EASTERN ARMY BASIC TRAINING

Prerequisites: None

Basic Training Skills:

Armed Martial Arts: 1

Autogun: 1

Grenade Launcher: 1

Small Arms (Rifle): 1

Swimming: 1

Tac Missile: 1

Thrown Weapon: 1

 

Czechoslovakia, Poland, Former Soviet Republics, North Korea, Poland, Romania -- Language: 4

Finland -- Language: 4, Snow Skiing: 2

Former Yugoslavian Republics -- Language: 8

Special: Characters with Intelligence and Education of 7+ may enter Officer Candidate School. If so, they receive a level 1 Leadership skill, and are commissioned at the end of basic training at the grade of O1. OCS may be taken at any time before the character reaches E8.

ALBANIA

Careers: All careers are the same as US except for the following:

1) There is no mountain infantry, but Climbing should be added to the subsequent term skill list for infantry.

2) There are no Airborne Infantry, Ranger, Special Forces, Special Operations, Naval Aviator, SEAL, or any Marine careers.

3) Add Heavy Gun skill to the subsequent term skill listings for Infantry and Artillery careers.

 

BULGARIA

Careers: All careers are the same as western careers except for the following:

1) There are no Rangers, Special Forces, Special Operations, Naval Aviator, or any Marine careers.

2) Add Heavy Gun skill to the subsequent term skill listings for Infantry and Artillery careers.

 

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Careers: All careers are the same as western careers except for the following:

1) Infantry are called Motor Rifles.

2) All Airborne troops are from the 22nd Airborne Regiment. Special Forces are from the Special Battalion of the 22nd Airborne Regiment, and are developed as per Spetsnaz.

3) There are no equivalents to Mountain Infantry, Rangers, Special Operations, or any Marine careers.

4) The Navy is a small riverine patrol force on the Danube River. There are no Naval Aviators, SEALS, or Pararescue.

5) Add Heavy Gun skill to the subsequent term skill listings of the Infantry and Artillery careers.

 

FINLAND

Careers: All careers are the same as western careers except for the following:

1) Rangers are called Sissi, and add Snow Skiing: 2 to their first term skills.

2) The equivalent to Force Recon are the Marine Commandos.

3) There are no Mountain, Airborne, Special Forces, Special Operations, Scout/Sniper, Naval Aviators, SEALS, Marine Infantry, or Marine Scout/Sniper careers.

 

FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

Careers: Same as western careers, except for the following:

1) Airborne troops are called Paratroopers.

2) Marine Infantry are called Naval Infantry.

3) There are no equivalents to Rangers, Special Forces, Special Operations, Pararescue, Naval Aviators, SEAL, Marine Force Recon, or Scout/Sniper careers.

4) Add Heavy Gun to the subsequent term skills for the Infantry and Artillery careers.

 

HUNGARY

Careers: All careers are the same as western careers except for the following:

1) The Navy is a small riverine patrol force on the Danube River. There are no Naval Aviator, Pararescue, or SEAL careers.

2) There are no equivalents to Mountain Infantry, Ranger, Special Forces, Special Operations, or any Marine careers.

3) Add Heavy Gun skill to the subsequent term skill listings of the Infantry and Artillery careers.

 

LITHUANIA

Careers: All careers are the same as western careers, except for the following:

1) Marine infantry are called Naval Infantry.

2) There are no Airborne, Mountain Infantry, Special Forces, Special Operations, Naval Aviators, SEALs, Marine Force Recon, or Marine Scout/Sniper careers.

3) Add Heavy Gun to the list of subsequent term skills for Infantry and Artillery careers.

 

NORTH KOREA

Careers: All careers are the same as western careers, except for the following:

1) Rangers are the Special Operations Corps.

2) All Aviation careers use Pilot: 4 in their primary Pilot cascade.

3) There are no Naval Aviators, Special Forces, Special Operations, Mountain, Airborne, SEALS, or any Marine careers.

 

POLAND

Careers: All careers are the same as western careers, except the following:

1) All Airborne troops are part of the 6th Pomeranian (Pomorska) Air Assault Division.

2) One battalion of the 6th Pomorska AAD is a special operations battalion. They are developed as per Spetsnaz.

Their black berets instead of the red berets worn by regular Airborne troops can distinguish them.

3) One overstrength squad of the special operations battalion is a counterterrorist unit. They are developed as per Special Operations--Delta.

4) All fixed wing aviators use Pilot: 4 instead in their primary cascade skill.

5) Marine Infantry is a combat arm of the Army, and all Marines are from the 7th Luzycka Naval Assault Division.

6) There is one brigade of Mountain troops, the Brigada Podhalanska (Highland Brigade).

7) There are no equivalents to Rangers, Force Recon, Marine Scout/Snipers, SEALs, or other Special Operations.

8) Add Heavy Gun skill to the subsequent term skills of the Infantry and Artillery careers.

 

ROMANIA

Careers: All careers are as per their western counterparts, except for the following:

1) All Airborne troops are from the 161st Parachute Regiment.

2) There is a single battalion of Marines, which are called Naval Infantry.

3) There are no equivalents to Scout/Snipers, Rangers, Special Forces, Special Operations, Force Recon, or Naval Aviators.

4) Add Heavy Gun skill to the subsequent term skills list for Infantry and Artillery careers.

 

SOVIET UNION

Careers: All careers are as their western counterparts except for the following:

1) Infantrymen are called Motor Rifles.

2) Rangers are called Reydoviki.

3) Airborne troops are called Vozdushno-Desantnaya Voyska (VDV), or desantniki for short.

4) Special Forces are called Voyska Specialnoye Naznachenia, or Spetsnaz for short. They are developed differently than western Special Forces (see below).

5) Marines are called Morskaya Pyekhota (Naval Infantry). They add Vessel and Heavy Gun to subsequent term skill listings. There are no equivalents to Marine Scout/Snipers or Force Recon.

6) Navy SEALs are called Naval Spetsnaz.

7) Naval Aviation uses the Air Force development tables.

8) Army Aviation is called Frontovaya Aviatsiya (Frontal Aviation), and is part of a separate branch of the service, along with certain attack aircraft assets.

9) There are small teams known as Alpha Teams within Spetsnaz. They use the Special Operations--Delta tables for development.

10) There is no equivalent to Air Force special operations.

11) Add Heavy Gun to the subsequent term skill listings for Infantry and Artillery careers.

12) Intelligence is the Glavnoe Razvedyvetelnoe Upravlenie (GRU). Spetsnaz and Alpha Teams are under their direct control.

SPETSNAZ--ENLISTED AND OFFICER

Prerequisites: Strength + Constitution + Agility: 18+; for officer, ROTC, OCS, or Military Academy.

First Term Skill Adds:

Act/Bluff: 3

Armed Martial Arts: 4

Autogun: 1

Carousing: 4

Combat Engineer: 3

Disguise: 3

Grenade Launcher: 1

Interrogation: 4

Intrusion: 2

Language: 8

Navigation: 3

Observation: 3

Parachute: 4

Small Arms (Pistol): 2

Small Arms (Rifle): 2

Stealth: 3

Survival: 3

Tac Missile: 1

Thrown Weapon: 2

Unarmed Martial Arts: 3

Warhead: 3

Willpower: 4

   

Army:

Parachute: 2

Small Arms (Rifle): 1

   

Naval:

Scuba: 4

Small Arms (Pistol): 2

Swimming: 5

 

Subsequent Term Skills:

Acrobat

Artillery

Determination

Engineer

Explore

Gun Combat

Heavy Gun

Heavy Weapon

Interaction

Medical

Melee

Perception

Personal Transport

Sniping

Technician

Vehicle

Vessel

Vice

   

Promotion: 6+ on 1d10; DM +1 if Intelligence 7+.

Contacts: Two per term, military or intelligence community. Roll 6+ on 1d10 for the contact to be foreign.