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

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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 …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

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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

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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. , 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 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 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. By Guinea in early 1999 in order to conduct relief the spring of 2001 there were Senegalese and security operations to try to restore order in Tirailleurs regiments and battalions deployed what was left of the country. Soon after it throughout the French sphere of influence in arrived it was clear that it needed additional Africa and Europe with others being formed up support and it was reinforced by the 22nd throughout the Franco-Belgian Union in Africa. Reconnaissance Battalion and another gendarmerie company. A Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment typically consists of two infantry battalions along with a The Republic of Guinea is in total chaos, with headquarters and logistics company. They are no functioning government or military and organized as light foot infantry units trained for refugees fleeing civil wars in Guinea-Bissau and patrol and security operations in order to free up Sierra Leone fighting over what food is still SampleFrench troops for combat operations. The being produced. The regiment file has been involved regiments typically do not have much in the way in almost constant fighting since it arrived

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against bandit and marauder forces, some of sides, with the Senegalese losing nearly forty which include surviving Soviet sailors, airmen men killed or wounded in the process of driving and infantry that escaped from the nuclear off the LRA and its allies. The 6th has been in strikes on Conakry, as well as forces from over a dozen small and large firefights since Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone. The French then and the French are preparing to send want to add the Republic of Guinea and the additional troops to back up the 6th and drive the Ivory Coast to their new Franco-Belgian Union LRA and its allies out of the Central African but after two years of fighting very little Republic. progress has been made in stabilizing either country. 10th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment

6th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment • Manpower: 1200 men • Armor: ten M8 Armored Cars, three • Manpower: 900 men V150 Cadillac Gage Commando APC • Vehicles: sixteen Toyota AWD, eight • Vehicles: fourteen Toyota AWD, six M151, four M35 gun trucks M151, six Land Rovers

The 6th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment consists The 10th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment of two new light infantry battalions raised since consists of the 3rd and 6th Senegal Infantry Senegal joined the Union including Battalions, an armored car company from the gendarmerie, reservists and draftees with NCO’s 23rd Reconnaissance Battalion and logistics and and officers added from the 12th Senegal engineering companies. The regiment was the Training Battalion. It was initially deployed to third one formed, deployed initially to Cameroon along with units from the RDF to Cameroon as part of French efforts to restore the assist what was left of the Cameroonian Army in Limbe Refinery. protecting their oil fields from Nigerian marauders. They guarded French technicians In late 2000 they were sent to Gabon to join the who were making repairs to the Limbe Refinery 6th Marine Infantry Battalion and surviving which had been off-line since 1998 due to Gabonese Army units in fighting rebels and broken down machinery. marauders spilling out from what was left of the Republic of the Congo, whose civil war was They were re-deployed to the Central African entering into its fourth year. While one battalion Republic when its armed forces mutinied against is in Libreville, the rest of the regiment is the government to link up with the remaining providing security for French technical experts loyal forces and try to restore order. When they that were restarting oil production at the Sogara arrived at Bangui airport, they found that the Refinery at Port Gentil. “remaining loyal forces” amounted to less than 200 men dug in around the Presidential Palace in 15th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment Bangui. Two Senegalese gendarmerie companies were dispatched to garrison Bangui • Manpower: 800 men while the 6th began to restore order to the rest of • Vehicles: twenty ACMAT VLRA the country. • Artillery: eight 81mm mortars

Before long they ran into the lead units of a The 15th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment was force of some six hundred LRA guerrillas and the first of the regiments to be formed, being almost fifteen hundred Congolese marauders and dispatched to France to join the III Corps to mutinous CAR soldiers that had joined forces to assist in their securing the area north of the take over the provinces of Mbomou and Haut- Mosel and west of the Rhine, trading their M16 Mbomou. The initial battle at Sibut in Kemo rifles for FAMAS bullpup rifles when they Sampleprovince with a force of fifty LRA guerrillas and arrived. They are responsible file for conducting a hundred ex-CAR soldiers was bloody for both patrols in the Dead Zone, fighting marauders

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and bandits as well as German and Dutch Army Other Senegalese Units regulars ever since they arrived, taking considerable casualties in the process. 1st Senegalese Parachute Regiment

The patrols usually consist of three ten-man • Manpower: 600 men squads, a machine gun squad and an AT section, • Vehicles: eight Toyota AWD, ten P4 totaling forty men. This is usually more than Jeeps, ten M151 enough to deal with typical encounters as well as random refugee groups trying to get to France In addition to the Senegalese Tirailleurs thru the Dead Zone. However, if a threat is regiments Senegal has also provided a force of deemed to be significant the patrol will dig in paratroopers, the 1st Senegalese Parachute and await reinforcements. Some five hundred Regiment. This regiment was formed from new recruits from Mauritania and Senegal are combining the old Senegalese Army Parachute scheduled to arrive in late July to bring them Battalion with the two Presidential Guard back up to strength. squadrons as well as new recruits. It was deployed in 1999 to join the French 11th 4th Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment Airborne Division at Al Qatif in Saudi Arabia

• Manpower: 1200 men 1st Senegalese Spahis Regiment • Armor: ten Saladin AC, five Saracen (1er Régiment de Spahis Sénégalais) APC • Manpower: 900 men • Vehicles: fourteen Toyota AWD, ten P4 • Armor: twelve M3 VTT APC, six VXB- Jeeps, fourteen Land Rovers, six M35 170 APC, eleven AML-90 AC, eight gun trucks AML-60 AC

th • Vehicles: eight Toyota AWD, twelve The 4 was formed in June 2000 when M151, ten Land Rovers, one hundred Mauritania joined the Franco-Belgian Union twenty motorcycles from Mauritanian Army soldiers that were from several West African ethnic groups. It consists The 1st Senegalese Spahis Regiment was formed of the 20th and 21st Senegalese Tirailleurs in 1999 from the Presidential Guard of the battalions as well as logistics and headquarters Senegalese Gendarmerie. Also called the Red troops and a Senegalese gendarmerie company. Guard of Dakar, it was descended from a French colonial Spahi detachment sent to Senegal in The 20th Battalion was ordered to Liberia along 1845. The Regiment includes the Mounted and with an attached French Army supply and Motorcycle Squadrons of the Presidential Guard logistics company in January 2001. Their and the 24th Reconnaissance Battalion. primary assignment is to protect and operate the port facilities as well as escorting the supply The 1st Battalion consists of three 120-man convoys to the Omega Transmitter and the squadrons that used to make up the Escort and American forces dug in around it. Service Squadron Group, including one of mounted cavalry, one motorcycle borne and one The 21st Battalion, along with the rest of the support and logistics. The 2nd Battalion is the old regiment was dispatched in February 2001 to Senegalese Army 24th Reconnaissance Battalion. reinforce the French 43rd Marine Infantry Battalion in Abidjan which has been trying to re- The 1st has been heavily engaged in fighting establish order in the Ivory Coast ever since the Soviet backed rebels in the Casamance region as December 1997 nuclear attack on the Abidjan well with marauders crossing from Guinea- Refinery and the subsequent riots and disorders Bissau since the unit was stood up in early 1999. Sampleled to the collapse of the government there in The cavalry squadron is trainedfile and equipped to early 1998. fight from horseback as true cavalry.