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Old 06-29-2012, 04:35 AM
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Default Royal Naval Party 67

A Royal Navy special forces unit (fictional).

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Old 06-29-2012, 10:07 AM
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Nice job - I really enjoyed reading it. Well done.
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As with all your work I enjoy reading it very much. An excellent fictional unit.
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very nice: love the parallels with Ian Fleming.
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very nice: love the parallels with Ian Fleming.
I do like the little hidden bits for those who like to spot the influence/jokes.
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Great work as always, James. BTW if you ever need assistance proof reading/editing I'd love to help. I do it professionally so I can virtually do it in my sleep.

Also, I wonder if you considered including a Shershen-class boat in RNP 67's vessel roster. They fulfil a similar role to the OSA and Osa II classes but are somewhat smaller and therefore require a much smaller crew to operate. In my last campaign the PC party "liberated" one from the Vistula river pirates. I have many line drawings and photos of the Shershen clas (no deck plans, unfortunately).
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Also, I wonder if you considered including a Shershen-class boat in RNP 67's vessel roster. They fulfil a similar role to the OSA and Osa II classes but are somewhat smaller and therefore require a much smaller crew to operate. In my last campaign the PC party "liberated" one from the Vistula river pirates. I have many line drawings and photos of the Shershen clas (no deck plans, unfortunately).
Thanks, Targan! The Shershen was too small to show up in any of my old Jane's or Cold-War era gear books- I've been searching off and on for a smallish WTO design that could serve as a river gunboat. This might just fit the bill.
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Thanks, Targan! The Shershen was too small to show up in any of my old Jane's or Cold-War era gear books- I've been searching off and on for a smallish WTO design that could serve as a river gunboat. This might just fit the bill.
In my last campaign I had a Shershen as one of the "flagships" of the Vistula river pirates. The USN SEAL XO of Major Po's unit led a night time mission to affix home-made shaped charge limpet mines to some of the pirates' other substantial vessels prior to the rest of the party storming the Shershen boat. Po's party then took the Shershen a good way down the Vistula (pretending to be on a KGB-led mission) until a Soviet unit garrisoning a bridge with a GRU liaison became suspicious of their cover and holed the boat in the ensuing firefight.

I actually posted some of my photos and line drawings of Shershens in another thread last year some time I think. Would you like me to post the vehicle sheet I wrote up for my last campaign? From memory it has the location and armor values written up in v1 format. The weapon stats are in Gunmaster format but you can ignore those
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In my last campaign I had a Shershen as one of the "flagships" of the Vistula river pirates. The USN SEAL XO of Major Po's unit led a night time mission to affix home-made shaped charge limpet mines to some of the pirates' other substantial vessels prior to the rest of the party storming the Shershen boat. Po's party then took the Shershen a good way down the Vistula (pretending to be on a KGB-led mission) until a Soviet unit garrisoning a bridge with a GRU liaison became suspicious of their cover and holed the boat in the ensuing firefight.

I actually posted some of my photos and line drawings of Shershens in another thread last year some time I think. Would you like me to post the vehicle sheet I wrote up for my last campaign? From memory it has the location and armor values written up in v1 format. The weapon stats are in Gunmaster format but you can ignore those


I use v2.2 rules (but ALWAYS the v1.0 timeline) but I'd still like to see what you did.

My players wiped out the river pirates a couple of years ago, IRL, but they're continuing down the Vistula towards the Baltic (they're at Plock now) and I'm thinking it's about time for another riverine nemesis.

I didn't find the Shershen when I was looking for a flagship for the pirates so instead I went with this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...s_torpedo_boat

I didn't want to use the same type of vessel again so I'm grateful you mentioned the Shershen class [again].
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My Google-fu is strong today

Model building forum with various images of Shersen boats
http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum...p?f=52&t=54571

Best of all, the first poster had a link to a Russian model building site, no surprise that it's in the Russian language but here's a Google-Translate link for their radio-controlled Shersen model - lots of detailed line drawings but no internal detail
http://translate.google.com/translat...06.htm&act=url
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Really useful info thanks, I may well incorporate one into the flotila. I went for the OSAII as it is an ideal vessel for coastal patrolling in the Baltic and unlikely to attract attention but this fits the bill as well. I am working on an expanded version as we speak.
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Updated version with thanks for all the suggestions both on and off list.
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I was sent Royal Naval Party 67 as part of material that was going to be in Grimace's second fanzine. I was going to include it but have questions about the pictures - i.e. dont want to include pics unless I can use them without violating copyright. If I dont hear from you will assume that you arent interested in having it in the next fanzine
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Hey Olefin, if it's of any use, I think the images of the Shersen class boat from the links I posted are public domain.
I just checked the links to see if they were still valid and they are although the Google Translate link to the Russian model building site does seem to be screwy so you're better off using a direct link and translating it from there. http://hobbyport.ru/ships/pr_206.htm

Edit: Posted the above before checking all the images and realised that the pictures of model kits are most likely not in the public domain. I believe all the "real-world" images are though because they're all twenty or more years old and/or from a nation that no longer exists.

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