Fellblade Posted April 9, 2005 Posted April 9, 2005 I'm looking to knock together a campaign, and wanted something interesting that I hadn't seen done before... so I came up with this: It is late 2004. Viktor Yushchenko's pro-Western party has just been defeated in the Ukrainian elections by Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian-backed canditate. International observers claim that vote-rigging is widespread, and the election results are false. There is mild violence at polling stations by both sides, hushed up and concealed from the international community. Some pro-Russian campaigners call for the country to be split, and to have two separate states form. Among the turmoil a Scandinavian-led team finds the signs of a major oil-field in the mountains to the south of Belogorsk. Yushchenko and the EU demand another round of voting. Leonid Kuchma, who backed Viktor Yanukovych, flies to Moscow to talk to President Putin. No-one knows what is said at their meeting. On the 11th of January 2005, Viktor Yushchenko was declared the winner of the vote by the electoral commission. It is the 12th of January 2005, 0117 Lima time. Guard post 87-B on the Crimean coast has just failed to report in. Any ideas, comments, or criticisms would be very, very welcome...
Silent Warrior Posted April 9, 2005 Posted April 9, 2005 Looks ok to me. Just one quetion or two... About the guard-post failing to report in, doesn't the military intelligence have at least some theory? No witnesses? No ground-team scouting out the place before sending in the airforce?
Fellblade Posted April 9, 2005 Author Posted April 9, 2005 Maybe some more explanation... hmm... my thoughts were simply: planes are fast. First campaign mission was to be a 'scout' over near Kerch, in the dark, snow, at 1am ;)
SwingKid Posted April 9, 2005 Posted April 9, 2005 Out of curiosity, why would you bend history to put the Ukrainian and Russian governments on the same side, given the layout of Lock On's map? The proposed storyline sounds like less of a crisis between them than what is happening in the real world. Which side will Ukrainian armed forces be fighting on? -SK
Fellblade Posted April 9, 2005 Author Posted April 9, 2005 General idea was that it was as close to what happened in the real world as possible, but with high enough stakes (oil) that Russia would want to step in once 'their' candidate had lost. As for which side the Ukrainian armed forces are on... well... that would be telling ;)
SwingKid Posted April 9, 2005 Posted April 9, 2005 General idea was that it was as close to what happened in the real world as possible, but with high enough stakes (oil) that Russia would want to step in once 'their' candidate had lost. The oil was another thing... I didn't want to sound too critical, but that part of the story didn't sound very well researched. The northern part of Crimea is already surrounded by oil and natural gas, almost everywhere except "south of Belogorsk" - which is actually mountains. And Russia is already swimming in its own oil, it does not need to behave like the United States. For Russia to attack Ukraine over a discovered oil pocket in Crimea would be like Bill Gates breaking into his own home to steal $5 from his wife's purse. Russian forces are already in Crimea. They lease bases legally in Sevastopol, Khersones and Gvardeyskoye. The problem for Ukraine is how to get them out. "High stakes" for Russia would be if Ukraine tries to evict them (e.g. in order to join NATO), absorb them into their own armed forces like they did after the fall of the Soviet Union, or interfere with their operations. Or, if Ukraine asserts more control over natural gas fields in the Sea of Azov, closes the Kerch Strait to Russian shipping, represses the local Russian population of Crimea, accidentally shoots down another airliner... There are plenty of potential storylines from the real world, without having to "make up" new oil fields, election history, or Republicans running Moscow. ;) -SK
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