Ideas for startdates of a Paradox hypotetical Cold War game

[leo567]

I think a really good startdate for a Paradox cold war game would be September 10, 1948. The reason for that is that: at this specific date many countries already became independent from the europeans, the major indian princely states of Jammu and Kashmir and Hyderabad still existed, North and South Korea were already independent countries(wich would allow you to start as one of the main countries of the Korean war), the first israeli-arab war was at its climax, the greek civil war, the chinese civil war, the indo-pakistani war and the indonesian national revolution. It gives room for some alternate history scenarios.
If you have another date in mind feel free to comment and why do you think it would be a good startdate.

 

[Tomray94]

I had stated an old post about a cold war game on reddit a while back, was thinking of rewriting it here lately. Coming across this thread was an interesting coincidence!

the dates I had in mind were:

A) 1948 - 1991
B) 1948 - 1998
C) 1946 - 1996
D) 1936 - 1996 (this one was something I had suggested in my old suggestion, but it clearly cannot happen since it would completely overlap with HoI4)

1946 can also technically overlap, but it is more like the years between 1444 and 1453 for the CK and EU series. It doesn't detract much because most people never even reach years beyond 1943-1944 , going even that far into a HoI 4 game is often described as "torture" by players.

I think a lot of the decolonization elements could be modelled in through events and would present an interesting set of choices for the colonial empires, especially the British. In Korea, I suppose the concession could be made to have them as states already, even if they hadn't been organized yet. As for the Greek and Chinese civil wars, those were already going on unofficially at least. The Israeli-Arab war could get a concession like the Korean one, where it starts soon after the game begins, as one of the first events. Your suggestion works pretty well though, and I wouldn't want to detract much from it.

 

[leo567]

I think a lot of the decolonization elements could be modelled in through events and would present an interesting set of choices for the colonial empires, especially the British. In Korea, I suppose the concession could be made to have them as states already, even if they hadn't been organized yet. As for the Greek and Chinese civil wars, those were already going on unofficially at least. The Israeli-Arab war could get a concession like the Korean one, where it starts soon after the game begins, as one of the first events.

This would be a good way to deal with decolonization if it's set in an early cold war date, altough I think It would be more apealing to the player if you could start right off the bat as an independent country, instead of having to choose an european country first(would be a more "gamey" way I would say). But still there's the decolonization of africa wich happened years after most of asia, so having also a later startdate if you want to start already in a balkanized africa would be a solution for it.