"One of my fellow gamers has conceived of an interesting Alternative History scenario, where WW2 never happened. The idea is to build alternative 1980's Eastern European armies based on what the real countries may have done in that scenario, and thus avoid the relative sameness of all the various Eastern European WarPac armies.
He started with Poland, looked at who manufactured their equipment and then replaced it with 1980's functional equivalents from the same countries. Now, one of my Cold War armies is Czechoslovakia, and I wondered what they may look like in this scenario – the answer has proven to be very interesting.
The first thing you realise with the Czechs is that in the 1930's and 40's they built all their own equipment, they didn't buy it from others as the Poles did. They also were designing and building their own equipment until the mid 50's, when the Soviets effectively put a stop to it. And even then they almost automatically re-engineered all the post-war Russian equipment they were given, used a higher proportion of own designs than any other WarPac member (their own wheeled APC the OT-64 and various gun carriages plus co-operation with Hungary to build a scout car, the OT-65) besides their own trucks, guns and aircraft designs.
So, it's highly likely that with no WW2 and no WarPac, they would still have designed and built their own weapons systems. Thus with the Alt-History scenario Czechoslovakia it wasn't so much about which other countries' 1980's equipment I would use, but more what would they have built and what may it have looked like (and then how to model and represent…"
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