Platoon Forward
Platoon Forward is a campaign framework from Two Fat Lardies which adds a campaign texture to sessions of your favourite tactical ruleset. Unlike some other campaign rulesets, it does not set out to create a whole, extensive higher-level meta-game that is played out in some labourious fashion between tactical sessions. Instead, Platoon Forward simply aims to, with some basic tables and some die rolling, to provide a bit of context to the battles using the tactical ruleset. This serves to add colour to the tactical battles and produce some interesting scenario ideas. Platoon Forward also supports solo play and one-sided play so the enemy forces can almost run themselves.
However, Platoon Forward is written to work with platoon-sized elements (although it is adaptable allegedly from squads to companies; we will see if that claim bears out!) and assumes a context of a full-fledged war (particularly the Second World War) in a terrestrial environment. To use this sort of tool in a science-fiction environment, one needs to support more sorts of terrain types, possibly more sorts of unit types, and at the very least map the unit types for future conflicts into the terms used in Platoon Forward. There may be mission types that don't make as much sense or ones that should be added for the scifi environment as well.
Step I: Unit Generation
Table 4: Combat Leadership
|
D6 |
Squad Leader |
Platoon Leader or Sgt |
Company Leader or Sgt |
|
1 |
LDR-3 |
LDR-3 |
LDR-2 |
|
2 |
LDR-3 |
LDR-2 |
LDR-2 |
|
3 |
LDR-2 |
LDR-2 |
LDR-2 |
|
4 |
LDR-2 |
LDR-2 |
LDR-1 |
|
5 |
LDR-2 |
LDR-1 |
LDR-1 |
|
6 |
LDR-1 |
LDR-1 |
LDR-1 |
Table 4B: Element Quality
|
D6 |
Quality |
|
1 |
GREEN (D6) |
|
2 |
GREEN (D6) |
|
3 |
REGULAR (D8) |
|
4 |
REGULAR (D8) |
|
5 |
REGULAR (D8) |
|
6 |
VETERAN (D10) |
Step II: Mission
Table 6: Attacker/Defender
|
D6 |
NAC is.. |
|
0 |
DEFENDER |
|
1 |
DEFENDER |
|
2 |
DEFENDER |
|
3 |
DEFENDER |
|
4 |
ATTACKER |
|
5 |
ATTACKER |
|
6 |
ATTACKER |
|
7 |
ATTACKER |
|
Mods |
-1 for 2145-2147, 2155
+1 for 2148-2149, 2156 |
Table 7: Allies and Enemies
|
D6 |
Primary Enemy |
Secondary Enemy |
Allied Forces |
Mercenaries |
|
1 |
Eurasian Solar Union |
Mercenaries |
Mercenaries |
Islamic Federation |
|
2 |
Eurasian Solar Union |
Mercenaries |
Mercenaries |
Saeed Khalifate |
|
3 |
Eurasian Solar Union |
Federal Stat Europa |
Mercenaries |
Dutch Kingdom |
|
4 |
Federal Stats Europa |
Pan African Union |
Romanov Hegemony |
Swiss |
|
5 |
Pan African Union |
Eurasian Solar Union |
Neu Swabian League |
Indonesian |
|
6 |
Reroll Primary, Roll Secondary |
Eurasian Solar Union |
Neu Swabian League |
Corporate |
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