Africa, or anything south of the US Border...lol

Even Balkan region with Italy, Greece, Turkey, Romanian, and such would of been nice to have. Or one dealing with Spain and Portugal with maybe France would of been nice. Even the Baltic States, Ukraine, and Georgia with some of her more interesting neighbors would have been nice. India Sub continent and China would of been treasures too. I know it seems like lot of material, but for how fast they were cranking this stuff out, and the thing they alluded too, would have made the game more complete in my opinion...

I think all of the above would have been pretty good stuff, if done right. I suspect that a big part of the problem was that the NATO/WP WW3 scenario had been so endlessly researched, talked about, documented, etc., that in the pre internet era you could still walk into a decent sized public library and do all the research you needed to generate something like USAVG or its Soviet equivalent.

Finding hard and precise order of battle info for Africa, South America, etc., was probably significantly more difficult in those days (still kind of is today, even with local military history enthusiasts from a lot of those nations devotedly updating and expanding wikipedia entries, etc.).

Still, would have been cool to see what GDW would have produced had they had access to 2011 (or even 2000) era internet resources for research. It seemed like, from the level of detail they put into African political geography in the 2300 game, that at least some folks with the company had a major interest in events in that part of the world. I suspect a T2K Africa sourcebook would have been a pretty well done project.

[Abbott Shaull]

Originally Posted by HorseSoldier

Well, that and reality caught up with the timeline, which left the game kind of troubled -- and ushered in a serious decline in quality of product for the regional sourcebooks compared to the v1.0 stuff.



I think all of the above would have been pretty good stuff, if done right. I suspect that a big part of the problem was that the NATO/WP WW3 scenario had been so endlessly researched, talked about, documented, etc., that in the pre internet era you could still walk into a decent sized public library and do all the research you needed to generate something like USAVG or its Soviet equivalent.

Finding hard and precise order of battle info for Africa, South America, etc., was probably significantly more difficult in those days (still kind of is today, even with local military history enthusiasts from a lot of those nations devotedly updating and expanding wikipedia entries, etc.).

Still, would have been cool to see what GDW would have produced had they had access to 2011 (or even 2000) era internet resources for research. It seemed like, from the level of detail they put into African political geography in the 2300 game, that at least some folks with the company had a major interest in events in that part of the world. I suspect a T2K Africa sourcebook would have been a pretty well done project.

Well with lot of African nations they usual had a couple Brigades worth of troop if lucky, while others had mere Battalion worth of troops. Again this was always in flux with various rebellions too.