GURPS WWII Classic: Iron Cross

✍ Scribed by Gene Seabolt

• Publisher: Steve Jackson Games Incorporated
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 131
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/ww2/ironcross/

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
About the Author
About GURPS
1. Germany at War
Ringed by Rivals
The Forging Flames
The Weimar Years
The Nazis Form Ranks
False Watershed
Birth of the Third Reich
Hitler Ascendant
A Brutal State
Case White
The Western Lull
Plentiful Plots
Case Yellow
Costly Naval Gambit
Smashing Victory
A More Forceful Hand
Fateful Interlude
Sea Lion
The Reich at its Height
Barbarossa
A New Chivalry
Falling Short
The Jewish Question
A New Energy of Attack
The Soviet Sledge
The African Anvil
A German Lake
Home Front Harassed
Deciding Moments
Stalingrad Slaughter
Desert Debacle
Winter of Discontent
Bitter Revival
Too Much, Too Late
The Beginning of the End
Sicily Sliced Away
The Killing Stroke
Holding Actions
Dniepr Stand
Booting the Italians
Playing Out the Hand
Broken Wings
Uprisings in the Reich
Prelude to the Storm
The Horror Unveiled
The Western Front Erupts
D-Day and After
The July Plot
Operation Bagration
Wunderwaffen
The Lost Campaign
The Reich in Ruins
The Bulge and Beyond
Retribution’s Hordes
Aftermath
2. The German Army
The High Command
Organization
The Generalstab
Arms of the Wehrmacht
The Heer
The Waffen-SS
The Luftwaffe
The Kriegsmarine
The Landser Life
From Cradle to Rifle
Among the Soldiery
What They Carried
What Carried Them
Varieties of Uniform
Armor Alkication Table
Panzer Encounter Table
Action Digest
3. Characters
Creating a Character
Female Roles
Advantages, Disadvantages, and Skills
Advantages
Disadvantages
Status
Volkssturmmann
Hitler Youth
Eastern Front Experte
Submariner
Gestapo Agent
Hausfrau
Major Personalities
The Generals
4. The German Armory
Personal Gear
Small Arms
German Small Arms Table
Weapon Descriptions
Vehicle Design
New Chassis Options
Powertrains
New Weapons
Weapon Modules Table
Vehicular Weapons Table
New Components
Panzerautomaten
The Motor Pool
Vehicles Key
Artillery
SdKfz 2 kleines Ketten-Krad
Volkswagen Kübelwagen
Krupp-Protze “Boxer”
Opel-Blitz 4´2
SdKfz 10 leichter Zugkraftwagen
SdKfz 7 mittlerer Zugkraftwagen
SdKfz 251
SdKfz 222
SdKfz 231 (8-Rad)
Panzerkampfwagen I
Panzerkampfwagen II
Panzerkampfwagen III
Panzerkampfwagen IV Variants
Panzerkampfwagen V Panther
Panzerkampfwagen VI Königstiger
Hetzer
Ar 196
Fw 190
Ju 52
Ju 88
Bf 110
Me 262
S-Boot
U-Boot Typ VII
U-Boot Typ XXIII
KMS Bismarck
5. Inside the Third Reich
Germany at a Glance
The People
The Land
National Socialism
Old Soldiers and March Violets
The Führer Myth
The Winking Way
Kultur vs. Zivilisation
The Police and Courts
A Knock on the Door
The Verdict Assumed
A Savage Semblance
Life Inside the Reich
Economic Squeeze
Salaries and Costs
Doing Business
Keeping the Old Faith
Kinder, Kirche, Küche
The Next Generation
Keepers of the Keys
High Society
The Arts
A Moral Exhaustion
Berlin
The Greater Reich
The POW Camps
By Germans
For Germans
The Concentration Camps
Eating Their Own
Messy Methods
Mixed Efforts
Worked to the Bone
Desperate Bids
Battlefield Germany
The West
The East
The Aftermath
The German Titanic
6. Campaigns
Campaign Styles
The Stubborn Dead
A Measure Above
The Aryan Elite
Faceless Foes
The Luftwaffe Aloft
Wolfpacks and Woe
A Wehrmacht Travelog
The City of Blacked-Out Light
Alternate Campaigns
Wonder Weapons
PAH Mk I
The V-1
The V-2
The Other 988 Years
The Polish Question
References
Index

✦ Subjects

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