[quote=Byrd Man]
I'd be totally fine with a historical setting, maybe 50's or 60's? I also don't have a problem with using real nations.
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At this point I think I'd prefer using real life nations as it's my first time GMing something of this scale. Perhaps we can do some alternate history and start in the 1950's. Obviously there'll still be the two main NATO and Warsaw Pact factions.