Odds And Ends 21, January, 2023

Here we are once again on a January weekend. Which means NFL playoffs and since the Giants are playing this evening it is now officially Gameday. I’d apologize to the British and other European readers about how swept up us Americans get in playoff football, but I don’t think it’s necessary. You guys can relate, seeing how fanatical you all get with soccer. 😊 So this will just be a small collection of odds and ends and we will pick up with the heavier topics again starting on Monday. Enjoy the weekend!

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WWIII 1987 wargame scenario news. Around Christmas I mentioned I was holding off on updating the first scenario and releasing the rough draft of Scenario 2 in anticipation of an upcoming Command Modern Operations major update. Well, on January 5, Matrix Games released a post claiming the update was “set to release just a few days from now.” Here we are on 21 January and so far, nothing. That’s a long ‘few days.’ So, I am just going to push ahead with editing Eastern Med and getting Fulcrums at Dawn prepped for release by early February.

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I appreciate all the feedback from readers on Liberty In Peril. To answer a few questions that many of you asked in the comments: 1. Yes, the premise is loosely based on the scenario found in Red Dawn (the real one not the shitty remake.) 2. Colonel Buela’s leadership played a key role in stopping the first attempt to dislodge the Soviet and Cuban paratroopers from the base of the Rocky Mountains. 😊  3. Overall, I think a premise similar to Red Dawn is best since most of us are quite familiar with some events from the storyline of the movie. And to be honest, creating an entirely new world that leads to a Soviet bloc invasion of the US would take an incredible amount of time and effort. Gaming out an attack from Mexico followed by reinforcement from the northwest (Alaska, say) is easier.

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Monday’s post will look at some of the unresolved or burgeoning geopolitical rivalries and flashpoints the conclusion of the Third World War dumped on the world. Think Persian Gulf, Sino-Soviet and even Arab-Israeli. Wednesday will be an entry looking at a few factors which contributed heavily to the Warsaw Pact defeat on the Central Front. We’ll end the week with the conclusion to Today’s Friend, Tomorrow’s Enemy.

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