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@warzan – Okay, everyone else has already weighed in on this.  First up, THANK YOU so much for reaching out.  It’s does a heart good.  😀 😀 😀

I think a Moderns “button-category” up top would be great.  It would help establish a centralized “hub” where fans and enthusiasts of the genre can see content and post their work, share battle reports, etc … sort of a “stronger version” of this thread.  It also helps us on Sitrep keep our work visible on the “front page” of OTT, so to speak, alleviating the pressure on you and the rest of the team when our podcasts or Ops Center videos are cycled further down the news feed.

I agree with @grimwolfuk that we’re focusing on post-1945 operations.  As discussed in Ops Center Episode 01 – this has less to do with technology than “context.”  What makes modern war “modern” isn’t the toys or the tech, it’s the world in which it takes place – it has to be covert, it has to be limited, it has to be non-kinetic, it hast to take a whole range of factors into account from the atomic weapons to the internet and everything in between.

From a gaming perspective this is huge.  It means “historical accuracy” is a lot easier since so much of what this sub-genre covers is supposed to be small-scale and covert.  It means victory conditions can be very “gamey” because, hey … they’re “gamey” in real life (you HAVE to rescue those hostages in the next ten minutes because that’s when the news crew shows up and we can’t have this op going public / UN cease fire takes effect / the terrorists will  kill another hostage / Parliament or Congressional oversight committees are only giving us so much time, etc).

I think it’s these contextual issues that can distinguish Moderns from pre-1945 Historical, and perhaps help justify (or clarify) a new website top-level category.

OF COURSE, I defer to your judgement on the timing.  If you think we should wait a while until we build up a bigger follower base, that’s up to you.

In part, the point of this thread was largely so we on the Sitrep team could (to a degree) take our fate in our own hands – build up our followers, engage with our followers, keep visible on the front page, and all without making additional demands on you or the OTT team.  😀

So we’ll keep pushing forward on the thread, and wait hopefully for news on new top-level categories / channels / etc.

Again, thanks so much for reaching out.  😀