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��DELTA*GREEN - ACROSS*THE*FENCE A 1968-1975 DELTA*GREEN CAMPAIGN Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos Operations, 1968-1975 "A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil." "How to Tell a True War Story", in "The Things They Carried" Published by arrangement with the Delta Green Partnership. The intellectual property known as Delta Green is TM and �the Delta Green Partnership, who has licensed its use here. The contents of this document are �Davide & Alessandro Mana, excepting those elements that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property. INTRODUCTION The lack of detailed informations about Delta Green activities in the South-Eastern Asian Theatre of Operations, between 1963 and 1978, has been lamented by many on a number of occasions. While previously released data can give a hint of the kind of odds the men and women of Delta Green faced during the Viet-Nam conflict, no definitive collection has so far been released covering those 15 years. The present document, aimed at Case Officers interested in the 60s/70s history of the Organization, offers resources, opinions and assorted odds and ends to facilitate the recontruction of some, if not all, of those almost forgotten ops. For the time being, we will concentrate on the crucial events between 1968 and 1973, and on operations STARDUST, SNOW WHITE and BEACON in particular. We hope we'll be able to add further data in the future. REGULATIONS Superficial observation might lead some to dismiss DG-ATF as basically Delta Green with bigger ordnance and no need to keep it undercover. This is a simplistic view, as the act of selecting and equipping a field operative should amply show. Enlistment The Care and Feeding of a)Ask the players to Wartime draw a civilian character, using the Characters rules you prefer; the lower age limit is 19. A DG op across the An upper limit of 30 fence is likely to should work with most pull together a number characters. This done, of characters coming enlist them. from a wide range of In this first phase, bacgrounds. DG Basic Training provides operatives are likely 40 points, distributed to be supplemented between Rifle, Climb, with enlisted support, Jump, Dodge. Throw, civilian and local plus any corps consultants, as an specialty. alternative to later b) Determine years "friendlies". destination corps, number of tours of duty taken and resulting DG Operatives - experience. created as per DG Main Destinantion should be Rulesbook, allowing chosen depending on for differences due to Attribute Levels and different time- Field of Expertise, not frame.Suggested forgetting that there templates include are three ways of doing things - the right, the " Any US Armed wrong and the Army's. Forces The number of tours of Intelligence duty can be randomly determined on a d6 or Agency decided depending on " CIA the age of the character (CO Option). Note that CIA agents Each tour of duty gives were usually posing as the character 50 points Civilian contractors. to be distributed between: Rifle, Survival, Sneak, Track, Enlisted Characters - Throw, Pidgin*, plus may come form any walk any specialist skill. of life, and might be Each tour of duty also valued for their causes the loss of 1d4 civilian expertise, Sanity points due to for their war shock. experience or for both. Guidelines for (*) indicates a adding war experience setting-specific skill to enlisted characters explained in the main are given in the sidebar. text below. Civilian & Local Consultants - as per basic Call of Cthulhu rules, allowing for time- frame modifications. Women in DG-ATF Guides and translators are the Suggested Military obvious choices, Carreers but given the interests of DG, " Photojournalist other academical " Clerk classes might be " Typist involved. " Intelligence Officer " Translator Female Characters " Flight Controller - a number of ways " Band leader can be devised to introduce one or more female Suggested civilian characters in the carreers team. Despite what is generally " Montagnard guides believed, the US " Photojournalist Forces did train " French-stock gentry and deploy a number " Bored staff-member of women in wives Vietnam, many under " Camp followers and the WAC programme. adventuresses All women in the " Political activists US forces received " Local academical the basic training support like their male " Russian or Chinese counterparts (see agents sidebar), but were not issued weapons. Civilian carreers are also available. Possibilities are illustreted in the sidebar. Special Rules Optionals The '60s/'70s setting and the war zone setting of GD-ATF require some minor but essential adjustements of the Civilian Characters Generation: the character sheet. introduction of War Experience (above) can unbalance skill levels between Military and Civilian characters. To These being the days before the sidestep this problem, try and use the explosion of the home computer, following. Computer Use and Electronics are highly specific and rarely found skills. Point allocation to these is regulated by the Attributes are rolled as usual. After choosing a profession, the player is CO on a case by case basis. allotted a number of 'point parcels' to spend raising skill levels The Survival skill is illustrated in the Delta Green Countdown handbook, and " one 60 points raise is automatically acquired by any armed " two 50 points raises forces character spending one tour of " three 40 points raises duty abroad. " four 30 points raises " five 20 point raises The Pidgin (05%) skill is specific to " six 10 point raises this setting, and is equally acquired " seven 5 point raises by spending time in the area of operations; this skill allows the Characters with EDU or INT 18 or above character to use a mix of English, French and Vietnamese to communicate get a supplemental 70 points raise. with local characters. Only a single raise can be added to a skill base level to get the final Zen (00%), as published by The value. Unspeakable Oath issue 6, can be used to forestall Sanity loss or to restore lost sanity; point allocation to this No stacking allowed. skill is under CO fiat. Skill progression: we strongly recommend the adoption of the Sanity following Tapering Increase Rule (as suggested by Austin Chambers): Characters exposed to the hardships of war in the bush are supposedly hardened Skills < 50% : Gain is +1d10 by the experience, taking in stride Skills 51-75% : Gain is +1d6 events that would have shocked them Skills 76-90% : Gain is +1d4 senseless in civilian life. Skills > 91% : Gain is 1% To simulate this psichological This rule, apart from being more hardening, the witnessing of shocking realistic, causes a slow down of but mundane events (brutal deaths, character growth that might turn evidences of torture etc) cause the useful in those cases in which ATF loss of a single sanity point in case characters are to be reintroduced in of failure of the San Roll. '90s DG games. General Equipment Worn: wristwatch, dogtags, steel helmet with camo cover, jungle boots, flak jacket, waterproof canvas poncho Carried: P38 can opener, penknife, Equipment mosquito-bite lotion, cigarettes, matches, sewing kit, Dr Scholl's foot powder, condoms, one large gauze The sidebar contains an extensive (and patch, toilet paper, writing paper and possibly over-extensive) but certainly pencils, Sterno field fuel in cans, not exaustive listing of carried safety pins, signal rockets, wire, material according to Tim O'Brien's razorblades, machete, sun hat, "The Things They Carried". nailcutters Victuals: chewing gum, candies, C It could be a good idea to provide rations, 2 or 3 water canteens characters about to enter the combat Weapons: M60 or M16 + 12/20 zone with such a listing, with magazines, M79 grenade launcher + 25 quantities indicated clearly, grenades, Claymore anti-personnel specifying that the list includes all landmine (1 in 3 soldiers), M18 smoke the stuff characters are likely to get bomb, Fragmentation grenades, any non- and asking them to keep a strict count standard equipment. of fired shots, consumed rations etc. Specifics The dwindling of rations and ammunitions, the progressive wear of the kit, the waning of the medical Squad Leader: compass, maps, code resources grant an added stress factor books, binoculars, Colt 45, signal to the horror of an Across the Fence lamp Radio operator: PRC25 Radio and Operation. battery or PRC77 Radio with battery and encryption system Applying strict encumberance rules Medical officer - a canvas bag could also be a good idea. containing morphine, blood packs, malaria tablets, band aids, M&M chocolates etc Demolitions: Pentrite explosives (2 kgs each), wirings, detonators, triggers OPERATIONS It's late 1968. We're about to put a man on the moon, but there are still dark corners of our planet in which Evil lurks, laughing at our petty squabbles and waiting to prey on human hearts. Welcome to the story of a very long Night at the Opera. Operation:STARDUST Operation:SNOW WHITE Operation:BEACON LOGISTICS Here is a short rundown of the material that the Case Officer might like to have handy while preparing and running an op across the fence, plus suggestions to help him deepening the background. More resources can be found in the Links section of the Miscellaneous chapter. Call of Cthulhu RPG Handbook - essential reference Call of Cthulhu - No Man's Land - good wartime adventure, useful condensed tables and special sanity and encumberance rules Gaming Delta Green Handbook - essential reference, timelines Material Delta Green, Countdown - more essential reference, details on Tiger Transit The Unspeakable Oath, issue 6 - hard to find but useful, includes many optional skills and rules various - Delta Green, Alien Intelligence John Tynes, Delta Green, Rules of Engagement Philip Caputo - DelCorso's Gallery Robert Stone - Dog Soldiers Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried Philip Caputo - A Rumour of War Michael Herr - Dispatches Further Robert Mason - Chickenhawk Readings Tom Mangold, John Penycate - The Tunnels of Cu Chi Neil Sheenan - A Bright Shining Lie Paul Dickson - Slang!, Topic-by-topic dictionary of contemporary American lingoes Dave Farnell - The Tiger Mark McFadden - Forrest Lawn Vietnam, A Visual Investigation CD-ROM, Medio The Time Almanac of the 20th Century CD-ROM Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, CD-ROM Other Media World Travel Guide CD-ROM Blockbuster Entertainment Guide to Movies and Videos, 2nd Ed. 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