darkconspiracytherpg.info

A very nice blog about Britain with a socialist government which slips deeper and deeper into civil war. Complete with docker militias and foreign volunteers. Has lots of TV announcements and news papers. Tons of ideas, though it has a very different focus than DC. After all, miniature war gaming is about shooting things.

That's a good find Z, impressive stuff!

The Red Menace was alive and well in the 70s and 80s. Reading Aylwyn Turner's Crisis? What Crisis? he sees Tony Benn and Enoch Powell as the ideological standard bearers who set the two possible directions for the UK to take in the 1980s. Margaret Thatcher stole Powell's thunder with some success, while Benn and the extreme left's influence on the Labour Party contrived to make them unelectable for the better part of two decades.

It's interesting to think what might have happened if the left had won out over the right in the battle for Britain's political soul. Would be an interesting game world, especially for Dark Conspiracy. I'd suggest two possible turning points are The Falklands in 1982 and the Miner's Strike a couple of years later. If they'd happened differently the country may well have ended up with a government quite radically socialist in character.

I like the block confrontation as a scenario very much. I think DC in the 70s and 80s works fine. The whole lot of "dirty wars" wedged by all sides against domestic dissidents holds a lot for conspiracy theorists.

Possibly a UK like the US depicted in The Breed might result from a socialist government in the early to mid-1980s?