The first edition of Twilight: 2000 was published in 1984 by Game Designers Workshop. The plotline theorised that a war (using conventional, chemical and nuclear weapons) broke out in 1995 between Russia (USSR) and China, while in Europe a cabal of military officers from West and East Germany collaborated to bring about reunification of Germany - who promptly attacked the USSR. This degenerated into a general conflict in Europe waged between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, initially conventional but culminating in a limited nuclear exchange. The game opens in the summer of 2000, with the war still nominally in progress but with such a level of chaos on the ground that for most service personnel the only option is to fend for themselves. Most of the supplements and adventures published for this edition assume a group of US personnel whose ultimate objective is to get home, although most of the adventures are easily-adapted to other nationalities and objectives.

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