Twilight 2000 for T20

[Greylond]

No, not really. I played TW2K mostly while I was in the service. Learned the game from a GM who was a Army combat veteran. I only played a couple of games since I've been out and I GM'ed them. Most of the time when I ran games, not only were most of my players military, but also oldtime hardcore wargamers.


Greylond

 

[Sgt Biggles]

Old time board gamers are hard to find now a days. I cut my gaming teeth on SPI and Avalon Hill games.

The day Avalon Hill went to Hasbro was a very sad day. Although, a lot of the ASL modules are being released by Multiman Publishing.

 

[Greylond]

Yep, started out with Squad Leader, then Rise and Decline of the Third Riech. That was a couple of years before I discovered RPGs. And that was over 20 years ago.

The bunch I gamed with when I started playing TW2K was a group that regularly played Microarmor. We did WWIII most of the time so we loved actually role-playing grunts stuck in Poland.

"Free City of Kracow" was one of my favorite all time(as in ALL game systems) btw. I must have GM'ed groups through it at least a dozen times. Somewhere I still have modern maps of the city and aeronautical maps of Poland that I used for more detail. That and the opening scenario were such a great way to start a campaign, even if the players had played it before since you could easily change troop deployments and have a whole new game.

Even today, if I look at a map of Poland I catch myself thinking. Look, here is the road the 21st MRD was advancing on. And here is where the 20th TD was at, etc...

Greylond

 

[Sgt Biggles]

My first game was Sniper by SPI. Cost me $12 and I got it on my 12th birthday. Long ago. My dad wouldn't let me buy it so I got a friends mom to take me to the game store. About a year later I was playing it with a fiend at our house and my dad saw it. He didn't have a clue what it was, so I was safe. I still have that game andits in good shape. I had a rather uptight father at times.

Krakow is a great module. You are right, its great to run. My first maps wern't all that good, road and city maps I got from an intel friend. Nowadays I use mapqwest and other on-line sources. Makes it easy. I would love to go to Poland and travel from Kaliz to Krakow just to see if I was close in my descriptions.

I also enjoyed The Last Train to Clarksville. (Is that the right title???) I had some pretty clever players that kept that old train moving.

Oh well. I've tried to get some of the high school kids from the gaming group I sponsor to play the old war games, but they dont have the patience to learn the great games like 3rd Riech and Panzer Leader. Very sad.

With a lot of the old things, movies, tv shows, music, all being redone it's nice to see some of the old games making a come back as well.

 

[Craig]

Yep, God bless the grognards! Ever since I first played SJ Games' Ogre, I've been addicted to hexes and tiny squares of cardboard. Next were the AH games: Squad Leader and Panzer Leader. Not to mention Battletech and Star Fleet Battles. Yep, those were the good old days. *sniff* Heck, I even joined the National Guard to improve the realism of my wargaming.

Enough reminiscing...on to T2K. Another Harold Coyle novel worth checking out is God's Children. He depicts a Balkan peacekeeping patrol gone terribly wrong. Perfect for a one-shot T2K adventure.

 

[Greylond]

Yea Sarge, it was a good module but it was called Going Home. Inside, the section that described the train, crew and basic rules for getting home was titled "Last Train to Clarksville."

That was a really good module. I used info from it for several senarios. A couple where the Players got back to "Friendly" lines in Germany and setup as warlords. One of those they hooked up with that Tenn National Guard unit that was in Southern Germany in that module. One they used the module as written. And one they found(thanks to a really good scrounge roll) an old forward Soviet airbase. They fixed up an old An-22 out of parts from three that were half-crashed(took them 3 months of scrounging and defending the base from brigands), scrounged some fuel and raided other people for the rest. Then they installed extra fuel tanks in the cargo area and FLEW to Norfolk. At least that was the plan, they developed a fuel leak over the Atlantic and the pilot ditched it in a small lake in the outer banks of Maryland. They were able to save their two Hummers with all their ammo and gear from Poland. Man did the MilGov in Norfolk love them! They promptly sent them on their current problem of the day, "All that Glitters" where they found out that treating NYC like the Polish wilderness was a BAD THING. They lost all of their nifty equipment and had to be rescued. Two died.

Greylond

 

[Sgt Biggles]

Going Home, Thats it!

Sounds like a fun campaign Greylond. Have you played/Gm'd through all the T2k modules? I've taken teams through all the Europe modules including Return to Warsaw, but only a hand full of stateside.

'All that Glitters' That one rings a bell sorta but I cant find it in my collection. I thought I had them all. Hmmmm. I never have played that one.

It seems about the time I got going on the modules I would get orders and off I'd go. Or else a new game was released and we moved on and never returned to the T2K campaign. I'm pretty well stationary here in Oregon, mayhaps I'll give it another go to play through the whole load.

Too many games and not enough time.

 

[Ellros]

I ran my group through the Krakow series, and parts of Going Home, but we never used the Return To series. Krakow and Black Madonna got the most use of all. The ruins of the Jasna Gora in Czestochowa (from Black Madonna) was one of the most commonly used locales in my campaign. If the party was not using it for an observation post, various Soviet or Polish units would, and the party would run harrassment missions against them. My group based themselves out of the small village with the 116th Armored Cav unit. Turned that little village into a major fortress for the area.

 

[montanakennedy]

For those of you missing modules, I looked at EBay and found most of the supporting materials for both T2K and T2K 2.2 - most of it at a reasonable price... I may have to throw some of my duplicates out there...

-Dave

 

[Greylond]

By the time second series of Europe Modules came out I had stopped buying them. But before that I had them ALL.

All that Glitters was one of my favorite USA ones. It takes place in NYC. The Players are looking for the International Bank's Gold Reserves. The module is kinda like the movie "Escape from New York" but with better weapons.

I would run a campaign until I got transfered and when I got to my new duty station, the first game I'd get going again would be Twilight. I was single and in the Navy at the time, so I could had enough disposable income to buy pretty much what I wanted. I could always eat in the Galley when I was broke.

Come to think of it, the ones from the 2nd Europe series were the only ones that I DIDN'T have. I GM'ed almost all of them, at least once. I will say that the USA ones seemed to slow go down in quality with every one that they published. The first Europe ones and "All that Glitters" was prob the best of them all. The USA ones didn't have as good maps with them and some of the storylines weren't as good. Especially "Satellite Down".

The Kracow, Black Madonna and the rest in that series had lots of replay in them. Some of my players over the years had played in them many times and we always were able to play it different enough to be fun.


Greylond