If you were making a Battlefield-esque video game set in a Cold

9th November 2016.

'53-'62

That's when things got the most "hot" during the Cold War

>>31931084
Likely 1984.

The planets align and the Soviets go mad and start attacking everybody, launch all nukes.

The first half of the campaign would be a fairly simple calladooty type shooter, until the nukes fall.

>fiftythousandpeopleusedtolivehere.wav

The second half would be a STALKER/Fallout scenario based on gathering remnants of the past and finding something, possibly based on why the Soviets got so angry during the planetary alignment.

Give me some time and I could probably come up with a decent script.

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Late 1980s because muh thrash metal cover art aesthetics.

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>>31931154
Why is the cold war so comfy?

>>31931134
>2ID
>O3
>mustache
>carrying a clipboard
>facial expression towards troops a mixture of disappointment and frustration
>in a steel pot
>M81 woodland
>looks cold and shitty, like the DMZ

hey look it's my dad guys

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I'd even have some retro futuristic stuff in there a la Metal Gear, but just sprinkled.

It'd be sick to have clunky Aliens-CRTV like Hologram briefings.

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I gotta get going, but I'll post some more Cold War art when I get back home

Early 1970's to mid 1970's.

Just before the USAF gets the F-15 and the F-16 but after the VVS/PVO receives the MiG-23 and MiG-25.

I would love to see how the US would fight the war when air superiourity is not garantueed.

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>>31931286

>>31931177
Because if anything goes wrong you don't have to worry about it: you're gonna die. It's surprisingly relaxing.

>>31931222
>colt 9mm
>tactical powerglove prototype
Truly the peak of operating and aesthetics

>>31931084

October to early November.... 1989. instead of all the Warpac countries opening up their borders to the West, the East Germans go ape shit and start shooting the fuck out of their own people and Bonn decides that kind of faggotry is bullshit. US and Soviet forces are left w/ two options- either fucking join the war or fuck off.

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>>31931084
'83.

You have Able Archer, Grenada, and Lebanon all in one sweet package scenario wise, along with that big green machine aesthetic.

Not to mention one of the best years for 80s music.


An example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ&list=PLeGdafRUjXJr2NOQ1npQGq0SCWaADnaAC&index=78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81tbO6M7jE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYlJkGxVPRA

>>31931177

B/c back then the Russians were ten foot tall motherfuckers that everybody and their fucking mom had to deal with. There was never any guarantee that a war between the Red Army's godless Slavic hordes would have been conventional only and any exchange of tact or theater nukes might have seriously escalated into full blown nuclear amrageddon.

That and there's something soul satisfying about hating Commies. Sorta like how cops tasing hippies seem right and proper.

>>31931084
85/87

That's when all the really cool stuff showed up.

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>>31931396
well said comrade!

>>31931084
87-89 for the equipment.
Also with this as a base https://youtu.be/0TN68sp-vIw
(The game is really good) and some plot to stop the nukes, but life ain't no movie son and despite your best efforts and that feel you get in video games that everything will be alright you get to watch powerless as the worlds ends burning

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speaking of cold war gone hot games that early 70s campaign for CMANO was cool with slow escalation until the climax:

>british phantoms and lightnings valiantly defending against backfires and Bear H launching nuclear cruise missiles
>british northern radar sites and RAF lossiemouth get glassed
>RN sacrifices one of their carriers in a suicide mission so its Buccaneers can turrn Murmansk into a nuclear slag pile

>>31931084
right as the soviet union is breaking up. Have some hardcore generals stage a coup de tat and in the confusion a soviet regiment accidentally attacks us forces

>>31931154

Pretty sweat idea.

You could be part of the Royal Navy Task Force head/reclaiming the Falklands for the beginning when the Soviets decide to turn hot when the Royal Navy leaves a serious gap in the GIUK line thus allowing the Soviet SSBNs out and go mad.

>>31931572

say what you want about the game being a spreadsheet for autistics but their trailers are GOAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IumydLyVWQY

>>31931084

Mid 1980's for soundtrack purposes.

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>>31931685
Ahem.... comfiest game of 2015 coming through

>>31931685
>Be in National Guard.
>Be listing to Maneater by Hall and Oates on tape player.
>Be gunning down Cuban troops as they land on Miami beach from Machine gun nest.

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>>31931084
Indochina war

Sometime between 1987 and 1990

>>31931777
Im guessing you're talking about the First Indochina War. But still THIS SO MUCH THIS.

>you will never be a French Foreign Legion lieutenant making a final stand in strong point Gabrielle in Diem Biem Phu

>>31931572
>RN sacrifices one of their carriers in a suicide mission

I should also clarify that the CMANO mission isn't a 100% suicide mission but you don't have to be a top naval analyst to tell that a small NATO carrier just off the northern norway coast that has just shit nuclear hellfire onto the headquarters of the Red Banner Northern Fleet and taken out Backfire staging airfields in the Kola Peninsula probably isn't going to make it back to Portsmouth in one piece(if I remember correctly it gets nuclearly tagged by a SSGN or attacked by Backfires if you survive the SSGN)

early 70s or late 80s(like Red Storm Rising) are the best time for NATO vs Soviet naval war scenarios

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>>31931084
Six day war

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1989, Gorbachev gets BTFO, plane shot down or something.

Shit hits the fan in East Germany, martial law gets imposed.

Mass Soviet invasion of West Germany.

Everyone is saying 80s but I think 50s or 60s is more fair.

>>31932114
Short shorts and 7.62

>>31931084
>>31931112
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>>31931175

What are these from?

>you'll never hunt muj with your comrades
https://youtu.be/EBDc2pDQgVg

>>31932155
Osprey Man-at-Arms books. The name of the artist is Ron Volstad.

I'm not totally sure, but I think those images are from the editions: "US Army Special Forces 1952–84", "Vietnam Airborne" and "Inside the US Army today (1980´s)".

You can find them in Libgen.

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>>31931084
25th of June, 1953

>>31931133
>'53-'62
>That's when things got the most "hot" during the Cold War
This. And back then the sides ware still somewhat equall technically.
I was thinking about it several times - it could be really cool - a lot of weapons that ware in use back then, and now are forgotten, early nv equipment...
As for location - no matter. Everything would be a nuclear wasteland anyway.

>>31931724

Disappointment of the year.

>>31931175
>sheeeeit how come da white boi dont gotta carry all dis heavy sheit

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>>31931084
1986-89 for the god-tier soundtrack, aesthetics, and technology. Alternatively 1962 in a Cuban Missile Crisis gone hot type of scenario,

>>31932094

Tom Clancy recycled trash/10

NATO tries a preemptive invasion of East Germany with the intent of liberating the Warsaw pact nations in the 1980s

The US attempts to assist Hungary during Revolution of 1956

Western Allies re-arms Germany and invades the USSR in 1945

Let's try something original.

>>31931724
True

>>31931084
nice try EA and / or Dice, not doing your job for you

>>31932332
Seriously though, it's about time a good Korean War era FPS was made. It's depressing how swept-under-the-rug that conflict was. Battle of Kapyong in particular would be pretty intense.

>>31932517
Why r u using a tripe code?

>>31932692
Using it until post IDs are a thing on /k/.

>>31932567
Fuck, if they did an 80s cold war gone hot game with the same type of production values as BF1 I'd be a good goy for them.

>>31931992
Oy vey

>>31932745
i just want muh vietnam again

>>31931084
Either mid 50's or mid to late 80's

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>>31932332
>>31932622

>Campaign Starts as you playing a young, recent Marine draftee sent to Japan just before the Korean War.
>Fight in Korea
>Stint as an adviser to the South Vietnamese government.
>Be part of taskforce securing American citizens during the Suez Crisis.
>Campaign switches to the view point of British or french paratroopers, as well as Egyptian tankers taking on Israeli Shermans.
>Protect Civies in Lebanon
>Cuban Missile Crisis, storm cuban beachheads in the shade of a nuclear thunder cloud
>Campaign ends with you as a grizzled veteran, caught on the ground in Europe as NATO launches its pre-emptive invasion in the face of the Soviet buildup aimed at the Middle East, your character riding alongside missile spewing M551 Sheridans with Cobra cover as you charge through the Fulda Gap.

>>31932866
Oh boy am I hard now. Off with these silly pants.

80s-90s for all that new/old tech like wargame. lots of fun hardware and the customization will be good without reaching bf4 levels.

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>>31931084
1945

>>31932745
What we need are more historic games... but made by Tripwire. I.E. Red Orchestra II (WWII Eastern Front), Rising Storm (WWII Pacific Campaign), Rising Storm II (Vietnam), The Parallel Divide? (Korea?), All Loud on the Western Front? (WWI Western Front?), Overlord? (WWII Western Front?), Iberian Struggle? (Napoleonic Wars Peninsular Wars?), Nation Divided? (Civil War?), Zulu Conquest? (Zulu War?), etc.

What's needed more than any of that, however... is a new STALKER game. Even if it's just Call of Pripyat but released on a new engine or at least improved to modern standards like what Capcom has been doing with their Resident Evil series over and over.

>>31931396
Honestly, if it wasn't for hating commies and saluting Ol' Glory, I wouldn't have much reason to live.

>>31932866
At least you included other nationalities than American, right on. French though? I genuinely didn't know that the French had involvement in Korea.

>>31931084
60's but an accidental comet sets of missile sensors for both side nothing launches when they both realise that neither of their nuclear stockpile works they both invade each other simultaneously basically the character is from any side you want just dicking around various parts of the globe fighting capitalists or communists

>>31932953

I was mainly referring to:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis

But it seems there was a somewhat notable unit made up of French volunteers and some French actives for Korea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Battalion_(Korean_War)

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>>31931084
Early 80s for dat aesthetic, lots of comradery, and news bits between missions
>Start off as VDV chilling in Afghanistan, removing kebab, one gunship mission, etc
>Eventually get recruited into GRU and you cheeki breeki with CIA for a bit with your GRU comrades
>get transferred to Europe
>sneaky breeki with Soviet space magic guns against Delta in Germany, WWIII immanent, tasked to destroy key installations, as soon as you complete your mission, Soviet jets fly over
>Cold War goes hot
>Play as German soldier at Fulda, cuts right into you mowing down Soviets on your MG3, continuously retreating
>Few skirmish missions, a tank mission, eventually ends German campaign when a tactical nuke goes off killing your unit
>Cinematic of Soviets rolling across Europe
>Play as US, first off a Dday style amphibious assault on France
>Eventually make your way to Germany and right before you claim victory nukes go off and the game ends with the quote " I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

>Side missions include small 2-3 mission campaigns covering Rhodesia, Vietnam, Korea, etc
>Multiplayer maps covering different fronts

>WiC2 NEVER EVER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cj8gP2ifJs

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Time for some slavshit

>>31933181
>mfw it's vinning

>>31931084

1962

>or 1983

>>31931112
>Aviation Training patch
>25th ID
How the fuck did you get my picture?

>>31932507

>those Pershing II's

>>31932517

Germany was in no position to do anything after May 1945.

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>>31931084

Summer of 1989. Gorbachev gets deposed and the generals take charge. Shit hits the fan shortly thereafter.

>>31931154
I like this.

Set it in the mid 80s, get some cold war era guns that haven't been featured in a game yet, and maybe do some what-ifs on both sides that would help the story.

>>31931084
EA please go

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>>31931084
>>31931097
>>31931112
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>>31931194
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>>31931274

>All these 1980s US Army in BDUs artwork

Goddamnit, now I gotta clean up the mess at my computer.

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>>31933225

>you will never operate with the 7th Infantry Division and their cabbage patch helmets

Just kill me now.

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Not a Cold War scenario per se, but Cold War-related

>Pristina Airport, 1999
>be noted singer, James Blunt
>tell General Wesley Clarke to fuck off when he orders you to start WW3
>get shot in the head by jumpy Russian sniper
>mexicanstandoffturnsviolent.gif
>Four way battle breaks out all over Yugoslavia between the United States/NATO, Yugoslav Army, Bosnian and Croatian armies, and the Russian Federation
>Iraq attacks Kuwait and the Kurds again because Saddam is an idiot
>Player can choose whether to play as Delta Force, US Army Rangers, 82nd/101st Airborne, or 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit as they battle their way across the shitstorm.
>DLC where you play as a level-headed Russian officer who attempts in vain to negotiate an armistice and the war before it begins.
>player can go with the then brand new M4 Carbine, classic M16A2, or go retro with the M16A1/M14, all of which are fully customizable with period accurate scopes, suppressors, and grenade launchers.
>player can customize their appearance with generic Army, Half Life HECU urban camo, Police State 2000's T-pattern BDU, silly 90s commandos, embrace their inner Gary Gordon with the '93 Delta Force look, or steal some semi-anarchoristic prototype MARPAT uniforms for lulz.

I would literally never buy another game if they made that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3KFTIWbpZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tSSYP9q_io

>>31931089
underrated

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>>31934298
Mid 70's to early 80's for maximum aesthetics.

Make weapons faction specific but make a fuckton of different factions so you get to play around with different weapons (Basically a wide variety of NATO countries like USA, West Germany Britian, hell even sprinkle Rhodesia into there vs. Warshaw Pact Countries like Russia, Czech, East Germany, etc.)

Include maps that are pre-nuke/un-nuked which are your bog standard shooter maps, and then include a few "nuclear winter" maps where both factions wear experimental environmental suits and play in an area that is almost pitch black and even in illuminated area's the falling dust is so thick you can barely see, each faction gets one of those old fashion NVA-scopes/spotlight combo's to help them navigate. Getting shot in one of these maps is death no matter where you're shot and with what, if you survive than a radiation meter pops up and slowly fills up, once full you die.

>>31933409
What book is this one from?

>Cold War gone hot
So a FallOut game?

>>31931343
>East Germans go ape shit and start shooting the fuck out of their own people
You have to be 18 to post on 4chan

Either 1946 or the mid 50s. Pretty equal footing between the Pact and NATO forces.

>>31934559
>Cold War
Around 1950-1991
>FallOut
Around 2077-2277

Now look at the numbers, and see where you fucked up. Look close, now. I'm sure you'll find it.

>>31931286
>>31931301
Where are these from?

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>>31934672
I wish I knew
I've been searching for the source of them for a while

>>31934640
Mid-1950s
>Russia is standardizing AK-47 assault rifles and SKS-45 semi-auto rifles

>America still has M1 Rifle
>Commonwealth only just starting to adopt L1A1/C1
>France have MAS-49
>Don't even know what West Germany is using
>India still using Lee Enfield

I think in the mid-50s, the Commies had superior firearms on the go. They were moving on from SMGs and standard-issue rifles with full-power rifle rounds. Sure they'd get pretty boned beyond 500m (VERY unlikely engagement distance), but could carry more ammo, and would be superior in close quarters against riflemen. As for 1946, the SKS and AK haven't been put into mass production yet, standard issue rifle was still the Mosin, but had a fuckload of SMGs to go with it as well as probably quite a few SVTs kicking around.

>>31934660
Fun fact Russia has good relations with the United States in the fallout universe. It's even rumored that they may have survived the war

>>31934749
Source? Because I'm fairly sure that the USSR exists at the time of the war in their continuity.

>>31931777
I like this idea

>>31931084
I would set it in the 80's. We already have some games set in the 60's, and I'd rather have a game set in Korea than a game set in a hypothetical world war for the 50's.

Hopefully the campaign features a red dawn group of missions.

>>31934759
From Fallout creator Scott Campbell:
>The nuclear Armageddon in the back-story was between the US and China. After shipping several people asked me why China and not the old standby, the Soviet Union. I made the choice when I remembered experiences with Oleg, a Moscow developer I worked with months before when I was assistant-producing a typing game. Once, in the middle of a phone conversation, I heard some muffled bangs, and the phone went quiet. When I asked him what the noise was, he replied, “Oh, it was just the Russian mob firing their guns in the street.” I thought he was joking – he wasn’t. After that, I had a really hard time believing that the once mighty USSR would be in a position to threaten the world any time soon. So I turned to the next major communist country that typifies “the East”: China.
Bear in mind that Fallout 1 released in 1997

Also one of the prebuilt Fallout 1 player characters is the grand-daughter of a Russian Diplomat from the Soviet Consulate in LA.

I'm jealous of how much less shit soldier's carried in the past.

>>31934863
Well that's a pretty fucking cool idea, but sadly reminded me that it's going to be 2017 in less than 2 months. That story is nearly 20 years old. I'd ask what I've been doing with my life all these years, but I published a novel that I've wanted to write/publish for probably around a decade or so. I'm actually feeling 'relatively' content with life at the moment, and wrote over 10,000 words for a new book today. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get over 10,000 more words. The story is coming along great, I think.

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>>31933982
>them rolled up BDU pants
/fa/ as fuck

>>31934883
As much as you hate the weight we carry now, remember how much better combat medicine is.

>>31932726
Return to reddit from winch you came you fucking faggot

>>31932726
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>>31934863
I think soviets launched nukes at china in the game lore. But can you imagine how much fallout would change if a country like Russia survived. Would the soviets even care about anyone in the game or they actually trying to find people who survived

>>31931084
Late 70s. Basically the time that's closest to both peak hostility and peak military strength/nuclear armament on both sides.

>>31931154
this sounds dope

>>31935060
>>31935069
>>31935081
>>31935104
Book title?

>>31932622
I feel like a movie about Chosin will eventually be released that will make the Vietnam war look like a vacation.
As for a Korean war game I would like a FPS sim that covers the entirety of the cold war from 45' to 92' with a large campaign set in Korea and Afghanistan, with minor campaigns for Panama, Grenada, Greece, Cyprus, South Africa, and paid full DLC campaigns for Vietnam and Hypothetical full blown war in western europe in the 70's

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>>31934672
Paddy Griffith's "The Ultimate Weaponry"

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>>31931367
>tfw blaring rock the casbah while riding your M2 Bradley down the war-torn streets of Beruit

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>>31935543
Orbis magazine series

>>31932894
I wish Eugen actually spent more time on the cash cow that is Wargame - they should extend the equipment back to 1946 for every nation - CAT E and D and add fixed emplacements (from trucks) like AA guns and SAM's and light arty.

What I would really like to see is them remove the 3 weapon limit from units and revamp naval - make huge as shit naval maps, implement paradrops in some fashion to even it out.
The 3 weapon limit being removed will allow for say quad stacked infantry squads to become a platoon with ATGM or heavy RR, a Mortar, and a GPMG, as well as giving squads access to their actual TOE - Squads getting grenade launchers/rifle grenades or the ability for a squad to have SMG's and rifles alongside LMG's and AT.

We probably won't see this until the next Wargame though, if there ever is one

>>31935557
Noooow you're talking, anon... God damn. That sounds epic. The selection of firearms would be unreal. Just a WEE bit too early for the AN-94, but fuck it, I was never much interested in that Russian Space Magic anyways.

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>>31931084
1990 afghanistan.
>muh hind

>>31931084
Able Archer

>>31931084
1954. The year of of the Hungarian revolution.
Basically, a country-wide revolt against the Soviet occupation.
That event deserves a game in it's own right, but there was real pressure for Britain and America to assist Hungary. Britain was busy in other conflicts, and America let it get crushed like a pawn rather than enter the war.
If the west had intervened, it would be the perfect opportunity for all of Europe to revolt.

>>31931821
>>31935645
Bruh. Best gameplay possibilities by far
The story can always be epic.
>1990s avionics
>90s operators with modern weapons but war still has that old timey no internet feels
>friggen lazer beams and shoulder fired SAMs

>>31935658
It seems like merica doesnt really give a rats ass about tiny slavic countries. I feel like itbhas something to do with them being fickle and frozen most of the year.

how could you have an excuse for commie guns in the US as an american? would russia invade?

>>31934746
MAS-49 is a fine battle rifle but I still don't understand why France never issued a 20 round magazine - that said it's potential lack in capacity was made up for by designated marksman rifles like the MAS-49 and MAS-36 scoped variants, the AA-52 machine gun, a heavy reliance and use of rifle grenades, and the absolutely excellent MAT-49 SMG

West German borderguard is using FAL's and WW2 US small arms, Bundeswehr has a small amount of FALS, the early Rheinmetall G3 with leaf rear sight mounted like a mauser/AK and CETME marked G3's with CETME flip sights are entering service and has Garands and other US small arms for rear line troops

>>31935614
Half the Vietnam DLC campaign would be the French, ie have fun in Dien Bien Phu, the rest would be a mix of ARVN, SK, US and ANZAC.
Missions in the Falklands and Cyprus would be balls to the wall like Goose Green and Pentemili.

I feel like this is the direction ARMA 4 needs to go - they could always DLC in modern shit or even include it (from previous titles) so it's 46'-2017'

>>31935658
Intervening in landlocked Hungary meant going through Austria and Yugoslavia.
Austria was neutral as per the treaty ending WW2 and would have had to defend itself from NATO.
Yugoslavia was communist aligned was not a pact member and was a neutral.

Which meant going through Czechoslovakia.

>>31933282
lmao I believe you just contrived the plots of Red Storm Rising and World in Conflict and some Call of Duty

>>31933181
How does one go about affixing a ka-bar to an ALICE rig like that? Is there a place on the suspenders to attach it, or do you just tape it in place really securely?

>>31936006
Tape, the 60's were a glorious time of nigger rigging shit together.

>>31931247
I swear, everyone with those damn regulations conform mustaches looks like a fucking child rapist to me

>>31931286
>A10s fly in to surpress enemy air defenses

And get shot down by some vatniks with SA7s

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Hawaii, 1985

>>31936240
stop abusing the word vatnik

>>31935658
>starting a world war for Hungry

For my own sick pleasure I'd love a Not! Rhodie or Rhodie proxy war shooter. All the 70's and 80's advanced cold war gear but it like rare unobtanium that give massive advantage ton's of common vietnam era and WWII gear being used. Could be a great battlefield style game and would explain the slow ass planes strafing.

FAL's of every stripe of course

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>>31931084
1989
West Germany.

>>31935780
The first country to adopt the FAL in respectable numbers was Canada, and that was 1954 as I recal, so in the 'mid-50s', nobody really had any FAL variants in decent numbers. At best, they'd be JUST in the process of replacing whatever firearm was in use before it.

>>31935840
I'd definitely like to learn more about the French aspect of the Vietnam War from before America got involved. It would also be sweet to use some French firearms. Much overlooked.

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I just want an alternate future where I can zip around shooting down Gommies and neo-Fascists in an Arrow for Queen, country, and glorious Dief

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I love military transitional periods. Where it becomes a clusterfuck of varying gear and uniforms. Bunch of dudes in fancy new 80s helmets next to guys with M1s, M16a1s for some M16a2s for others. Helterskelter distribution of woodland and olive drab.

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>>31933429
This thread is a reaction image goldmine

Why not a game that's just centered about the opening moves and the fulda gap (except NATO doesn't get totally exterminated for longevity's sake) almost like that book team yankee.

>>31931089
EBIN MEME FUGG :DDDDD

>>31931194
Why do US berrets alwaxs look like shit?

I've got several idea.

First one revolves around decolonisation wars. Begin with the French Army in Indochina, get deployed later to Suez and Algeria, then afterwards become a merc and fight everywhere in Africa.

You were 18 when drafted in 1949 for Indochina, now you're a 48 year old grizzled veteran, doing a last stand as a volunteer in Rhodesia , and the game (or campaign at least) ends when your position get overrun and you silently wait for the floppies to get into your pillbox, holding right a grenade in your back...

Then, this time you're an East Bloc operative, Soviet or at least Cuban. You make your first step as a young conscript suppressing the Hungarian uprising or an enthusiastic revolutionary pushing back the imperialists at the Bay or Pigs, then you lead GRU operations in South Vietnamese territory, are later sent to help Ethiopia against Eritrea in an airborne attack with BMD IFVs and ASU-57 assault guns, and finally meet your fate at the end of the South Africans after years of fighting in Angola alongside with the locals, the Cubans, and East German expeditionary forces.

Third one would be about a British soldier, this time. It all begins in Suez, taking part in a vintage heliborne operation, meeting our French protagonist. Later on, after some years of calm, you get deployed, as an experienced sergeant, to quell the Troubles in Northern Ireland, fighting a fierce guerrilla war against the IRA, all of that in the middle of the civilian population... and add a gameplay feature that makes that the more civilians die, houses get shot etc during your campaign, the more enemies you face.

By this time, even with your age, you're considered as an extremely experience asset by the British army, which sends you to the Falklands. [cont]

These two are actually fully historic, although it's a little bit of a stretch for the French guy.

No American character here, but come on, every fucking game is about Americans. Having some flavour is good.

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Fuck, I messed the order of the post, I wrote only two stories at first.

So, you get sent to the Falklands, however some upstairs cunt officers blames you for some shit that didn't happen, a faggot burned down a house full of Argie prisoners but happened to be "someone""s son, and hence didn't get the blame.

You flee to South Africa, Rhodesia being already out of the picture. After learning what happened to your old French friend, you decide to join the SADF, and make your way to a combat unit. You wear these great nutria brown uniforms, fighting with FALs and Galils and Uzis on Ratel IFVs, and at some point your unit hears about a GRU unit operating in Angola and fucking up regularily your supply lines. So, your company gets tasked with the hunt for these guys, and you spend your time speeding on dirt roads in the Ratels, running after these sly commies. You finally catch them and defeat them - along with a column of Angolan T-55s in a large battle, where you lose an arm and get finally discharged. You live then peaceful days in South Africa, as a retired hero... until the regime falls, and you get lynched by a black mob for being a SADF veteran.

Last scenario would be about a Soviet dude again (so let's make the first one Cuban?) who is part of the KGB Border Guards in Asia and gets engaged in 1969 by the Chinese troops, being steps away of starting a nuclear war. Later on, you are sent to Afghanistan, as a part of the KGB Spetsnaz, storming the presidential palace, and then hunting mujahideen caravans in the night, with a NSPU night scope on your suppressed AKMN, and capturing Stinger and RPG caches from the Taliban.
Then you learn that you're sent back home and quickly are sent to suppress the insurgency in the Baltic states. Unfortunately for you, your unit gets squashed and you have to flee the country or get lynched ; by the time it falls apart, you find yourself defending Transnistria from the Moldavian forces, and .. cont.

1970's - 1980's
Standard soviet invasion of west Germany.
Instead of being a frontline spec ops douche bags, you play as an underfunded, under equipped NG unit. OD bdus, m16a1's, beat to shit tanks and m113s

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and after making sure that the Russian population here is safe, you go to an other battlefield, to protect the Serbs from the Croats and Bosniaks in the Balkans, where you find a new home. However, in the end, no matter how bravely you fight, your newfound family is bombed by a NATO strike, and the state that hosted you gets defeated. You go back ot Russia, finally, and serve in the offensive of the Second Chechen War... where your BTR gets smashed by a missile before you reach the zone of operations.

Once again, these are historic, they're a stretch when it comes to the age of the characters, but well.

>>31931084
The cold war was cold because if it got hot nukes would be dropped.

Quit being retarded.

>>31938680
To my knoweldge, the Cold War was cold because the main superpowers were USA (or Nato in general) and Russia (or Combloc in general), but they never actually went head-to-head. USA and Russia never went in all-out war with one another, and the entire of Nato never went to war against the entirety of the Combloc which would likely have been considered WWIII. Sure there were some little spats; US vs Vietnam, US/Britain/Canada/Australia/South Korea vs North Korea and China, stuff like that, but I think what would have made the Cold War hot would have been an invasion. US in USSR or USSR in US. Two superpowers DIRECTLY going head-to-head instead of this...

>Be USSR
>Meet someone against US
>Give Soviet firearms and support

>Be US
>Meet someone against USSR
>Give Nato firearms and support

It seemed like the US did more actual fighting than Russia, but when Russia fought somewhere (Russo-Afghan War 1979-1989), the Americans were sure to provide what help they could without actually getting their hands dirty so as to not spark an all-out hot war against the powerful USSR.

i just wanted to thank everyone posting those rad drawings

they are great

>>31931084
Klandathu

The 80s

>>31934599
70s 80s BAF is so comfy

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>>31931154
stepping over a malfunctioning, irradiated Teddy Ruxpin in suburban America.

Do it

I dunno, maybe some alternate history where Chernobyl never happens, so Russia doesn't lose its credibility then, and Gorbachev holds on to power until 1998 and a war breaks out in 1993? And by the end of the game the US manages to BTFO Gorbachev? I guess then Bush is elected for a second term due to the American public being swooned by the fact that he's going on about "finishing what Gorbachev started." So the whole time you get to drive M1s and fly A-10As, F-15s, and Apaches, fight soviet soldiers, while fighting against Russian forces in the middle east at first, and throughout the campaign you slowly watch as the climate and seasons change with each mission as you work your way north. And I guess you do shit like fight Erkanoplans in the Caspian sea as they circle around ships and shit. I guess there's also shit like A-10As being modified for naval operations, so during the naval missions you have to fly an A-10... N(?) and do some Ace Combat shit, looping around the Erkanoplans, avoiding cannon fire, popping flares, chasing the things down, etc. But with the realism of DCS. And with the tanks you have realistic damage models and shit, like War Thunder. And all those crazy Russian experiments that never came to fruition like the Erkanoplans show up in the game.

So I guess it's a combination of Modern Warfare's factions, DCS's air combat, War Thunder's damage simulation, Escape From Tarkov's weapon customization system (except it's the entirety of your character, so you can change armor, equipment, decals, weapon parts, etc), Toy Soldiers' boss battles, BF1's graphics, and it's all in the Gulf War era. And as an added bonus, Clinton is never elected, so no AWB, Columbine is averted, Shillary never comes to power and she never does anything. I guess the name for the game would be something like Red Nova, since it's the death of the Red Star.

Cont

I guess afterwards I would make a sequel called Nova 2, where in the beginning, there's a timeline where they show the events of Nova 1 and then the events that were averted, and the events that happened in the alternate timeline, like how Benghazi is stopped with no casualties, emails are never leaked, Trump runs in 2008 and wins against Sanders, runs and wins again in 2012, Bin Laden was killed in 1994 after trying to fuck with American troops in Saudi Arabia, so no 9/11, Sandy Hook is averted after Lanza is arrested 3 days before the shooting, the US helps rebuild Russia, Putin comes to power, and North Korea starts bitching again in 2013, so the sons of the characters you made in the first game end up in a war with North Korea, where now you get to fly A-10SDs (A-10Ns, but with quieter, more powerful engines, as well as lighter materials and more up to date avionics), F-22s with wings that fold for storage and with naval capabilities, B-1s, F-16s, and Commanches, drive a fictional variant of the M1 Abrams called the M1A6, etc, but North Korea in this timeline has intel that was gathered by the Soviets and China in the war in 1993, and were also given Flankers, Blackjacks, new ships, new guns, etc, so you're fighting a more fanatical version of the troops in the first game with equipment on a similar level to yours, but they don't surrender as easily, and you also face more fire coming in your direction, since they aren't as disciplined. So in this game you face updated versions of some of the bosses in the last game, and they have a completely different AI, so you need new tactics for these bosses. Eventually you end up re-uniting Korea in 2015, and, I dunno, find all the Nazi gold and the Amber Room hidden in Kim's house?

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I guess I'm having too much fun coming up with this shit, so I really wanna continue talking about this stupid shit. So the third game would probably be called NovaE, as in the plural for nova, where the E is just a backwards 3, and in this game, the year at the beginning of the game is 2019, where Condoleezza Rice was elected in 2016, so now China starts a space race, and Mosins on Mars happens. This time, F-22s, A-10SDs, and everything else is modified so they can operate in low oxygen environments. This time you still play as the soldiers from Nova 2. Also, space fighters and Shattered Horizons.

the one Bad Company takes place in, just pallet swap the russian flag for the USSR

Indochina or a fallout fps based on the war in the game

>>31934915
Mind sharing what your first novel is about?

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>>>/pol/

>>31931758
>be with grandma when she had cancer a few years back (didn't make it)
>going through old photos
>picture of her and grandpa, dad as a tyke playing on Miami beach
> in the background, a line of Hawk missile batteries all the way down the beach
> date on the back, October 22 1962

>>31940214
China vs USA. Wouldn't that be bf4

>>31940258
It's about zombies as well as survivalism, and /lit/ has already decided it's shit. I will make a new edition when I get the time so as to fix many of the more blatant of mistakes, so for now, you can revel in its shittiness as well.

Living amongst the Dead by J N Morgan.

You can find it on Amazin quite easily, which will provide you the first few pages.

anytime in the 80s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kma679-WvVc

complete with standard bearers in contemporary kit and bayonet charges to retake strategic assets/burger king

>>31932414
nigga, WARPAC was equal (arguably superior) to NATO until the mid-1980s at the earliest.

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Germany was still pumping out equipment well into March, until the Americans started bombing the Romanian synthetic oil plants and fields. Then it all grinded to a halt.

Germans get raw resources and assurances of leniency, and you can bet your ass they'd have been back in the fight.

>>31933392
>how come Boris no carry crate
>Boris always think he so cool being motor transport
>Boris always say KGB border guard no real KGB
>I don't like Boris

1981-1991 for the best balance between forces and fun equipment.

>>31931089
fpbp

>>31937463
Nice

>>31931222
That SMAW, fucking love that SMAW.

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>>31945011
Thanks for the dump!
I simply love the MGS series' Cold war porn!

>>31934254
I like this idea

1947, 1990 where the war started in 88 or 89 yet has not gone nuclear (yet), or 2018 in an alternate universe where Hillary won and decided the cold war never ended.

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>>31931084
2016

But in this timeline, Russia isn't fighting the U.S. Russia and the people of the U.S. are dethroning the elite by force.

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>>31931154
Sounds like Twilight 2000

US personel gets caught up in Poland after an armored push and when the bombs fall they end up in a world going to shit as they try to make it back to french ports to get home

>>31931154
Imagine an alternate universe where chernobyl/pripyat is a safe zone because of the military presence, strict reactor safety and the rest of the country got blasted.

>>31931992
>you will never dogfight Migs over the Sinai.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XUamqhWOBk

>>31932517
> something original
the Soviets manage to spook the Romanian leadership into granting military access and aid for the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Part of the Romanian military leadership goes rogue and orders forces under their control to cross into Yugoslavia and defend on the Danube line, as per the secret mutual defense pact between the two countries.
Yugoslavia, spooked by the habbenings and thinking it's next in line for reinstatement of "popular democracy", welcomes them, declaring willingness to, quote "defend the integrity of the nation" while at the same time issuing a desperate plea for help to HATO countries
To complicate matters, de Gaulle comes out in support of the Czechs, hoping to drag HATO along into a war he believes the Soviet Union is ill prepared for.
You are an SBS team leader tasked with infiltrating Romania to ascertain the capabilities and intent of combined Romanian-Russian forces arrayed on the Danube, but you soon find out, not all is as it seems.

>>31934577
Are you implying east germans had alot of qualms about shooting their own people?

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>>31936291
my dude.

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1962, Cuban missile crisis.

Imagine it, at the end of the 13 days JFK is forced to give the order to invade Cuba and remove the nukes. Cue war between USSR and the US. I'd say no nukes however because "lol MAD".

1978, rhodesian bush war :^)

How about an Alien Invasion?

>The Race from Harry Turtledove's Colonization series.
>The Race are Reptile species that marked Earth for invasion back in the 1300's.
>In the original book has them arrive in 1942.
>They arrive in 1982.
> NATO/Warsaw Pact vs The Race.
>Lizards invade earth, airburst nukes for EMP.
>Initial Landings go good.
>Lizards are disturbed by human tech.
>Nearly as good as their own.
>Race high command detects nukes.
>Lizard tfw.
>Combined US/ Russian launch.
>7000 warheads inbound.
>Lizards shit themselves.
>Most of the Fleet is rekt.
>Surviving Lizards are mopped up.
>Their Flagship retreats.
>The commander has to tell the Emperor of their defeat.

>>31931084
I'd literally make a red dawn mod of battlefield if I could. With no stupid bullshit made up weapons. Just AK74s, AK47s, M16s and the like, almost exclusively with ironsights. And online multiplayer would allow you to customize the appearance of your freedom fighter with all kinds of clothes, camo, vests, hats, Etc.

But probably like 1988 or something so everything was as modern as possible.