World In Conflict: After the End.

[Reggie Bartlett]

What becomes of this ATL WWIII from the time period of 1989/1990 onward after Seattle's liberation? ASB's aside.

http://worldinconflict.wikia.com/wiki/World_War_III

[Redcat]

The "liberation" of Seattle since, of course, it's shown in the ending camera sweep that the city is a bombed out uninhabitable ruin.*

In all honesty, though the end of the game is shown as a big win for the USA the Soviets are still very much in the fight. The NATO Atlantic Fleets are apparently hard pressed since they couldn't prevent a Soviet amphibious operation in the Mediterranean. China has somehow managed to sail an entire invasion fleet across the Pacific unopposed, so the Pacific Fleet was either gutted to reinforce NATO in the Atlantic, is sunk, or are complete incompetents. Either way, with the bulk of US forces in the European meatgrinder, China has free rein for the moment to do whatever it wants to do.

On the other hand, the Soviets can't really win either seeing as they don't really have war goals other than to conquer places and blow shit up. Seriously, there was almost zero justification for the war as presented in the game. Welp.

*In all fairness, the destruction of Seattle was at least half self-inflicted by my profligate use of artillery and carpet bombing....

[Reggie Bartlett]

I would like to see what Washington state looks like after this all of the western half of the state includeing Seattle, Olympia and Tacoma are bombed out wrecks.

West Germany is a battleground, the Koreas are a battleground, Iran and Iraq must be a battleground at this point.

What of Cuba?

[Color-Copycat]

Originally Posted by Redcat

*In all fairness, the destruction of Seattle was at least half self-inflicted by my profligate use of artillery and carpet bombing....

Heh, definitely. The Space Needle technically should have survived the Battle of Seattle intact, but I demolished it with an artillery strike on a whim as I had a bunch of extra fire support points to throw about at the end of the mission.

[The Red]

One side gets the upper hand then the nukes fly, see Threads, or for a an account closer to home, one of the many tales of the Protect and Survive universe.

[Redcat]

Originally Posted by The Red

One side gets the upper hand then the nukes fly, see Threads, or for a an account closer to home, one of the many tales of the Protect and Survive universe.

In the World-in-Conflict ATL, the USA has somehow bluffed or convinced the USSR that it has a working Strategic Defense Initiative missile defense system, which inhibits the USSR from using nukes from the get-go as they're afraid that it would just be useless and open themselves to retaliation. One of the mission arcs involves stopping the Soviets from driving on the supposed HQ of the SDI project and preventing them from finding out that the whole thing is a sham.

[Snowstalker]

I played that game.

Eastern and Central Europe is definitely under Soviet control at this point, while Cuba is surely under occupation. China being allied with Russia is probably a huge advantage; the Communists may have won the war in the end, at least in Europe and Asia.

[CT23]

What would be the next major move of the West now that North America is secure? Back to Europe?

[The Historian]

Originally Posted by CT23

What would be the next major move of the West now that North America is secure? Back to Europe?

Someone ran through a pure-conventional scenario awhile back, and I told them what I'll tell you.

Provided the spears stay in their silos, Soviets will be overstretched in Europe as it is, have tons of problems there with rebels and with merely maintaining and enforcing occupation and restructuring in the west. America will triple its navy in size and provide coordinated airstrikes and support from natural airbase ("Airstrip One" takes on a whole new meaning for the UK)

China and Russia can't really beat the US in this facet, and American expeditionary superiority leaves Africa and the mid-east in their hands. Commando raids and airstrikes against strategic resources will cripple the SU, and its all over from there.

More likely, as said, bombs fly and its 1983 Doomsday all over again.

[CT23]

At the end of WIC, France was relatively secure, correct?

I imagine the next move would be into Germany.