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If food was as scarce as the Players Manual states then the human race would be on the edge of extinction - and the Soviet Forces would be literally eating each other to try to stay alive. Plus those survivors running for the woods would be starved to death in days. The area they have to cover and a...

Perhaps a little bit of calm and consideration might be called for. Speculating in categorical statements on what others actually mean by their texts or really are interested in isn't conducive to a constructive discussion — on either side. A clarification could indeed also be called for. The way t...

Gathering food needs to be completely worked out - the amount of food you can gather and the area you need to look for it sounds like trying to gather food in the Sahara Desert. Not in central and Northern Europe. I have grandparents who during the Great Depression had to eke out what little they co...

The entire US carrier is anchored at Stockholm makes no sense at all - its been debated in detail at the forum juhlin site but there is no way - as in ZERO PERCENT - that a US supercarrier woud be going to Stockholm. To get it there we are talking upwards of 100km of sailing, almost every single ste...

Just thinking about this a little: How is this for a framework to get to a powerful USSR with Warsaw Pact? 1. Start the timeline earlier 2. Perestroika for a couple years, the East Germans or Czechs leave earlier than 1989, Gorbachev is replaced by hard liners. Rest of Warsaw Pact must toe the line...

One thing I'd add is the problem of incongruities and the way human imagination works. RPGs settings tend to unravel over time if they have certain in-built incongruities from the outset. As more people apply brain power to a setting, the more it can potentially become unravelled if it's core has v...

Great discussion here. I'll just make two quick points: 1. "Plausible" is not an absolute term. What's plausible varies immensely from person to person. No matter what backstory we'd write that ended up with scattered US troops in Poland in the year 2000, it would be called implausible by...

and FYI - this timeline is one that includes the US kicking the Iraqi's butts in 1991 - which shows the technological edge the US had over the Soviets - and yet you have the Soviets destroying the US Army and Air Force and Navy - which were so far ahead technologically in the 90's that even Putin ha...

The background and timeline and war as presented make a farce of what this was supposed to be about - which is two great power blocs fighting to a stalemate that neither side wins - instead what hou have is a Soviets Uber Alles victory that ends up with no large organized US or NATO forces left of a...

Hoping that official published material like the RDF and the East Africa Sourcebook can make it into the canon for the V4 as well as things like the Korean Sourcebook that was recently put out on drivethrurpg.com