Bring TW2000 into the present

[LT. Ox]

Originally Posted by TrailerParkJawa

My thoughts tend to range around how much more fragile society is today compared to the mid 80's when the game was written and the late 90's when the nuclear exchange takes place as opposed to the how it actually starts.

America doesn't manufacture much of our own critical infrastructure needs any more. In the 80's there were still some factories around. Even here in the SF Bay Area there were some local farms. Now not only are most of those factories and farms gone the population has grown to a point where there is no way you can feed people without modern petroleum based agriculture.

Throw in a population that has no living memory of doing things with out electricity, computers, internet, oil, etc the outcome is doubtful.

Heck even the number of libraries or bookstores with information is markedly reduced.

but really "Farms In Berkley"
It would take a really long post and be a bit boring to others to list the changes in the north east bay.
I hunted Dove in the fields were Standard Oil had the storage tanks.
laugh made a muzzle loading rifle in School shop and a long hunters knife.
Now a kid gets expelled for drawing a picture of a gun.
I live in western Colorado now and we have a good balance of manufacturing and farm industry very good infrastructure and a lot of water and Old farts like me yet around that know how to make do.
so It really makes a difference where yer at today I think it always has.
My Two cents

[Silent Hunter UK]

Originally Posted by LT. Ox

but really "Farms In Berkley"
It would take a really long post and be a bit boring to others to list the changes in the north east bay.
I hunted Dove in the fields were Standard Oil had the storage tanks.
laugh made a muzzle loading rifle in School shop and a long hunters knife.
Now a kid gets expelled for drawing a picture of a gun.

I made toy guns out of LEGO when I was a kid...

[TrailerParkJawa]

Originally Posted by LT. Ox

but really "Farms In Berkley"
It would take a really long post and be a bit boring to others to list the changes in the north east bay.
I hunted Dove in the fields were Standard Oil had the storage tanks.
laugh made a muzzle loading rifle in School shop and a long hunters knife.
Now a kid gets expelled for drawing a picture of a gun.
I live in western Colorado now and we have a good balance of manufacturing and farm industry very good infrastructure and a lot of water and Old farts like me yet around that know how to make do.
so It really makes a difference where yer at today I think it always has.
My Two cents

Not sure what you mean by "Farms in Berkley". Is that a reference? Berkeley has been built out since at least the 1950's. I was recently visiting friends in Antioch. Lots of new homes out that way. If you've been gone for a while you might be shocked at how much growth there has been.

When I was a kid (70s/80s) my friends dad hunted ducks in the salt ponds of Union City. I had a teacher whose dad hunted pheasant in the 1940s around San Carlos.