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[kato13]

Howard Stark was a natural choice for the Counsel. I kind of have Tony thrust into the Counsel when his father dies in 1981. (No Ironman stuff)

His technology would not be the same as the movies, but would be quite advanced for the times.

[mikeo80]

Originally Posted by kato13

Howard Stark was a natural choice for the Counsel. I kind of have Tony thrust into the Counsel when his father dies in 1981. (No Ironman stuff)

His technology would not be the same as the movies, but would be quite advanced for the times.

If we are going to go this direction, may I suggest the following additions to CoT.

Reed Richards
Bruce Banner
Bruce Wayne
Lucius Fox
Lex Luthor

Let's see. Early members of CoT.

Jonas Salk
Albert Einstein
Henry Kaiser
Robert Oppenheimer

These are a few names that come to mind.

My $0.02

Mike

[stormlion1]

I prefer to use real world people for my CoT so Howard Hughes made my list, last campaign even had him frozen at a facility beneath the Las Vegas Ruins and had us go find and revive him. Lee Iacocca was another one who didn't survive the bombs. Those are the only two I remember at the moment.

[kato13]

While I do keep my game as realistic as possible (no bottle sized fusion, no time travel, no universal antidote), I like making the change from Howard Hughes to Howard Stark (the creeping madness can be ignored then). Of course I put them on this earth not the comic book one. Tony never makes a suit, though he may be interested in power armor if there is a later war date.

I have Howard and Tony as unique Renascence-esque geniuses who are able to move many different techs forward without the need for Bruce jumping back and forth. Reed Richards could be the same type of genius, but I expect his expertise would be more theoretical than practical. Banner is mostly focused in one field.

DC characters are generally too out there for me to look at them as being real in any way.

[mikeo80]

Originally Posted by kato13

While I do keep my game as realistic as possible (no bottle sized fusion, no time travel, no universal antidote), I like making the change from Howard Hughes to Howard Stark (the creeping madness can be ignored then). Of course I put them on this earth not the comic book one. Tony never makes a suit, though he may be interested in power armor if there is a later war date.

I have Howard and Tony as unique Renascence-esque geniuses who are able to move many different techs forward without the need for Bruce jumping back and forth. Reed Richards could be the same type of genius, but I expect his expertise would be more theoretical than practical. Banner is mostly focused in one field.

DC characters are generally too out there for me to look at them as being real in any way.

I included Bruce Wayne (Multi-billionare, CEO of a major company), Lucius Fox (Designed a lot of tech that ended up in Batman's arsenal) Lex Luthor (Multi-bilionare, inventor,)

Yes, DC characters can be outrageous. But, heck, this is a game, and if we are going to tinker with it, brining in the Marvel or DC universe is not TOO far out of bounds.

My $0.02

Mike

[kato13]

Originally Posted by mikeo80

I included Bruce Wayne (Multi-billionare, CEO of a major company), Lucius Fox (Designed a lot of tech that ended up in Batman's arsenal) Lex Luthor (Multi-bilionare, inventor,)

Yes, DC characters can be outrageous. But, heck, this is a game, and if we are going to tinker with it, brining in the Marvel or DC universe is not TOO far out of bounds.

My $0.02

Mike

Yeah I can see Bruce and definitely Lucius. Maybe Thomas Wayne is still alive. Once he hears about the coming apocalypse he no longer has time for the opera. Bruce instead directs his energy and intellect into the project.

[kato13]

Originally Posted by mikeo80

Henry Kaiser

I have him in my original COT list
http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=4423

Great minds ....

[ArmySGT.]

I would think that famous names associated with large corporate empires would be enough.

http://www.nndb.com/lists/439/000127058/

Families are listed in ranked order (according to 1924 tax records) with their primary sources of wealth.

1 Rockefeller Family Standard Oil
2 Morgan Family J. P. Morgan & Co.
3 Ford Family Ford Motors
4 Harkness Family Standard Oil
5 Mellon Family Aluminum Company
6 Vanderbilt Family NY Central R&R
7 Whitney Family Standard Oil
8 Standard Oil Families Standard Oil
9 Du Pont Family DuPont
10 McCormick Family International Harvester, Chicago Times
11 Baker Family First National Bank
12 Fisher Family General Motors
13 Guggenheim Family American Smelting & Refining Co.
14 Field Family Marshall Field's
15 Curtis-Boks Family Curtis Publishing Co.
16 Duke Family American Tobacco Company
17 Berwind Family Berwind-White Coal Co.
18 Lehman Family Lehman Brothers
19 Widener Family American Tobacco Company, public utilities
20 Reynolds Family R. J. Reynolds
21 Astor Family Real estate
22 Winthrop Family Miscellaneous
23 Stillman Family Citibank
24 Timken Family Timken
25 Pitcairn Family Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. (now PPG Industries)
26 Warburg Family Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
27 Metcalf Family Rhode Island textile mills
28 Clark Family Singer Sewing Machine Co.
29 Phipps Family Carnegie Steel
30 Kahn Family Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
31 Green Family Stocks and real estate
32 Patterson Family Chicago Tribune
33 Taft Family Real estate
34 Deering Family International Harvester
35 De Forest Family Corporate law practice
36 Gould Family Railroads
37 Hills Family Railroads
38 Drexel Family J. P. Morgan & Co.
39 Ryan Family Stock market
40 Foster Family Auto parts
41 Johnson Family Victor Phonograph
42 James Family Copper and railroads
43 Nash Family Automobiles
44 Schiff Family Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
45 Patten Family Wheat market
46 Hayden Family Stock market
47 Weber Family Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.
48 Blumenthal Family Lazard
49 Mills Family Mining
50 Friedsam Family Merchandising
51 McLean Family Mining
52 Higgins Family New York real estate
53 Cochran Family Textiles
54 Kirkwood Family
55 Tyson Family
56 Huntington Family Railroads
57 Storrow Family Lee Higginson & Co.
58 Rosenwald Family Sears Roebuck
59 Baruch Family Stock market
60 Kresge Family Merchandising