Anyone Have Any Good Alternate Campaign Startup Ideas?

[rcaf_777]

[QUOTE=Cpl. Kalkwarf;38007]Twilight 1946+ [/QUOTE


In Patton the movie the General says we should we rearming the germans, and getting them to help fight the russians, and give 24 hrs they be at war with the russiains and he make look like their fault!!!

I have no doubt that had he been given that order we would and then crushed the russians with a mass of superior tactics

[Panther Al]

[QUOTE=rcaf_777;38200]

Twilight 1946+ [/QUOTE


In Patton the movie the General says we should we rearming the germans, and getting them to help fight the russians, and give 24 hrs they be at war with the russiains and he make look like their fault!!!

I have no doubt that had he been given that order we would and then crushed the russians with a mass of superior tactics

No offense meant, but I hope that was sarcasm

In the end the result would be the same, but it would be far from a cakewalk. At this point the russians have put together a blend of German tactical doctrine and the old school Russian swarm concepts that simply put, worked. With few exceptions the Allies had no concept of the sort of tactics would be needed to combat a (admittedly only for the first week or two) well supplied combined arms force that was by and large intact to a degree we hadn't seen since late 44. Not to mention that (again, only for the first few week) we would be operating under skies that would be owned by noone at best, and downright hostile at first.

Of course, assuming we don't go nuclear, within a couple of weeks we would have their measure and be doing serious harm to the rear areas that would cause the front line units to wither on the vine.

[Cpl. Kalkwarf]

[QUOTE=Panther Al;38204]

No offense meant, but I hope that was sarcasm

In the end the result would be the same, but it would be far from a cakewalk. At this point the russians have put together a blend of German tactical doctrine and the old school Russian swarm concepts that simply put, worked. With few exceptions the Allies had no concept of the sort of tactics would be needed to combat a (admittedly only for the first week or two) well supplied combined arms force that was by and large intact to a degree we hadn't seen since late 44. Not to mention that (again, only for the first few week) we would be operating under skies that would be owned by noone at best, and downright hostile at first.

Of course, assuming we don't go nuclear, within a couple of weeks we would have their measure and be doing serious harm to the rear areas that would cause the front line units to wither on the vine.

Just a clarification that is not something that I said. You miss quoted.

I think that the Russians would have the upper hand for the first part, the best we could do is slow them down till we got our bombers to take out their supply depots, factories and transport hubs. Which may give us time to build up with the German, British and other euro allies. Heck even the newly liberated and very nationalistic French. As far as going nuclear, Im still out on that. Perhaps they never quite get it right, or say the Russians, Germans, and heck some one else has developed the bomb and after using the first few they decide never to use them again and just resort to other super science developments and more conventional stuff.

This way if one wanted to you could have a little bit of the fantasy tech like mecha even. go Steam Punk.

[Panther Al]

[QUOTE=Cpl. Kalkwarf;38217]

Just a clarification that is not something that I said. You miss quoted.

I think that the Russians would have the upper hand for the first part, the best we could do is slow them down till we got our bombers to take out their supply depots, factories and transport hubs. Which may give us time to build up with the German, British and other euro allies. Heck even the newly liberated and very nationalistic French. As far as going nuclear, Im still out on that. Perhaps they never quite get it right, or say the Russians, Germans, and heck some one else has developed the bomb and after using the first few they decide never to use them again and just resort to other super science developments and more conventional stuff.

This way if one wanted to you could have a little bit of the fantasy tech like mecha even. go Steam Punk.

Heh, so it is. What I get for posting on my phone. Sorry about that.

[rcaf_777]

CIVGOV Enclave

You are maning the enterance to the CIVGOV Enclave in Omaha

think about it you have

Refguees trying to enter
Military Troops showing up Friend or Foe
Government Officals showing up Friend or Foe
Food Roits - I want my MRE
Power rations - he has power why not me
Water Issues
Secuirty Patrols - Who will you run into
QRF - Combat
Convoy Essort

[ArmySGT.]

Zombies.

The Twilight War is about the Zombies.

Nuking Zombies spreads Zombie dust making more Zombies farther away.

[Legbreaker]

Nuking Zombies spreads Zombie dust making more Zombies farther away.

But at least they are over there and you've just cleared your fields of fire.

[Targan]

But at least they are over there and you've just cleared your fields of fire.

Those damn zombies! You've just stacked up some bodies to use as cover and then your cover suddenly tries to eat your brain!

I hate it when that happens.

[Legbreaker]

Who needs cover from zombies It's not like they're shooting at you...

[Sanjuro]

If you are REALLY sadistic, have the war start normally then have an alien invasion turn up...

On another board, I suggested getting a group to generate T2k characters, but present it as happening in the runup to the war- then you give them a Merc-2000 type mission where they find the Stargate...

[Matt W]

This is a campaign idea I wanted to work on

GUN TRUCK

aka "Postmen with BIG guns"

The PCs job is organising/leading convoys of motor vehicles from one place of relative safety to another. They have access to a jeep, a couple of quadbikes, and one uparmored gun truck (Challenge had an article about various options)



Scenario opportunities include
Combat (ambush & counter-ambush).
Negotiation (for fuel, passage, trade, hiring guards, etc).
Exploration/recon.
VIP transport

IMHO this has the advantage that it can accommodate almost any civilian or military background. It also allows the ref to provide some direction

[boogiedowndonovan]

I once ran a game where I started the PCs out as POWs in camp along the Polish/Soviet Union border. I gave the PCs minimal starting equipment based off the list in the Gateway to the Spanish Main book and let them acquire various bits and pieces from whatever they could scrounge or steal from camp. The PCs got assigned to various work duties based on their skills, the mechanic got to work in the motorpool, doctor and medic got worked in the infimary, etc. They eventually busted out of the POW camp and made their way west to Krakow via the Wisla Krolowa.

I once got to play in a game where the GM let the PCs each run a group of about 20-30 npcs. There were about 3 or 4 of us, the basic premise was that we were cut off during the XI Corps offensive and had settled in a town in Poland and were the town's defense force against various marauders and warlords.

[Adm.Lee]

... There were about 3 or 4 of us, the basic premise was that we were cut off during the XI Corps offensive and had settled in a town in Poland and were the town's defense force against various marauders and warlords.

I think that would be a neat campaign, too. A variant would have the PCs (and some NPCs) assigned by HQ an area to settle and pacify. Sort of the rural equivalent of "Armies of the night." Could be in the US or might happen by player choice, if the PCs decide to quit roaming and just settle in a friendly town in Poland or Germany.

A wargamer I once played with told me about his grandfather-in-law, who had been in an Austro-Hungarian MG unit that retreated across Ukraine or Carpathia in 1918. They wintered over in some village, which begged them to stay when spring came. Their MGs kept away the Bolsheviks, Whites, marauders and other tax collectors!

[Bullet Magnet]

A wargamer I once played with told me about his grandfather-in-law, who had been in an Austro-Hungarian MG unit that retreated across Ukraine or Carpathia in 1918. They wintered over in some village, which begged them to stay when spring came. Their MGs kept away the Bolsheviks, Whites, marauders and other tax collectors!

A real life T2K game, just 82 years ahead of its time.

[Mahatatain]

I'm running a campaign on RPOL that's initially set in the Ukraine in 2001 in the middle of a civil war between Pro-Russian Ukrainian forces and Pro Ukrainian Independence forces. The PCs are former POWs (they are NATO soldiers) who've been recruited into the pro-independence forces for the moment, though they have a long term objective of leaving the Ukraine and travelling home.

This is obviously non-canon but I'm drawing material from the Red Bear module and a couple of others that I can't mention as a number of my players read this forum!