Thu 09 Dec 2021, 04:01
The game takes place about halfway through the actual Collapse.
- Top flight tanks [Abrams, T90's, Challengers] are still in military units, but the oil distribution system has been destroyed worldwide so everybody is using ethanol for fuel, and are filtering used POL stocks for lubricants.
- The transportation grid is utterly destroyed, and local sources are being used [or stolen] for food.
- The troops haven't shot up all the pre-War ammunition yet, but nobody knows what'll happen once it's gone.
- Advanced systems [tank main guns, ATGM systems, ADA systems etc.] are on the absolute last of their respective ammo. The factories to produce more are bombed, the ships to carry them are mostly sunk, and the roads to deliver them to units are wrecked.
- Some governments still struggle to hold it together; The UK has zones of stability in England, Germany, while wrecked, still maintains an identity as a nation-state; the US has all but given up trying to enforce its territorial sovereignty... too many of its people are dead, too many of its troops are in Europe, Africa and the Pacific, its industry is destroyed, and it simply has too much ground to cover with too few assets to cover them.