4th ed T2K

[Olefin]

Originally Posted by unipus

I think we can all agree that probably the only reason for this inclusion is that FL had or has some notion of releasing an adventure where you probably go crawling around the ruins of an aircraft carrier that is beached in the Baltic.

On its surface that's a fun idea, but definitely one place where the "rule of cool" just doesn't hold water (pardon the pun). I don't think it's inherently any more silly than any number of old v1 adventures, but the fact that it ends up in the core timeline certainly elevates it.

The good news is that you can completely ignore this aspect, if you don't plan to run an adventure set on an aircraft carrier!

it actually in many people's minds called into question the whole timeline and background - it really needs to be removed from the game - it is non-sensical - and considering all releases to dates have been pdf's it can be done easily - i.e. I have done updates to pdf releases - but once those books get published then its a lot harder

[Raellus]

Originally Posted by Olefin

100 percent correct - and I wonder if Tomas missed the part about the Harry S. Truman never entering the Baltic - anyone want to take a guess he saw that it participatedin BALTOPS and never read the part about the ship remaining in the Med?

Could be. I wonder if anyone has pointed this out to him. IIRC, quite a few people who commented on the Alpha complained about the Truman in the Baltic. If FL decided not to change that bit then, they're probably not going change it now. Either the FL team doesn't think it's that implausible or, as Unipus posited, they've got future plans for it.

Originally Posted by Olefin

it actually in many people's minds called into question the whole timeline and background - it really needs to be removed from the game - it is non-sensical - and considering all releases to dates have been pdf's it can be done easily - i.e. I have done updates to pdf releases - but once those books get published then its a lot harder

Have you suggested this to Free League? Posting about it here isn't likely to do any good. It's essentially crying over spilled milk, and that's not particularly constructive.

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[Olefin]

Originally Posted by Raellus

Could be. I wonder if anyone has pointed this out to him. IIRC, quite a few people who commented on the Alpha complained about the Truman in the Baltic. If FL decided not to change that bit then, they're probably not going change it now. Either the FL team doesn't think it's that implausible or, as Unipus posited, they've got future plans for it.



Have you suggested this to Free League? Posting about it here isn't likely to do any good. It's essentially crying over spilled milk, and that's not particularly constructive.

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Or used bad information - i.e. its in a BALTOPS so they must have sent it into the Baltic - but never did the research to find out that the only thing that was part of it was its planes flown from the Med - or are embarrassed they might have made that kind of mistake - its easy to do - heck I had to change my East Africa Sourcebook to remove a unit I originally had in it that later on I found out was not possible to have been there - it happens