New Member's Thread

[Red Diamond]

Greetings,
I started playing RPG with the first or second addition of D&D, (the old blue colored one.) Then got into AD&D, and other TSR games such as Top Secret and there was a brief stint playing Car Wars as I recall. I played Gulf Strike and Aegean Strike and then discovered Twilight: 2000 right around 1987-time frame.
There wasn't much demand for the game, so I left the RPG world and decided to do these adventures in real life by joining the Army.
I had a hard time "keeping a job" during my stint so I spent time as a Combat Engineer, Infantry, Military Intelligence, Special Forces and retired as a Pol-Mil Officer.
In my last job before retiring, I was part of a team that had to write scenarios for an enemy land invasion of Japan to support a bilateral US-Japan annual exercise. You can imagine what a joy that was as you try to wish away the 7th Fleet and 5th Airf Force to allow a land invasion and expect your Navy and AF counterparts to participate in the exercise.
As a retiree I wrote many "Road To Wars" supporting various US, British and NATO exercises as well as other forms of exercise support. The irony with that is that I do not enjoy writing at all.
Let me just say, I feel the pain for those that try to write the background/alter reality for the various versions of Twillight.

A few months ago, I was cleaning out my garage and found my old Twilight: 2000 gear. I thought I had found a mint and got online to find out how much I could sell this treasure for when I discovered that Twilight:2000 had not only been active but spawned into 2e 2.2, 2013, 4e and several different dimensions and altered realities!

The RPG world has come a long way since the 80's and now, after purchasing 4e and deciphering what the hell YZE, d20 and what not, I'm ready to sew the Red Diamond patch on my BDUs and get ready for the last offensive of the war which will surely end in victory!! Right?

[Raellus]

Welcome aboard, Marco, TGirl Kelley, Overlored, Azrael, and Red Diamond! It's good to have y'all here.

@Red Diamond, I'm not sure we've ever had an RL US 5th ID veteran on the forum.

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[Red Diamond]

Oh no, that was just a bad joke. I'm old but not that old.
I was never mech, stationed in Europe and the 5th was disbanded while I was in Jr High I believe. I was saying I would put the Red Diamond on my BDUs in reference to the game.

[HaplessOperator]

I've a shocking lack of wealth and taste.

Been lurking for a minute, reading up on the older editions and such and what people thought of them, and how they compare to 4th.

I've been doing a lot of version comparison, seeing if 1e/2.2 might be better suited for what I'm trying to set up, and if one or the other offers more verisimilitude in its "feel" vice how quickly they can be run for small unit skirmishing, and the forums here have been a big help. Still not sure where I land on it, but it's been a ton of fascinating discussion from a bunch of obviously experienced folks.

Been fun reading the ol' Cold Warriors talking that seem to run around here, too. Wildly different experience than I had, it seems.

[Targan]

Welcome to the group, HaplessOperator

There's a huge amount of good information to be mined in the archives. I've often spent hours going back through the old discussions.

[Raellus]

Welcome aboard, HaplessOperator! If you can't find what you're looking for with the search function, feel free to ask a mod, or post a new topic. And don't hesitate to resurrect an old thread.

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[Red Diamond]

Yeah, there's tons of information for the game, background, real life and simulation life experience in here.
Very impressive.