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Originally Posted by Draq
Thanx, that's pretty helpful, gents. I was thinking of starting out with just 2-5 characters in one vehicle(HMMWV, m113, Bradley or nato equivalents) a few days after the breakthrough. Low on most everything, lost, maybe have a few mild to moderate wounds and vehicles damage/problems, kinda set up a tutorial, for both me and my players as this will be our first time playing. Give everyone a chance to get used to the non-combat aspects and develop character personalities. Then run into red scouts/recon patrol or something difficult but still do-able. Then when they finally regroup with the main forces, grab up more men supplies and vehicles
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I think this is the ideal way to start out when you have a group of players new to the rules - start out simple and work your way up to the more involved stuff when people are used to the basics.
My take on the Kalisz scenario was also of the low key approach - pretty much just the PCs (and maybe a helpful NPC if the players didn't have much military knowledge) and what they could carry and possibly a vehicle if they got lucky with the dice roll. But I might give them a small bonus as well.
For example, I had a group that included a defecting Czech junior officer so I added another defecting Czech junior officer as an NPC. The group decided that they wanted to pool their dice and get a BTR-80 so I allowed that and as their bonus, the NPC Czech officer knew of a small cache of 44 gallon drums full of diesel (and so I then decided to have the BTR still fitted to run on diesel). This gave them a total (on-road) travel range of about 1500 kilometres before they'd have to convert the engine to alcohol (however, they didn't start with any ammo for the 14.5mm KPVT and only had about 700 rounds for the co-ax PKT).