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Old 07-07-2009, 02:34 AM
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Default WWII campaign

Ran one a a long time ago.It was great fun.Everyone has a atleast a rudimentary understanding and many a good deal of insight in to the period -so the setting is easy to implement .There are lots of pictures available to set the mood .Litterature is abundant .

Our group played Wehrmacht soldiers that (unrealistically -but its a game ) were transferred as a special abteilung from the various theatres to the next one .Always in the thick of things and often cluttering up famous Operations due to circumstance ( GMs way of having a laugh )

Did played as a "black ops " volunteer team in Finlands winter war, regular troops in the invasion of Poland and France and we ended up shelfing the campaign as players were dispersing to all over and could not be drummed up for sessions as the party was fighting in the Afrika Korps.

for the record : the guys were sort of a fictious "black sheep unit" Penal battalion type units due to many of the PCs backgrounds as criminals,ethnic "liabilities such as French ancestry,insolence and insubordination and political un reliability .Running the campaign was great fun for the GM as you could introduce nasty NPCs like nazi political offizers,devout nazi NPCs ,moral dilemmas with refugees and POWs etc .
The inhumane system was a great backdrop to unite the players and the fighting could be made merciless with all the gear available- tanks,artillery,air support and human wave attacks etc .

I have seen a site with stats for a few WWII tanks etc for T2K - cannot remember it now though - I guess you have to ask the oracle .(google).

Also our own site ( in all modesty ) has a few WWII items - but mostly its for V.2.0 - you might consider switching to those rules anyways

As for material - "Play Dirty" from 1968 with Michal Caine is sort of good - at least you could print screen and lift images of it to use in your game.
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