Character Generation

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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

I know somewhere on this forum or its predecessor we've had discussions of whether Desert Storm would have taken place in the T2K timeline (I think we had a 50/50 split), but I question whether the Somalia or Balkans interventions would have taken place.

Paul,

The game background naturally doesn't speak specifically to these events The dates for Somalia and Desert Storm don't conflict with the game, per se.

You could fit Desert Storm in, with the Coalition forces stopping at the border once liberating Kuwayt by Soviet pressure. Saddam and the Baath loyalists thus become the "pro-Soviet" Iraqis. The Somalian relief could have occurred while the Soviet Union was preoccupied with internal troubles. The Yugoslav civil war is a little harder to shoehorn in unless you posit some kind of reunification prior to the Twilight War.

There is mention of "brushfire wars" in v1, so if things didn't happen exactly as they did in our timeline, something happened to drive conflict in the world. If "real" history doesn't fit, you can still use the idea of "war terms" prior to the Twilight War, just make up your own conflicts or whatever.

Tony