Operational Briefing

 

 

 Red Storm Rising 1942

 

The Soviet invasion of AXIS occupied Poland 1942

Operational Log:

in Zero Point Achtung Cthulhu

 

Brody June 23 to 30 1942

Soviets invade Nazi occupied Poland

 

Soviet Forces

500,000 troops

Tanks 3500

T35.    50

KV1.   250

T28.   250

T34.   950

T26/BT7. 2000

 

Aircraft

900

 

Players

T28 Crew

Five 1st level players

 

ACT ONE

Scene one: per dawn June 22nd 1942

Closing the river at Starovoitove (pop 1k) to Dorohusk (250 pop)

The Team’s T28 & two other T28s plus 50 Soviet Tank Riders

56 German border platoon a PAK38 ATG

 

Outcome

1 T28 destroyed

29 Soviet Tank Riders killed or severely injured

 The PAK38 ATG is destroyed

8 German soldiers killed

The 48 German boarder troops fall back and escape into the surrounding woods.

 

Scene two: 9am Chelm

10,000pop, their armor column rolls through, the town is strangely quiet.

A few visibe towns peopel out and about tell them the German SS was through

 earlier telling people to stay put and lock their doors.

The Soviet armor column leaves the town to the NKVD and moves on to its next

 objective.

 

Scene Three: Noon Lublin (100k pop.)

 Like Chelm, just bigger. The streets are empty, the people have locked

 themselves up in their buildings, lots of air battles over head but otherwise

the city is quite.

Reaching city center by 1pm, the team notes the following:

There is an armored train parked in city center. Lots of cattle cars.

The doors open, and outcome the Zombies. Hundreds of Zombies.

 

Outcome:

The team’s T28 is disabled and the other T28 is destroyed by the guns on the

Armored train.

The Soviets are over run by the Zombies.

The team abandons their T28 and runs for their lives.

 

 

ACT TWO June 28 1942

Scene One: NKVD interview in Brody.

Soviet commissars are trying to figure out why after 6 days of their offensive,

 the Red Army not only failed to take a single enemy city, but is in full retreat.

The team tells the commissars about the Zombies.

The Commissars, decide not to shot the team and

They are given a new tank and told to stop the Nazis.

 

SCENE Two June 29th 1942

Tank battle outside Brody

Nazi German Forces 200,000 German Troops

20,000 SS AssaultTroopen and 450,000 Zombies

500 Aircraft and 750 Tanks:

Pz VI Tiger I. 25

Pz IV G.  100

Pz III L.   250

Pzw V Jager 25

Pzw IV Valkari 100

Pzw III Loki 250

 

Team's armor company

T35, 5 KV1, 5T28, 100 tank riders (They are in one of the T28s)

3 T34 30 Tank Riders

21 T26/BT7 100 tank riders

Vs

The Nazis invaders counter offensive

A Tiger, 4 Pz IVG, 10 Pz III L

A Pzw Jager, 4 Pzw IV Valkari,  10 Pzw IIILoki

10 Sdk 251 100 Storm troopers

 

Armored SS train,

Following zombie work gang laying tracks in front of it.

 Engine & Turret car 5 cattle cars & AA flat car

10 SS RM, 10 SS ENG 50 zombie work gang

1210 Zombietroopen in the 4 back cattle cars

 

Outcome

3 Pz IIILs and 4 Pzw III-Lokis are destroyed

The team’s T28 is destroyed.

Ivan and Nakob (player Characters) are killed

The Soviets are over run by the Zombies.

The survivors run for their lives.

 

Scene Three: Escape by Sky Barge

Colonel Kassle in her flying Sky Battleship URSS MOSKVA

Rescues the surviving team members flies off to the North leaving Brody

awash in Zombies and the Twilight.

 

Survivors advance to Level 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

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