"Back when everything went to hell around Kalisz, I hooked up with this group of guys - two Americans, a Brit, and a German. They were the leanest, meanest bunch of soandso's I'd ever run into. Special Forces. The doodoo was flying, and they let me run with them for a couple of days. Once, at a surprise roadblock near Chodziez, my knowledge of Polish bailed our butts out of the fire. Because of that, and the fact that I'm in almost decent enough shape that I don't hold them back too much - I used to run 10K's back in the world - they let me stay with their group. "I said they were all Special Forces. To me that had always meant a bunch of Rambos, guys who could take on tank divisions singlehanded and if they got their leg blown off, sew it back on themselves. "Since I've been running with them, I've learned different. They're just regular guys, except that where I used to devote my life to being the best marketing analyst in Minneapolis, they devoted theirs to being the best soldiers in town. They're pure Warriors, in the old sense of the termthey're total professionals. "But none of them are exactly the same, you know? Just as no two Twilight Characters are identical, neither are any two nations the same. In the second edition of Twilight 2000, most of the world's "Special Forces" are considered the equivalents of one of three American special operations forcesthe Rangers, the Special Forces, and the Navy's SEALS. But there are a lot of nations on earth, and each one has different traditions, and different ways of conducting their affairs. Their militaries have different missions, and so do their special forces units. Different special units have diverse purposes, which require very different types of Twilight characters to simulate them. For example, a US Army Ranger, whose mission involves attacking and destroying important enemy installations and positions, is a very different character than the Dutch Recon trooper, whose job involves scouting around far behind enemy lines as part of a small, selfsufficient team, avoiding any contact with the enemy, reporting what he finds to his corps' intelligence section. GENERATING A CHARACTER There are three steps to generating a Special Forces character using this booklet: 1) Figure out what unit and nation the character will be from. 2) Consult that nation's list in the "Nationalities" chapter. It will tell you which of the tables in this chapter to use, and how to modify the table's results for that particular unit. There are seven tables: |
