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NIGHT WITCHES Supplementary Material v.21
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MovesAdd moves when directed by advancement.
NameChoose one
RankChoose Sergeant or Jr. Lieutenant
RoleChoose one. Change it when directed by a Mark, or between Duty Stations if you wish.
StatsSergeant: +1 +0 +0 or +2 +0 -1, any orderJr. Lt.: +1 +0 -1 or +0 +0 +0, any order
Look & BackgroundChoose one from each category
Protector: You can Repair well. When you change Duty Sta-tions, advance if you saved someone’s life. Zealot: You can help the Section during Debrief by criticizing a fellow airwoman. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you pointed the NKVD in another airwoman. Adventurer: You can bring a plane Wheels Down well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you walked away from a wrecked aircraft. Dreamer: You can weather an Informal Interview well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you shared a premonition and it came true. Leader: You can lead an Attack Run well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if someone under your direct command died. Misanthrope: You can Scrounge well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you bucked against the boy’s club.
Skill
Medals start at +0
Luck
Guts
Medals
Sergeant, Junior Lieutenant, Lt, Senior Lt, Captain, Major
RegardAdd regard when directed by advancement or a move. Take harm if someone you Regard dies.
this comrade
or aircraft
{
love trust admire respect
hate resent pity fear etc
{I the most.
I the most.
I the most.
NIGHT WITCHES НОЧНЫЕ ВЕДЬМЫ w w w . b u l l y p u l p i t g a m e s . c o m
Yulia Salenkova, Marina Darchiashvili, Hanna Ruttmann, Natalya “Tasha” Maltseva, Boris “Sonya” Aleksandrov/a
Sex: Female or concealedUniform: Regulation, ill-fitting, threadbare, incorrectBody: Cringing, willowy, squat, broken, masculine, beautifulEyes: Busy, precise, gnarled, manicured, expressive, coldHome Town: Moscow, Kaluga, Bryansk, Verkhoyansk (Siberia), a series of orphanagesWho you write to back home: Yourself, no one, your dead child
Dark Bargain: You can elect to be marked in order to remove all harm from yourself or another. Ghosts: Choose a dead comrade and hold three. When you ask your friend for help, spend your holds one for one to succeed as if you had rolled a 10+. Every time you do this you are also harmed or marked by the experience, your choice. Transcendent Love: Choose your one and only lover. Your bond is unshakable. The first time you take the mark “Embrace Death”, immediately erase it. Murky Past: You guard your history carefully. Choose two things you are hiding: Valuable training, prominent family, political connections, a strange secret, portable wealth. Define them whenever you want. Reveal either of these aspects of your past to save the day, make an impression or ruin someone. Ambition: Once per duty station, do something explicitly against orders, then Tempt Fate and advance. Choose move from another Nature.
SPARROW
HarmHarm, if untended, in cumulative.
1-Harm: Stress or minor injury. Rest and relaxation removes it. 2-Harm: Serious injury. Diligent aid and a day away from duties removes it. 3-Harm: As 2-Harm and unconscious or injuries requiring hospitalization. 4-Harm: Death.
MarksChoose a mark when directed by a move or the GM.
Advancement
Deepening Ties: Add a Regard slot and fill it. Added Responsibility: Increase in rank. Raise Skill, Guts or Luck by one (maximum +3). There can be only one Major! Honor and Pride: Add the left-most un-awarded medal and add one to your Medals stat. Harsh Lessons: Add a new move. Moving West: Change Duty Station. If you are at #6, the war is over.
Check one and apply when directed by a mission, move or mark.
NameChoose one
RankChoose Sergeant or Jr. Lieutenant
Regimental CommanderCommand Staff
Chief of StaffRegimental Politruk
Logistics & Training OfficerDeputy Politruk
Squadron Commander
My Squadron1, 2 or 3
Squadron Lead Navigator
MAJ Yevdokiya Bershanskaya
CAPT Evgeniya Lobodeva
CAPT Olga I. Barsukova
SLT Mariya “Masha” Petrova
LT Svetlana “Sveta” Sheremeteva
SLT Aleksandra “Sasha” Khadzhiyeva
LT Natalya “Natasha” Maltseva
Section Leader
My SectionA, B, C or D
Others
Circle those you have earned and add the total to +Medals. Medals
Hero of the Soviet Union
Regimental HonorsDon’t count for +Medals, but count for pride
Medal for theDefense of the
Caucasus
46th “Taman” Guards banner
Medal for theLiberation of
Warsaw
Medal for theCapture of Berlin
Great Patriotic War Victory
Medal
NIGHT WITCHES НОЧНЫЕ ВЕДЬМЫ w w w . b u l l y p u l p i t g a m e s . c o m
Order of the Red Star
Order of the Patriotic War
Medal ofValor
Suffer the death of a friend or lover. Witness the death of a comrade. Share a premonition. Call dangerous attention to yourself. Speak truth to power. Spread a vicious rumor. Reveal a secret. Act against your best interests. Advance and grow. Tell a war story. Tell a story of home. Embrace Death and face your final destiny.
NIGHT WITCHES НОЧНЫЕ ВЕДЬМЫ w w w . b u l l y p u l p i t g a m e s . c o m
RegardAdd regard when directed by advancement or a move. Take harm if someone you Regard dies.
this comrade
or aircraft
{
love trust admire respect
hate resent pity fear etc
{
I the most.
I the most.
I the most.
MovesAdd moves when directed by advancement.
NameChoose one
RankChoose Sergeant or Jr. Lieutenant
RoleChoose one. Change it when directed by a Mark, or between Duty Stations if you wish.
StatsSergeant: +1 +0 +0 or +2 +0 -1, any orderJr. Lt.: +1 +0 -1 or +0 +0 +0, any order
Look & BackgroundChoose one from each category
Protector: You can Repair well. When you change Duty Sta-tions, advance if you saved someone’s life. Zealot: You can help the Section during Debrief by criticizing a fellow airwoman. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you pointed the NKVD in another airwoman. Adventurer: You can bring a plane Wheels Down well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you walked away from a wrecked aircraft. Dreamer: You can weather an Informal Interview well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you shared a premonition and it came true. Leader: You can lead an Attack Run well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if someone under your direct command died. Misanthrope: You can Scrounge well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you bucked against the boy’s club.
Skill
Medals start at +0
Luck
Guts
Medals
Sergeant, Junior Lieutenant, Lt, Senior Lt, Captain, Major
I the most.
NIGHT WITCHES НОЧНЫЕ ВЕДЬМЫ w w w . b u l l y p u l p i t g a m e s . c o m
Yevgeniya “Zhenya” Petrova, Alexandra “Sasha” Yu-supova, Oksana Boykova, Polina “Polya” Makarova, Yekaterina “Katya” Trushina
HAWK
Sex: FemaleUniform: Regulation, sloppy, stiff, flashyBody: Compact, lanky, lean, tough, soft, skinnyEyes: Darting, calculating, weary, cruel, laughing, calmHome Town: Moscow, Leningrad, Sevastopol, Zhelenogorsk, Collective Farm #505 (Ukraine)Who you write to back home: Mother, your son Maksim, your baby sister Valya, Timur Lavrov, no one
Suka: You enjoy +1 ongoing when acting like a hooligan. When you act like a lady you are marked. People’s Hero: Name the high-ranking official who has taken a personal interest in your career. 11.4 Meters Tip-to-Tip: When you want to land in some new place, you can ask “Is it remotely possible to land there?” and the GM will tell you. If the answer is yes, you don’t need to roll the Wheels Down move. As Seen In Pravda: Use +medals instead of +guts when you Tempt Fate. Miss Sverdlovsk 1939: Advance the first time you have sex with each of: a Senior Lieutenant, a Captain, a Major, a Lieutenant Colonel, or a Colonel. Choose move from another Nature.
HarmHarm, if untended, in cumulative.
1-Harm: Stress or minor injury. Rest and relaxation removes it. 2-Harm: Serious injury. Diligent aid and a day away from duties removes it. 3-Harm: As 2-Harm and unconscious or injuries requiring hospitalization. 4-Harm: Death.
MarksChoose a mark when directed by a move or the GM.
Advancement
Deepening Ties: Add a Regard slot and fill it. Added Responsibility: Increase in rank. Raise Skill, Guts or Luck by one (maximum +3). There can be only one Major! Honor and Pride: Add the left-most un-awarded medal and add one to your Medals stat. Harsh Lessons: Add a new move. Moving West: Change Duty Station. If you are at #6, the war is over.
Check one and apply when directed by a mission, move or mark.
NameChoose one
RankChoose Sergeant or Jr. Lieutenant
Regimental CommanderCommand Staff
Chief of StaffRegimental Politruk
Logistics & Training OfficerDeputy Politruk
Squadron Commander
My Squadron1, 2 or 3
Squadron Lead Navigator
MAJ Yevdokiya Bershanskaya
CAPT Evgeniya Lobodeva
CAPT Olga I. Barsukova
SLT Mariya “Masha” Petrova
LT Svetlana “Sveta” Sheremeteva
SLT Aleksandra “Sasha” Khadzhiyeva
LT Natalya “Natasha” Maltseva
Section Leader
My SectionA, B, C or D
Others
Circle those you have earned and add the total to +Medals. Medals
Hero of the Soviet Union
Regimental HonorsDon’t count for +Medals, but count for pride
Medal for theDefense of the
Caucasus
46th “Taman” Guards banner
Medal for theLiberation of
Warsaw
Medal for theCapture of Berlin
Great Patriotic War Victory
Medal
NIGHT WITCHES НОЧНЫЕ ВЕДЬМЫ w w w . b u l l y p u l p i t g a m e s . c o m
Suffer the death of a friend or lover. Witness the death of a comrade. Give your aircraft a personality. Make a friend or take a lover. Tell a self-aggrandizing lie. Share a painful truth about yourself. Acquire a dread or superstition. Put duty before health or love. Advance and grow. Tell a war story. Tell a story of home. Embrace Death and face your final destiny.
Medal ofValor
Order of the Red Banner
Order of Glory
RegardAdd regard when directed by advancement or a move. Take harm if someone you Regard dies.
this comrade
or aircraft
{
love trust admire respect
hate resent pity fear etc
{
I the most.
I the most.
I the most.
MovesAdd moves when directed by advancement.
NameChoose one
RankChoose Sergeant or Jr. Lieutenant
RoleChoose one. Change it when directed by a Mark, or between Duty Stations if you wish.
StatsSergeant: +1 +0 +0 or +2 +0 -1, any orderJr. Lt.: +1 +0 -1 or +0 +0 +0, any order
Look & BackgroundChoose one from each category
Protector: You can Repair well. When you change Duty Sta-tions, advance if you saved someone’s life. Zealot: You can help the Section during Debrief by criticizing a fellow airwoman. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you pointed the NKVD in another airwoman. Adventurer: You can bring a plane Wheels Down well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you walked away from a wrecked aircraft. Dreamer: You can weather an Informal Interview well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you shared a premonition and it came true. Leader: You can lead an Attack Run well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if someone under your direct command died. Misanthrope: You can Scrounge well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you bucked against the boy’s club.
Skill
Medals start at +0
Luck
Guts
Medals
Sergeant, Junior Lieutenant, Lt, Senior Lt, Captain, Major
I the most.
NIGHT WITCHES НОЧНЫЕ ВЕДЬМЫ w w w . b u l l y p u l p i t g a m e s . c o m
Dar iya “Dasha” Yegorova, Sara Rabinov ich, Elena “Lena” Sheremetova, Svetlana “Sveta” Fomenkova, Tatyana “Tanya” Komarova
Sex: FemaleUniform: Regulation, dirty, tattered, feminine Body: Grace-ful, fragile, energetic, small, fit, tallFace: Open, expressive, honest, scarred, serious, prettyHome Town: Moscow, Vladivostok (Far East), Dimitrovgrad, Dubna, NovgorodWho you write to back home: Grandfather, your dead husband, Dr. Burov, “The Editor”, no one
Greater Good: Rewrite an unused mark to read “Abandon a comrade and Advance” Prodigal Daughter: Whenever you return to the Regi-ment after being assumed captured or dead, advance as if it were the end of a duty station. Intense Navigation: To find a target at night, you don’t need to Wayfind if you instead take a mark or 1-harm, your choice. Pull Rank: Take +1 forward when you Act Up if you out-rank the target. Political Thought: When you Eyeball you may also ask “Is there evidence of violation of Articles 58 and 133?” Choose move from another Nature.
OWL
HarmHarm, if untended, in cumulative.
1-Harm: Stress or minor injury. Rest and relaxation removes it. 2-Harm: Serious injury. Diligent aid and a day away from duties removes it. 3-Harm: As 2-Harm and unconscious or injuries requiring hospitalization. 4-Harm: Death.
MarksChoose a mark when directed by a move or the GM.
Advancement
Deepening Ties: Add a Regard slot and fill it. Added Responsibility: Increase in rank. Raise Skill, Guts or Luck by one (maximum +3). There can be only one Major! Honor and Pride: Add the left-most un-awarded medal and add one to your Medals stat. Harsh Lessons: Add a new move. Moving West: Change Duty Station. If you are at #6, the war is over.
Check one and apply when directed by a mission, move or mark.
NameChoose one
RankChoose Sergeant or Jr. Lieutenant
Regimental CommanderCommand Staff
Chief of StaffRegimental Politruk
Logistics & Training OfficerDeputy Politruk
Squadron Commander
My Squadron1, 2 or 3
Squadron Lead Navigator
MAJ Yevdokiya Bershanskaya
CAPT Evgeniya Lobodeva
CAPT Olga I. Barsukova
SLT Mariya “Masha” Petrova
LT Svetlana “Sveta” Sheremeteva
SLT Aleksandra “Sasha” Khadzhiyeva
LT Natalya “Natasha” Maltseva
Section Leader
My SectionA, B, C or D
Others
Circle those you have earned and add the total to +Medals. Medals
Hero of the Soviet Union
Regimental HonorsDon’t count for +Medals, but count for pride
Medal for theDefense of the
Caucasus
46th “Taman” Guards banner
Medal for theLiberation of
Warsaw
Medal for theCapture of Berlin
Great Patriotic War Victory
Medal
NIGHT WITCHES НОЧНЫЕ ВЕДЬМЫ w w w . b u l l y p u l p i t g a m e s . c o m
Suffer the death of a friend or lover. Witness the death of a comrade. Share a premonition. Make a friend or take a lover. Inform the authorities. Publicly shame a comrade. Earn a medal you don’t deserve. Put safety or love before duty. Advance and grow. Tell a war story. Tell a story of home. Embrace Death and face your final destiny.
Order ofSuvarov
Order of Glory
Medal ofBattle Merit
MovesAdd moves when directed by advancement.
NameChoose one
RankChoose Sergeant or Jr. Lieutenant
RoleChoose one. Change it when directed by a Mark, or between Duty Stations if you wish.
StatsSergeant: +1 +0 +0 or +2 +0 -1, any orderJr. Lt.: +1 +0 -1 or +0 +0 +0, any order
Look & BackgroundChoose one from each category
Protector: You can Repair well. When you change Duty Sta-tions, advance if you saved someone’s life. Zealot: You can help the Section during Debrief by criticizing a fellow airwoman. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you pointed the NKVD in another airwoman. Adventurer: You can bring a plane Wheels Down well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you walked away from a wrecked aircraft. Dreamer: You can weather an Informal Interview well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you shared a premonition and it came true. Leader: You can lead an Attack Run well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if someone under your direct command died. Misanthrope: You can Scrounge well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you bucked against the boy’s club.
Skill
Medals start at +0
Luck
Guts
Medals
Sergeant, Junior Lieutenant, Lt, Senior Lt, Captain, Major
RegardAdd regard when directed by advancement or a move. Take harm if someone you Regard dies.
this comrade
or aircraft
{
love trust admire respect
hate resent pity fear etc
{
I the most.
I the most.
I the most.
I the most.
I the most.
NIGHT WITCHES НОЧНЫЕ ВЕДЬМЫ w w w . b u l l y p u l p i t g a m e s . c o m
Irina “Ira” Gordyevskaya, Elizaveta “Liza” Vorapayeva, Lyubov “Lyuba” Fedorova, Galina “Galya” Lyubashevskaya, Maryam Bakradze
Sex: Female Uniform: Regulation, greasy, tattered, noneBody: Squat, frail, wiry, hunched, strong, lushHands: Expressive, filthy, calloused, steady, nervous, delicateHome Town: Moscow, Novosibirsk (Siberia), Bratsk, Kharkov (Ukraine), KrasnodarWho you write to back home: Your sister Sonya, the Yeleshev twins, Father Mikhail, no one
Shit Talking: Call out another player character you de-spise at a debriefing and roll +Regard. On a 10+ hold three; on 7-9 hold one. Spend your holds, one for one, to give this person -1 forward. Forbidden Love: When you take a lover, keep it secret. If discovered, face the consequences together or abandon your lover and advance. Androgynous: You can Act Up by acting like a man - not a hooligan - using +guts. On a miss you are marked. Bedside Manner: When you treat someone who has been badly hurt, roll +luck. On a hit it isn’t so bad. On 7-9 finding out takes a lot of time, energy or resources, GM chooses. Enthusiastic Support: When you are Wingman, choose the consequences for the aircrew leading the Attack Run. Choose move from another Nature.
PIGEON
HarmHarm, if untended, in cumulative.
1-Harm: Stress or minor injury. Rest and relaxation removes it. 2-Harm: Serious injury. Diligent aid and a day away from duties removes it. 3-Harm: As 2-Harm and unconscious or injuries requiring hospitalization. 4-Harm: Death.
MarksChoose a mark when directed by a move or the GM.
Advancement
Deepening Ties: Add a Regard slot and fill it. Added Responsibility: Increase in rank. Raise Skill, Guts or Luck by one (maximum +3). There can be only one Major! Honor and Pride: Add the left-most un-awarded medal and add one to your Medals stat. Harsh Lessons: Add a new move. Moving West: Change Duty Station. If you are at #6, the war is over.
Check one and apply when directed by a mission, move or mark.
NameChoose one
RankChoose Sergeant or Jr. Lieutenant
Regimental CommanderCommand Staff
Chief of StaffRegimental Politruk
Logistics & Training OfficerDeputy Politruk
Squadron Commander
My Squadron1, 2 or 3
Squadron Lead Navigator
MAJ Yevdokiya Bershanskaya
CAPT Evgeniya Lobodeva
CAPT Olga I. Barsukova
SLT Mariya “Masha” Petrova
LT Svetlana “Sveta” Sheremeteva
SLT Aleksandra “Sasha” Khadzhiyeva
LT Natalya “Natasha” Maltseva
Section Leader
My SectionA, B, C or D
Others
Circle those you have earned and add the total to +Medals. Medals
Hero of the Soviet Union
Regimental HonorsDon’t count for +Medals, but count for pride
Medal for theDefense of the
Caucasus
46th “Taman” Guards banner
Medal for theLiberation of
Warsaw
Medal for theCapture of Berlin
Great Patriotic War Victory
Medal
NIGHT WITCHES НОЧНЫЕ ВЕДЬМЫ w w w . b u l l y p u l p i t g a m e s . c o m
Suffer the death of a friend or lover. Witness the death of a comrade. Give your aircraft a personality. Make a friend or take a lover. Comfort a dying friend. Betray a friend or lover. Disgrace yourself or your uniform. Ignore a problem until it overwhelms. Advance and grow. Tell a war story. Tell a story of home. Embrace Death and face your final destiny.
Order of the Red Star
Order of the Patriotic War
Medal ofBattle Merit
RegardAdd regard when directed by advancement or a move. Take harm if someone you Regard dies.
this comrade
or aircraft
{
love trust admire respect
hate resent pity fear etc
{
I the most.
I the most.
I the most.
MovesAdd moves when directed by advancement.
NameChoose one
RankChoose Sergeant or Jr. Lieutenant
RoleChoose one. Change it when directed by a Mark, or between Duty Stations if you wish.
StatsSergeant: +1 +0 +0 or +2 +0 -1, any orderJr. Lt.: +1 +0 -1 or +0 +0 +0, any order
Look & BackgroundChoose one from each category
Protector: You can Repair well. When you change Duty Sta-tions, advance if you saved someone’s life. Zealot: You can help the Section during Debrief by criticizing a fellow airwoman. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you pointed the NKVD in another airwoman. Adventurer: You can bring a plane Wheels Down well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you walked away from a wrecked aircraft. Dreamer: You can weather an Informal Interview well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you shared a premonition and it came true. Leader: You can lead an Attack Run well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if someone under your direct command died. Misanthrope: You can Scrounge well. When you change Duty Stations, advance if you bucked against the boy’s club.
Skill
Medals start at +0
Luck
Guts
Medals
Sergeant, Junior Lieutenant, Lt, Senior Lt, Captain, Major
I the most.
NIGHT WITCHES НОЧНЫЕ ВЕДЬМЫ w w w . b u l l y p u l p i t g a m e s . c o m
Valentina “Valya” Malinovskaya, M. “Masha” Gerasimova, Lyudmila “Lyuda” Berezovskaya, Anna “Anya” Repina-Pavrova, Vera “just Vera, thanks” Gromova
Sex: FemaleUniform: Regulation, full dress, flyer’s, rakishBody: Stocky, angular, sensual, tough, muscular, aristocraticFace: Handsome, plain, haggard, plump, kind, livelyHome Town: Moscow, Vyzama, Suzdal, Vologda, Chelyabinsk (Siberia)Who you write to back home: Mother and father, Boris Mednikov, your daughter Masha, no one
To Hell With Death: When you would be marked, name a player character who is marked instead if you wish. Permanent File: When you submit an official report to your superiors, roll +skill. On a 10+, choose 2. On 7-9, choose 1: •Mark someone •Change accepted truth of a situation •Add one to the mission pool Fortune’s Fool: Choose a single move. Replace the rolled stat with +Luck when you roll trigger it. Voron: When you steal a treasured possession from some-one, they are marked. If the “treasured possession” is their lover or their future, advance. Sacrifice: When you are sent to the hospital to recover from combat injuries, you may choose your assignment, squad-ron, section and aircraft when you return. Choose move from another Nature.
RAVEN
HarmHarm, if untended, in cumulative.
1-Harm: Stress or minor injury. Rest and relaxation removes it. 2-Harm: Serious injury. Diligent aid and a day away from duties removes it. 3-Harm: As 2-Harm and unconscious or injuries requiring hospitalization. 4-Harm: Death.
MarksChoose a mark when directed by a move or the GM.
Advancement
Deepening Ties: Add a Regard slot and fill it. Added Responsibility: Increase in rank. Raise Skill, Guts or Luck by one (maximum +3). There can be only one Major! Honor and Pride: Add the left-most un-awarded medal and add one to your Medals stat. Harsh Lessons: Add a new move. Moving West: Change Duty Station. If you are at #6, the war is over.
Check one and apply when directed by a mission, move or mark.
NameChoose one
RankChoose Sergeant or Jr. Lieutenant
Regimental CommanderCommand Staff
Chief of StaffRegimental Politruk
Logistics & Training OfficerDeputy Politruk
Squadron Commander
My Squadron1, 2 or 3
Squadron Lead Navigator
MAJ Yevdokiya Bershanskaya
CAPT Evgeniya Lobodeva
CAPT Olga I. Barsukova
SLT Mariya “Masha” Petrova
LT Svetlana “Sveta” Sheremeteva
SLT Aleksandra “Sasha” Khadzhiyeva
LT Natalya “Natasha” Maltseva
Section Leader
My SectionA, B, C or D
Others
Circle those you have earned and add the total to +Medals. Medals
Hero of the Soviet Union
Regimental HonorsDon’t count for +Medals, but count for pride
Medal for theDefense of the
Caucasus
46th “Taman” Guards banner
Medal for theLiberation of
Warsaw
Medal for theCapture of Berlin
Great Patriotic War Victory
Medal
NIGHT WITCHES НОЧНЫЕ ВЕДЬМЫ w w w . b u l l y p u l p i t g a m e s . c o m
Suffer the death of a friend or lover. Witness the death of a comrade. Share a premonition. Tell the unvarnished truth. Claim something as your own. Ignore a problem until it overwhelms. Change posts for the wrong reasons. Act against your best interests. Advance and grow. Tell a war story. Tell a story of home. Embrace Death and face your final destiny.
Order ofSuvarov
Order of Glory
Medal ofBattle Merit
NIGHT
Theater Overview Tactical Chart
MissionsHonors
The region around Saratov is dominated by the mighty Volga river, which is its most prominent aid to naviga-tion. Beyond the valley of the Volga, gently rolling hills and steppe are the primary landform, with empty fields that await spring and culti-vation. The auxiliary field at Tambov is in more densely forested country with fewer landmarks. Training is tak-ing place during the wettest season in this otherwise dry region. The furthest German advance places their forward units southwest of Voronezh, with most training flights very unlikely to encounter enemy troop concentrations or reconnaissance.
Flights out of Engels and the auxiliary field at Tambov happen nightly in cold weather, through rain and snow. The pace of instruction is relentless - three years of training are compressed into four months. Hanging over everyone’s head are quali-fication flights for piloting and navigation, as well as the specter of the final exam, an actual combat mission over German positions.
Duty Station One
Engels Airdrome (Энгельс аэродрома), February-April 1942
No decorations or medals are awarded for completing flight training.
Spewcial Rules: Accelerated training means half the missions of a combat duty station. veryone must make at least one successful Wayfind and Attack Run move while in training to qualify for combat duty.
☐ A: A Daylight mock bombing on a target range outside Bogoslavka. You’ll enjoy “aggressive” fighter-bomber escort from the all-male 217th Assault Aviation Regiment under Captain D.P. Galunov. Wayfinding rolls are optional. Potential Enemy Fire is actually friendly fire from the 217th’s Tupolev SB’s, or nervous Soviet anti-aircraft crews. Anyone participating advances, and must choose Deepening Ties (and Regard).
☐ B: Under the tutelage of major Marina Raskova herself, a Night flying exercise culminating in a live bomb attack on targets arranged on either bank of the Tsna River, simulating a bridge. Potential Enemy Fire is damage from ordinance dropped too low.
☐ C: Flying from the auxiliary airfield at Tambov, this is reconnaissance and bombing of actual German positions near Stary Oskol, southwest of Voronezh. This mission is carefully supervised by elements of the experienced and all-male 218th Night Bomber Regiment under D.D. Popov. Anyone participating advanc-es, and must choose Harsh Lessons (and a new move).
DAY
Logistics Overview Airbase Layout
Questions
Regimental CommanderCommand Staff
Chief of Staff
Regimental Politruk
Logistics & Training Officer
Deputy Politruk
Others
Duty Station OneAccelerated training under Major Marina Raskova has begun at the Engels Aerodrome, across the Volga river from Saratov. Classroom and ground-based instruction happens at Engels, with flight exercises and tactical problems conducted out of a rough field near Tambov that simulates combat conditions. The pace is brutal and the stakes are high - anyone falling behind is immediately washed out.
Engels Airdrome is a ma-jor center for flight training, buzzing at all hours with fighter, bomber and trans-port crews learning to handle their aircraft. Many begin earning their wings in the front seat of a Po-2. Support is ubiquitous and resources are abundant; +1 ongoing for Scrounge and Repair at the well-equipped Engels Air-drome.
Engels Airdrome (Энгельс аэродрома), February-April 1942
•Which officer trainee ar-rived already homesick? •Which one of you has caught the eye of Major Ras-kova, and for what? •How are you dealing with the minor sabotage of your planes by male ground crews? •How is the Engels Aero-drome laid out? Where are the barracks, the flight line, the hangars, the classrooms, the supply depot, the com-mand building and control tower? Where is the exercise yard and the secluded spot by the Volga where you can look over at the bustling city of Saratov?
Draw it.
•By the way, what unusual feature makes the auxiliary field at Tambov so difficult to fly out of?
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Theater Overview Tactical Chart
MissionsHonors
The tactical area encompass-es the western gateway to the Caucasus, consisting of birch forests, marshes and fertile agricultural lands. Most of these have been abandoned, and cultivated fields make useful landmarks from the air. A major southeast-north-west rail line from Donetsk through Luhansk to Staro-bilsk is also a key strategic feature and navigational ref-erence, as is the Donets river just north of Trud Gornyaka. Navigators, look for struc-tures around the Bryanka coal mines and long fire breaks in the forests. Note that a skilled pilot can put a Po-2 down in one of these fire breaks in an emergency.
The summer weather is good for flying and the Fascist scum have not quite learned how to counter harassment bombing. The biggest dangers come from inexperienced crews and your own primitive airfield, which is made of split logs and mud. Hay bales line the runway and are set on fire to guide damaged planes home. Circumstances are … not ideal.
Duty Station Two
Trud Gornyaka (Труд Горнякa), June-August 1942
No campaign medals are awarded for defensive opera-tions in the Don river basin.
☐ A: Bombing a German First Panzer Army headquarters unit. Expect mobile anti-aircraft artillery and, possibly, advance intelligence of your arrival.
☐ B: Harassing German and Hungarian infantry massing at a crossing along the Mius river. Expect little resistance, unless you fly low enough to see the unit patches on their shoulders.
☐ C: Precision bombing of the railroad crossing at Likhaya. Denying this junction to rolling stock is an ur-gent request from the 40th Army, who intend to retake the area and quickly put the rail line back in service.
☐ D: Bombing a German marshaling yard behind the Don river crossing. Expect railcar-mounted anti-aircraft guns, searchlights, and enemy air patrols at dusk and dawn.
☐ E: Supporting the retreat from Rostov-on-Don by harassing German ordinance depots. To reach this target, every plane in the Section will have to first endure Enemy Fire. Anyone participating advances.
☐ F: Intense bombing of German troop positions and supply depots across the Kuban area around Staro-bilsk and the Taganrog-Kuybyshev line. Heavy patrols by Luftwaffe’s elite JG54 group should be expected through this area of operation. All consequences are increased by one during this mission. Anyone partici-pating advances.
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Logistics Overview Airbase Layout
Questions
Regimental CommanderCommand Staff
Chief of Staff
Regimental Politruk
Logistics & Training Officer
Deputy Politruk
Others
Duty Station TwoTwo months have passed. The 588th has relocated to a remote field in the middle of nowhere, within striking distance of active combat zones on three sides. The thunder of artillery is constant. The badly battered Red Army is in retreat; communication and supplies are erratic. It’s time to earn first blood in the Don river basin.
Everything is chaos and the supply chain is seriously frac-tured. New recruits can’t even find the Regiment, much less parts and consumables. Oc-casionally aircraft need to be dispatched to distant ware-houses by day to bring back food. -1 ongoing for Scrounge and Repair at Trud Gornya-ka. Find it and fix it yourself. Welcome to the war.
Trud Gornyaka (Труд Горнякa), June-August 1942
•Which officer of the 588th was in no condition to fly when the regiment arrived in Trud Gornyaka? •What is being done to keep livestock off the runway, and why isn’t it working? •Who gave the German FW190 pilot seemingly ob-sessed with your regiment the nickname “Yellow-Tail”?• What does the rye field used as an airbase at Trud Gornyaka look like? Where is the rough runway lined by hay bales? Where are the leaky plywood covered dug-outs that serve as barracks? Where is the actual village, and the edge of the thick for-est? What’s the one place not drenched in mud?
Draw it.
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Theater Overview Tactical Chart
MissionsHonors
The northern portion of the tactical area consists of marshes, bottomlands and vast swathes of arable land, much of it now fallow. The southern portion consists of rough country covered in beech forests, rising into low hills and even mountainous terrain. The maritime cli-mate is temperate and very wet. The Kuban river is the dominant waterway, stretch-ing inland to Krasnodar and beyond. German troops can appear anywhere in the tactical area.Navigators, look for newly cultivated fields in the north, patterns of small lakes, un-usual forest landmarks, and bald hillsides in the south as waypoints.
The regiment has moved west and south, into the warm southern maritime region dominated by the Kerch Strait. Now you're occasionally flying over water for the first time.Targets are heavily defended by anti-aircraft artillery, aided by spotlights and supplemented by occasional fighter cover. The Germans are slowly learning how to defeat the Po-2 using FW-190 fighters at dusk and dawn.
Duty Station Three
Pashkovskaya (Пашковская), March-May 1943
Upon changing duty sta-tions, all members of the 588th Regiment are awarded the Campaign Medal for the Defense of the Caucasus.
☐ [A] Harassment of German positions near the Keramzitovy Zavod rail junction. Expect searchlights and flatcar-mounted anti-aircraft guns.☐ [B] Bombing of a German supply depot near the front lines at Krasnodar. Expect enemy combat air patrols.☐ [C] Attacking your own airfield, hastily evacuated and now being overrun by the enemy. German troops are on the ground and preparing to land aircraft, which would be a disaster. The 7-9 consequence when Wayfinding on this mission is always Enemy Fire. Anyone par-ticipating advances. ☐ [D] Bombing the Krymskaya fuel dump and rail yard, near the city of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea. A low-altitude attack on this target is suicidal, so precision will be required. Burn-ing fuel will illuminate you against the night sky as you depart.☐ [E] Bombing the heavily-defended Village of Taman, behind the dreaded “Blue Line”. Ex-pect anti-aircraft artillery unless you come in over the sea, itself a dangerous proposition.☐ [F] Conducting a daylight supply drop on the Malaya Zemlya beach-head near Novorossiysk, tenuously held by Soviet naval infantry. No Wayfinding roll is needed for this mission. To reach this target, all planes will have to first endure Enemy Fire. Anyone participating ad-vances.
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Logistics Overview Airbase Layout
Questions
Regimental CommanderCommand Staff
Chief of Staff
Regimental Politruk
Logistics & Training Officer
Deputy Politruk
Others
Duty Station ThreeSix months have passed. From a hastily converted civilian airfield here in Pashkovskaya (“Pash-KOV-skya”), you are support-ing the Black Sea Fleet in the battle for the Caucasus. The Germans are pushing hard but you are pushing harder.You’re sharing the field with the celebrated (and all-male) 218th Fighter Regiment, who have requisitioned everything of utility or value, leaving you with the scraps.
Pashkovskaya is quite close to the city of Krasnodar, which is a linch-pin in the German plans for seizing the Caucasus. Expect many of your missions to be flown very close to home. The supply situation is ad-equate, with rail lines serv-ing the city of Krasnodar and trucks available to the air-base personnel nearby. Adequate supplies: +0 to all Scrounge and Repair rolls.
Pashkovskaya (Пашковская), March-May 1943
•What completely unreason-able demand has been made on the regiment? •When is Lieutenant Gen-eral Igor Miroshnichenko, Commander of the Fourth Air Army, arriving for the in-spection? •What steps have been taken to keep the regiment efficient in such close quar-ters with her brothers in the 218th? •What does the shared mili-tary airfield at Pashkovskaya look like? Where are the over-crowded women’s barrack tents shared with the 586th and where are the spacious huts of the 218th? Where are the motor repair hardstands, the armorer’s bunker, and the command tent? •What object just beyond the perimeter is a stark reminder of war’s cost?
Draw it.
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Theater Overview Tactical Chart
MissionsHonors
The tactical area covers the Taman Peninsula, Kerch Strait and eastern Crimea. This is a region of complex to-pology, with mountains, foot-hills and rocky lowlands all straddled by open water to the north and south. Navigators, memorize the features of the coastline - if you can find the Chushka spit you can follow it to solid ground and home. Sea approaches will demand skilled technical flying, and you can expect strong resis-tance from land and air and even sea at fascist-controlled ports like Feodosiya. There is no location completely safe from Hitlerite attacks within the operational zone.
Driving the Fascist beasts off the Taman Peninsula requires a new kind of flying - often above the Sea of Azov and Black Sea, over water at night. Without landmarks this requires dead reckoning with the careful coordination of airspeed, heading and time. Extremely technical flying in foul weather, combined with stiffening German resistance, makes for very stressful nights in the cockpit.
Duty Station Four
Peresyp’ (Пересыпь), October-December 1943
Upon changing duty stations, all members of the 588th Regiment are awarded the 46th Taman Guards banner. This honor does not increase the +medals stat and has no mechanical effect.
☐ A: The western terminus of the German cable tram moving equipment across the Strait. The tramline extends several kilometers from the Crimean side northeast of Kerch to the Chushka spit.
☐ B: KG51’s Luftwaffe fuel depot at the Feodosiya airfield. This is deep in German-occupied territory. This mission requires a pincer approach, one of which is over water - two Wayfinding rolls by different naviga-tors are needed to successfully locate the target. Anyone participating advances.
☐ C: German trenches, close to friendly infantry near the village of Urma straddling the Kuban river. Ex-pect ineffectual ground fire.
☐ D: Rail marshaling yard behind the Kerch salient at Alushta. Expect fierce anti-aircraft fire and search-lights.
☐ E: Anti-aircraft defenses atop Mt. Mitridat above Kerch, dangerous and technically difficult to reach. The guns themselves have been modified to fire at negative elevation, toward the beaches below. The Lead plane automatically takes Enemy Fire. This mission requires two Attack Runs for successful completion. Anyone participating advances.
☐ F: Daylight search for three missing barges full of naval infantry lost on the Black Sea. This mission requires Wayfinding. An Attack Run to drop supplies and messages is optional; Enemy Fire on a failure represents the harsh maritime environment.
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Logistics Overview Airbase Layout
Questions
Regimental CommanderCommand Staff
Chief of Staff
Regimental Politruk
Logistics & Training Officer
Deputy Politruk
Others
Duty Station FourFour months have passed. The battle of the Caucasus is slowly changing momentum in the Soviet Union’s favor, but the butcher’s bill has been high and no end is in sight. You’re operating out of a picturesque coastal village with magnificent views of the serene Sea of Azov. The villagers resent your presence and your takeover of their community.
Peresyp’ is close enough to truck-served supply lines feeding the Red Army that the Regiment is adequately provisioned despite winter weather. The local villages scattered along the coast of the Sea of Azov can pro-vide what the Red Army Air Force does not - for a price, of course. There are no special supply rules for Peresyp’.
Peresyp’ (Пересыпь), October-December 1943
•Which officer of the 588th is quietly afraid to fly over water? •What secret luxury item are the local villagers ru-mored to possess, and who would gladly pass up a pro-motion to get her hands on just a little? •Why has the NKVD set up shop in the abandoned church? •How is the runway - the packed-dirt main street of the village of Peresyp’ - oriented? Where is the converted school used as barracks, briefing room and staff headquarters? How about the well-guarded supply tent, the barn-turned-hangar, and the lonely hill overlooking the sea? Draw it.
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Theater Overview Tactical Chart
MissionsHonors
The terrain in the tactical area is monotonous - marshy birch forest interspersed with marshy pine forest. Dead reckoning will be helpful here - the forests are, in essence, another sea. Landing a plane in a village or fire break may be tempting, but sum-mer rains mean that your impromptu runway will be a morass of mud. From the Mo-gilev district, where fighting is heavy, you can follow the Dniepr up to the city of Or-sha. Orsha is a good point of reckoning, on the fork of the Dnieper and Arshytsa rivers. Follow the Dniepr east to a prominent oxbow, then due north is home.
The flying in featureless Byelorussia is quite different from the hilly Caucasus. The Luftwaffe has learned to fear our Regi-ment and is busy perfecting countermeasures, so stay alert. Front lines are fluid and you can expect enemy interference from air or ground in any quarter. Nightly summer rains and scarce landmarks may be the bigger threat, however.
Duty Station Four (Alternate)
Rudnya (Рудня), May-July 1944
No campaign medals are awarded for offensive op-erations in the Byelorussian area of operations.
☐ A: Flying to the base of Simcha Zorin’s Jewish partisans, hidden in the Naliboki Forest. A Red Army of-ficer must be delivered, and Zorin must be evacuated. No Attack Run is needed but the liaison plane must make a Wheels Down roll. All consequences are increased by one during this mission.
☐ B: Harassing enemy defensive positions along the Pronya river in the Mogilev sector.
☐ C: Bombing the headquarters of the collaborationist Byelorussian Central Rada in Minsk. If any conse-quences during an Attack Run are called for on this mission, one must always be “crew is marked”. Anyone participating advances.
☐ D: Supporting the 588th’s aviation maintenance battalion, hunting German stragglers in the forest sur-rounding the airbase. Low-level flying to spot enemies, and steep, dangerous banks to shoot at them with the rear machine gun.
☐ E: A precision “stealth” attack on command elements of SS-Sturmbrigade RONA, made up entirely of Russian traitors. The goal is to assassinate their leader, Bronislav Kaminski. They are encamped in Orsha.
☐ F: Conducting long-distance harassment of the Luftwaffe airfield at Zambrów, in eastern Poland. The weather is foul - the 7-9 consequence when Wayfinding on this mission is always harm to the crew. Anyone participating advances.
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Logistics Overview Airbase Layout
Questions
Regimental CommanderCommand Staff
Chief of Staff
Regimental Politruk
Logistics & Training Officer
Deputy Politruk
Others
Duty Station Four (Alternate)Four months have passed since Peresyp’. The Regiment has been repositioned to support Operation Bagration and the lib-eration of Byelorussia. The Germans are not yet in full retreat but the writing is on the wall - you are going to Berlin. The Nazi monsters have been particularly cruel to Byelorussia, and they have sworn to burn down a village for every attack you make.
You are based close to Smo-lensk, which is a major sup-ply hub through which men and materiel flow west to fuel the First Byelorussian Front. Your modest contribution to its success is amply support-ed with fuel, spares and fresh - if green - crews. Updated, higher horsepower Shvetsov engines are arriving now. There are no special supply rules for Rudnya.
Rudnya (Рудня), May-July 1944
•Who in the 588th has been quietly meeting every Sun-day for a prayer group? •How have the partisans that occasionally filter out of the woods been treated? •What horrific rumor pre-cedes them? •What aspect of the ac-commodations at Rudnya is worse than any duty station thusfar? •How are the crossed run-ways, hacked out of the forest, positioned in relation to the incongruous, tilting statue of Lenin? Where are the ten identical log buildings hous-ing the 588th, and where are the enemies of the state who built them being kept? Where is the boggy stream that serves as a latrine amid clouds of mosquitoes?
Draw it.
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Theater Overview Tactical Chart
MissionsHonors
The operational area con-sists of the northern half of Poland. Along the Baltic it stretches from Szczecin to the massive natural harbor around Gdańsk to East Prus-sia. Below the coast lie the central lowlands, from War-saw to Poznań, from the Oder River in the west to the Vis-tula and beyond to the east. It is by far the largest zone of tactical operations the 588th has yet been asked to handle. Navigators, longer missions will force you to rely on dead reckoning. The Nerew/Bug River, where it splits from the Vistula, is a good refer-ence point. It flows east, and its southeast bend is 15 ki-lometers due south of Zam-brów.
The operational pace begins to slow as the length and complexity of individual sorties increases. Here in Poland, flights of several hundred kilometers are suddenly routine. The Regiment can’t hope to keep pace with the rapidly-advancing front lines. We’ll retrain for higher altitude flying and develop strategies for avoiding the new threat of night-hunting JU-87s.
Duty Station Five
Zambrów (Замбия), October-December 1944
Upon changing duty sta-tions, all members of the 588th Regiment are awarded the Campaign Medal for the Liberation of Warsaw. This medal does not increase the +medals stat.
☐ A: Making a surprise attack on the heavily-defended German headquarters, IX Corps, Third Panzer Army, Army Group Center, at Poznań. Any plane damaged on this mission will not be able to return to the airbase. Anyone participating advances.
☐ B: Bombing an ammunition depot outside Grudziasz, in support of the First Belorussian Front. Deplet-ing German supplies is vital and the Front is counting on you to deliver.
☐ C: Bombing the port of Gdańsk. German night-equipped JU-87 squadrons are specifically hunting Po-2s in the area and the greatest caution is urged. To reach this target, all planes will have to first endure Enemy Fire. Anyone participating advances.
☐ D: Conducting the emergency medical evacuation of Colonel Franciszek Jóźwiak, chief of staff of Armia Ludowa, Poland’s Communist resistance, from behind enemy lines. Leave the back seat free! This mission is at the limits of the Po-2’s range - two Wayfinding rolls by the same navigator are needed to successfully locate the target.
☐ E: Harassing the German garrison at Chełmno. These troops are disorganized and no resistance is ex-pected.
☐ F: Bombing the train station at Nasielsk, in support of the attack on Warsaw. Anticipate German fighter cover and possibly anti-aircraft artillery
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Logistics Overview Airbase Layout
Questions
Regimental CommanderCommand Staff
Chief of Staff
Regimental Politruk
Logistics & Training Officer
Deputy Politruk
Others
Duty Station FiveA year has passed since Peresyp’. The airfield at Zambrów is being used by other units, leaving the 588th with a wheat field next door. The weather is cold and icy, and so is the attitude of the men flying flashier planes from improved runways. The competition to be the first to attack German soil in East Prussia is on everyone’s lips.
Supplies are catching up with the racing Red Army, and a tidal wave of materiel is rolling across Byelorus-sia, Ukraine and Poland. The Regiment can dip an eager hand into the flood and pro-vision itself well. American lend-lease goods are showing up in quantity. Opportunities for graft abound. +1 ongoing for Scrounge and Repair at Zambrów.
Zambrów (Замбия), October-December 1944
•Which officer of the 588th came to Poland loaded with luxury goods? •According to rumors, what lies just beyond the perimeter in the birch forest? •Where is the actual airbase next door? •Why has a lock been in-stalled on the regimental chart case? •How has a wheat field out-side Zambrów been turned into an airfield? Where is the runway, and who cuts end-less timber by day to harden it? Where are the barracks and command tents? What surprising source of shelter does Zambrów offer the regi-ment’s planes? Where is the only place to get out of the endless freezing rain?
Draw it.
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Theater Overview Tactical Chart
MissionsHonors
Western Poland and the stinking hole known as Ger-many that we are sweep-ing the Hitlerite rats back into are bisected by the Oder river, which forms a natural boundary and a good navi-gational reference point. The Baltic coast at the top of our tactical area can be followed east to the Hel Peninsula, Gdansk Bay, and eventually Chwaszczyno. The country below is utterly ruined. Cer-tainly Berlin, eternally burn-ing, is a prominent landmark from all points east. The vil-lages of Eastern Germany are essentially flattened, but look for noteworthy church spires or the shells of factories.
Flying out of the grass field at Chwaszczyno feels like a return to the bad old days of 1942 and Trud Gornyaka. The Hitlerites are running like frightened dogs now and the long-distance sorties continue. Buchholz is in the heart of hell - “To Berlin!” has been your rallying cry but now you are there, flying intensely dangerous mis-sions against suicidally brave opponents.
Duty Station Six
Chwaszczyno/Buchholz , March-May 1945
Upon completing the final mission or changing Duty Stations, the war ends. All members of the 588th Regi-ment are awarded the Cam-paign Medal for the Capture of Berlin and the Campaign Medal of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
FIRST, FLYING OUT OF CHWASZCZYNO
☐ A: Dropping Propaganda leaflets on German troops massing to retreat across the front, from the Oder to the Baltic beaches west of Koszalin. No one can use the Wingman move on this mission. Each plane flies alone and must Wayfind alone. No Attack Run is needed.
☐ B: Harassing a resupply staging area for Army Group Vistula. Expect little resistance.
☐ C: The besieged but heavily defended “fortress city” of Königsberg. Only volunteers will fly this mission. To reach this target, all planes will have to first endure Enemy Fire. Anyone participating advances.
THEN, FLYING OUT OF BUCHHOLZ
☐ D: Repeated bombing of a Third Panzer Army fuel dump and supply depot at Pankow, minutes away. Ex-pect heavy anti-aircraft fire. All of Berlin is ablaze and your planes can easily be seen in the fire-lit skies - the 7-9 consequence when Wayfinding on this mission is always Enemy Fire. Anyone participating advances.
☐ E: Long distance harassment of the German Ninth Army, trapped in the Halbe pocket south of Berlin. No one can use the Wingman move on this mission, and damaged planes cannot return to Buchholz.
☐ F: Headquarters of Verteidigungsbereich Swinemünde, a knot of Nazi dead-enders who will fight to the last.
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Logistics Overview Airbase Layout
Questions
Regimental CommanderCommand Staff
Chief of Staff
Regimental Politruk
Logistics & Training Officer
Deputy Politruk
Others
Duty Station SixThree months have passed. The war nears its bloody conclusion. Death spasms of the Third Reich and the fall of Berlin.NOTE: This Duty Station is divided in two. Complete the first three missions at Chwaszczyno, then relocate to Buchholz for the final three. Moving to Buchholz doesn’t count as changing Duty Stations, but it is a powerful signal that the tempo is increasing and the war is close to ending.
Chwaszczyno is a return to the Regiment’s roots - a for-gotten muddy field. Supplies are difficult to obtain and slow in coming. -1 ongoing for Scrounge and Repair at Chwaszczyno. Buchholz, in contrast, is at the tip of the logistical spear and awash in parts and con-sumables - some of it cap-tured from the Luftwaffe. +1 ongoing for Scrounge and Re-pair at Buchholz.
Chwaszczyno/Buchholz , March-May 1945
•Which officer of the 588th arrived in Chwaszczyno un-der a cloud of suspicion? •What makes this vast mud-dy field different from all the previous vast muddy fields? Where is the mess tent, the barracks and headquarters tents, the ammunition dump? What building has been req-uisitioned and turned into a maintenance shop?
Draw it.
•According to rumors, what fate awaits female aviators after the war? •How did the Luftwaffe lay out the airfield at Buchholz? Where are the barracks, the dining hall, the machin-ist’s workshop, the hangars? Where are the supplies kept? What reminders of the Third Reich cannot be erased here? What comfortable structure has the NKVD comman-deered for its own use?
Draw it.
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r m
oney
. Wel
l, fo
r m
oney
, any
way
. The
G
M m
ight
choo
se th
ree
optio
ns fr
om th
e 7-
9 lis
t or
wor
se.
Repa
irIf
a p
lane
has
bee
n to
rn u
p or
bro
ken
dow
n an
d yo
u he
lp th
e m
echa
nics
fix
her,
roll
+ski
ll.
On
any
hit y
ou p
atch
it to
geth
er a
nd it
is n
o lo
nger
dam
aged
. On
7-9
you
patc
h it
toge
ther
but
choo
se tw
o (P
rote
ctor
s ch
oose
one
):
•Sh
e’ll
fly e
vent
ually
, but
not
toni
ght
•Yo
u ta
ke 1
-har
m fr
om la
ck o
f sle
ep•
You
don’
t com
plet
e th
e jo
b in
the
offic
ially
app
rove
d m
anne
r•
The
plan
e ac
quir
es a
per
sona
lity
if it
does
n’t h
ave
one
alre
ady
On
a m
iss
you
are
send
ing
it in
to c
omba
t sti
ll da
mag
ed. M
aybe
that
’s ob
viou
s an
d m
aybe
it is
n’t.
Temp
t Fate
Whe
n yo
u te
mpt
fate
rol
l +gu
ts. O
n a
10+
you
do it
. On
a 7-
9 yo
u do
it b
ut
not w
ithou
t cos
t - T
he G
M c
an o
ffer
you
a w
orse
out
com
e, a
har
d ba
rgai
n, o
r an
ugl
y ch
oice
.
On
a m
iss
you
take
har
m a
s es
tabl
ishe
d an
d ar
e m
arke
d in
add
ition
to fa
il-in
g. F
ate
is a
suka
.
Briefi
ng (R
ankin
g Offi
cer)
Whe
n th
e su
n be
gins
to
set,
con
sult
wit
h th
e G
M a
nd in
form
you
r ai
rcre
ws
abou
t the
com
ing
nigh
t’s o
bjec
tive
. Ass
ign
a na
viga
tor
to W
ay-
find
and
a pi
lot t
o le
ad th
e At
tack
Run
. The
rem
aini
ng p
laye
r ch
arac
ters
are
Ve
dom
aya;
ass
ign
each
to c
over
ano
ther
pla
ne. C
hoos
e an
d ch
eck
off a
mis
sion
fr
om th
e D
uty
Stat
ion
shee
t and
pre
sent
it to
the
asse
mbl
ed r
egim
ent.
Don
’t fo
rget
to a
nnou
nce
any
med
als
and
prom
otio
ns d
urin
g th
e br
iefin
g.
Vedo
maya
Whe
n yo
u co
ver
your
ass
igne
d fe
llow
pla
ne d
urin
g a
mis
sion
, hol
d 1.
Sp
end
your
hol
d at
any
tim
e to
take
one
of t
heir
con
sequ
ence
s on
you
rsel
f or
your
air
craf
t.
Wayfi
ndW
hen
you
lead
a fl
ight
to
a ta
rget
......
by d
aylig
ht, o
r to
you
r air
base
at a
ny ti
me,
you
find
it.
...at
nig
ht, r
oll +
skill
. On
a 10
+ yo
u fin
d it
and
line
up a
text
book
app
roac
h.
On
a 7-
9 yo
u fin
d it
and
choo
se o
ne c
onse
quen
ce:
•Yo
ur p
lane
suff
ers
a m
inor
mec
hani
cal f
ailu
re (p
lane
is d
amag
ed)
•Th
ey a
re w
aiti
ng fo
r you
(tri
gger
s En
emy
Fire
)•
You’
re s
tres
sed
or b
ange
d ar
ound
(spl
it 2
harm
how
ever
you
wan
t)
On
a m
iss
eith
er s
crub
the
mis
sion
and
ret
urn
in s
ham
e, o
r str
ike
the
targ
et
late
and
alo
ne, f
orci
ng y
ou to
mak
e yo
ur o
wn
Atta
ck R
un. P
lane
s re
lyin
g on
yo
ur n
avig
atio
n ca
n ch
oose
whi
ch m
iss
cond
ition
they
wou
ld p
refe
r.
Attac
k Run
Whe
n yo
u le
ad a
n at
tack
on
a ta
rget
, rol
l +gu
ts. O
n a
10+
your
pay
load
con
-ne
cts!
Cho
ose
one.
On
a 7-
9, it
’s a
hit a
nd ch
oose
two
cons
eque
nces
:
•Th
e da
mag
e to
the
targ
et is
not
sig
nific
ant a
nd it
is y
our f
ault
•Yo
u fly
thro
ugh
a st
orm
of fl
ak (t
rigg
ers
Enem
y Fi
re)
•A
plan
e in
you
r Sec
tion
is d
amag
ed, G
M’s
choi
ce•
You
and
your
fello
w a
irw
oman
are
mar
ked
On
a m
iss
eith
er a
bort
the
atta
ck c
ompl
etel
y, w
hich
will
sur
ely
trig
ger a
n In
-fo
rmal
Inte
rvie
w b
ack
at b
ase
or d
espe
rate
ly p
ress
on,
Tem
ptin
g Fa
te. P
lane
s re
lyin
g on
you
r lea
ders
hip
can
choo
se w
hich
mis
s co
nditi
on th
ey w
ould
pre
fer.
Aft
er a
n At
tack
Run
by
a Le
ader
, if o
ther
pilo
ts d
ecid
e to
mak
e an
add
ition
al
Atta
ck R
un th
ey e
njoy
+1
forw
ard.
Temp
t Fate
Whe
n yo
u te
mpt
fate
rol
l +gu
ts. O
n a
10+
you
do it
. On
a 7-
9 yo
u do
it b
ut
not w
ithou
t cos
t - T
he G
M c
an o
ffer y
ou a
wor
se o
utco
me,
a h
ard
barg
ain,
or
an u
gly
choi
ce.
On
a m
iss
you
take
har
m a
s es
tabl
ishe
d an
d ar
e m
arke
d in
add
ition
to fa
il-in
g. F
ate
is a
suka
.
NIGH
TMO
VES
(Rem
embe
r to
add
+1 if
Reg
ard
is a
fact
or) En
emy F
ireW
hen
your
Po-
2 is
hit
by
bulle
ts o
r fla
k ro
ll +l
uck.
On
a 10
+ th
e ol
d gi
rl’s
in o
ne p
iece
and
you
are
fine
. On
a 7-
9 sh
e ho
lds
toge
ther
and
you
choo
se tw
o co
nseq
uenc
es:
•Yo
u an
d yo
ur fe
llow
air
wom
an a
re m
arke
d•
Casu
altie
s on
boa
rd (S
plit
5 ha
rm b
etw
een
you
how
ever
you
like
; als
o tr
igge
rs W
heel
s D
own
late
r)•
Your
pla
ne is
dam
aged
(Als
o tr
igge
rs W
heel
s D
own
late
r)•
Ano
ther
pla
ne in
you
r se
ctio
n go
es d
own
(GM
will
dec
ide
whi
ch)
On
a m
iss
the
GM
mig
ht ch
oose
thre
e fr
om th
e 7-
9 lis
t or
may
be s
omet
hing
m
ore
horr
ific.
Whee
ls Do
wnW
hen
you
land
a p
lane
und
er le
ss th
an id
eal c
ircu
mst
ance
s ro
ll +s
kill.
“L
ess
than
idea
l” in
clud
es p
utti
ng it
dow
n an
ywhe
re b
ut a
pre
pare
d ai
rfiel
d,
or w
ith b
attle
dam
age,
or
with
inju
red
or d
ead
crew
. On
a 10
+ yo
u an
d yo
ur
Po-2
are
on
the
grou
nd a
nd in
one
pie
ce. C
hang
e an
ope
n R
egar
d sl
ot to
ref
er
to y
our p
lane
if y
ou w
ant.
On
7-9
you
pran
g th
e pl
ane;
and
choo
se tw
o co
nseq
uenc
es (A
dven
ture
rs
choo
se o
ne):
•It
’s un
flyab
le (p
lane
is d
amag
ed; i
f alr
eady
dam
aged
it is
a fi
ery
wre
ck)
•Ca
sual
ties
on b
oard
(Spl
it 3
harm
bet
wee
n yo
u ho
wev
er y
ou li
ke)
•Yo
ur la
ck o
f ski
ll, c
oura
ge o
r ca
re w
ith th
e pe
ople
’s m
achi
nery
is n
oted
•Yo
ur la
ndin
g pu
ts y
ou in
imm
edia
te d
ange
r.
On
a m
iss
the
GM
will
sta
rt w
ith a
fier
y w
reck
and
bui
ld fr
om th
ere.
Debri
efW
hen
you
debr
ief a
fter
a m
issi
on, t
ell y
our
Chi
ef o
f Sta
ff or
Squ
adro
n C
omm
ande
r wha
t wen
t rig
ht a
nd w
hat w
ent w
rong
. th
e G
M m
ay in
flict
st
ress
har
m a
s es
tabl
ishe
d. If
you
wis
h, ch
ange
the
tone
of a
ny e
xist
ing
Re-
gard
. If y
ou a
re a
Zea
lot,
publ
icly
sha
me
a co
mra
de a
nd a
dd o
ne to
the
next
ni
ght’s
mis
sion
poo
l if y
ou w
ish.
If it
was
the
duty
sta
tion’
s la
st m
issi
on, b
egin
O
pera
tiona
l Pla
nnin
g.
Wha
t’s
goin
g on
aro
und
the
airb
ase?
•A
shab
by n
ame
day
cele
brat
ion
•A
high
pro
file
regi
men
tal m
ixer
•Si
ck c
all
•A
n ill
egal
gam
blin
g pa
rty
•M
ail c
all
•A
poet
ry r
eadi
ng in
the
barr
acks
•R
egim
enta
l for
mat
ion
in fu
ll dr
ess
•A
polit
ical
lect
ure
•A
n ir
rita
ble
gath
erin
g du
ring
bad
wea
ther
•H
olid
ay (D
ay o
f the
Def
ende
rs o
f the
Mot
h-er
land
, Int
erna
tiona
l Wom
en’s
Day
, Int
erna
-tio
nal L
abor
Day
, Soc
ialis
t Rev
olut
ion
Day
)•
A so
cial
cal
l by
loca
l vill
ager
s•
Pist
ol p
ract
ice
by th
e tr
ash
heap
Who
is s
he?
•Th
e ne
w g
irl,
utte
rly
bew
ilder
ed•
The
only
mec
hani
c who
can
fix
a fr
ozen
pr
imer
leve
r•
The
head
coo
k, n
ot to
be
trifl
ed w
ith•
A st
upid
Pri
vate
with
a th
umb
in h
er a
ss•
An
unde
r-ap
prec
iate
d, h
ard-
wor
king
Cor
pora
l•
A ha
rd a
s nai
ls s
uppl
y Se
rgea
nt, p
lus v
odka
•A
glor
ious
her
o fr
om y
our s
iste
r reg
imen
t •
A Pr
ivat
e who
lifts
bom
bs a
ll ni
ght,
exha
uste
d•
A lo
cal b
abus
hka
with
thin
gs to
sel
l•
A Se
nior
Lie
uten
ant w
ho ca
n’t l
ead
any
mor
e•
The
vici
ous m
arti
net w
ho is
eve
ryon
e ha
tes
•Th
e w
ell-k
now
n N
KV
D s
nitc
h
Wha
t do
es s
he n
eed
righ
t no
w?
•Sh
e ne
eds
the
pape
rwor
k•
She
need
s m
oney
•Sh
e ne
eds
an a
polo
gy•
She
need
s so
me
mili
tary
dis
cipl
ine
•Sh
e ne
eds
an e
xcus
e - a
ny e
xcus
e•
She
need
s a
shou
lder
to c
ry o
n•
She
need
s a
punc
hing
bag
•Sh
e ne
eds
an a
bort
ion
•Sh
e ne
eds
a dr
ink
•Sh
e ne
eds
a sc
apeg
oat
•Sh
e ne
eds
a ch
ampi
on•
She
need
s a
wel
l-con
nect
ed a
ccom
plic
e
Wha
t’s
in h
er f
ootl
ocke
r?•
A G
erm
an p
ropa
gand
a le
aflet
•Th
e br
oken
tip
of a
pro
pelle
r•
An
unop
ened
lett
er•
A w
eddi
ng r
ing
•Th
e re
gim
enta
l sea
l, m
ispl
aced
•A
St. B
arba
ra m
edal
lion,
pro
tect
or a
gain
st
sudd
en a
nd u
nexp
ecte
d de
ath
•Pi
eces
of a
rip
ped
up le
tter
•A
half-
used
tube
of E
nglis
h lip
stic
k•
An
ugly
chu
nk o
f shr
apne
l•
A m
edic
al c
hart
and
rep
ort
•A
civi
lian
sum
mer
dre
ss•
A ph
otog
raph
of a
chi
ld
Who
is t
hat
bigw
ig?
•Lt
. Gen
eral
Igor
Mir
oshn
iche
nko,
Com
-m
ande
r, Fo
urth
Air
Arm
y•
Sgt.
Mar
iya
Z. S
hche
rbac
heno
va, 8
35th
R
ifle
Reg
imen
t, H
SU, m
edic
and
war
her
o•
Maj
or Y
evdo
kiya
Ber
shan
skay
a, y
our o
wn
regi
men
tal C
omm
ande
r•
Lt. C
olon
el V
. I. S
hevc
henk
o, 2
16th
Mix
ed
Avia
tion
Div
isio
n•
Maj
. Ser
gei G
olub
ev, C
entr
al D
irec
tora
te o
f R
ear S
ervi
ces
of th
e So
viet
Arm
y A
ir F
orce
s,
4th
Air
Arm
y Lo
gist
ics
Com
mis
sari
at•
Capt
. Vla
dim
ir O
gryz
ko, 1
st N
KV
D R
ifle D
iv.•
Polit
ruk
Maj
or o
f Sta
te S
ecur
ity M
iros
lav
Zape
valin
, 218
th N
ight
Bom
ber R
egim
ent
•M
ajor
Dm
itri D
. Pop
ov, C
omm
ande
r, 21
8th
Nig
ht B
ombe
r Reg
imen
t•
Seni
or L
t. N
icho
lai A
ndri
anov
ich
Zele
nov,
H
SU, 1
27th
Fig
hter
Reg
imen
t, w
ar h
ero
•G
uard
s C
apta
in A
leks
andr
Pok
rysh
kin,
16
th F
ight
er R
egim
ent,
mas
ter t
actic
ian
•Li
eute
nant
Col
onel
Ivan
I. K
apro
nov,
N
KV
D, r
espo
nsib
le fo
r the
588
th’s
Polit
ruk
•G
ener
al T
. F. K
utse
valo
v, C
omm
ande
r, Fi
rst A
ir A
rmy,
riv
al o
f Mir
oshn
iche
nko
Wha
t’s
her
prob
lem
?•
Dra
ma
back
hom
e•
Can
’t fin
d he
r uni
form
jack
et•
Cra
mps
•A
prem
oniti
on•
Lice
•B
oots
that
don
’t fit
•A
smas
hed
finge
r•
A no
te in
her
file
•Fr
ostb
ite o
r tre
nch
foot
•Pr
egna
ncy
•E
xhau
stio
n•
You,
that
’s w
hat
Who
is t
hat
rand
om m
an?
•A
noth
er u
nit’s
silv
er-to
ngue
d Su
pply
Ser
gean
t•
Lost
infa
ntry
man
who
gre
w u
p ar
ound
her
e•
A to
usle
-hai
red
little
orp
han
boy
•A
Ger
man
spo
tter
pilo
t who
land
ed a
t you
r ai
rbas
e by
mis
take
•A
n off
icio
us c
ivili
an in
spec
tor
•So
meb
ody’
s ill
icit
boyf
rien
d•
A lo
cal p
easa
nt fa
scin
ated
by
airp
lane
s•
The
villa
ge d
runk
•So
meb
ody’
s hu
sban
d, A
WO
L•
A ne
wsp
aper
rep
orte
r•
A lo
vesi
ck a
irm
an fr
om th
e 21
8th
•A
tube
rcul
ar p
arti
san
Why
is t
his
thin
g dr
ivin
g yo
u cr
azy?
•It
is s
tuck
in th
e m
ud a
nd/o
r enc
ased
in ic
e•
It is
bro
ken
and
will
take
a lo
ng ti
me
to fi
x•
They
del
iver
ed 7
2 bu
t you
onl
y ne
ed o
ne•
It is
bro
ken
and
you
have
the
wro
ng to
ols
•It
is m
ispl
aced
or c
ompl
etel
y lo
st•
It is
bro
ken
and
the
dam
age
is d
elib
erat
e•
It h
as b
een
stol
en
•It
is b
roke
n du
e to
care
less
ness
or i
dioc
y•
It h
as b
een
ratf
ucke
d ou
t of t
he r
egim
ent
•It
is b
roke
n bu
t mig
ht w
ork
if yo
u en
joy
risk
•It
’s th
e w
rong
thin
g de
spite
the
labe
l•
It is
bro
ken
and
cann
ot b
e re
pair
ed
Wha
t’s
belo
w u
s ri
ght
now
?•
Sear
chlig
ht b
eam
s lu
mbe
ring
like
dru
nks
•Th
e bl
ack
refle
ctio
n of
a w
indi
ng r
iver
•Po
ints
of fi
re fr
om th
e fr
ont l
ine
•Im
pene
trab
le g
roun
d fo
g•
A da
rken
ed v
illag
e•
Burn
ing
field
s•
The
tops
of fi
r tre
es•
Ope
n w
ater
•U
ndiff
eren
tiat
ed m
arsh
land
•A
vort
ex o
f rai
n an
d sn
ow•
The
grey
rib
bon
of a
roa
d th
roug
h fo
rest
•Th
e gr
ound
, clo
ser a
t han
d th
an it
shou
ld b
e
Oh
shit
, loo
k do
wn
ther
e!•
Fran
tical
ly s
igna
ling
part
isan
s•
A G
erm
an fl
ak cr
ew ca
ught
hel
ples
s•
The r
eflec
tion
of th
e ful
l moo
n, li
ghtin
g yo
u up
•Sc
atte
ring
Axi
s tr
oops
, may
be R
oman
ians
•Pe
asan
ts b
eing
use
d as
hum
an s
hiel
ds•
A da
mag
ed P
o-2
that
just
land
ed•
An
Me-
109
linin
g up
for a
n ea
sy k
ill•
A G
erm
an F
lak
crew
with
sea
rchl
ight
s w
arm
ed u
p, w
aiti
ng fo
r you
•G
erm
an in
fant
ry ta
king
pot
-sho
ts•
A G
erm
an h
eadq
uart
ers
unit
on th
e m
ove
•Th
ree
red
flare
s; s
omeo
ne is
in tr
oubl
e•
A su
pply
con
voy
- our
s or
thei
rs?
Why
is t
his
airp
lane
fuc
ked?
•A
cylin
der h
ead
is fa
iling
, coa
ting
eve
ry-
thin
g in
hot
bla
ck o
il•
A gu
y w
ire
has
snap
ped
and
your
upp
er
win
g is
sha
king
itse
lf ap
art
•It
is a
lmos
t out
of f
uel -
the
tank
has
bee
n pu
nctu
red
or it
was
n’t fi
lled
•A
n ai
lero
n is
bro
ken
and
flapp
ing
wild
ly -
you
can’
t con
trol
you
r alti
tude
or t
urn
to st
arbo
ard
•En
gine
has
seiz
ed u
p on
cont
amin
ated
fuel
•La
ndin
g ge
ar is
han
ging
on
by a
sing
le b
olt
•Th
e fu
el m
ix le
ver i
s br
oken
and
the
engi
ne
is s
tarv
ed a
nd k
nock
ing
•A
mas
sive
hol
e w
here
the
floor
use
d to
be
•Th
e pr
opel
ler h
as b
een
dam
aged
and
is
unba
lanc
ed a
nd s
haki
ng th
e pl
ane
apar
t•
A w
ing
lead
ing
edge
has
take
n da
mag
e an
d th
e fa
bric
is s
hred
ding
•Fu
el p
ump
and
carb
uret
or a
ssem
bly
just
qui
t•
The
rudd
er c
ontr
ol li
nkag
e is
bro
ken
and
you
can
bare
ly fl
y st
raig
ht
Wha
t di
d yo
u do
wro
ng?
•Th
ough
t one
wor
king
mag
neto
wou
ld d
o it
•Fl
ew w
ay to
o lo
w•
Mis
sed
a w
aypo
int a
nd w
ent o
ff co
urse
•Fi
gure
d it
’d be
fine
like
alw
ays
•Le
t Pvt
. Ivc
henk
ova
do y
our p
re-fl
ight
chec
k•
Igno
red
the
oil t
empe
ratu
re g
auge
•Co
uldn
’t te
ll gr
ound
from
sky
and
pani
cked
•Fl
ew in
to c
loud
s th
at w
ere
dum
ping
ice
•To
ok 5
0 ki
los
of e
xtra
bom
bs, j
ust t
his
once
•D
idn’
t pay
clo
se a
tten
tion
to th
e br
iefin
g•
Ate
a r
eally
hea
rty
brea
kfas
t at d
usk
•Bu
mpe
d yo
ur p
itot s
witc
h - n
ow it
is fr
ozen
an
d yo
u yo
ur a
irsp
eed
read
s ze
ro
144
NIGH
T WI
TCH-
Y TH
INGS
The H
itleri
te Ba
ndits
•W
ait f
or th
em in
the
clou
ds
•A
mbu
sh th
em fr
om o
ut o
f the
daw
n su
n •
Pin
them
with
sea
rchl
ight
s an
d fla
k•
Sow
pan
ic a
nd r
eap
deat
h •
Hit
them
whe
re it
hur
ts•
Del
iver
a c
rush
ing
defe
at e
lsew
here
The W
eathe
r•
Blin
d th
em a
nd m
ake
them
unc
erta
in•
Mak
e th
em s
it st
ill fo
r da
ys o
n en
d•
Del
ay th
em, w
aste
fuel
, mak
e th
em g
o ar
ound
•D
amag
e th
eir p
lane
s•
Free
ze a
nd b
ake
them
, the
n ba
ke a
nd fr
eeze
them
•G
ive
them
a b
eaut
iful s
unny
day
now
and
then
Our B
elove
d 588
th Re
gimen
t•
Con
fess
love
or p
regn
ancy
or
both
•Br
ew u
p pe
tty
riva
lrie
s, s
prea
d ru
mor
s an
d go
ssip
•Bu
ry th
e de
ad -
or th
e liv
ing
•C
eleb
rate
a v
icto
ry, a
war
d, w
eddi
ng, o
r na
me
day
•D
eliv
er v
ery
bad
new
s fr
om h
ome
•In
trod
uce
gree
n re
crui
ts o
r kn
ow-it
-all
vete
rans
Our G
allan
t Flyi
ng Co
mrad
es•
Send
Maj
or P
opov
of t
he a
ll-m
ale
218t
h N
ight
Bom
ber
Reg
imen
t ove
r•
Take
cre
dit
•La
ugh
at th
e w
omen
of t
he 5
88th
•
Mak
e th
e N
ight
Witc
hes
act l
ike
men
- or
wom
en•
Spot
light
an
ace
from
the
mos
tly-fe
mal
e 58
6th
Figh
ter
Reg
imen
t•
“Bor
row
” res
ourc
es a
nd e
quip
men
t•
Brea
k th
e ru
les
and
get a
way
with
it
Rear-
Echelo
n Hero
es•
Del
ay v
ital s
uppl
ies
or p
aper
wor
k•
Del
iver
the
wro
ng th
ings
, lat
e or
not
at a
ll•
Rat
them
out
•Lo
iter a
roun
d th
e ai
rbas
e lo
okin
g fo
r a
part
y•
Dem
and
a “c
onsi
dera
tion”
- or
ste
al fr
om th
em•
Hav
e th
e Ce
ntra
l Dir
ecto
rate
of R
ear S
ervi
ces o
f the
Sov
iet A
rmy
Air
For
ces,
4th
Air
Arm
y Lo
gist
ics a
nd S
uppl
y Co
mm
issa
riat
call
them
to a
ccou
nt
The S
tate
•Lo
ok fo
r vio
latio
ns o
f Art
icle
s 58
and
133
•D
eman
d as
sist
ance
in a
nea
rby
villa
ge•
Intr
oduc
e th
em to
das
hing
, sex
y pa
rtis
ans
•Pu
t pre
ssur
e on
thei
r fa
mili
es•
Send
rep
orte
rs fr
om K
omso
mol
skay
a Pr
avda
and
Kra
snay
a Zv
ezda
•D
eman
d gr
eate
r zea
l and
pro
duct
ivity
Agen
da•
Brin
g th
e w
ar to
life
•Pu
t the
m in
the
mid
dle
of th
e gr
ind
•Se
ek o
ut th
eir
stor
ies
•Pl
ay to
find
out
wha
t hap
pens
Princ
iples
•Le
t eve
ryth
ing
flow
from
the
fictio
n.•
Add
ress
the
char
acte
rs, n
ot th
e pl
ayer
s.•
Poin
t the
act
ion
at th
e ch
arac
ters
and
thei
r mov
es.
•G
ive
each
pla
ne’s
tail
num
ber
and
duty
sta
tion
a pe
rson
ality
.•
Giv
e ea
ch N
PC a
nam
e, a
pas
t - a
nd n
o m
ercy
.•
Som
etim
es ju
st g
ive
it to
them
.
GM Ge
neral
Mov
es•
Brin
g th
eir
gend
er in
to it
•Sh
ow th
em th
e da
rkne
ss o
n th
e ho
rizo
n•
Brin
g a
thre
at to
bea
r•
Infli
ct h
arm
or s
carc
ity a
s es
tabl
ishe
d•
Offe
r an
oppo
rtun
ity a
nd n
ame
the
pric
e•
Put t
hem
som
ewhe
re th
ey d
on’t
wan
t to
be•
Dou
bt th
em a
nd d
eman
d di
scip
line
•H
ave
deat
h co
llect
wha
t is
due
•A
fter
Eve
ry M
ove
Ask
...“W
hat d
o yo
u do
?”
REGIM
ENTA
L ORG
ANIZA
TION
Regim
ental
Comm
ande
r•
Maj
or Y
evdo
kiya
Ber
shan
skay
a
Regim
ental
Staff
•C
hief
of S
taff
and
Dep
uty
Reg
imen
tal C
omm
ande
r (Ca
ptai
n E
vgen
iya
Lobo
deva
)•
Reg
imen
tal P
olitr
uk (C
apta
in O
lga
I. Ba
rsuk
ova)
•D
eput
y Po
litru
k an
d M
oral
e O
ffice
r (L
ieut
enan
t Sve
tlana
“Sve
ta” S
here
-m
etov
a)•
Logi
stic
s an
d Tr
aini
ng o
ffice
r (L
ieut
enan
t Mar
iya
“Mas
ha” P
etro
va)
...pl
us e
nlis
ted
supp
ort p
erso
nnel
1, 2 an
d 3 Sq
uadr
on, 5
88th
Night
Bomb
er Re
gimen
t, ea
ch w
ith:
•A
ir S
ectio
n A
, 3 a
ircr
aft p
lus
one
rese
rve,
Squ
adro
n C
omm
ande
r (Ca
p-ta
in) a
nd S
quad
ron
Lead
Nav
igat
or a
nd 4
air
wom
en•
Air
Sec
tion
B, 3
air
craf
t plu
s on
e re
serv
e, D
eput
y Sq
uadr
on C
omm
ande
r an
d 5
airw
omen
•A
ir S
ectio
ns C
and
D, 3
air
craf
t plu
s on
e re
serv
e ea
ch, S
ectio
n Le
ader
an
d 5
airw
omen
eac
h
Traini
ng Sq
uadr
on, 5
88th
Night
Bomb
er Re
gimen
t •
One
trai
ning
sec
tion
(T),
4 ai
rcra
ft, L
ogis
tics
and
Trai
ning
sta
ff off
icer
an
d up
to 8
trai
nees
GM A
GEND
A/PR
INCI
PLES
/MOV
ESGM
THR
EATS
TWEN
TY-FO
UR H
OURS
WITH
THE 5
88TH
Daw
n
Nig
ht
Day
ligh
t
Reg
imen
tal
Bus
ines
s
Dus
k
You’
ve ju
st fi
nish
ed a
noth
er lo
ng n
ight
of fl
ying
. You
are
tire
d an
d po
ssib
ly s
tres
sed.
Squa
dron
Bus
ines
sP
erso
nal
Bus
ines
s
Hig
hest
-ran
king
char
acte
r’s p
laye
r, in
cons
ulta
tion
with
th
e cu
rren
t GM
, ch
oose
s a
mis
sion
from
the
avai
labl
e du
ty s
tatio
n op
tions
. The
n de
liver
the
nigh
tly B
riefi
ng.
Ord
ers
to is
sue
and
obey
, st
aff re
assi
gnm
ents
, pro
-m
otio
ns a
nd d
ecor
atio
ns
and
rela
ted
cere
mon
ies.
R
epor
ts, p
aper
wor
k an
d re
late
d bu
llshi
t.
Kee
ping
the
regi
men
t an
d he
r air
wom
en o
ut o
f tr
oubl
e w
ith th
e Fo
urth
Ai
r Arm
y br
ass
and
the
NK
VD. Y
ou m
ay n
eed
to
Act
Up.
Scro
unge
for s
uppl
ies
to
read
y de
plet
ed a
ircr
aft
and
Rep
air
dam
aged
pl
anes
.
Mov
es s
now
ball!
Not
hing
is
eas
y an
d co
mpr
omis
es
will
be
pain
ful.
All t
hese
thin
gs m
ay
trig
ger f
urth
er m
oves
or
adva
nces
.
Res
t, re
cove
r, R
each
Out
, (w
rite
a le
tter
hom
e?)
or g
o af
ter y
our o
wn
inte
rest
s. Y
ou m
ay n
eed
to
Ass
ess
or A
ct U
p.
Mov
es s
now
ball!
Tro
uble
w
ill fi
nd y
ou a
nd e
nem
ies
will
be
wat
chin
g.
All t
hese
thin
gs m
ay
trig
ger f
urth
er m
oves
or
adva
nces
.
If y
ou d
on’t
get e
noug
h re
st y
our p
erfo
rman
ce th
e fo
llow
ing
nigh
t will
suff
er!
Ther
e ar
e 6-
12 s
ortie
s pe
r nig
ht. P
lay
out t
he h
igh-
light
s. A
t lea
st o
ne n
avig
ator
per
sec
tion
mus
t Way
-fin
d. A
t lea
st o
ne p
ilot p
er s
ectio
n m
ust m
ake
an
Att
ack
Run
. Hel
p w
ith y
our S
uppo
rt.
Mov
es s
now
ball!
You
r air
craf
t may
be
dam
aged
or
depl
eted
. You
may
end
ure
Ene
my
Fire
. Gre
at h
eroi
sm
may
be
calle
d fo
r - y
ou m
ay n
eed
to T
empt
Fat
e.
Putt
ing
a br
oken
pla
ne W
heel
s D
own
can
also
be
tric
ky.
All t
hese
thin
gs m
ay tr
igge
r fur
ther
mov
es o
r adv
ance
s.
Ther
e is
ver
y lit
tle ro
om
for p
erso
nal b
usin
ess
duri
ng a
com
bat m
is-
sion
. Sup
port
ano
ther
ai
rwom
an o
r Rea
ch O
ut
to h
er.
Mov
es s
now
ball!
You
may
be
hur
t. Tr
emen
dous
sac
-ri
fice
may
be
calle
d fo
r.
Thes
e th
ings
may
trig
ger
mor
e m
oves
or a
dvan
ces.
Deb
riefi
ng, c
ondu
cted
by
the
Chie
f of S
taff
or R
egim
enta
l Com
man
der (
GM
). D
ebri
efing
s ca
n be
com
e su
rpri
sing
ly p
erso
nal a
s su
cces
s is
cele
brat
ed a
nd b
lam
e is
ap
port
ione
d.
Was
that
the
last
ava
ilabl
e m
issi
on a
t the
dut
y st
atio
n? If
so,
eng
age
in s
ome
Op-
erat
iona
l Pla
nnin
g an
d ch
ange
dut
y st
atio
ns. E
very
one
adva
nces
, all
inju
ries
are
tr
eate
d, a
ll pl
anes
are
repa
ired
and
resu
pplie
d. W
est,
with
Hitl
erite
ban
dits
sca
tter
-in
g in
pan
ic b
efor
e us
!
588t
h
S
QUAD
RON,
COM
BAT
SECT
ION
Tail
Num
ber
Pilo
t
Nav
igat
or
Nic
knam
e
Pers
onal
ity
☐ D
amag
ed
Tail
Num
ber
Pilo
t
Nav
igat
or
Nic
knam
e
Pers
onal
ity
☐ D
amag
ed
Tail
Num
ber
Pilo
t
Nav
igat
or
Nic
knam
e
Pers
onal
ity
☐ D
amag
ed
Tail
Num
ber
Pilo
t
Nav
igat
or
Nic
knam
e
Pers
onal
ity
☐ D
amag
ed
Res
erve
Air
craf
t
Sect
ion
Lead
Mec
hani
c
Oth
er p
erso
nnel
Squa
dron
Com
man
der
Sect
ion
Lead
er
Lead
Air
craf
t
Read these sections out loud. Feel free to paraphrase! These para-graphs are colorful transitions and scene-painting. If they eveolve into scenes that’s fine, particularly if those scenes allow the players to engage with moves and learn about the world.
This symbol represents actual instruction. Each is a point of entry into either building a character or engaging with the rules of the game.
Dialogs between non-player characters and the player’s new recruits are important. They allow you to share background information and build up personalities within the regiment that you can return to. Each includes a list with check-boxes for your reference. Try to hit all the relevant points but don’t feel constrained.
NIGHT WITCHES: AIRFIELD ON THE BORDERLANDSThis document consists of a series of scenes that walk a group through the first Night Witches duty station - Engels Airdrome. Starting as raw recruits, the characters will gradually form up into a competent combat section ready to be shipped off to war. Along the way, the group will learn about these women and the dangerous world they live in. To use this you’ll need a copy of Night Witches, nature playbooks, a move sheet, and the first duty station handout. Let each player control a discrete part, rotating this responsibility as you pro-ceed. Everyone should follow the prompts when it comes time to build a char-acter. The final two parts - six and seven - include complete missions and full integration with the rules, so if one player has read the book it might be best to defer facilitation to them toward the end.Each part consists of a series of prompts with one of three symbols:
The document is formatted with a wide margin so you can take notes and write down names, facts and observations. Hopefully you’ll build up interesting rela-tionships and situations to explore further as you undertake this exercise.
We’ve arrived at Saratov, a city at war. The darkened streets are filled with soldiers but we are still civilians, in our best clothes. Patriotic marches in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the founding of the Red Army and im-passioned speeches by Comrade Stalin and Marshal Zhukov fill the air. “The day is not far distant when the Red Army will thrust back the brutal enemy and the red banners will fly again victoriously over the entire Soviet land.”With a Red Army Air Force transit voucher in hand, we board a ferry across the Volga with a hundred other hopeful, enthusiastic, and confused young men and women. One woman stands out in the crowd - dressed in a splendid uniform with sky blue shoulder boards with a medal pinned to her chest. We haven’t yet learned to know either her rank or what the medal signifies, but we know we want to be just like her.
Explain that you’ll be gradually building both characters and situation as your young women transition from fresh recruits to seasoned pilots and navigators ready for combat.
Explain natures and hand out the playbooks. Have each player choose a nature and then choose a name, look and background. Ask each what the other recruits see when they look at her. She’s not in uniform - what sort of clothes does she wear? Has she brought any luggage? What sort of shoes does she have on? What can we tell about her from her demeanor?
Choose a player for the officer to strike up a conversation with. Roleplay a short dialog. Make sure you deliver the following information, but keep it short.
� I’m Captain Evgeniya Lobodeva of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. � The 588th is one of three regiments being formed by Major Marina Raskova,
the famous air hero. We focus on night harassment and will do the most dif-ficult, dangerous work.
� We’re glad to have competent new recruits. We’ll be flying outmoded biplanes under cover of darkness in all weather conditions.
� The war situation is bad - even Comrade Stalin says as much. Our winter stopped the Fascists fifty miles from Moscow, but the spring muds have blunt-ed our counter-offensive. Now things are very uncertain. Personally I aim to change that.
� Step lively, obey your section leader and squadron commander, and you’ll get your chance to kick the Hitlerite bandits right in the balls.
PART ONE: SARATOV, RUSSIA
The ferry bumps up against the dock in Engels and suddenly everyone is all business - shouting, pushing, rolling trucks and equipment off. Time to get moving!
PART TWO: LOGISTICS AREA SIXAcross the Volga, Engels Airdrome is still 4 kilometers away. While a truck is waiting for Captain Lobodeva and the other soldiers in uniform, we are told to walk. Hopefully we wore sensible shoes.The skies overhead are filled with airplanes - sleek new Pe-2 bombers shin-ing in the sunlight, stubby, aggressive-looking Yak-1 fighter planes, and plod-ding old Po-2 biplanes. These look ridiculously out of date, and their tiny en-gines sound for all the world like sewing machines. As we near the Airdome, footsore and hungry, we see for the first time how massive and busy it really is. There are hundreds of planes here, and hordes of Soviet aviators - many of them women.
Orient the players to the day side of Duty Station 1. Collectively answer the ques-tions and draw the Engels Airdrome.
Choose a player for her to have a conversation with, once she is done screaming at a hapless private. Roleplay a short dialog. Make sure you deliver the follow-ing information, but keep it short.
� I’m Masha Kataeva. Who the fuck are you? Scratch that - I’ve seen your type come and go. You’ll be down in fucking flames in a fortnight and I am not going to get to know you.
� What do you want? Let me make one thing perfectly clear to you skinny bitches - I am not your mother and I don’t have any boots or fucking field ra-tions, so go choke yourselves.
� Let me tell you what we’ve got and you can fucking pick from that, all right? We’ve got some nice used men’s uniforms that won’t fit. We have a God-damned airplane in a packing crate and no time to assemble it. We’ve got endless fucking shovels for some reason. Ask me for anything else and I will shit on your mother.
� Before I find you suka’s some nice lady boots, I think I’ll focus on acquiring a couple of Shvetsov M-11 engines and all the shit that breaks on those fuck-ers - cylinders, heads, gaskets, pumps - Jesus and his whoremonger apostles - gages, canvas and canvas dope, control wire and surfaces, wheels and struts, bomb release mechanisms, I could go fucking on, sister. I don’t have shit.
� You better go see Senior Lieutenant Petrova. Ask for her in the 588th’s barracks - just keep walking that way until you see the shitty place no decent woman in her right mind would call home.
When we reach the main gate of Engels Airdrome, a Fourth Air Army mili-tary policeman reviews our papers and tells us all to report to Sergeant Kataeva in Logistics Area Six and request the following items:Service uniforms, flight boots, one week’s rations and directions to the 588th’s trainee barracksWe’re told to repeat this list. Go ahead and do that right now, let’s hear it. After some fumbling around and vague directions from harried, impatient mechanics, we find Sergeant Kataeva.
PART THREE: 588TH TRAINEE BARRACKSWe take our new uniforms and head for the barracks, enduring some cat-calls from leather-jacket-clad male pilots on the way. When we arrive, a wom-an no older than any of us is waiting to greet us. She shows each of us to a cot and tells us to put on our new uniforms.
Explain Roles and have every player choose one. Ask them to choose a starting rank and then assign stats. Ask each of the recruits how their Role and stats are obvious to the casual observer.
Choose a player for Petrova to have a conversation with. The training begins before we’ve even got our trousers on! Roleplay a short dialog. Make sure you deliver the following information, but keep it short.
� I’m Senior Lieutenant Petrova. What’s your name? Where are you from? � We’ll be dividing you out into pilots and navigators based on aptitude, but
you will both be qualified for either seat. Pilots in front, navigators in back. � These airplanes are simple. Fuel and oil are gravity fed, so don’t fly upside-
down. An air cooled engine. No oil filter, just a mesh screen. Open cockpits. � Many things can go wrong. Flying at night is strange and challenging. � Memorize your cockpit layout. Down and to your left: Throttle, fuel mix lever,
fuel cutoff switch, carburetor heat and elevator trim. Left dash switch bank: Pitot heat, master battery, panel lights, two magneto switches. Gages - Fuel, altitude, airspeed, heading, attitude. Climb rate and engine RPM. Oil pressure and temperature. Fuel pressure gage. Cylinder temperature.
� I’ve reviewed your files and you are quite a mixed bag, aren’t you?
As Senior Lieutenant Petrova, ask each player one question, for example: � What did you do when your first flight instructor failed you because you were
a woman? � What did you lie about on your regimental intake form? � Why did you want to join the 586th Fighter Regiment so badly? � Who do you routinely see from your brother unit, the well equipped, all-male
218th night bomber regiment, and where, and why? � Who do you know in your sister unit, the photogenic media darlings of the
mostly-female 586th fighter regiment, and how do you feel about her? � Who do you know in the 4th Air Army Logistics and Supply Commissariat,
and what favor do you owe them? � Who do you know occupied territory, silent since June of ‘41? � Whose funeral did you miss by volunteering for flight training?
Senior Lieutenant Petrova, satisfied with our answers, tells us that the Major is waiting on the flight line, and we file out to meet her.
PART FOUR: FLIGHT LINE, ENGELS AIRDROMEThe regiment’s Po-2’s are in formation on the flight line, each fragile craft lovingly tended by a pair of mechanic-armorers. Senior Lieutenant Petrova forms us into rough order and salutes a stern older woman with gold shoulder boards - the Major. Next to her is Captain Lobodeva, who we met on the ferry - her Chief of Staff - along with several other officers. The Major looks us over. “Comrades, welcome to the regiment,” she says, “I am Major Yevdokiya Ber-shanskaya, your commander. I will expect you to comport yourselves at all times as natural-born Soviet airwomen. We will fly these” - and she points to the biplanes behind her. “The Polikarpov Po-2 LNB. A simple two-seat canvas-and-wood biplane has been determined to be ideal for our mission by the great operational minds of the Fourth Army Air Force, and we are cer-tainly not going to doubt their wisdom in this matter. Let’s talk about that mission, shall we?”
I, [NAME], promise to rise to the defense of my Motherland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as a fighting man [sic] of the Worker’s and Peasant’s Red Army, I promise to defend it bravely, skillfully, with dignity and honor, sparing neither my blood nor my life itself for the achievement of total victory over our enemies.
Choose a player for Major Bershanskaya to speak to. Roleplay a short dialog. Make sure you deliver the following information, but keep it short.
� What’s your name? Did you train with a Comsomol flying club or a glider school or as part of an agricultural technical academy?
� There are three places you can put a bullet that will break the Po-2: The small fuel tank, the compact engine, or the pilot. Anything else just passes through and you keep flying. And, honestly, the pilot doesn’t count because you have a spare.
� There is no radio in a Po-2. Individual aircrews communicate with hand signals or by using a speaking tube, and communication between planes in the same section is by flashlight, flare or hand signal. We will work together so closely, night after night, that you will be able to read another plane’s intention by instinct.
� The Po-2 is not a fighter but a bomber. Each wing has six attachment points for FAB-50 fragmentation bombs. The release mechanism for these bombs is unreliable. In the event of a hanging bomb, you navigators need to climb out on the wing and release it manually. When FAB-50s aren’t available, we will drop sawed-off railroad ties.
� Since our mission profiles rarely have us flying above 1200 meters and weight is at a premium, parachutes are not standard equipment.
� Formation drill at 1700; I expect you to be crisp. It is now my pleasure to administer the oath of a Soviet soldier and induct you into the Red Army Air Force Fourth Air Army.
Have all the players stand, and stand yourself. Administer the following oath:
Major Bershanskaya dismisses us and Captain Lobodeva congratulates us, pointing the way to the mess tent so we can finally get some chow after a busy morning. She tells us that classroom instruction begins tomorrow at dusk, in Classroom F.
PART FIVE: CLASSROOM F
Choose a player for Captain Barsukova to single out, after consulting her notes. Roleplay a short dialog. Make sure you deliver the following information, but keep it short (albeit long-winded!). Barsukova can drone on a little.
� What’s your name, Comrade? Where are you from? Would you say that en-emies of the people - the bourgeoisie of course, but also aristocrats, religious figures, social parasites, eggheads, nationalists - are these dangerous elements any less a threat than the Fascists?
� We’re all here to protect the regiment, But think carefully about “helping your friends”, comrades. Military personnel who fail to report treason are them-selves subject to ten years imprisonment.
� When I find a counter-revolutionary I will arrest her. If I find someone un-dermining or weakening the external security of the USSR by means of slack-ing or wrecking, or parasitism or aiding the enemy, well that is treason, my friend. Section 58-1B clearly states that treason by military personnel incurs an immediate death sentence. Should the offender run away, the same statute allows for the imprisonment of her relatives for five to ten years.
� Listen, I want you to have success here so I will warn you about section 58-14, which deals with counter-revolutionary sabotage. Conscious non-execution or deliberately careless execution of defined duties, aimed at the weakening of the power of the government and of the functioning of the state apparatus, is subject to at least one year of imprisonment, and under especially aggravating circumstances, up to the highest measure of social protection: execution, with confiscation of property. I burn for the opportunity to hang a saboteur. I hope we understand each other.
The following morning we find yourselves in a crowded tent configured as a classroom. The pungent smell of aviation gasoline permeates everything, and the roaring of aircraft occasionally interrupts a lesson. Our first class is on political consciousness for aviation troops, and is conducted by two women in the grey tunics of NKVD officers. The NKVD is the Soviet secret police, and her officers are not to be trifled with. Two are attached to every regiment.“Good morning Trainees, “ says the ranking officer, “I am Captain Olga I. Barsukova and this is my Deputy, Lieutenant Svetlana Sheremeteva. Our job is to encourage your continued development as politically conscious and socially engaged Communists. But we must never forget that we are also military officers with security responsibilities within the regiment. ”
As Captain Barsukova, ask each player one question, for example: � What did the Germans take from you? � Were your parents actually guilty? � Why does the NKVD already have a file on you, and how did you get around
that black mark to join the regiment? � What does the Marxist-Leninist struggle against the forces of reaction mean
to you personally? � When you were last disciplined, by whom, and what was the reason? � When did you get a favor because of your gender, and how did you pay it back? � What would you be doing if they didn’t let you fly? � What happened the last time a crowd of brother airmen wolf whistled at you?
After handing out some inspirational literature, Captain Barsukova dismiss-es us. We have thirty minutes to wolf down some kasha before classroom instruction in land navigation with Senior Lieutenant Petrova begins.
PART SIX: FLIGHT TRAINING
Ask them to assign tail numbers to their four airplanes. Any number between 001 and 200 is fine. Make sure everyone notes the composition of the training section on the back of their nature playbook.
After a week of monotonous classroom instruction under the tutelage of Cap-tain Barsukova and Senior Lieutenant Petrova, we are formed into a three-aircraft section as part of the training squadron. Each section has three pilots and three navigators. Which of us volunteered earliest?
Orient the players to the night side of Duty Station 1. Check off the first mission and run the night flying exercise - ask the section leader to brief the airwomen, run the mission, then debrief. Since there is no initial mission pool, it is likely to go poorly. Senior Lieutenant Petrova will not be pleased if so. Regardless, explain how mission pool works and why it is valuable.
Finally we are ready for our first training flight. We’ve all flown before in civilian life, but now we will be expected to fly as a team, under difficult and possibly deadly circumstances, with precision and courage.
A month has passed - it is now March 1942. We’ve been flying relentlessly, every night, for thirty straight days. We are exhausted but the pace only quickens. The Red Army Air Force has been decimated and is slowly rebuild-ing. The time has come to begin tactical training and skill building to bring the regiment up to 4th Air Army standards.
Ask each player an introspective, personal question, for example: � When has your sexuality gotten you in trouble? � When has your sexuality gotten you out of trouble? � In what ways do you dress or look like a woman? � In what ways do you dress or look like a man? � Whose picture will you tape to your plane’s dash? � Who in the regiment evokes the strongest feelings from you, and why? � When we search your footlocker, what surprising thing do we find? � What did the Soviet state take from you?
Present some vignettes of daytime life around Engels Airdrome. There can be direct challenges from men from the 217th or 218th, news reporters from Pravda, mechanical problems, whatever seems interesting based on what has already been established. Make sure there are opportunities to build mission pool based on the character’s interests and personalities.When night falls, check off the second mission and run the mock bombing run - ask the section leader to brief the airwomen, run the mission, then debrief. anyone participating in this mission deepens ties and earns an advance - mark it off and fill in a Regard slot. Explain why Regard is valuable.
Decide who it is. If somebody chose the Role of Zealot, it’s a good bet they volun-teered as soon as they possibly could after the war started.
Congratulations, you are the provisional section leader and responsible for the deportment and proficiency of the five women under your command. Give everyone a post - pilot or navigator - and assign them to individual planes. The reserve plane is a beat-up reserve of dubious airworthiness.
April, 1942. After another month of grueling training, the pace has become frantic. Supplies are becoming rarer as the combat situation becomes more and more uncertain. The regiment’s airplanes are suffering, and pressure from our staff officers continues to mount. Not only are we expected to be-come excellent pilots and navigators, we are also expected to be model Soviet airwomen, perfect in every way. Something has got to give.
Present more daytime vignettes, seasoned with desperation and failure. They may need to scrounge or repair. Captain Barsukova will be looking for shirkers, wreckers and saboteurs. Word might go out that anyone performing poorly will be cut from the regiment. As before, make sure there are opportunities to build mission pool based on the character’s interests and personalities.When night falls, check off the final mission and run the live bombing run with “aggressive” opposing forces from the all-male 217th Fighter Division under D.P. Galunov. After the debreif, anyone participating in this mission learns a harsh lesson and earns an advance - mark it off and choose a move.
That’s it - play time is over. Senior Lieutenant Petrova informs us that word has come down from the Major that tomorrow we will be shipping out for the Caucuses. Sergeant Kataeva has travel vouchers for the ferry and a train from Saratov departs tonight. We’ve been assigned to 2-Squadron where we will comprise A-Section. Good luck, and we’ll all meet again in Trud Gornyaka.
Change to duty station 2, choose an initial GM, and continue playing!
PART SEVEN: COMBAT READY
NIGHT WITCHES: PASHKOVSKAYA NOCTURNEThis document consists of a guided one-shot that includes creating characters, building an airbase and playing out a few day and night cycles. Your goal should be to introduce the players to the world of Night Witches and show off the system and color. The episodic nature of missions means you can fill a two or four hour time frame easily. To use this you’ll need a copy of Night Witches, nature playbooks, move sheets, and the third duty station handout (Pashkovskaya). Also: Pencils, dice, mission pool tokens, snacks, water and index cards. To prepare, print out all the necessary documents. In each playbook, check off seven marks. Choose however you like, leaning toward stuff that is either more interesting long-term or doesn’t present an opportunity for action and drama. Ultimately this is a minor decision; the key is to leave four marks and “Embrace Death” to apply some thematic pressure.Invite no more than four adult players. Seriously! Six will want to play but be strong or everyone will have a bad time. Don’t play with children either.When it is time to play, welcome everyone. Discuss safety and make sure they know they are free to leave the table at any time without harming the game. Consider using an X-Card. Once everybody is checked in and ready to play, give them the one minute overview:
Have all the players stand, and stand yourself. Administer the following oath: I, [NAME], promise to rise to the defense of my Motherland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as a fighting man [sic] of the Worker’s and Peasant’s Red Army, I promise to defend it bravely, skillfully, with dignity and honor, sparing neither my blood nor my life itself for the achievement of total victory over our enemies.
We’re playing Soviet women in an all-female night bomber regiment during World War Two. We’ll be pilots, navigators, mechanics and political officers.Our mission is to harass the German army, which has invaded our country. The war is brutal and horrific.We fly obsolete biplanes and drop bombs or, when we don’t have bombs, rail-road ties on the Germans. Things are desperate. It is incredibly dangerous. We fly in darkness, sometimes a dozen missions each night.The Soviet army wishes we didn’t exist and nobody expects us to succeed. We are going to succeed anyway.
Ask them to choose playbooks and make characters together. You don’t need to make one but you can if you want, possibly to use as an NPC to fill out the Sec-tion and also as an example. They should have a name, Role, look/background, rank and stats. Ask each player to describe their character as a raw recruit, still in civilian clothes a year ago. How could you tell their Role from the way they carried themselves? How could you tell their Nature by the way they dressed?
Prep
What you need
What this is about
Overview
Choosing playbooks, making characters
Taking the oath
Continued on back
NIGHT WITCHES: PASHKOVSKAYA NOCTURNE
Ask them to Advance their characters six times, encouraging them to take no more than two from each category and explaining the benefits of each. Ask them not to change the duty station unless you are prepared to roll with that. Feel free to ask them why they were promoted or how they got that medal.
As a final step in character creation, ask them what has changed about their character’s appearance after a year of hard fighting, and ask them a pointed question as well, such as:
� What did you lie about on your regimental intake form? � Who do you routinely see from your brother unit, the well equipped, all-male
218th night bomber regiment, and where, and why? � Whose funeral did you miss by volunteering for flight training? � What does the Marxist-Leninist struggle against the forces of reaction mean
to you personally? � What happened the last time a crowd of brother airmen wolf whistled at you? � When has your sexuality gotten you in trouble? � Whose picture will you tape to your plane’s dash? � When we search your footlocker, what surprising thing do we find?
You should have really interesting, well-differentiated characters now. Hopefully this took about half an hour. Paint a picture of Pashkovskaya for them:
Pashkovskaya was once a civilian airfield, about 10 kilometeres from the ma-jor city of Krasnodar. Now it is home to the 588th and their brother unit, the 218th Night Bomber Regiment. Resources are shared uneasily, and unevenly. When they aren’t mocking you they are stealing from you.
Introduce them to the Pashkovskaya duty station sheet. Fill it out together, al-lowing the players to take the lead. Based on their characters, choose two threats to push, cherry-picking the most interesting angles for your group. If you have a particular threat in mind, feel free to jump in on answering a question or two - maybe you know when Lieuten-ant General Miroshnichenko should arrive for his inspection, for example. Be sure to have them draw the airbase! Once you have an airbase, some characters and a couple of threats, you are ready to play!
Begin with a dawn debrief after a mission. Appoint the ranking character Sec-tion leader and ask her player what they did when they saw D-Section fly into a solid wall of flak ahead of them. If they charged ahead, damage two of the planes and give out some harm (2 for one character, 1 for two others). If they turned back, damage one of the planes and immediately drag the Section leader in for an NKVD informal interview as a reward for her timidity and weakened resolve.
Advancement
Final questions
The situation in “Pash-KOV-ska”
Filling out the duty station sheet
Opening question
Once everyone has a feel for their character, explain what’s been going on during the previous year:
After accelerated training you were thrown immediately into the war. Your first duty station was a hell-hole called Trud Gornyaka that was basically on the front lines for six months. Mud alternated with ice, you flew out of open fields, and women died terrible deaths right before your helpless eyes - their planes turned into torches by anti-aircraft artillery or German night fighters. You lost a lot of friends. You flew every night.
The situation in “trood gur-NEEK-ah”
The NKVD Is Dangerous � Lt. Svetlana Sheremeteva, Deputy Regimental Politruk, is an evil toad who
will pressure and manipulate the women of the Regiment to her own ends. A closeted lesbian, Sveta will corner a likely airwoman and put the moves on her, making it clear that if her advances are rebuffed there will be trouble. (Look for violations of Articles 58 and 133, Put pressure on their families)
� After an unsuccessful mission, Captain Barsukova will single someone (or multiple someones) out for a chat, triggering the Informal interview move. This may lead to further complications as moves snowball. (Demand greater zeal and productivity, Look for violations of Articles 58 and 133)
� Captain Barsukova volunteers the Section for day labor in Pashkovsky vil-lage, where she has set up a Comsomol youth league that needs advisors for their agricultural projects. Anyone spending their day tending cabbages will suffer 1-harm as they go without rest. (Demand assistance in a nearby village, Demand greater zeal and productivity).
� A film crew arrives to document the novelty of an all-female Regiment, under the auspices of the NKVD (this dovetails nicely with Lieutenant General Miro-shnichenko’s visit). The crew will cause all sorts of trouble - sharing their vodka in after-hours parties, making inappropriate advances, asking difficult ques-tions, demanding to fly along on missions. Barsukova and Sheremeteva will tag along to official interviews and give them endless support and encouragement. (Send reporters from Komsomolskaya Pravda, Put pressure on their families)
THREATS AT PASHKOVSKAYA 1
Men Are Assholes � Lieutenant General Igor Miroshnichenko, Commander of the Fourth Air
Army, is coming to visit, and somebody decided the 588th would entertain him and “lift morale” among the all-male 218th Night Bomber Regiment by stag-ing a talent show or dance mixer in an old barn on the airbase. Participation is mandatory and a bad show will reflect poorly on the regiment. (Make the Night Witches act like women, laugh at the women of the 588th)
� Lieutenant General Miroshnichenko shows up with the aggressive fighter ace Senior Lieutenant Yekaterina Budanova in tow. Budanova serves with the 9th Fighter Regiment and considers the all-female units something of a joke. The event in the General’s honor only reinforces her feelings. (Spotlight a fe-male ace, laugh at the women of the 588th)
� After a particularly successful mission, the 218th Night Bomber Regiment takes public credit. (Send Major Popov of the all-male 218th Night Bomber Reg-iment over, Take credit)
� Mechanic-armorers from the 218th are caught stealing barrels of engine lu-bricants, which they claim to have a more urgent need for. (“Borrow” resources and equipment, Break the rules and get away with it, Make the Night Witches act like men)
� Major Popov’s son, 20-year-old Junior Lieutenant Kiril “Kiryusha” Popov, a dashing co-pilot, tries to befriend a navigator. He’s reviled in his own regiment as a nepotistic daddy’s boy. He’s lonely, obviously well-connected and handsome. (Make the Night Witches act like women, Send Major Popov of the all-male 218th Night Bomber Regiment over if anyone messes with his son)
Gender politics
Paranoia and the Soviet state
The Red Army Is A Pain In The Ass � An entire batch of magnetos are defective and spares can’t be had for love or
money. Well, for money, anyway - the Supply Sergeant of the 218th has a few, but the price will be high and not paid in rubles. This may trigger the Scrounge or Repair moves. (Delay vital supplies, Demand a “consideration” - or steal from them)
� An inspector from the Central Directorate of Rear Services of the Soviet Army Air Forces, 4th Air Army Logistics and Supply Commissariat arrives to look over the Regiment’s books and address irregularities. Someone clearly in-formed after a necessary theft or other dodgy practices. (Call them to account, rat them out)
� Promotion paperwork fails to arrive - perhaps someone chose a promotion Advance and the ceremony was being delayed until the arrival of Lieutenant General Miroshnichenko. (Delay vital paperwork)
� Some truck drivers show up in the 588th’s area looking for a good time, may-be with a treasure trove of rare goods to trade. Refined sugar, Irish whiskey, American lend-lease canned goods, perfume, a Turkish carpet, a German bayo-net. Maybe it is a military police or NKVD sting operation. (Loiter around the airbase looking for a party, rat them out)
THREATS AT PASHKOVSKAYA 2
The Regiment Is Full Of Drama � 2-Squadron B-Section has a reputation as a bunch of roughnecks. They are
bullies and mean girls, not prone to military discipline and not very effective. Chief of Staff Captain Lobodeva, in an effort to break up the little gang, trans-fers a couple into A-Section. They will not be happy to be placed among proper Soviet airwomen and look for every opportunity to get their new Section in trouble, and their old friends in B-Section are always spoiling for a brawl. (Brew up petty rivalries, introduce know-it-all veterans)
� The new replacements are green as grass and wide-eyed with apprehension and barely-concealed terror. Rumor has it that the pretty one is the daughter of a senior Party official, and that if anything happens to her very bad things will follow. (Spread rumors and gossip, introduce green recruits)
� It’s someone’s name day, and Sergeant Kataeva has procured a large quanti-ty of alcohol. How many ways can this go wrong? The alcohol has been diverted from use in explosives (meaning the potential for dud bombs), it’s been adulter-ated and is way too potent, word of the party spreads out of control, somebody has to fly drunk, the list goes on. (Celebrate a name day, spread rumors and gossip)
� An official letter arrives for someone from home, bearing bad news - the person they write home to is dead, or captured, or missing, or imprisoned as appropriate. The very best way to deliver this news is in the form of Captain barsukova, who has opened and read the letter in advance. (Deliver very bad news from home)
Life during wartime
Dysfunction and disarray
NIGHT WITCHES: GIVEN NAMES � Evgeniya (Zhenya) � Galina (Galya) � Olga (Olya) � Alexandra (Sasha) � Yekaterina (Katya) � Elena (Lena) � Irina (Ira) � Elizaveta (Liza) � Lyudmila (Lyuda) � Svetlana (Sveta) � Natalya (Natasha) � Lyubov (Lyuba) � Yuliya (Yulya) � Tatyana (Tanya) � Ksenya (Ksyusha) � Valentina (Valya) � Mariya (Masha)
� Anastasiya (Nastya) � Sofia (Sonya) � Darya (Dasha) � Anna (Anka) � Larisa (Lara) � Tamara (Toma) � Yelena (Lena) � Oksana (Ksana) � Vera (Veruschka) � Nadezhda (Nadya) � Sofia (Sonya) � Marina � Polina (Polya) � Valeria (Lira) � Diana (Dina) � Alyona (Alya) � Nina (Ninochka)
Female names
Male names
Revolutionary names
� Boris (Boba, Borya) � Ivan (Vanya) � Sergey (Seryozha) � Nikolay (Kolya) � Aleksandr (Sasha) � Igor (Grisha) � Oleg (Olya) � Pyotr (Petya) � Vladimir (Vova) � Arkady (Arkasha) � Fyodor (Fedya) � Mikhail (Misha) � Yakov (Yasha) � Vasily (Vasya) � Timofei (Tima)
� Anatoly (Tolya) � Viacheslav (Slava) � Valentin (Valya) � Grigoriy (Grisha) � Ruslan (Rusya) � Stepan (Styopa) � Maksim (Maks) � Roman (Roma) � Vasily (Vasya) � Konstantin (Kostya) � Pavel (Pasha) � Leonid (Lyonya) � Yuri (Yura) � Lev (Lyova) � Dmitriy (Dima)
� Vladlen/Vladene (From “Vladimir Illyich Lenin”) � Mel (From “Marx, Engels, Lenin”) � Revmir/a (From “The Revolution of the World”) � Gertrude (“Hero of Labor”, Gueroi Trouda) � Marlen/e (From “Marx and Lenin”) � Kim (From “Youth Communist International”, Kommunistichesky Internatsional Molodyozhi) � Dazdrapertrak (From “Hail the First Tractor!”, Da zdravstvuet pervy traktor!) � Lagchmivara (From “Schmidt’s arctic encampment”, Laguer Chmidta v arktike) � Lenora (From “Lenin is our weapon”, Lenin - nache oroujie) � Rada (From “Democracy of the people”, rabotchaia demokratia)
NIGHT WITCHES: SURNAMES
Surnames
More information
A note on gender
� Unvarov/a � Shchepkin/a � Yubkin/a � Alexandrov/a � Ventseslav/a � Zavorokhin/a � Avdeyev/a � Yegorov/a � Kuznetsov/a � Petrov/a � Berezovsky/a � Zubov/a � Andreyev/a � Bobkov/a � Golovin/a � Yusupov/a � Trushin/a � Sheremetev/a � Vavilov/a � Zubarev/a � Isayev/a � Kazakov/a � Vyrpayev/a � Kurdin/a � Moskvin/a � Rudin/a � Samsonov/a � Batkin/a � Grishin/a � Usilov/a � Filipov/a � Khramov/a
� Tsvetkov/a � Chazov/a � Nemtsev/a � Lyugashov/a � Meladin/a � Dezhnyov/a � Yermolayev/a � Zhurov/a � Malinovsky/a � Gordievsky/a � Vorapaev/a � Kryukov/a � Stepnov/a � Toropov/a � Myasnikov/a � Primakov/a � Rezansov/a � Chernov/a � Shirmanov/a � Osin/a � Papanov/a � Pomelov/a � Kirsanov/a � Lavrov/a � Shmelev/a � Mirov/a � Fomenko/va � Maltsev/a � Burtsov/a � Stezhensky/a � Fedorov/a � Vasilievsky/a � Turbin/a
The surnames of Ivan Kuznetsov and his sister Anna Kuznetsova demonstrate their gender. The -a ending is feminine. Surnames are listed below in both forms.
Russian onomastics is more complex than these forms indicate. Night Witches con-sciously leaves out the patronymic, for example. If you want to learn more or be more accurate, the Wikipedia article is a good place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Slavic_naming_customs