Thought I’d try out some new weapon ranges. It always seemed absurd to me that submachineguns and pistols had half the effective range of rifles… so I thought I’d lower their ranges for this game to give it a try… Seemed to work out.
21 August 1941
SITUATION
Having been on the run behind enemy lines for two months our Soviet Heroes are finally approaching the front lines. The have run into a squad of Soviet scouts who will lead them through the lines where it is lightly held.
SCENARIO
Get off the east end of the table. There is a limited number of turns to do so before additional troops arrive from the flanking table edges.
FORCES
Soviet Forces
Serzhant Boris Trotsky - Wild Card - Dave
Ag d6, Sm d6, Sp d8, St d4, Vg d8,
Pace 6, Parry 4, Toughness 8
Skills: Fighting d4, Shooting d8, Notice d6, Stealth d4, Throwing d4
Edges: Rank (NCO)
Hindrances:
Gear: Ppsh SMG (Range: 10/20/40, ROF3, Damage: 2d6, AP: 1, Auto)
Soviet Conscripts - 4
Ag d6, Sm d4, Sp d6, St d6, Vg d6,
Pace 6, Parry 4 (5), Toughness 5
Skills: Fighting d4, Shooting d6, Notice d4, Stealth d4, Throwing d4
Gear: 1x Ppsh SMG (Range: 10/20/40, ROF3, Damage: 2d6, AP: 1, Auto), 3xMosin-Nagant Rifle (Range: 24/48/96, ROF1, Damage: 2d8, AP: 2) +Bayonet (Str+d4, Reach 1, Parry+1)
Rayadovoy Androv Virgilovski - Wild Card - Rick
Ag d8, Sm d4, Sp d4, St d6, Vg d8,
Pace 6, Parry 6 (7), Toughness 7
Skills: Fighting d8, Shooting d8, Notice d4, Stealth d4, Driving d4, Throwing d4
Edges: Brawny
Hindrances:
Gear: Mosin-Nagant Rifle (Range: 24/48/96, ROF1, Damage: 2d8, AP: 2), Bayonet (Str+d4, Reach 1, Parry+1)
Serzhant Pyotr Dizalotski - Wild Card - Patrick
Ag d8, Sm d6, Sp d6, St d4, Vg d6,
Pace 6, Parry 4 , Toughness 8
Skills: Fighting d4, Shooting d6, Notice d6, Stealth d4, Throwing d4, Driving d4, Repair d6
Edges: Rank (NCO)
Gear: Pistol (Range: 6/12/24, ROF1, Damage: 2d6, AP: 1)
Soviet Scouts - 4
Ag d8, Sm d6, Sp d6, St d6, Vg d8,
Pace 6, Parry 4 (5), Toughness 6
Skills: Fighting d6, Shooting d6, Notice d6, Stealth d6, Throwing d4
Gear: 4x Ppsh SMG (Range: 10/20/40, ROF3, Damage: 2d6, AP: 1, Auto)
Efreytor Marcov - Wild Card - Jackson
Ag d6, Sm d8, Sp d4, St d4, Vg d6,
Pace 6, Parry 4, Toughness 4
Skills: Fighting d4, Shooting d4, Notice d4, Stealth d4, Driving d4, Throwing d4, Repair d8
Edges: Command
Hindrances:
Gear: Pistol (Range: 6/12/24, ROF1, Damage: 2d6, AP: 1)
German Forces (elements of Army Group Center)
Feldwebel Ernst Schnitzel – Wild Card
Ag d6, Sm d6, Sp d6, St d6, Vg d6,
Pace 6, Parry 5, Toughness 5
Skills: Fighting d6, Shooting d6, Notice d6, Stealth d6, Intimidate d6, Throwing d6
Edges: Rock-n-Roll, Command
Hindrances:
Gear:
MP-40 SMG (Range: 10/20/40, ROF3, Damage: 2d6, AP: 1, Auto)
Luger Pistol (Range: 6/12/24, ROF1, Damage: 2d6, AP: 1)
German Rifle Team #1 (6)
Ag d6, Sm d6, Sp d6, St d6, Vg d6,
Pace 6, Parry 5, Toughness 5
Skills: Fighting d6, Shooting d6, Notice d6, Stealth d6, Throwing d6
Edges:
Hindrances:
Gear: 1x MP-40 SMG (Range: 10/20/40, ROF3, Damage: 2d6, AP: 1, Auto)
5x Kar 98K Rifle (Range: 24/48/96, ROF1, Damage: 2d8, AP: 2), Bayonet (Str+d4, Reach 1, Parry+1)
German MG Team #1 (4)
Ag d6, Sm d6, Sp d6, St d6, Vg d6,
Pace 6, Parry 5, Toughness 5
Skills: Fighting d6, Shooting d6, Notice d6, Stealth d6, Throwing d6
Edges:
Hindrances:
Gear: 3x Kar 98K Rifle (Range: 24/48/96, ROF1, Damage: 2d8, AP: 2), Bayonet (Str+d4, Reach 1, Parry+1), 1x MG34 (Range: 30/60/120, ROF3, Damage: 2d8, AP: 2, Auto, Snapfire)
THE GAME
(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)
The Scouts led them through a ruined town. They knew there was only about a squad operating in the immediate area – with the rest of the platoon stretched out on either side. A single MG post covered the central road.
Serzhant Trotski sent his riflemen ahead up the edge of the table… all three ran into mines and blew themselves apart.
(note to players – if the GM leaves an area of nice open terrain along the edge of the table that is completely covered from the otherwise excellent fields of fire that your known enemy has… it’s probably mined…)
Serzhant Dizalotski(L) and Efreytor Marcov(R) – I have hats for just about everyone now…
The group was shot at by another German MG team that was hidden in a ruined building. The Soviets poured heavy and surprisingly accurate (i.e. LUCKY) fire into the building and knocked out two of the team and suppressed the others.
Efreytor Marcov, braving mines and Machineguns charged the building and threw in the groups sole grenade.
BOOM! The rest of the German team was knocked out.
The rest of the team rushed for the cover of the building.
Meanwhile, however, the Rifle section was redeploying to support the MG team that sounded like it was in trouble – or block any Russians that might have gotten through.
Efreytor Marcov decided he’d rather take his luck with the minefield that face the German firing squad and ran back out and around the building… His fellow ex-tanker followed and dashed past him… and stepped on a mine…
BLAM!!
Serzhant Dizalotski took seven (SEVEN!!) wounds and was reduced to a fine red mist. He apparently took most of the blast because Markov was only shaken – probably from being splattered by Dizalotki’s gooified body-bits.
The other sent the Scouts out – apparently hoping it would draw the fire of the sitting-on-hold rifle squad and then dash past their corpses… I let them go…
Vigilovski popped his head out of cover to take a shot – the Soviets all tried to interrupt – they all ended up going at the same time. Virgilovski wounded (well… shook) one of the Germans, but in the hail of fire from them he lost a few bennies (SOAK!) and ended up with a wound…
In the end the remaining three had to make a dash across so open ground. SErzhant Trotski made it (unscathed, I believe). Virgilovski and Marcov both staggered to safety with three wounds…
They made it back to “friendly” lines and were all taken out of the line to hospital… They should all be back and ready for Operation Typhoon!!
Coming Soon to Savage Timmy’s Playhouse:
This Savage Saturday night we should be back to Realms of Cthulhu and next Wednesday we’ll be back at it on the Eastern Front!!
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