Category Archives: Geopolitics
Command LIVE Locations
Not too long ago, I made this simple map of where the currently released Command LIVE scenarios take place. The locations by region are as follows: Europe: 2 (You Brexit You Fix It, Don of A New Era) Middle East: 2 (Old Grudges Never Die, Black Gold Blitz) Asia: 4 (Spratly Spat, Korean Missile Crisis, […]
OPFOR Volume 3: A Blockbuster
I’ve made two updates to my collection of un/declassified “OPFOR” manuals in the past. For this third volume, it’s (vastly) more substantial to the point where I’ve had to break the collection into three folders for size and organization reasons. I figured that, after all my searching, I couldn’t not share them. So here they […]
They Came From The Lua Script
So, now that I’ve gotten a reveal of one of my least favorite scenario works out of the way, I can move on to happier stuff. One of my scenarios I feel the most admiration for is They Came From The Museum. Now I can reveal the making of it. _ _ _ _ The […]
The Oddly Versatile Nation-Egypt
So, I’m doing some of my usual Command scenario editor fooling around, looking at orders of battle, and I see a country that somehow fits the bill for many kinds of Command scenarios without too many forced contrivances. This was confirmed by me playing the community scenario The King’s Hand, which actually features the country in question […]
The 1965 Cutoff
So, in my innumerable Command editor forays and bits of research for the waves of scenarios I never expect to actually make in full, I’ve found one year where I view the most interesting, novel alternate history scenarios as no longer being possible. 1965. It’s a pretty sudden cutoff. I think the two big reasons […]
Don’t be Afraid to Invent New Bad Guys
I came across this post from Aivlis who posted this excellent post on the Command Matrix Forum’s Options for Black Sea Conflict thread. The one thing that I notice in a lot of the “Cold War 2.0” scenarios is a disregard for believable strategy or goals on the Russian side, which is also invariably the antagonist. People like to […]
Why MIRV?
I came across this post from DesperateDan who posted this excellent prose on SA’s AIRPOWER/Cold War thread. Without further ado, I present DesperateDan’s Nuclear Weapons/Trident Effortpost II – Cobalt Thorium G Edition. –The Management A brief introduction to your eventual destruction The first few fission based nuclear weapons were relatively small in explosive yield, but with early […]