My favorite campaign that I ran with the original modules I had the bulk of the players be from the 256th Brigade. They were a recce section.
The C.O. was in a VBL M-11 with a PC scout and a PC Driver/RTO. The second vehicle was a German Wiesel MK I with a 20mm AC. Gunner/Commander was my youngest player (GREAT player!) and another PC (he was just a crazy driver!)
A lot of fun and meyham. The PCs could get just about any equipemnt they wanted but it had to fit in the vehicles and because they had to have amphibious capability... no trailers. So they opted for a lot of alcohol fuel and food and went with the minimum ammo for the 20mm for the Wiesel (200 rounds?). They also mounted a M249 as a co-ax bore sighted with a 500 round ammo bin. The VBL had an MAG MMG I think they only had 1250 rounds for it.
They lost the Wiesel in the Black Madonna module. When they came out of the tomb one of their nemesis caught up to them an a large firefight started. The Wiesel got hit with multiple 14.5mm rounds.
After that they made it to Krakow where they traded a bunch of loot for a very beat up Spahpanzer Kurtz. They picked up to more PCs, one a German and the other an American.
I think that campaign lasted about 6 months.
I believe if you ave 50% of the PCs as Americans its more viable since it is a US unit.
My other very succsessful campaig was run with only 4 PCs in Maine. The PCs crossed the Atlantic on a 2 masted schooner. There were 5 NPCs only 1 was military. The PCs were an ex USMC Force Recon team and when they got to Maine/Nova Scotia they pretty much ran a guerilla war against New America. It was a great combo of politics, combat, and survival with ship to ship combat, spec ops missions, espionage recce missions. That lasted about a year off and on. That one had the players scrounging for just about everything and they liked it. Lots of wheeling and dealing. I would have to say that was my fav game I ran and would love to run it again.
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Max M. "aka Moose"
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