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Hard as Steel Author: Eamon Honan System: GURPS Category: Horror Type: Scenario The future of the Reich looks grim, and yet are children not the future? Reared from their very early years to believe in the sanctity of their Fuhrer, the Youth are Germany's last line of defense as the war effort falls to pieces around them. Just how much loyalty do these children have? A GURPS scenario from Sillicon 3, this game contains some upsetting themes and is recommended for mature players only. Views: (7661) Comments: (7) Rating: 9.1 2001-04-24 10:56:04 [Add Comment] posted by Mandrax on 2001-05-08 07:07:02 Excellent scenario! It reminds one of movies like Stalingrad in it's treatment of the war seen from the German side. Only reason it doesn't get a 10 is that I don't much like GURPS :) I would probably run this using Call of Cthulhu or something similar. posted by James on 2001-05-10 07:24:12 I agree that it would be better served by CoC. Still an excellent scenario, though my players probably would.nt get into the characters. Would make a good film. posted by Jeff on 2001-06-10 01:08:24 Excellent scenario, characters are well plotted. I would want to run this with people I knew would roleplay it (i.e., really act like scared 14 year old kids), not try to hack and slash it. Incidentally, an acquanitance of mine who grew up in Berlin reocunted to me his father's recollections of the Soviet capture of Berlin. His father (just a boy in the Spring of 1945) recalled how after the Soviets took the city, for the first three days atrocities against civillians were limited - civillians were walking around and the Red Army's soldiers were initially more or less restrained in its treatment of civillians, a sort of tension had broken over the populace. This lasted for about three days, and then the raping, murdering and pillaging began en masse. This deplorable state of events then continued for quite some time, making the Soviets look very badly in comparison to US and British occupation forces. Additionally, this acquanitance argued that the Soviet soldiers who took the city were not properly trained or disciplined soldiers (richtig ausgebildet Soldaten) - all of _that_ cohort having been a casualty of the war, and that this might have contributed to their actions towards civillians in the field. This claim must also be weighed against credible reports that German soldiers treated the Soviets no better earlier on. What does this mean for this scenario? Well, the GM could remind the PCs through rumors that the Soviets never signed the Geneva Conventions, which governed the treatment of POWs as well as civillian populations. This same excuse was used as one justificaiton by NS Germany to treat Soviet POWs and civillians so despicably. Perhaps the PCs have heard of rumors of (or even seen) how Soviet POWs and forced labor were treated compared to other Allied POWs. Finally, Stalin is attributed with saying something along the lines of "Only the unborn Germans are innocent" as the Red Army reached the Geman border. If this were broadcast on radio airwaves, perhaps the PCs would have heard of this (though I don't know if this utterance was a public or private one). Nonetheless, that should help put the fear of god (tm) into the PCs. posted by Berg on 2005-04-06 13:48:30 An excellent scenario; - no doubt about that! I love the idea of playing kids, it really set many roleplaying aspects in prespective. Having said this i think the scenario could have been more playable by adding more charecter info. posted by paul on 2006-04-22 17:10:10 great stuff with the gurps worldbooks on ww2 the background is well thought out. it is a classic war is hell theme. using youngsters in germany provides an unusual and interesting setting posted by Oberoten on 2011-06-18 06:48:35 This one is a rare gem, a litteral tear-jerker. It is dark and haunting and I have almost without exceptions managed to have players in tears and still loving it every time I have run it. posted by Ben Naylor on 2013-05-24 05:05:58 Regarding the atrocities. In a book I read 'War in Europe' it explained that the fairer troups in the first 3 day were Russian combat vets and when the bulk of the troops from the rear turned up they commited the worse acts.