Task Force Barbro Real-time tactical infiltration in an alternate Cold War Sweden. Core Loop • Build and manage your resistance cell from a hidden safehouse • Infiltrate Soviet-occupied zones in real-time first-person missions • Stealth, sabotage, disguise, extract — or die • Permadeath is always on • Between missions, manage gear, intel, time, and territory in a turn-based campaign layer World & Setting • Alternate timeline: The USSR, ruled by the Kosmos Machine, a sentient ideological AI, occupies Scandinavia • Sweden collapses without resistance. The King vanishes. The U.S. provides questionable “aid.” • You lead Task Force Barbro, a stay-behind resistance unit striking from the shadows • Tactical Cold War thriller with low-tech, high-agency operations Design Philosophy • No randomness — success depends on player skill, failure is permanent • Skills improve efficiency, not action access • Tools unlock actions, not classes or restrictions • Fully systemic: disguises, traps, and breaches obey grounded logic • AI and players follow identical rules • Emergent storytelling through player choices, intel, and faction dynamics
