Persia in the Twilight War

[Targan]

Originally Posted by kato13

They would only outnumber you 50 to one. C'mon you guys could take them.

Well its true that Australian forces usually 'fight above their weight'. The Korean and Vietnam Wars are good examples, we really kicked some ass in our own small way. There are just so few of us compared to the size of the continent we live on.

If you nice Americans could just keep selling us that excellent quality military gear, we'll keep on handing over the cash - which we got from China.

[natehale1971]

Originally Posted by Targan

Well its true that Australian forces usually 'fight above their weight'. The Korean and Vietnam Wars are good examples, we really kicked some ass in our own small way. There are just so few of us compared to the size of the continent we live on.

If you nice Americans could just keep selling us that excellent quality military gear, we'll keep on handing over the cash - which we got from China.

My dad and uncle once told me a story about a group of Aussies who where on leave in Veitnam during the war. The eight men had 'borrowed' two jeeps, one was full of ammo and the other was full of beer. They then asked for directions for the combat zone, everyone figured it was so they could stay far.. far away from the combat zone because they had said they where going hunting... they came back totally drunk a few days later to buy more beer and ammo. And they had a shitload of NVA and VC gear that they 'traded' for the beer and ammo.

When asked what the hell are you hunting? 'We're hunting VC... but the damn NVA keep getting in the way.'

They did that for two weeks before they went home.

Point of the story... Don't mess with the Aussies, they are either totally insane. Or they get really deadly when they are totally liquered up.

[Matt Wiser]

Our group at CSU Fresno ran a campaign in Iran: we had done the first set of adventures in Poland (Escape from Kalisz, Black Madonna, Krakow), but not the Vistula or Warsaw; before heading to take part in the evac home, but when we found out our vehicles would be turned over to the Germans, we headed to Rostock, which is where we found two Frosch-class LSTs getting ready to sail to Bremerhaven. After an exchange of some of the gold from a Kelly's Heroes type adventure, we sailed to Israel instead. IMI refitted our vehicles (for some of the gold, naturally) and off we went via Jordan and Iraq. There was a running gun battle from As Samawah down through An Nasiriya and finally the outskirts of Basra, before running into some Green Berets advising anti-regime Iraqis. After getting into Iran, we were attached to the 101st, and then got sent to Lordegan, where we would be the armor support for 3/187 (the Lordegan garrison), and also be available for any special missions tasked by the 101st. Didn't do King's Ransom per se, but used it as background. Our GM had some NPCs get the Crown Jewels. Before we could do any more, it was graduation time for about half of the folks in the group, and that was the end of that.

[Olefin]

Was doing some reading on the Iranian Air Force and their F-14's and came up with the interesting tidbit that the Iranians operated their F-14's almost exclusively out of Khatami Air Base in Esfahan during and after the Iran Iraq War. (which is the air base mentioned in King's Ransom where the Soviets are using one end and the other end is abandoned)

The Iranians had their spare parts for their F-14's at that air base in closely guarded and hidden bunkers.

Quick adventure scenario came immediately to mind - i.e. a mission by a character party that is sent to a bunker that has been identified as still not being found by the Soviets (in other words its at the end of the base they arent using and hidden for security) to retrieve spare parts in it that could bring several currently grounded USN F-14's back to operational status. The characters are sent to retrieve the parts (which are still there but range from small electrical parts all the way up to a tail section and bulky engine parts to make things interesting for the party on how to transport them) and get them to a rendezvous where helos will lift them and the parts out.

Could make for an interesting addition to King's Ransom and another way for characters to find out about the jewels - i.e. they run into the people who know about them and thus set up a second mission or scenario where they go after them or during the operation to get the parts they actually find the jewels themselves but only have time to grab a few and bring them back with them, planning to return to get the rest.