Announcement from Free League Publishing

[Raellus]

Alone Together

Having said that, so far, it stretches my credulity that the reviving USSR, alone, could take on NATO (possibly expanded with Poland and others) and hold on for years. Speculation: is there still a Soviet war with the PRC That might work to the Soviet's benefit, if there isn't.

I agree with this 100%. IIRC, someone in the know mentioned that FL has the PRC allied with the USSR in v4. That evens the odds just a bit. My memory could be faulty on this point, though.

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[Adm.Lee]

OK, 'cause a neutral PRC would be in a lot better shape to dominate the 21st century than a neutral France. IMO.

[Legbreaker]

OK, 'cause a neutral PRC would be in a lot better shape to dominate the 21st century than a neutral France. IMO.

And without strong international powers to hold them in check, dominate they would. China has long been known to have expansionist aspirations. With the US, UK, etc tied down elsewhere, what's to stop them rolling through south east asia and beyond Harsh language and disapproving looks

[swaghauler]

Not bad at all.

None of that's in 4th though, not a single bit.

I would hope not since I have never posted my alternate history in its entirety anywhere online. I simply use it to show that you CAN have a post PACT Russia that's dangerous to the US and NATO.

[swaghauler]

I like this a lot. Good job.

Just like your posting, it's simply a quick alternate history to validate a resurgent Russia in a V2.2 timeline. Since my players are enamored of my Africa modern-day MERC campaign, the alternate history is just gathering dust.

I do kind of wish that Free League had considered a 2030 conflict with:
Russia
China
NK
Iran
Syria
and maybe Turkey switching allegiance

Versus...

NATO
Japan
SK
The ANZACS

That could be an interesting take on Twilight 2030.

[swaghauler]

Unless you dig the new rools-lite cartoony edition's system angle, or you think there's money to be made, I have no idea why any of you guys that have published canon material for the previous editions would want to have your names associated with the new edition. Protect your reputations, I say.

Having experienced both MUTANT and FORBIDDEN LANDS, I'm not sure how they plan on handling the crunch of modern combat (full-auto, explosives, enhanced guided munitions, etc...) so I'm waiting until I can get my hands on a copy. Even if the system doesn't work for me, I'll "data mine" it like I did TW2K13. There's LOTS of good stuff in TW2K13 like the CUF rules, the scavenge rules, and the skills stuff.

[comped]

Having experienced both MUTANT and FORBIDDEN LANDS, I'm not sure how they plan on handling the crunch of modern combat (full-auto, explosives, enhanced guided munitions, etc...) so I'm waiting until I can get my hands on a copy. Even if the system doesn't work for me, I'll "data mine" it like I did TW2K13. There's LOTS of good stuff in TW2K13 like the CUF rules, the scavenge rules, and the skills stuff.

I adore a lot of the extra careers 13 had, and some of the sidebars in the timeline were fairly well written. Actually, I didn't mind the timeline as an attempt to update the game either. Not perfect, but nothing is.

[pansarskott]

On a similar note, it's interesting to see that the Free League forums typically have two or more sections for each game they produce. Usually it's as follows: -
General
GM's Only
Swedish Corner

The section for Twilight: 2000 has only one heading - General.
This is also the situation for another non-Free League IP, The One Ring (i.e. Lord of the Rings).

No need for a GM section until there's a game available, perhaps I don't know if the other forums were divided from start. Maybe the sub-forums were added in response to how many posts are made, or the need for language-specific forums.

[Olefin]

Make your voices heard as much as you can with Free League as early and as often as you can - we made this possible not them - if we hadnt supported the Kickstarter there wouldnt have been a game - as such dont sit back and hope they release a good game with a realistic background and campaign setting

Make your voices heard because this wont be just a pdf - it will be published in paper form - and we all know how hard it is to fix it if its screwed up and already out there in printed format and they find out the hard way that they ended up pissing off a lot of the fan base because we stayed silent and counted on them to do the right thing.

[Olefin]

Also keep in mind that confirmed by the publisher this is NOT a modified V2.2 timeline - it's V4 - a whole new timeline and campaign set up written by people who in the main have not played the game and are not members of this board or other boards - meaning that when the time comes to comment please do so - if not don't be pissed or disappointed with the final outcome.

It will be up to them if they do listen to us - if they don't then we may have wasted our money. But it won't be on us that the new game fails or have issues.

And also frankly it would be nice to not have background, canon and timeline arguments or complaints for the rest of eternity on the new version - i.e. better to have input before the final version not after.

[Lurken]

I can only agree with what Olefin have said. Speak now, speak often and speak with passion about what you love about T2k and want to se in T2k:FL.