> -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 4:35 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Writing Critique Wanted - Military Views Appreciated > > >There's a contest for an upcoming video game to write "a gritty war > journal" > >of "one or two pages". > > > >The game is set in 1951, but no WWII occurred. Instead a mysterious > >invasion force (aliens, we think) has crept from Russia to take all of > >Europe. It's July 11th, 1951 and the American forces have hit the > Western > >shore of Britain in a massive offensive. > > First idea is how long since the invasion of Europe? What I'm thinking of > is if its after the massive demobilization, then initially you'd have > something similar to the start of the Korean War, but with more excuse to > use nukes on a tactical level. So wouldn't things be glowing more?
What demobilization are you talking about? World War II never happened. In the game history Russia remained imperialist but xenophobic: they build a wall (a literal wall of concrete and barbed wire) along their European border and allow no traffic to pass. Behind the wall the aliens grew in power and finally flooded across Europe. The game site, with the fictional timeline is here: http://www.us.playstation.com/Content/OGS/GMID-018/Site/default.html It's really quite a deep story... probably deeper than the game really needs. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:216504 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
