SAS Origins Campaign

[Caradhras]

Good ideas - thanks.

Marc, you remind me of a documentary I watched a while ago about the early SAS. I think they were all called to a remote part Scotland where they lodged with local people while they were interviewed and trained - and did take part in small raids to Norway, as you say, to build on the training. Definitely worth adding to my idea pool

[Adm.Lee]

IIRC, quite a lot of WW2 guns are in the Small Arms Guide. I'd had ideas about some one-shots as Commandoes or Rangers myself. Driving around in the Desert ought to be plenty amusing.

[O'Borg]

A while back I came close to running an LRDG campaign, though the LRDG were more of a recon group and often got a bit annoyed at the SAS for making trouble on their patch, especially as the early SAS relied on the LRDG for transport a lot and jokingly referred to them as the Libyan Desert Taxi Service.

Much of the initial SAS recruits came from the recently disbanded 'Layforce' - aka no 7,8 and 11 Commando

[jester]

We ran one in 00! It was myself, Pat, David and a few others. It was on the yahoo groups called, Desert Long Range Group or something similiar. My characters name was Remy, a Forgien Legion Deserter who had crossed the desert in a stolen armored car with a couple others who loathed the idea of serving the Germans. He and his comapnions drove as far as they could and hid at an oasis until they were found by local tribesman and returned to free French and British territory. Anyhow that was how he came to join the group.

The had 2 chevy Trucks on the lend lease outfited with a mixture of M2. Brownings, Vickars and Lewis guns. It was an awesome game!