Possible new project for James

[James Langham]

Originally Posted by Rainbow Six

If you go for a specific time period that leaves options reasonably open for people to select an area that they may have knowledge / experience of. For example, I would have very little confidence in my own ability to write something convincing and authentic about the experiences of a US National Guardsman or a Polish civilian - in my case it's simply a matter of not fully understanding the culture, the language, the nuances, etc. Whilst there is always a challenge in trying something different so I might give it a try, but I'd be concerned that anything I produced would be at best full of sterotypes and and at worst wholly inaccurate. My own 'preference' (for lack of a better word) is British subject matter (whether that be at home, in Europe, the Far East, or elsewhere). Others may have different preferences, so selecting a time period as opposed to a specific location / theme would allow those who wanted to particpate to work with subject matter of choice.

(I hope that makes sense...)

Having read your material I think you sell yourself short. I too prefer UK material BUT I guess this would be limited in this forum both as a writing base and for interest. My only worry with a year is that it could lose focus. Maybe the Norway campaign might be an option with UK, USMC, Norwegian and Pact troops to choose from?

[Medic]

Norway campaign and the thrust through North Finland? I can help with the material on the Finnish troops in the region.

[Raellus]

Norway's an interesting theater, but it's not one that I know very much about. IIRC, there's really only one official module that deals specifically with conditions in Norway and I'm guessing that not many of us have experience playing in or GM'ing campaigns in Norway. I know that we have at least two Norwegians on the forum, so that could help.

A little known setting could help or hurt a project like this. On the one hand, not much is already written in stone, so one could write with a little more creative freedom. On the other hand, that freedom might make it hard to know where to begin, or it might lead to very disparate visions of the setting with no solid foundation for use in arbitration.

May I suggest An Oral History of WWIII in Poland, instead? Most of us have either played or run campaigns set there and most of us have at least a passing knowledge of Polish geography, history, and culture. There's lots of canonical material to riff on, and nearly every NATO nationality had troops there at some time, so it wouldn't be hard to write for a British, American, German, Dane, Canadian, etc. character. As for WTO forces in Poland, you would at least have Soviets, Red Poles, Czechs, and loyalist East Germans.

[James Langham]

Anybody else willing to help?

[Rainbow Six]

Count me in (although with the caveat that I probably wont be able to start on anything new until the beginning of September - I'm away on holiday last two weeks of August and have a shed load of stuff to try and do before then).