User blog:Snover64/Reflections

This marks the creation of the 7th main interiation of our Imperium Offtopicium series. Some of us has come and gone since the creation of the series, and each person adds his or her ingredients into a beautiful cake of a fully developed, fleshed out world. From the epic cold war between NADTA and GUN in IV, to the Great Pacific War in VI, each game is resoundly different and fresh.

Now, I have no clue how this world will turn out. Will it be like I, where a single event leads to a large scale world war not dissimilar to to our timeline? Or is it more like II, when the world went into chaos and fighting your neighbors was the norm? Every time, it unfolds possibilities not unlike any other, but sometimes you may ask how could have changed differently?

Using the examples for IV (The best one by far IMHO, and this is my blog), what would had happen if Japan and the Eastern Federation not invaded China? Would had ANTIEDO still had formed, and if so, would it still evolve into GUN? What if the New England Alliance didn't try to upheld the Monroe Doctrine? Would had NADTA formed? What if NEA had its way in intervening in the Falklands? Would a direct confrontation between the two power blocs ensure, or would had ANTIEDO/GUN (Don't remember if GUN had formed by this point) abandoned Britain and its dreams of a neo colonial empire? What if the Brazilian Civil War favored the NADTA-loving Theocrats over the neutral-secularists (Answer: Nothing much. Both blocs would still pretty much hate Brazil :p)? What if Dommy just never joined at all? Would the lack of his aggressive tone persuaded the French not to try to take on NADTA? And speaking of which, if there was no French attack, would had that prevented the internal fracture that broke apart NADTA? Would the lack of the French attack and/or the splitting of NADTA dissuade GUN from starting WWIII? What if the nuclear stockpile wasn't found (That one might not change the course of that game but the course of the series as a whole. We might still have a no WMD rule had Thorvald not tried reintroducing them)? Any slight change of these events would alter the end result of the game.

So, remember to think the consequences of your actions. One simple war, one simple alliance, one simple diplomatic cable; it will change the course of our world's history forever. It may not seem big at first, everything you will do will have a consequences. Now, good luck and good playing!