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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8080087" data-attributes="member: 4534">I wonder if this is a game that will find an audience among younger people.  I was fifteen when the Soviet Union went kaput, but I can at least remember when they were still a credible threat.  I've visited East Germany, my father was in the army and would occasionally be called out of the blue for military exercises, I remember <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Reforger" target="_blank">Exercise Reforger,</a> and I've seen US tanks on German roads, and I don't recall any of us having any idea just how weak the Soviet Union actually was at the time.  I never played Twilight 2000, but the setting resonates with me because I can remember when war with the Soviet Union seemed like a real possibility.  But people born just a few years after me don't have the same perspective.  Their earliest memories don't include the supposed threat posed by the Soviet Union.  East Germany, what's that?  And with hindsight available now, the idea that the Soviets were in any position to fight a war against NATO is somewhat unbelievable.  Not that a game necessary needs to appeal to younger players.  I was just thinking of very much how dated the premise of Twilight 2000 is even if I'm fascinated by it.  I don't think many other games explore what happens to military units when everything has collapsed and you find yourself in a foreign country far from home.  I also think it's neat that they use Poland.</blockquote>

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