Red Dawn

[CPLT-C1]

My group and I are planning on starting our campaign based on the movie Red Dawn.
We were inspired because there will hilariously be both a Chinese and Russian antagonist version of the movie soon!

The plan is for them to be of late high-school age when the Capellans invade (probably a Federated Suns planet).
We'll start with the high-school teacher but end up with the characters stealing mechs and eventually trying to find a way off planet.

It'll be a 3025 era campaign so an invasion at the end of the 3rd succession war would  be ideal.


Do any battletech history buffs know of a canon planet that fits our story?

[Wereferret]

I'm not enough of a Btech grognard to suggest a canon planet for you, but I think that's a great idea for a campaign!  I little rag-tag outfit in the mountains shooting up convoys and scrounging for supplies is awesome.  I ran a similar campaign with an old system called Twilight: 2000 a few months ago (set in modern times) and it was great fun. 

One of my best computer-game memories was an expansion called Resistance for Operation: Flashpoint.  More than any other game it really captured that Red Dawn feel of being an outgunned and ill-equipped guerilla outfit sticking it to an invading army.  The open-world sandbox nature of it made it seem like you could almost anything, but almost anything would also get you killed.  I've been wanting to try the spiritual modern successor to it, Arma 2, to see if it still captures those same feelings.

BTW your namesake is my favorite mech!   [rockon]

[snewsom2997]

TWILIGHT 2000, now that brings back some old gaming memories.

[snewsom2997]

Just about any planet on the border. Take a look at the old FASA Liao Source book on the downloads pages of BT, It will have planets, and forces on the planets.

[CPLT-C1]

Just about any planet on the border. Take a look at the old FASA Liao Source book on the downloads pages of BT, It will have planets, and forces on the planets.

I think we'll use Homestead, the name has a proper down home feel.
It shows as always a Capellan Confederation planet, but we'll just say during the end of the Third Succession War it belonged to the Federated Suns and during the character's time it was taken back.

If the players want to be Free Worlds League then I'm thinking Old Kentucky. If I used the same 'took it back' story it would probably fit as Marik wouldn't want to throw a lot of military to get a hunting vacation world 'back'.


Does anyone know of any official history that either contradicts, or can flesh out one of those two planets?

[OmegaAce]

Loved twilight 2000

[GBL]

I ran something like this once, except all of the players were military cadets during a planet scale civil war. Worked pretty well.

[Winterborn]

Twilight 2000 now that was a fun game, it was also insanely lethal as well, char creation was fun if a bit tedious.

[Deathknight69]

Ya, it was tedious but damn if it was/is run properly, It's a helluva lotta fun to play  :) 8).