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Good Luck You're on Your Good Luck You’re on your own Volume 2 Twilight 2000 V1, V2.2 and Twilight 2013 Fanzine Fan Canon for the Fans and by the Fans. Articles submitted by various authors, assembled and produced by David S. Adams All rights reserved by respective authors and artists for the original material submitted for the Fan Ezine by them. Some minor editing has been done as part of the assembly and Sampleproduction of the Fan Ezine. file `Page 2 Table of Contents Disclaimer The Twilight:2000 game in all forms is owned Introduction…………... Page 3 by Far Future Enterprises. Copyright 1981 - Written by David S. Adams 2020 Far Future Enterprises. Twilight:2000 is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises. Senegalese Tirailleurs …Page 4 Far Future permits web sites and fanzines for Written by David S. Adams this game, provided it contains this notice, that Far Future is notified, and subject to a withdrawal of permission on 90 days Royal Naval Party 67 …Page 7 notice. Written by James Langham The contents of this site are for personal, non- Unit Vignette …………Page 16 commercial use only. Any use of Far Future Written by Jason Weiser Enterprise’s copyrighted material or trademarks anywhere on this web site and its files should Cooking in Twilight not be viewed as a challenge to those copyrights or trademarks. 2000 …………………. Page 22 Written by David McIntyre In addition, any articles that make up this fanzine cannot be republished or distributed Irregular State Guard/ without the consent of the author who Militia Units …………. Page 26 contributed it. All content copyright belongs to contributing and attributed authors of each Written by Malcom Pipes individual article. All photos are copyright their respective owner. No infringement Red Dawn Fan Fic - intended. No rights are claimed by this The First Day ………. Page 29 publication, save for the title of the Written by Matt Wiser publication. “Good Luck, You’re On Your Own Volume 2” Naval Forces – fanzine is assembled by David S. Adams and is Part Two ………………Page 38 released free of charge and not for profit. Written by Matt Wiser Twilight 2013 Medical Supplement ……………Page 42 Written by Otso Ollikainen Twilight 2013 Apartment Clinic …………………. Page 45 Written by Neal Hyde Trap ……………………Page 48 Written by Joe Thomas Sample file Photo Credits/ Illustrations …………Page 52 `Page 3 Introduction under me, I realized just how many people still loved the game and were creating new fan works to keep the game alive. I read them and enjoyed I remember the first time that I played Twilight them a lot and then Grimace in 2012 only a few 2000 back in college. I had been playing months after I started being on the forum put out AD&D for years and was looking for new the first fanzine. I read thru it and found that the challenges and new games. I tried Aftermath game was alive and vital and far from dead. and Gamma World but never really managed to get that same spark, that same sense of I read what Matt and Raellus and Jason and enjoyment that I had playing my paladin, James and Peter and Cdnwolf had created and I Richard Olefin, from early in high school. And couldn’t wait for the next volume to come out. I then I heard that there was a GM getting waited and waited and then I decided that if together a new group playing something called others could write so could I. But instead of a Twilight 2000. I figured I would give it a try and fanzine I wrote about East Africa and Kenya and went in eyes open, hoping at least I would get an lo and behold in a couple of years there was my enjoyable few nights before I went on to the next piece of the fan canon. And then I decided to game. see if Marc Miller might be interested and rest was history. And now there are new published Instead what I found was a long campaign that Twilight 2000 modules and sourcebooks, an lasted the rest of my time in college, learning expanded canon and soon a new V4 version of how to survive in a devastated and fascinating the game. world, along with a group of newly found friends who came along for the ride with me. I am hoping that you will enjoy reading this We fought thru the Soviets at Kalisz, found the second volume of the fanzine as much as you Madonna and Reset and got all the way to enjoyed the first and that it won’t be seven years Warsaw and then to Bremerhaven and home and until the next volume comes out. I look forward on the way managed to break out a couple to your submissions and will work diligently to hundred of the men of the 5th and bring them and put the fanzine together as quickly as I can. my M1 tank all the way to that dock and back home to even more adventures, including So all the fans like me never gave up on the launching nukes at Ploesti and going to Europe game, whose love for it endured thru all the long and back on the Corpus Christi. And then years when Twilight 2000 seemed to be college came to an end – and with it the delegated to the dead games society I hope to campaign and my time with Twilight 2000. hear from you soon and be able to get the second issue together. I have several ideas of my own I tried to find others to start again but it never but this shouldn’t be Olefin’s Fanzine but came to anything. Over the years I moved on, instead be full of submissions from all of you. got married, raised a family and even managed to contribute to Bobby Hardenbrook’s Shattered David S. Adams World alternate history before he and I came to a Olefin parting of the ways. But I never thought about the game again until I walked into a used I would like to thank the authors who bookstore and found four Twilight 2000 contributed to this fanzine – James Langham, modules just sitting there. As I read thru the Jason Weiser, David McIntyre, Malcom Pipes, RDF and Going Home and The Free City of Matt Wiser, Otso Ollikainen, Neal Hyde and Joe Krakow it all came back again how much I had Thomas as well as Jason Lovering for his photo loved the game. I started to look to see if there contribution and of course Phil Hatfield was an online group or forum and I lucked into (Grimace) for his original fanzine that inspired the forum juhlin and started to get back into the this. Samplegame – and almost got kicked off the group right file off the bat in the process. But as I got my legs `Page 4 Senegalese Tirailleurs of artillery being equipped instead with 60 and 81mm mortars, as well as light and heavy Written by David S. Adams machine guns, recoilless rifles and AAT-52’s. The Senegalese Tirailleurs were a corps of Some of the regiments have been reinforced infantry that were part of the French Army from with light armor or gendarmerie companies as 1857 till 1964. Tirailleur, which translates needed depending on where they are deployed. roughly to skirmisher or rifleman, was the designation given by the French Army to With French military production being directed infantry recruited from their colonial to equip their combat forces many of the units possessions. The Senegalese Tirailleurs continued to retain the M16’s and other regiments played an important role in the French American weaponry they were issued as part of their original equipment for several years after war effort in both WWI and WWII losing tens of th thousands of men on the battlefields of Europe they were formed. The 15 Senegalese and Africa. Tirailleurs Regiment upon arrival in France was the first regiment to be completely rearmed with The French military, faced with a desperate need standard French Army equipment, including for manpower to meet expanding commitments small arms, machine guns, mortars and anti-tank in Africa and the Middle East and to replace missiles. losses from the fighting in the Netherlands and 1st Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment Germany, immediately moved to integrate the Senegalese armed forces as quickly as possible • Manpower: 1600 men into the French Army after Senegal joined the • Armor: twelve M3 VTT APC, ten M-3 Franco-Belgian Union in 1998. Instead of half tracks, ten AML-90 AC, six AML- adding them to existing units the French decided 60 AC to reach back into their honored past traditions • Vehicles: twenty-eight Toyota AWD, and reform the Tirailleur regiments. ten M151 Jeeps, six M35 gun trucks, three Mack prime movers The 15th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment was • Artillery: three M101A1 105 mm the first unit to be formed, consisting of the 1st howitzer, six M116 75 mm pack and 5th Infantry Battalions of the Senegalese howitzer Army. It was dispatched to France in November 1998 to join the III Corps. The success of the The 1st Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment, th 15 led the French to form up more Senegalese consisting of the 2nd and 4th Senegalese Army Tirailleurs Regiments as quickly as they could, Infantry Battalions along with a logistics expanding their recruitment base beyond company and a gendarmerie company, was Senegal to include troops from Mauritania when deployed to what was left of the Republic of it joined the Franco-Belgian Union in 2000.
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