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  • #16
    Originally posted by comped View Post
    So I guess that every sourcebook except for perhaps the Korean one may or may not be actually useful as written. Modules Who knows, we'd need to see specifics, but it seems as if the previous edition's sourcebooks (your own included) are probably not going to easily be useful for this timeline if it's as you say.
    Almost all have been rendered essentially useless, including Korea.
    If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.

    Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"

    Mors ante pudorem

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Legbreaker View Post
      Almost all have been rendered essentially useless, including Korea.
      Well, Free League did say they wanted to disconnect with the previous versions - I just didn't think they'd spit in the faces of the fans producing content for the game before they got the contract.

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      • #18
        Am I the only one who just uses the original timeline but spins it back to the 80's

        If you set the Twilight war between 1986 and 1989 it just works. Most of the kit fits perfectly, just ditch stuff like the G11.

        I never understood the fixation with keeping it in the 90's when it works so much better from an 80's perspective. The guys behind the Team Yankee game figured this out, setting the game in 1985.

        My gaming group has even started mixing the two together in our Twilight 2000 games, using Team Yankee rules to play out large scale encounters.

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        • #19
          Twilight 1980s

          Originally posted by Fallenkezef View Post
          Am I the only one who just uses the original timeline but spins it back to the 80's
          Maybe. It's a bit embarrassing, but the idea never occurred to me.

          Originally posted by Fallenkezef View Post
          If you set the Twilight war between 1986 and 1989 it just works. Most of the kit fits perfectly, just ditch stuff like the G11.
          True, except the name of game, Twilight 2000, doesn't really make sense if the game is set in the late 1980s.

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          Author of Twilight 2000 adventure modules, Rook's Gambit and The Poisoned Chalice, the campaign sourcebook, Korean Peninsula, the gear-book, Baltic Boats, and the co-author of Tara Romaneasca, a campaign sourcebook for Romania, all available for purchase on DriveThruRPG:

          https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...--Rooks-Gambit
          https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...ula-Sourcebook
          https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...nia-Sourcebook
          https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...liate_id=61048
          https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/...-waters-module

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Raellus View Post
            Maybe. It's a bit embarrassing, but the idea never occurred to me.



            True, except the name of game, Twilight 2000, doesn't really make sense if the game is set in the late 1980s.

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            Sure if you want to be picky

            Yeah, Twilight 1990 doesn't have the same ring to it but could rename the game to "The Twilight War" or summat similar. Either way, setting it in the 80's works in every single way. The original timeline fits, all the kit from the sourcebooks work etc.

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            • #21
              I created a campaign back when the game originally came out and called it BAOR 1985.

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              • #22
                Originally posted by hell-fish View Post
                ...I honestly have no idea. I didn't read a word of Soviet economics while I wrote this. Do you have an idea How did Stalin's economy keep chugging during WWII ...
                My understanding is by Lend Lease by the US and UK, if not for that Stalin's economy would have collapsed.

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by CDAT View Post
                  My understanding is by Lend Lease by the US and UK, if not for that Stalin's economy would have collapsed.
                  This sheds some light on the topic. https://youtu.be/46sqhBhHJ-M
                  If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.

                  Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"

                  Mors ante pudorem

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by CDAT View Post
                    My understanding is by Lend Lease by the US and UK, if not for that Stalin's economy would have collapsed.
                    And it wasn't just vehicles, aircraft and weapons supplied under Lend Lease, there were thousands of tons of food sent as well. Soviet soldiers were often supplied meat that was farmed and packaged in the USA and sent over as aid.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by StainlessSteelCynic View Post
                      And it wasn't just vehicles, aircraft and weapons supplied under Lend Lease, there were thousands of tons of food sent as well. Soviet soldiers were often supplied meat that was farmed and packaged in the USA and sent over as aid.
                      Fon't forget oil and fuel. Texas fueled the Red Army.
                      Running a T2k game on Discord. Want to join us? PM me.

                      I am a tomato, to some.

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