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_1983, Germany_ NATO carries out Exercise Able Archer. It was to simulate an escalating conflict with the Eastern Bloc, starting with a conventional conflict and culminating in a DEFCON 1 situation with the activation and firing of nuclear weapons. However, as misfortune would have it, on the day NATO started simulating preparations for a nuclear war, Soviet intelligence were attempting to detect the early signs of a nuclear attack. Soviet nukes and air units were thus placed on alert, but nothing was done yet. After seven days of watching NATO shift their armies around the inter-German border, and with senior members of the Politburo and Soviet military utterly convinced that the exercise was a ruse to disguise actual preparations for an assault on East Germany, the Soviets began to build up their own forces along the border. Knowing full well of the M.A.D (Mutually Assured Destruction) doctrine, the option of using nuclear weapons as a 'first strike' was still off the table. On day nine, just a day before Able Archer was to end, a telegram received by the KGB from one of their agents incorrectly stated that NATO was indeed ready to begin an offensive within no less than a week. This was the straw that broke the camel's back and on the 11th of November, 1983, the Soviets carried out a massive offensive all along the inter-German border with distracting skirmishes along the German-Czechozlovak border. The offensive managed to catch NATO by surprise. While they had been expecting a Soviet reaction, an offensive on a scale which rivaled Operation Bagration was not something they had seriously considered. Within a week, the Soviets had reached the Danish border and were dangerously close to reaching the Dutch and French borders. Reinforcements were still at least two days away, and that was two days which NATO did not have. Thus, it was decided that WMDs would be used. It started with small-scale chemical warfare targeted at the flanks of the Soviet armies. In return, the Soviets deployed their own gases and toxins. Eventually, one side decided that enough was enough. Tactical nukes were unleashed on the battlefield, with each strike obliterating entire armies. Tactical nukes soon gave way to strategic strikes. Much of Germany, Austria and in fact the majority of central Europe was reduced to a mass of burning cities and unrecognizable wastelands within minutes. Cities further away, such as Paris, London, Moscow or Washington, D.C were only spared after cooler heads prevailed - Ten days too late. The brief but devastating war ended half a day after the last nuke fell. Neither side wanted to concede defeat, but neither side had anything left to give. Almost all of NATO's European armies were destroyed, as were most of the Warsaw Pact's western army groups. Whatever survivors there were were now trapped in a desolate wasteland stretching from the German-French border all the way to Central Poland. Some units continued fighting, unaware that the war had ended. Others tried to restore order where they could, with each brigade, battalion, regiment or even company carving out territories of their own in the wasteland. Most, however, simply wanted to survive in the new hostile world. --- So basically that's a background to this RP. It'll be largely open world, but from time to time I'll throw in a plot line or two to keep things interesting and eventually I will introduce the main plot. To summarize: - This takes place in Western/Central Europe in the aftermath of a limited nuclear war. Dangers include pockets of residual radiation, regions still poisoned by the use of chemical weapons, hostile forces, hostile warlords (read: Commanders turned self-proclaimed rulers), bandits, the usual post-apocalyptic stuff. - You can RP as a civvie, military personnel or a warlord, but I will put a cap on the last one to prevent this from becoming a nation RP. - Haven't decided on a specific region as of now, so everything from the French-German border to central Poland can be considered as the area. - Oh, and the RP will start at most three or four days after the last nuke falls. And...There you have it, my idea. I posted something like this in Casual interest checks before, but I didn't include as many details, so that was my dumb mistake. ><''

No one knows who pulled the first trigger, nor is there anyone left to care. In hindsight, it was perhaps a poor decision to hold a combined NATO exercise simulating a nuclear war right when relations between the Western and Eastern blocs were deteriorating. All it took was one plane to fly too far; one gun to go off in the wrong direction; one soldier to step over a line he should not have and a simulated nuclear war became a real one. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed before all of Europe burned, but the damage had been done. Germany, Austria and most of the Central European states have effectively ceased to exist. While the surviving nations do their best to pick up the pieces and rebuild, the military forces that had been fighting within the Central European region have been all but forgotten. Some try to reestablish communications with a headquarters that no longer exists, others attempt to reach friendly lines. Some even flourish in the new wasteland, cutting out large chunks of territory for themselves with the remnants of whatever division they once was, but all have the same goal in mind: Survival. --- So...Yeah. This would be a sort of post-apocalyptic RP, where we'd RP as civilian or military survivors trying to fight our way out of the Central European Wasteland. I'm open to people RP-ing as ex-officers-turned-warlords to just spice up the world, but I wouldn't want too many of those to prevent this from becoming a nation vs. nation sort of thing. I want to keep it somewhat small scale, focusing on a group of survivors. We wouldn't have to start off together, of course. Anyway, I'm still open to ideas, so please, if you're interested but you want to see something in this RP, don't hesitate to bring it up!

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