South Africa endured the turmoil in 90s, their leaders realized the seriousness of the national problem and adopted some reconciliation and egalitarian polices which achieved successes, with the lifting of international trade ban, South Africa entered a prosperous new era. There are two emerging players in the southern hemisphere, South Africa and Southern Cone. Taiwan become the frontline to stop the spreading of communism in Asia and its defense capability greatly improved with the arrival of advanced US weaponry.
In the far East, China and the USSR reached the Second Sino-Soviet treaty as the west announced embargo after 1989 incidences. The Middle East coalition emerged during the 3rd oil crisis it has been firmly stood with the Soviet after US intervention. Although Yugoslavia lost Tito, his successor keeps Yugoslavia running thanks to the aid from Soviet. With the US influence gradually falling in Europe forces the other NATO members are forced to strengthen their military cooperation in west Europe with the West Germany as the leading nation. At the same time, with the failed military intervention in Middle East, the new US administration turns to conservative foreign policy. Soviet regained the initiative of cold War. In the timeline of Millennium world, Soviet leader Yuri Andropov stayed healthy and initiated a series of radical reform which achieved remarkable results.
Millennium mod also featured addition of new nations such as Italy and MEA meanwhile retaining the features of vanilla nations and collations. Wargame millennium is generally based on the original WGRD game but has extended the time limit to year 2005, allowing more interesting units to be added at the same time making the existence of some vanilla units to be more reasonable without compromising the core red dragon game play style and balancing.