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Frozen Hell, Pyramid, and Map of Finland FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING PUBLISHED MARCH 2003 9!BMF@JA:RSURXQoYjZ\Z\ZdZjISBN 1-55634-639-5 Printed in SJG01195 8008 the USA FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING PUBLISHED MARCH 2003 9!BMF@JA:RSURXQoYjZ\Z\ZdZjISBN 1-55634-639-5 Printed in SJG01195 8008 the USA Edited and GURPS System Design Steve Jackson Illustrated by Managing Editor Andrew Hackard Gene Seabolt GURPS Line Editor Sean Punch GURPS WWII Line Editor Gene Seabolt Project Administrator Monique Chapman Additional Material by Design and Production Gene Seabolt Michele Armellini, Garrett Roberts, Print Buyer Monica Stephens Joel Sammallahti, GURPS Errata Coordinator Andy Vetromile Antti Vähä-Sipilä, and Sales Manager Ross Jepson Hans-Christian Vortisch Playtesters: Panu Alku, Douglas Cole, J.C. Connors, Brandon Cope, Peter Dell’Orto, David Evans, CONTENTS Antti Heikkilä, Sami Hyypiä, Phil Masters, Mikko Särelä, and the Pyramid community. Introduction . 2 GURPS, Warehouse 23, and the all-seeing pyramid are registered trademarks of 1. Finland at War . 3 Steve Jackson Games Incorporated. GURPS WWII: Frozen Hell, Pyramid, and Map of Finland . 7 the names of all products published by Steve Jackson Games Incorporated are registered trademarks or trademarks of Steve Jackson Games Incorporated, or 2. The Finns . 24 used under license. 3. Finnish Characters . 28 GURPS WWII: Frozen Hell is copyright © 2003 by Steve Jackson Games 4. Finn Armoury . 32 Incorporated. All rights reserved. Printed in the USA. Some art based on Weapon Table . 35 photographs copyright www.arttoday.com and other sources. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any 5. Finnish Campaigning . 42 other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal, and punishable by References and Index . 48 law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. ISBN 1-55634-639-5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 STEVE JACKSON GAMES ABOUT GURPS INTRODUCTION Steve Jackson Games is committed to full On Nov. 30, 1939, the Soviet Union – an support of the GURPS system. Our address is industrialized colossus of more than 200 million SJ Games, Box 18957, Austin, TX 78760. with the world’s largest, most mechanized army – Please include a self-addressed, stamped launched an assault on Finland, a rural democracy envelope (SASE) any time you write us! of 3.4 million whose poorly armed defense forces Resources include: numbered about 400,000. History affords few Pyramid (www.sjgames.com/pyramid/). examples of a conflict so one-sided. Our online magazine includes new GURPS Geography motivated Stalin. The Finnish bor- rules and articles. It also covers Dungeons der was only 25-33 miles from Leningrad. Finland and Dragons, Traveller, World of Darkness, steadfastly proclaimed “neutrality,” but the Soviets Call of Cthulhu, and many more top games – thought that eventually the Germans or Allies and other Steve Jackson Games releases like In Nomine, Illuminati, Car Wars, Toon, Ogre would not allow Finland to remain neutral. Miniatures, and more. Pyramid subscribers Anticipating only “token resistance,” the Sovi- also have access to playtest files online! ets put together an inept operational plan. (They New supplements and adventures. GURPS did not think to paint their tanks white before hurl- continues to grow, and we’ll be happy to let ing them into a snow-covered theater!) Their you know what’s new. For a current catalog, attack, however, was big, the idea being that the send us a legal-sized or 9”×12” SASE – please sheer size would awe Finland into quick surrender. use two stamps! – or just visit www.ware- Numerical “odds” don’t always foretell the house23.com. outcome. Inspired leadership, brilliant low-level Errata. Everyone makes mistakes, includ- tactics, and the ordinary Finnish soldier’s courage ing us – but we do our best to fix our errors. blunted the ponderous Red Army offensive. The Up-to-date errata sheets for all GURPS releas- main thrust on the Karelian Isthmus was stopped es, including this book, are available on our cold within weeks, and several Soviet secondary website – see below. attacks had been destroyed by counterattacks. Gamer input. We value your comments, In time, the Red Army regrouped and over- for new products as well as updated printings whelmed the Finns by sheer weight of numbers of existing titles! Internet. Visit us on the World Wide Web and firepower, but the Allied public – bored during at www.sjgames.com for errata, updates, this “Phony War” period on mainland Europe – Q&A, and much more. GURPS has its own was electrified by the Finns’ courage and martial Usenet group, too: rec.games.frp.gurps. prowess. Meanwhile, the Allied governments did GURPSnet. This e-mail list hosts much of little to bolster “brave little Finland” militarily. the online discussion of GURPS. To join, Stalin finally got his land, but the victory was e-mail [email protected] with “subscribe expensive: some 250,000 men killed or missing, GURPSnet-L” in the body, or point your web frozen to death in the trackless forests. The Finns browser to gurpsnet.sjgames.com. destroyed or captured more than 900 tanks. One The GURPS WWII: Frozen Hell web Soviet general remarked, “We have won just about page is at www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/ enough ground to bury our dead . .” ww2/frozenhell/. – William R. Trotter, author of Page References A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-40 Rules and statistics in this book are specif- ically for the GURPS Basic Set, Third Edi- About the Author tion. Any page reference that begins with a B refers to the GURPS Basic Set – e.g., Hunter Johnson has worked on GURPS p. B102 means p. 102 of the GURPS Basic Japan, Bestiary, and Monsters, and provides offi- Set, Third Edition. Page references that begin cial support for Knightmare Chess. Besides writ- with CI indicate GURPS Compendium I. ing, revising, and compiling, he also edits (Another Others are HT to High-Tech, W to WWII, Fine Mess from Grey Ghost Games), reviews (for W:HS to WWII: Hand of Steel, W:IC to Moves and Fire & Movement from Decision WWII: Iron Cross, and W:RH to WWII: Games), translates (for Mayfair Games), designs Return to Honor. The abbreviation for this (gToons for White Wolf and CartoonNetwork.com), book is W:FH. For a full list of abbreviations, and monkeys (for Cheapass Games and Mayfair see p. CI181 or visit the updated web list at Games). He occasionally plays games, too. You can www.sjgames.com/gurps/abbrevs.html. find him on the web at www.hunterandlori.com. 2 INTRODUCTION FINLAND AT WAR 7 FINNISH RANKS MR Finnish Army Finnish Air Force Finnish Navy 8 Marsalkka – – 8 Kenraali (kenr) – – 8 Kenraaliluutnantti (kenrl) – Amiraali 7 Kenraalimajuri (kenrm) – Vara-Amiraali 7 – – Kontra-Amiraali 6 Eversti (ev) Eversti Komentaja, Kommodori 5 Everstiluutnantti (evl) Everstiluutnantti Komentajakapteeni 4 Majuri (maj) Majuri Kapteeniluutnantti 4 Kapteeni (kapt)† Kapteeni Luutnatti 3 Luutnantti (ltn) Luutnantti Aliluutnantti 3 Vänrikki (vänr)† Vänrikki Reservialiluutnantti 2 Vääpeli (vääp) Vääpeli Pursimies 2 Ylikersantti (ylik) Ylikersantti Ylikersantti 1 Kersantti (kers) Kersantti Kersantti 1 Alikersantti (alik) Alikersantti Alikersantti 1 Korpraali (korpr) – Ylimatruusi 0 Sotamies* (stm) – Matruusi * In Finnish service, soldiers who could have been lumped together as privates were given separate rank names depending on their duty. A sotamies was a rifleman while a jääkäri (jääk) was a rifleman or jäger often mounted on a bicycle. A gunner was a tykkimies (tkm); an engineer was a pioneeri (pion); a sig- nalman was a viestimies (vm); a dragoon was a rakuuna (rak); and a cavalryman was a ratsumies (ratsum). † In the cavalry, a second lieutenant was a kornetti (korn) rather than a vänrikki and a captain was a ratsumestari (ratsmest) rather than a kapteeni. ADVANTAGES, DISADVANTAGES, AND SKILLS See pp. W62-66 for a more comprehensive armies. But the more nearly universal disadvan- discussion. The following elaborates on particular tage was a Sense of Duty (Finland) [-10]. Soldiers facets of Finnish service. fought in the face of such overwhelming odds not necessarily because they thought that Finland was ADVANTAGES right in every situation, but because they thought that Finland had a right to exist and that right was Wealth see p. W63 being challenged. Much of their conduct in battle also could be Finns use the Wealth rules as described, with- attributed to a strong Sense of Duty (Comrades) out modification for nationality. [-5], as well. A German veteran described one inci- dent where an overwhelming Soviet force hiding in DISADVANTAGES nearby woods tortured a Finn captive to provoke the combined Finn and German force in which he Code of Honor see p. W184 had served. Even as they listened to the prisoner’s agonized screams, the Germans would not have Any Code of Honor (Finnish) overlaps con- even considered going to his rescue, given that any siderably with Sense of Duty (see below). The “rescuers” almost certainly would be killed or join GM should not allow both, unless the Code brings the captive. The Finns in the group quietly put on weighty new restrictions to conduct. their weapons and disappeared into the woods – Sense of Duty see p. B39 they could not even consider not going. A Finn soldier may possess both sorts of In the Finnish wars of WWII, Fanaticism Sense of Duty at the same time – for however (Patriotism) often was attributed to the Finns, and long he manages to survive them . it was certainly no less common than in other FINNISH CHARACTERS 29 More than in most armies, the idea of a “stan- weapon they could find.
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