Module Linkages

[Adm.Lee]

Hmmmm, now I'm wondering about a Gulf campaign, linking Gateway, Urban Guerrilla, and Red Star/Lone Star.

With or without the USS Constitution (II), pitting the PCs as shipborne troops against the various Mexican and New American cells around the American Gulf Coast.

For instance, in Lone Star, what if the overland chase were cut out, and substituted for a boat run down the Intracoastal Waterway-- wasn't there at least on Challenge article on that? Hmmm, I may have a research topic to fill my copious amounts of free time this week. [Housework? pFffft.]

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Adm.Lee

For instance, in Lone Star, what if the overland chase were cut out, and substituted for a boat run down the Intracoastal Waterway-- wasn't there at least on Challenge article on that? Hmmm, I may have a research topic to fill my copious amounts of free time this week. [Housework? pFffft.]

That article is Inland Waterway: Supplementary Material for Red Star/Lone Star, contained in Challenge issue 27.

[Olefin]

Love the linkages - and in many ways it follows how my campaign went since my referee/GM didnt start a game till after Madonna was out there - so our Escape flowed right into Madonna (mainly because of the road we took) whereas if we had started the game when Krakow was the only module it wouldnt have been possible

[Tegyrius]

Was thinking about this today, and although there's no explicit link in the modules, the timing looks like the only way to do "Return to Europe" would be to never take your PCs out of Europe. Go from Warsaw to Ukraine for Bear's Den, then come back - traveling through late winter, ugh - into White Eagle and Return to Warsaw. So "return" was really an advertising line item for GDW rather than a literal return for characters who got stateside.

Has anyone actually played through those? I seem to recall some criticisms that they recycled too much of the original information without adding enough new plot development.

- C.

[Adm.Lee]

Originally Posted by Tegyrius

Was thinking about this today, and although there's no explicit link in the modules, the timing looks like the only way to do "Return to Europe" would be to never take your PCs out of Europe. Go from Warsaw to Ukraine for Bear's Den, then come back - traveling through late winter, ugh - into White Eagle and Return to Warsaw. So "return" was really an advertising line item for GDW rather than a literal return for characters who got stateside.

I've been wondering recently about re-setting the time of Bear's Den to late 1999, rather than 2000. If the PCs are an SOF team sent to help the 27th TD behind the lines, and discover if the Red Bear really has gone independent, it fits better to the timeline, IMO. Use that as a start-up, rather than Death of a Division. Then the party makes its way back to Krakow, and start the "normal" cycle.

I agree that White Eagle or Return to Warsaw work better as sequels to their originals, and that a "return to Europe" seems unlikely. I'd prefer to run them someday for groups that never made the last train & ship out. Primary candidates would be the US XI Corps folks who stayed on the coast, now trying to assist a pro-NATO Polish government. Second would be people who stayed too long in Krakow, for whatever reason, or POWs.