Does it sometimes feel that this title is a little stuck in the Cold War?

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Originally Posted by XanderF

Anyone else get this vibe?

Sometimes. But one of my favorite campaigns is the Falkland Wars Campaign which is post-cold war and pretty modern. Those pesky TR-1700s SSKs are always lurking about the scenarios and the Argentinean SAGs are always blasting active sonar. It takes a fine bit of driving and those TR-1700s can pop up right in front of your bow if your not driving carefully.

I think WE as mission designers sometimes fixate on Cold War scenarios because its what we fall back on when looking for parody.

I think if we were to try to create post-cold war scenarios that are interesting, we would start with a littoral water space, a 2nd tier navy fielding 1st tier DE subs (such as if Venuzela bought kilo's or scorpions or south Korean with german SSKs, etc). Drop in a tense political backdrop, with Russia or the US with an SSN to protect its interest in the region. Place some restrictions on not allowing civillian casulties and perhaps some a 3rd navy with assets spying/observing in the vicinity (to mandate confident identification before shooting). And you've got some pretty interesting scenarios.