Lurked on here for a while and finally decided to do something about my total lack of post apocalyptic miniatures and terrain; basically I'm starting from scratch and intend to use this forum to chart my progress and hopefully post things other people want to see.
Looking at a world in a theatre of war devastated by nuclear weapons and have, as with all my games, written a little back story to set the mood and guide my building and buying.
Using the Zona Alfa ruleset.
Zona BritaniyaIn February 1988 the assassination of Mikhail Gorbachev and most of the Soviet Government was accomplished in less than 48 hours, leaving the USSR in turmoil and the world more fearful of Global Nuclear War than the 1960’s.
The coup was orchestrated by a massive and secret organised criminal network headed by the elusive Nestor Lebedev, known as The Swan.
Lebedev quickly took control of state press and television, promoting himself the saviour of the Soviet Union and protector of the teachings of Lenin and Marx.
Irrespective of his true political leanings, he embarked on a foreign policy of aggression and invasion across Asia; the US reeled at the speed at which this happened and made empty threats of war.
Throughout 1988 The Swan ignored them and pressed on.
On December 1st 1988 he turned his military machine against the US’s NATO allies and they could ignore his aggressive policies no more.
Initially the limited nuclear strikes were against military and strategic sites but quickly escalated to tit for tat nuclear devastation of cities in Russia, Europe and the United States.
The world was quickly heading for global devastation
Then, on Christmas Day, the Soviets launched a massive attack on the United Kingdom, at the same time warning the US that they were prepared to unleash every missile they had unless a deal was agreed.
The example made of Britain stopped the world in its tracks and tentative moves towards a peaceful resolution ensued.
Mutually assured destruction had been avoided.
Britain lost 65% of it’s population in the initial strikes and a further 28% in the 6 months following from radiation poisoning and disease.
Parliament, the government machine, Royalty, the rich and the powerful, who had remained safe in their bunkers, abandoned those they purported to serve and fled to nations relatively unaffected.
Within a few years the population of Britain was less than 300,000 and the whole country designated a no go area.
The country fell back to the dark ages, albeit with some modern technology, and it’s inhabitants had to learn a new set of skills in order to survive.
The mean Summer temperature now hovers a few degrees below freezing; in Winter it falls to 30 degrees below.
A new Ice Age is underway.
Most lived underground. At first. Then people started to go missing. Which was bad.
When they started to return it was worse.
What came next was unimaginable.
The US call it Area Zero; the Soviets designation is Zona Britaniya.