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Shoudent Vietnam be green aswell, because they arent siding with the chinese :S

Here is something I made up.
A newspaper article about wanda shan.
Be warned i have no experience in journalism and i'm only a 16 year old who got bored in his school holiday So it probably sucks and you are more than welcomed to edit.

Following the failed U.S. invasion of Skira. In an attempt to force the Chinese to the negotiating table. The forces of the russian federation at 1700 hours local time invaded northern Manchuria in operation Wanda Shan.
A pitched tank battle raged in the hills of Manchura for five hours. With both sides taking heavy casualties.
With no clear winner. But both sides claim to have the upper edge. But sources indicate a stalemate with both side's Armour divisions wiped out and infantry digging into defensive positions and awaiting further reinforcements.
China condemns the action and is calling for U.N. sanctions against Russia. While the U.S. and the other leading U.N members view this as Russia's Yom Kuppur, Named after the 1976 Yom Kuppur war where Egyptian president Anwar Sadat forced the Israels to the negotiating table in a show of force which resulted in a lasting peace that stands to this day.
However the aggressive stances played by both Russia and China suggests nothing but more conflict.
With the U.S. occupied with middle eastern affairs, like the insurgency at Fajjalah and the invasion of Muttrah.
With the U.S. unable to assist. Only time will tell if these two beasts of Asia the Dragon and the Bear can solve their disputes or will it escalate into something bigger.

elerik. It's a nice thought but it would never happen wars have been the way humanity has solved its problems since the beginning that's not going to change.

Hopefully this isn't me bumping a thread that's too old, but I actually wrote a storyline for PR back in 2007. It was kind of silly in retrospect; I figured the 44th President would actually withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. This was apparently before I figured out how important oil is.

Anyway, a PR storyline is definitely possible. It is not unreasonably far fetched. Some battles would definitely have to take place a few years into the future, but many could be explained within the context of existing conflicts.

In general, there are two really hard problems to solve.

One is how to convincingly bring the Middle East together into a coalition. They speak Arabic in BF2 and PR, so it isn't the Iranian military. More like Egypt + Syria + Saudi Arabia + Jordan + Yemen + Oman. I would think the best way to fit this into a possible story would be to say that in the context of the global financial crisis and a US budgetary crisis, the those listed countries all go through revolutions and overthrow their repressive governments and replace them with Islamic democracies. Indeed this has already happened in Egypt. Now fast forward maybe 5 years to 2017 and say that these countries have all had similar revolts, and a new Arab Nationalism is sweeping the region, so the Arab states actually form a defense co-op: the MEC.

The other is how to explain a Western invasion of China as being possible/affordable/non-suicidal. Still trying to figure out how that could make any bloody sense.

Have been going through the PR maps and trying to fit them into a possible storyline, but it's taking a while. Will update when I have some progress to report.

I like that, however I dont think the devs had any story in mind honestly

They definitely do not have any story in mind. They have a great framework for gameplay; it's realistic in technical and tactical senses. Strategically it seems to make no sense, but that is fundamentally unimportant as that way they can make a much wider variety of maps than if they were trying to stay within some kind of storyline.

Making a storyline would simply be a challenge to plausibly make sense of the various battles. It would probably come off like a work of Tom Clancy-esque fiction writing; non-official, but maybe interesting for some.

Another interesting thing that could happen but I don't think I've seen in any PR maps is the MEC actually battling the PLA, maybe in Pakistan or Mongolia or the Stans or even Africa. I'm pretty sure this is because both the MEC and the PLA are on the OPFOR side in the way the mod is constructed so they'd have to do some rewriting work to make it possible for those two to fight... I might be wrong about that though.

I say the idea for a layerd time line makes the most sense because putting them all in one conflict,war, show of balls etc. would'nt make sense. but maps like the French vs. IDF messes things up. Also this seems to be the most worst case scenario story ever.

I see these as isolated what ifs... would be cool if there was something meta going on... but really its just a test of balls. Which is kinda sad because I like the ideas of a far stretching campaign... ofcourse you can't do such a thing... so its best to not attempt.


(None of the "Super Secret Satilite Cloaking" allowing for a "Super Awesome Air Only Assault of the United States" bs of COD )