With a decade of tanking, and knowing the T90 derived from the "quantity"
T62-T72 lineage ad opposed to the "quality" lineage of T64 - T80 which died
out due to economic reasons, I think US armor would annihilate Russians,
even without complete combined arms supremacy (which I would also expect).
Of course, before the Abrams/Bradley/Apache were fielded, I would have
given the edge to Warsaw Pact in retrospect, particularly in a Fulda Gap
scenario, though NATO should have maintained naval and air dominance to
make it really interesting. Do you think Striker II models pretty
decently?
Paranoid Soviet logistics would stink almost as bad Western political
backbone, though so interesting to see which side would throw away their
advantage first, but most war games don't assume political/strategic
ineptitude.
As far as Ukraine, it echoes said political ineptitude more than anything
from my perspective.
- Sent from my SM-N900T
On Mar 2, 2014 2:36 PM, <> wrote:
>
>
> Because of the way that TNE was always related to Twilight:2000,
> indirectly through 2300, the one-time "New Traveller," as well as directly
> through the "House Rules," not to mention that we were doing them at the
> same time, I can't help looking at the current Ukraine situation as a
> possible point of departure for the Twilight War for someone who wanted to
> graft it onto more recent history. Obviously not as directly relevant as
> the Yeltsin moment Frank chose for T2KV2.2, but similar enough that it
> reminds me of it. This one would have to be dressed and fluffed up a lot
> more, and would never approach the Reagan-era zeitgeist of original T2K,
> but it is the first thing in a while that has even reminded me of T2K.
>
>
>
T62-T72 lineage ad opposed to the "quality" lineage of T64 - T80 which died
out due to economic reasons, I think US armor would annihilate Russians,
even without complete combined arms supremacy (which I would also expect).
Of course, before the Abrams/Bradley/Apache were fielded, I would have
given the edge to Warsaw Pact in retrospect, particularly in a Fulda Gap
scenario, though NATO should have maintained naval and air dominance to
make it really interesting. Do you think Striker II models pretty
decently?
Paranoid Soviet logistics would stink almost as bad Western political
backbone, though so interesting to see which side would throw away their
advantage first, but most war games don't assume political/strategic
ineptitude.
As far as Ukraine, it echoes said political ineptitude more than anything
from my perspective.
- Sent from my SM-N900T
On Mar 2, 2014 2:36 PM, <> wrote:
>
>
> Because of the way that TNE was always related to Twilight:2000,
> indirectly through 2300, the one-time "New Traveller," as well as directly
> through the "House Rules," not to mention that we were doing them at the
> same time, I can't help looking at the current Ukraine situation as a
> possible point of departure for the Twilight War for someone who wanted to
> graft it onto more recent history. Obviously not as directly relevant as
> the Yeltsin moment Frank chose for T2KV2.2, but similar enough that it
> reminds me of it. This one would have to be dressed and fluffed up a lot
> more, and would never approach the Reagan-era zeitgeist of original T2K,
> but it is the first thing in a while that has even reminded me of T2K.
>
>
>