Version 1.0 Setting Background

[Mahatatain]

Thanks again for all the comments and insights – very useful indeed.

For the timeline I’m creating I think that Operation Restore Hope in Somalia won’t have happened as I agree with raketenjagdpanzer.

GW1 presents a much larger problem though because without the lessons learned there, as Legbreaker pointed out, there are a load of other changes that would need to be made, particularly in the form of new vehicles and weapon systems that wouldn’t have been developed and I don’t fancy attempting to try to work out (as a GM) what doesn’t exist (I don’t think that I have the knowledge to do it anyway!). I could simply just take what’s in the books but as I’m using a variant of the v2.2 rules that is already blurred and I’m going to end up in lots of conversations with my players regarding what gear is and isn’t available.

I therefore need to keep GW1 in the background somehow and my thought is to have a smaller scale version of GW1 that involves less commitment in terms of British troops but which still generates the learnings that the real one did. While this might have some slightly unrealistic elements to it I don’t think that it’s a major issue. It will cause increased friction between NATO and the Soviet Union but then that just helps explain the eventual descent into the Twilight War several years later.

One thing though – several people have mentioned Webstral’s timeline of events. Does anyone have a link to this because I would like to have a read and quite possibly just use it!

Lastly I need to go and refresh my memory of Iran according to the RDF sourcebook as that is also different to reality and needs to be covered off.

Thanks for all the comments.

Mahatatain.