T2K: State of the U.S. Army in the late Twilight War

[Legbreaker]

Even conscripts are going to feel the sense of family. It might only be a sense all conscripts are in the same boat, but they will still feel it. This may go some way towards explaining why individual desertions from the PACT forces were fairly minimal while whole units disobeyed higher command and stuck together (at least initially until the supplies on hand ran out).

[Webstral]

In most cases, however, soldiers kept fighting for the same reason soldiers have continued to fight under miserable circumstances for millennia- they fought for their buddies.

A very nice piece of work, Raellus. I agree with others that this would make a very good, very tidy introduction to Twilight: 2000 for new players.


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[Webstral]

US Forces stationed in the United States would therefore, I believe, have a much higher desertion rate due to soldiers wanting to return to their home communities (presuming they are not known to have been nuked) and ascertain the welfare of family and friends. After all, they can just start walking and eventually they can get there. With little except official communications crossing the country, many service men are going to walk away from their posts and try and check on their families.

Good call on that one. Wherever on e wishes to set the bar for desertions, CONUS is going to have it worse than the ETO, the Middle East, or Korea.

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[Raellus]

A PDF of the article.

[Raellus]

The article translated into Catalan and illustrated by our very own Marc. Thanks, mate!

https://sites.google.com/site/elrefugidelargonauta/twilight-2000/estat-de-l-exercit-dels-estats-units-a-les-acaballes-del-conflicte

[Marc]

Thanks to you, Raellus.

After reading your Ok, Ive added the link to access the page from our Twilight:2000 section of LArgonauta. Im sure our visitors will enjoy the overall result.

[Lundgren]

Really nice writeup

Shows that there are a lot of good information that I still haven't found at this forum.

[B.T.]

@ Raellus: Excellent write-up, good info, consider it "stolen"
@Marc: I cant read it, but the illustrations seem very fitting!

[Raellus]

Thanks, guys. I'm currently working on a "chapter" on cantonments. I'll post a draft for review as soon as its finished.

[Draq]

An excellent article, I've included it in my 'introduction' folder. A small compilation of things that form a comprehensive summary of the setting for v1 t2k, without having to sort through the books.

[Raellus]

Thanks, Draq. I'm pleased that you found it helpful.

[pmulcahy11b]

This is a good article. Just one point I'd like to make. While aircraft and helicopter use was still viable, rear-area troops could find themselves fighting special ops, airborne, and air assault troops on a regular basis -- Soviet OPLANs called for huge drops to capture certain supplies such as CEOIs, KYK modules, POL -- and places like B/D/G/JTACS and B/D/G/JTOCS practice sudden mass relocations (sudden for them, still takes about an hour for everyone to get going). They will also find themselves plastered by artillery, rockets, missiles, and air strikes, more than a soldier at the front might see.

[Raellus]

I didn't mean to imply that rear-area/support troops didn't see any combat prior to the manpower shortages that necessitated their conversion to line infantry. You're absolutely right about shelling and Soviet raiders. I just meant that they wouldn't have a lot of firsthand experience in conducting basic infantry tactics- much less, at least, than front-line troops.

[swaghauler]

Nice post man.