NW68 Rulebook
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Timeline 4 2.0 Components 6 2.1 The Map 6 2.2 The Counters 6 2.3 Unit Types 6 2.3.1 Commanding Officers 7 2.3.2 Infantry 8 2.3.2.1 Weapons 8 2.3.3 Armored Units 9 2.3.3.1 Tanks 9 2.3.3.2 APCs 9 2.3.3.3 Recon 10 2.3.3.4 SP Artillery 10 2.3.3.5 SP Anti-Aircraft 10 2.3.4 Air Units 11 2.3.4.1 Helicopters 11 2.3.4.2 Airplanes 12 2.4 Markers 13 2.4.1 Off-Board Artillery 13 2.5 Formations 14 3.0 Course Of Play 14 3.1 Actions Phase 14 3.2 Formation Impulse 15 3.3 Movement 15 3.3.1 Group Movement 15 3.3.2 Stacking 15 3.4 Events 15 3.5 Cleanup Phase 16 4.0 Terrain 16 4.1 Line Of Sight 16 4.2 Concealment 17 4.3 Control 17 5.0 Combat 17 5.1 Group Fire 18 5.2 Opportunity Fire 18 5.3 Moving Fire 18 5.4 Assault 18 5.5 Combat Results 19 6.0 Order Of Battle 19 7.0 Credits 19 8.0 Scenarios 21 Without water, food and electricity, the population's morale declines rapidly 1.0 TIMELINE while the army without a leader and no communications falls into disarray. Germany collapses. Radiation levels skyrocket. Armed guards are posted 1943 - Following the disaster at Stalingrad, a small Anti-Hitler group is on all major access routes into the former German territory and all land formed in Berlin around Oberstleutnant Claus von Stauffenberg. Between traffic is halted. The Zone thus formed is cut out from the rest of the world recruiting allies and dodging the Gestapo it takes some time and several and everyone inside is left to fend for himself against the nuclear holocaust. failed attempts until they finally manage to get close to their target. 1947 - January 2nd, unable to control the rioting or stop the waves of fleeing 1944 - July 20th, Adolf Hitler dies. Stauffenberg's plastic explosive device refugees, the Military starts looking for alternative solutions. Fearing a causes severe injuries to the Führer who dies later in the evening. Heinrich pandemic, the decision is made to build a wall and a series of automated Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, seizes power and takes control of the defenses around the Zone. The deadline for this titanic undertaking is set armed forces on all fronts. for early 1948. September, Atomic Bomb research breaths new life under Himmler's What seemed like an ephemeral European change in weather balance is personal supervision. The 1939 Uranmaschine project that stalled for the actually a radical global climate effect generated by the nuclear war. last two years now has the Party's full support and new funding is made Severely cold weather and reduced sunlight affect the flora and fauna all available to speed up the development. over the globe. Nuclear winter has begun. 1945 - Stalemate on the Eastern Front. The Abwehr receives information about Allied plans to Atom bomb Reich homeland targets. Himmler orders the construction of underground fallout shelters close to every major industrial city. 1946 - The Eastern front is stabilized and Himmler detaches enough forces to the Western front to push back the long awaited Anglo-American debarkation in France. The combined Wehrmacht-Waffen SS forces are so successful that the US president Truman decides to Atomic Bomb Germany into submission. April 7th, the Americans drop humanity's first Atom Bomb over Frankfurt. According to most estimates, the immediate effects of the blast killed approximately 60,000 people. April 18th, Himmler and the OKW staff descend into the vault built near Paderborn. Orders are sent to hand-picked elite units to disengage combat, pull out from the frontline and relocate to their pre-assigned underground camps. Operation Clausewitz is set in motion and, on April 21st, nuclear warhead equipped V-2s are launched against London and Paris. April 26th, the US reacts with waves of B-29s simultaneously dropping Atomic Bombs over Berlin, Hamburg, München and Düsseldorf. 1948 - March 19th, the building of the Nuclear Wall is completed. It's been 1960 - Environmental specialists estimate that the Nuclear Winter is quiet for the last few months; no one from the inside approached the nearing its end. Temperatures begin to rise a few degrees a year and the perimeter in the latter stages of the works and everybody thinks that there dust and ash clouds covering the Earth are starting to dissipate. The latest are no living souls left in the Zone. The corpses of those killed by bullets, photos from the Zone unveil a barren wasteland littered with debris and famine or the plague are left to rot piled up against the concrete blocks. Still, rubble of the past. Patches of dead vegetation and dried out toxic rivers dot life beyond the Wall follows its own course, far from the eyes of the civilized the sea of scorched land. world. 1968 - March 1st, an aging Himmler gives the order to emerge from the vaults. Unaware of the changes that took place on the surface, the Führer is determined to rebuild the Holy Roman Empire with the Wewelsburg castle transformed into the Zentrum der neuen Welt ("Center of the new world") following the final victory. Information about the re-emergence of the Reich's forces inside the Zone reaches the NATO headquarters in Brussels. It takes several weeks before several US-Russian expeditionary forces are created and sent to collect information about the enemy's composition and capabilities along with 1952 - The first major attempt to escape out of the Zone in years. Organized pertinent environmental conditions. bands simultaneously attack at night several Western Wall guard posts with grenades and machinegun fire. The attackers are repelled but the soldiers Oblivious of the climatic, technological and political changes inflicted by take heavy casualties. Some of them report the silhouettes continued more than 20 years of nuclear winter, the Wehrmacht is about to face the maneuvering even after taking multiple direct hits. Situation becomes even mysterious Black Hand, elusive, abhorrent masters of the wastes, and the stranger when, in the morning, no bodies are to be found at any of the combined might of the modern, highly mechanized and versatile NATO assaulted outposts. The High Command denies that the attacks ever took alliance. place. April 4th, the NATO alliance is established to deal with increased activity and potential danger stemming from inside the Zone. The treaty is signed in Washington by the United States, all the Western European countries and Russia. Doubts over the strength of the relationship between the United States and Russia ebbed and flowed, along with doubts over the credibility of the NATO defense against a prospective danger emerging from inside the Zone. 1955 - Low level recon flights over the Zone reveal shocking details. Human settlements are spotted close to the ruins of all the major German cities. There are large numbers of people still living inside the Zone, far beyond what any analyst could have predicted. Dramatic landscape changes scar the earth; nothing looks like the pre-war countryside used to look like. Shaken pilots talk about strange creatures roaming the desolate environment and an ominous feeling that someone, or something, was watching them the entire time. AP Firepower: Armor Piercing Firepower: this red number represents the 2.0 COMPONENTS number that will be added to the 2D6 roll result when attacking hard targets Nuklear Winter ‘68 (NW68) is a tactical platoon level simulation set in an (5.0). alternative universe where the Nazi regime survived the Second World War. The game contains a rulebook, a map, 352 counters and 15 campaign- HE Firepower: High Explosive Firepower: this yellow number represents linkable scenarios depicting the struggle for power around Wewelsburg in the number that will be added to the 2D6 roll result when attacking soft what was formerly Western Germany, now known as the Zone. Facing one targets (5.0). another are the surviving forces of Das Dritte Reich (the Third Reich), the NATO alliance and the obscure Black Hand. AA Firepower: Anti-Aircraft Firepower: This blue number represents the number that will be added to the 2D6 roll result when attacking helicopters Note: NW68 uses six-sided dice, abbreviated as D6. When the rules direct and planes (2.3.4.1 - 2.3.4.2). you to roll 2D6 you should toss two, six-sided dice. Range: This number represents the maximum distance in hexes a unit may 2.1 The Map fire with that weapon. A white number indicates that the weapon may be The 20x30 hexes map covers an area of about 14 km2 around Wewelsburg fired on the move, and at long range. A colored range factor indicates a in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Site of Himmler's planned Zentrum fixed-range weapon (no close or extended range modifiers) that may not der neuen Welt (Center Of the New World), the historical Wewelsburg castle fire on the move, attack airborne targets or be used in assaults. plays a central role in the conflict. Each turn represents 5-15 minutes, and each hex is approximately 150 meters from hexside to hexside. The terms Armor: The armor factor of the unit. Yellow identifies the soft units, red ones map, board, game map, and game board are used interchangeably are hard targets while the blue represents air units. This is the number the throughout the rules.