Category: World War II – NUTS!
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The Meat Grinder, Part 4 – Roll Call
The wind played cheerfully with wisps of white hair atop heads with solemn faces. A small group of elderly men and women wearing medals sat apart from the crowds listening as politicians droned. Roza Yedilova grumbled to herself about the weather, she was cold even though the younger folk were wearing t-shirts and shorts. Her…
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The Meat Grinder – Part 3
“Q & E Campaigning” Gaming campaigns have appeared in Two Hour Wargames for some time, but I never played any of them until the Q&E Campaigning system in Fortunes Won and Lost, a rule set now sold by Rebel Minis. This system uses a minimum amount of bookkeeping and its best features are a morale…
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The Meat Grinder – Part 2
Where to Start As with all immersion games and role playing games, you begin with your character. Now, being of the gentler sex (ha!), to realistically play a woman in a combat role during WWII, my choices are to play a partisan or resistance fighter in an occupied area, or a soldier of the Soviet…
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The Meat Grinder – Part 1
Introduction to a New Project Most of the time I play one-off games. I have the attention span of a gnat and it is often hard to play several games linked together into a campaign. The two exceptions have been when writing the Pearl’s Plight story and when writing the 5150 No Limits: The Cool…
