{"id":1927,"date":"2026-06-19T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:35:46","slug":"the-tale-of-vandal-6-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=1927","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of Vandal 6-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few days ago, someone in the Twilight: 2000<\/em> subreddit asked about campaign starts. Here’s my contribution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been playing since 1st edition and my preference remains the classic Escape from Kalisz campaign seed. Having said that… a few years ago, I introduced T2k v2.2 to a group who’d (with one exception) never heard of it. I started the campaign on 06 July 2000, about a week and a half before the Kalisz breakout. The PCs were the 7th Combat Engineer Battalion’s engineering recon team. This meant they were the guys who got sent to assess the maneuver brigades’ requests for engineer support and determine what was feasible and what resources were needed. In practice, this let me give them a series of assignments that had them present at or near most of the major story beats in the run-up to the 5th Infantry Division’s last stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This enabled me to start them off with a good supply situation and strong support – available fuel, sufficient medical supplies, occasional mortars on call. Then I ramped up the pressure with each major contact, adding additional hostile unit markers to the world map as the encirclement took shape. They got to watch the 5th ID crumble from the inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took about twelve sessions to get to the breakout. For that, we shifted focus off the PCs. Every player got one or two combat vehicles, most of whom were already low on ammo and carrying some non-disabling damage. This gave us a chance to use the vehicle combat rules to their fullest as the players fought their way through the Soviet encirclement. To raise the stakes, they were escorting five trucks, which the Soviets were trying to kill. Each truck that made it off the map added to the resources (fuel, ammo, food, attached NPCs) that the PCs had after the breakout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve always wanted to raise the stakes on this by finding an appropriate wargaming system (something tuned for micro armor, perhaps) and actually playing out part of the 5th ID’s last stand. Battalion, perhaps even brigade, level. The Soviets’ objective would be to kill American units. The Americans’ objective would be to get as many units as possible off the map. This would all be the setup for a subsequent RPG campaign whose starting parameters would be determined by the American players’ success in the battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, someone in the Twilight: 2000 subreddit asked about campaign starts. Here’s my contribution: I’ve been playing since 1st edition and my preference remains the classic Escape from Kalisz campaign seed. Having said that… a few years ago, I introduced T2k v2.2 to a group who’d (with one exception) never heard of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[43,149,12],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-and-session-logs","tag-campaign-concepts","tag-let-me-tell-you-about-my-campaign","tag-t2k"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}