"Wargames 1: Superhuman Threats of the Cold War at DriveThruRPG" Topic

Ha Ha I wonder who the guy in front is

Why would a super dedicated to Lenin's communist ideals call himself "Battle Czar" anyway? That's not very Red at all – more White, y'know?

Because, when you really think about it, wouldn't Red Dawn have been a whole lot cooler if Captain America were in it?

No brainer…

Wouldn't everything be cooler if CA were in it???

Because, when you really think about it, wouldn't Red Dawn have been a whole lot cooler if Captain America were in it?

No. No, it would not.

No. No, it would not.

Zombie Capt. America???

Lol…

Because, when you really think about it, wouldn't Red Dawn have been a whole lot cooler if Captain America were in it?

No. No, it would not.

Red Dawn was about the heroism of a desperate few. Cap showing up makes it HIS movie.

While I like supers as a genre, they don't belong in a movie like Red Dawn except to complicate statements about who isn't coming to save the day. Looking at the scenario in a Marvel perspective, the vast majority of the West's supers will probably already be dead or occupied elsewhere, as a land invasion in force would not have gotten very far if they were still around and free to strike at will. Supers are like nukes; if only one side has them and is willing to use them, that side wins. If both sides have them, a period of super war preceeds the conventional war. Can you imagine trying to perform a naval invasion across the Atlantic if the Submariner doesn't want you to? He's an entire fleet of attack subs by himself. Fly over the Arctic and Canada? Okay, but Canada has supers as well, some of them really nasty, and heaven forbid you still have anything in the air when Thor, Ororo Monroe, or several other weather manipulators hear about you. Use racially charged propaganda or any hint of a "Holocaust" in your invasion propaganda and Magneto will probably have your invasion for lunch, with no survivors.

The land invasion with conventional forces won't begin until the supers are taken care of.

Lemme guess, the one flying on the left side is called Snowbird, or The Arrow.

To use that book, I would first have to own the Mutants & Masterminds RPG.

M&M is a nice system. Here's an example of street-level combat.

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"Because, when you really think about it, wouldn't Red Dawn have been a whole lot cooler if Captain America were in it?"

Cool, but in a different way. Anyway, the supers on both sides would only have to fight each other to stalemate before a convential war could begin.

Of course, though they use the Red Dawn tagline, the supplement looks more to be cold war spycraft with supers then Cold Wierd War with supers. Knowing the system, though, one could easily play it anyway one wants.

The problem is, the movie Red Dawn is thoroughly unrealistic, and trying to put any sort of spin on that melange is only going to make a bad situation worse.