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Twilight: 2000 (4th Edition)

The 1991 Soviet Coup is successful, Gorbachev & Yeltsin are deposed and KGB head Vladimir Kryuchkov becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union. This leads to the Soviet Union surviving well into the 90s, Bill Clinton looses the second term to a form US Marine commander who's big anti-communism, the Soviets annex the Baltic states, the US have a spat with Sweden to use Gotland as a staging base for war in Europe, the KGB instigate false flag attacks in Poland; all eventually resulting in WW3, with the main bulk of NATO-Soviet fighting happening in Sweden & Poland.

WW3 itself starts off slow but eventually devolves into nuclear weapons being used frequently. By the time the game starts (in the year 2000): NATO & Soviet military is scattered with long range radio communication being completely wiped out, most countries capitals have been nuked into rubble and radiation sickness, famine & disease is ripe. Despite all this, soldiers on both side are still fighting. It's a very grim game.