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The Sword of Damocles: Cold War NRP

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Is there even a S. Korea or N. Korea player?

The Sword of Damocles: Cold War NRP

January-February, 1950
With the Chinese Civil War coming to an end, only months prior, the Soviet Union's political perspective did little to soften. The political separation within the Korean peninsula was seen by the Soviet military structure as a potential proving ground and a viable experimentation of the military-political machine of a communist regime. Kim Il-sung offered the insightful initiative that he wished to see a unified Korea, a communist Korea. The Soviets, who had entered the Korean peninsua with the 25th Army in 1945 had never formerly retired until 1947, helping the war torn North rebuild from the wanton destruction of the Japanese.

Premier Stalin signed the appropriation of 250 T-34/85 tanks, an upgunned version of the T-34 that spearheaded the Western offensives against the Wehrmacht in the Great Patriotic War. He arranged the shipment of three squadrons of Mig-15 Fagot's, the premier fighter jet of the Soviet Union and 800 officers to train and properly familiarize the North Korean pilots with the aircraft.

These weapons of war would modernize a People's Korean Army that's equipment did not equal it's fighting spirit. The Soviet High Command would watch the development of the North Korean army as it trained and prepared to invade the south, but after dispatching considerable military resources to ensure a communist victory, the Soviet eye would turn Westward, toward Czechoslovakia and Poland. While their political spheres lay solely under the guise of the Reds, the Soviet's deemed measures taken to ensure the stability of it's political allies with the following order.

Order 1771
On orders of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) will dispatch four agents into Communist Czechoslovakia and three agents into Communist Poland, at mid to high tiers of national government chains to forecast possible changes in the political climate to ensure the stability of Soviet influence within these areas.

The Soviet's were aware of American activity in the South China Sea and the Japanese islands, but paid little attention to it -- as it's own Pacific Fleet lay largely at rest. A huge continent of soldiers and tanks still in Eastern Germany outweighed American resources there and remained unwavering as East Germany and East Berlin remained in the cold grip of Soviet statism.

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North Korea: Tanks, aircraft and "flight advisors" are sent to bolster the North Korean Army.
Czechoslovakia: GRU agents are sent to ensure political adherence to state communism.
Poland: GRU agents are sent to ensure political adherence to state communism.

The Sword of Damocles: Cold War NRP

I'm here! My post is coming. No worries.

The Sword of Damocles: Cold War NRP

What are the limitations? Obviously I don't want the world to be immolated in nuclear fire, but could the game end because one of the two powers launches a nuke and the other retaliates; or will you flat out unallow us to do that?

The Sword of Damocles: Cold War NRP

Let's do it!

The Sword of Damocles: Cold War NRP

I just meant that nothing was changed for the historical perspective; as the Soviet player, supporting the Greek Communists would've been on my to-do list.

The Sword of Damocles: Cold War NRP

Also, are we assuming the Communists were defeated in the Greek Civil War (1946-1949)?

The Sword of Damocles: Cold War NRP

Soviet Union is up.

The Sword of Damocles: Cold War NRP (Sheets)

Nation's full name: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Population: 182,321,000.
Current leadership: Joseph Stalin, General secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Government Type: Single Rule Authoritarian State.
Military Strength:

Army: 2,500,000 men (per: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Armed_Forces)
Air Force: 2,750 aircraft (per: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Air_Forces)
Navy: 82 submarines
100 - 150 surface vessels; no carriers or aviation support vessels.
Occupational
* Eastern Germany: 70,000, 2,800 vehicles (per: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Soviet_Forces_in_Germany)
* Poland: 275,000 (per: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Group_of_Forces)
* Hungary: 25,000 (per: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Group_of_Forces)

State of the Union Summary: The second of two premier superpowers following the devastation of the Nazi war machine, the Soviet Union seeks to establish a Communist world front. Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union has garnered support in North Korea, as well as marginal political power in Eastern Europe, and the Chinese Civil War, where although supporting the Kuomingtang, has now turned a political eye to Mao Zedong and his Communists. The Soviet Union eyes the West however, supplanting Eastern European nations with Communist elections and ruling the now divided Germany by guiding Eastern Germany as a pseudo-communist nation.

The Soviet meaning of military doctrine was much different from U.S. military usage of the term. Soviet Minister of Defence Marshal Grechko defined it as 'a system of views on the nature of war and methods of waging it, and on the preparation of the country and army for war, officially adopted in a given state and its armed forces.' Soviet theorists emphasised both the political and 'military-technical' sides of military doctrine, while from the Soviet point of view, Westerners ignored the political side. However the political side of Soviet military doctrine, Western commentators Harriet F Scott and William Scott said, 'best explained Soviet moves in the international arena'

The Sword of Damocles: Cold War NRP

Are there going to be any 'game mechanics' or are we looking at purely a storytelling perspective?