Where Striker II and Command Decision "fail" is that they are all about
detailed equipment-centric ground engagements with air as abstract
supporting events, rather than air and ground operating together in a
continuous tissue. In other words, they are a game about a different level
of examination. A game that captured the whole operational tissue would
not be about detailed vehicle design and performance.
A few days ago when I first heard a report on Ukraine mention, "ethnic
Russians," my mind immediately flashed to a National Lampoon comic strip
from 1979/80. It's a picture of the Kremlin with the phone ringing, and
then word bubbles: "What the? It's Afghanistan calling, and they need our
help!" Deja vu all over again, this time with a warm-water port directly
involved, instead of just domino-wise.
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>
detailed equipment-centric ground engagements with air as abstract
supporting events, rather than air and ground operating together in a
continuous tissue. In other words, they are a game about a different level
of examination. A game that captured the whole operational tissue would
not be about detailed vehicle design and performance.
A few days ago when I first heard a report on Ukraine mention, "ethnic
Russians," my mind immediately flashed to a National Lampoon comic strip
from 1979/80. It's a picture of the Kremlin with the phone ringing, and
then word bubbles: "What the? It's Afghanistan calling, and they need our
help!" Deja vu all over again, this time with a warm-water port directly
involved, instead of just domino-wise.
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>