Shades of Conflict mod for Vector Thrust

When America launches the SDI constellation over the course of the late 1980s, the balance of power is drastically shifted in NATO's favor through an assumed monopoly on the use of ballistics missiles. Without fear of Soviet brinksmanship, President Reagan overtly calls for free elections in Warsaw Pact nations while clandestine services foster dissent from within. When First Secretary Jaruzelski is assassinated and Poland breaks out into civil war in 1989, Gorbachev is removed from power and replaced by Vladimir Kryuchkov. The Soviet Army mobilizes, easily crushing Polish resistance, and re-institutes Jaruzelski's martial law.

The Warsaw Pact's leaders fall into a siege mentality without a nuclear bargaining chip or domestic stability, and cease most support to first and third world Communist parties. Able to hold onto power but reduced to its Eurasian core, the Soviet Union modernizes its arsenal throughout the 90s while giving more military surplus to client states. However, these large arsenals prove expensive to maintain, and most of the Warsaw Pact is at a low state of readiness over the next two decades.

NATO finally uses its hegemonic strength in March 2010, launching Operation Baltic Freedom in support of a Latvian uprising. Within hours of an American ARG entering the Baltic Sea, the Soviet Army and other Warpac forces take Berlin and begin crossing the border to West Germany. Secretly unsure of SDI's reliability, NATO chooses not to launch its strategic nukes and begins mounting a conventional defense.

Scope

Shades of Conflict will be four missions released standalone as they're completed, and a campaign that will be start development in summer 2015. All standalone missions will be playable from the NATO and Warpac sides and fully voice acted for both factions. No new models or maps will be used for the standalone missions, but they will introduce new variants using TS's models and detailed, well-researched paint schemes for players and NPCs. The campaign is VVS only, but might be followed up by an Alaska ANG campaign afterwards.

Credits

Original concept by Kevin Lobete

Produced by Mike Durao

Additional textures by John_Silver

Voice actors TBA