[ Closed ] A Twilight 2k esque or Mercenary Sim (Page 4 of 5)

It gets kind of crazy sometimes.

Anyways though, we all set for the Multi National Quick Reaction Force made up of the 101 Airborne 1st Marine Division, and Some to be named British and German units?

Well, thanks for your two cents. I'll add them to the mutual fund. But yes, that is how I was going to do it. I feel like the focus has been misconstrued so I'll clearly state it

Basically, you're members of a 3 part task force who was sent to (Not sure on the country yet) during the war. And you're whats left of it. Most of your are Rear Echelon, with a few grunts mixed in.

The special forces idea, seemed. Too much.

Ahhh, OK Carlos, that does seem more like TW2K then.   I would be willing to take a char then. Leaning toward a medical type right now. Or, depending on the country we are roaming around in, maybe a local sympathizer with the NATO cause if we are still doing NATO.

My own preference would be 2000 over 2020 due to the whole tech bit (communications, drones, and a whole lot else in new weaponry by then I'm guessing) but in the end it's your call, your game!

So the setting is to be in Europe on or about 2000 A.D.?

I guess I'll play a 0313-LAV crewman, without their LAV

I'd like to have some useful skills

Hi, friendly neighborhood ex-military here.

It's an acronym for Rear Echelon Mother F****r i.e. a person who stays in relative safety at a base in the rear taking care of supplies, personnel matters, intelligence analysis or any of a number of other jobs. Another term I've heard used is FOBbit, or fobbit, where FOB is an acronym for Forward Operations Base, which again is a place of relative safety as opposed to the infantry, cavalry and other people out in the field.

I say other people because Civil Affairs and Human Intelligence collectors are also frequently found outside the base.

I think I'm going to switch and play a reserve (i.e. part time) Civil Affairs specialist whose full time job is college student. That way I don't kill everybody with jargon.

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I'd be willing to help contribute, though my jargon only dates to 2007.

The jargon listing is an excellent idea but I would prefer it be right on the game forum and only pertain to the game for those players to utilize. If you include jargon for all games it only makes for more work, much bigger list, and confusing to know if it pertains to the game you as a player are in.

Oh and any idea where our group is going to be operating in? I guess I'm assuming Europe but will it be Germany, Poland, Ukraine, etc?

Also the Warsaw Pact died way before 2020 so is it NATO against Russia? That would have been pretty onesided. The Russian army is nowhere near as big anymore.

Yet another reason I like the old TW2K in that they have NATO v.s.Warsaw Pact, more balanced. Yep, I realize by 2000 there was no WP anymore but when they made the game they didn't know that. 

Wouldn't China take advantage of the situation?

Krista,

Strategically China might take advantage to attack Taiwan and reunite the Chinese. Get embroiled with Japan and maybe go south to hit the Vietnamese but regardless, no Chinese troops would get as far as Europe which I guess most of us are assuming our chars will be roaming around in.

I like mlb38's idea of the Soviet Union not collapsing so we could still have the Warsaw Pact and of course obviously NATO.

Guess we can leave the details to the GM though.