Anyone Have Any Good Alternate Campaign Startup Ideas?

[mikeo80]

Here is an idea I have toyed with over the years.

USA vs Canada and Mexico

How did my crazed brain come up with this one

Economics:

IF the US takes Canada, we have access to ALL of the myriad raw materials that exist in Canada.

IF the US takes Mexico, we have MILLIONS of laborers to work in our production facilities, cuts WAY down on illegal immigration, the only land access point is Southern Mexico, a LONG way from the USA.

IF the US were to pull back from NATO and Korea, the US would have a HUGE military advantage over both countries. THe US could then become isolationish and let the rest of the world stew in it's own juices.

Just a thought from my fevorish brain. And, no, I am not on any drugs like Oxy or Tylenol 4 or anything else. Just me daydreaming....

My $0.02

Mike

[Targan]

Wow, the US forcefully annexing Canada is one of the few scenarios I can think of that would break the US-Australian alliance. Not that that would be any deterrant, I'm under no illusions about who is the (very) junior partner in the alliance. But the US invading any Commonwealth country would end any further cordial relations with the rest of the Commonwealth (with the possible exception of Pakistan and maybe some of the Caribbean and African member states which are already basket cases).

[Rainbow Six]

For UK characters you could have a campaign based on the 6th Infantry Division's retreat from the Yalu back to Hong Kong during the summer of 1997.

You could also have a Hong Kong based campaign set in the summer of 2000 where the PC's have to deal with various Chinese bandits and local strongmen.

[Olefin]

Boy talk about a long walk - the Yalu all the way to whatever is left of Hong Kong - course anyone who broke out of Kalisz didnt exactly have a short walk either to Krakow and then to Germany.

[General Pain]

Twilight 1946+. What if WWII didn't end. Hitler was assassinated and the German General staff sued for peace. The US and allies agreed but the Russians, well they wanted payback or more specifically Stalin did. It was an uneasy year from late 44 to late 45 and then the Russians started advancing again.

During that year the SS was purged and all guilty parties for the atrocities were put into prison for the crimes of genocide in the concentration camps and such.

As the Russians advanced some of them were given the oportunity to join Redemption Battalions to throw up against the Russians, some took it and fought for Germany (nationalism runs very high with the Germans at this time). They were mostly the young officers and enlisted. The senior officers and enlisted that were directly and actually guilty of crimes in the camps were not given this opportunity.

The rest of the German Soldiers and allot of British and American Troops, maneuvered to stop the advance.

The War Continues on. (have not decided about the atomic bombs). This is a bit of a chance to play around with those weapons that were not realy used much if any at the end. Also to have a bit of fun playing around of what would of been developed.

I think the people may have been re-energized with a bit of indignation and nationalism once again that the war was almost over with Germany and that Japan may have been rethinking since there only ally had dropped out of the war. At least until Russia had betrayed the rest of the allies and killed US and British troops (think of something like Malmedy massacre). A bunch of overrun troops early in the Russian advance surrendered in the confusion, but Stalin being mad had given the orders of no quarter to any SS, unfortunately for these troops there had been some SS prisoners with them and the Russian soldiers misunderstood or just didn't care and killed them all type of an incident.

I'm still working on a bunch of scribbled notes on paper with a bunch of stuff such as weapons and Vehicle development. As far as various advances and strategies, the only thing I have come up with is that Stalin has a good amount of his armies advancing to secure things like the oil fields of Ploiesti and such for his new war effort, possibly convincing china to join him in exchange for better equipment then the allies have given them to fight the Japanese and that the Japanese are in talks with US.

Its a crazy mixed up world that almost anything is possible. As far as Atomic bombs. Right now I am thinking that the powers to be are still sitting on them, not knowing just what to do with them right now that things have changed. Or weather that Russia has the capability to develop them or not at this time. Perhaps Stalin has his boys working on them at a faster pace.

Ideas are welcome.



War. War never changes

HI.

I like where this is going. www.luft46.com have a lot of drawings of aircraftprojects that never left the drawingboard, I & HQ designed a lot fo these and they are all posted for easy download @ TBBoW