I got this idea in a dream after reading 1984. What about a 1984 mod or scenario? Forget what your thinking, I think it would be a great for multiplayer, though it should be singleplayer too. A three nation slugfest to the death. It would be absolutly intense!
As I see it there are three options. It could be just a scenario with no modding done, just the creation of the three nations, Oceania (North and South America, South Africa, Britain and some of Australasia), Eurasia (Essentialy the Soviet Union pluss Europe) and Eastasia (Essentialy China minus some of its western provinces and half of Manchuria, and pluss Japan and half of India). Every power should have a full tech tree. On land they should operate with human wave doctrines, and on sea with decisive battle doctrines. Oceania should start with the smallest army (concentraited in South Africa), but the largest navy. Eurasia and Eastasia should have bigger armies, but essentialy the same size each, and comparable smaller navies. The airforce of each power should be the same size. Unlike the book the war would have to be three way. A large portion of the map would start un-owned. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is not un-owned territy quickly assimlated? Oceania's capitol would be Washington D.C., Eurasia, Moscow, and Eastasia, Beijing.
But there could also be a mod. I think this mod would be good because it could test Orwell's theory that each supersate is unconquerable. First, because 85% of the population of each nation are proles and so don't fight in the war, the population increase would have to be moded down 85%. The armies, airforces and navies would have to be smaller all around (though to same scale as in the scenario) considering how few people actually fight. All types of navy ships would have to be removed except the transport and battleship, wich should be become far slower and more expensive but far more powerfull. The ai would need to be modded to make them build and use rocket bombs more than bombers, and nukes would have to be removed. The government types should be National Socialist with complete government planning and closed societies, drafted armies, hawk lobbies, total interventionism, and so on. The war would still probably half to be three way.
Another possibility would be to take this mod further by introducing the question, what if the superstates decided to drop this whole doublethink facade and really destroy each other. What if they ended the stratification and recruited proles? This would be like the mod but just with full population growth.
What does everyone think about this idea?
As I see it there are three options. It could be just a scenario with no modding done, just the creation of the three nations, Oceania (North and South America, South Africa, Britain and some of Australasia), Eurasia (Essentialy the Soviet Union pluss Europe) and Eastasia (Essentialy China minus some of its western provinces and half of Manchuria, and pluss Japan and half of India). Every power should have a full tech tree. On land they should operate with human wave doctrines, and on sea with decisive battle doctrines. Oceania should start with the smallest army (concentraited in South Africa), but the largest navy. Eurasia and Eastasia should have bigger armies, but essentialy the same size each, and comparable smaller navies. The airforce of each power should be the same size. Unlike the book the war would have to be three way. A large portion of the map would start un-owned. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is not un-owned territy quickly assimlated? Oceania's capitol would be Washington D.C., Eurasia, Moscow, and Eastasia, Beijing.
But there could also be a mod. I think this mod would be good because it could test Orwell's theory that each supersate is unconquerable. First, because 85% of the population of each nation are proles and so don't fight in the war, the population increase would have to be moded down 85%. The armies, airforces and navies would have to be smaller all around (though to same scale as in the scenario) considering how few people actually fight. All types of navy ships would have to be removed except the transport and battleship, wich should be become far slower and more expensive but far more powerfull. The ai would need to be modded to make them build and use rocket bombs more than bombers, and nukes would have to be removed. The government types should be National Socialist with complete government planning and closed societies, drafted armies, hawk lobbies, total interventionism, and so on. The war would still probably half to be three way.
Another possibility would be to take this mod further by introducing the question, what if the superstates decided to drop this whole doublethink facade and really destroy each other. What if they ended the stratification and recruited proles? This would be like the mod but just with full population growth.
What does everyone think about this idea?
