Red Devils In The Night

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First in the publisher's series of Scenario Packs focusing on specific battles, troops, and weapons. This product focuses on the British 6th Airborne activities on the day of D-Day itself. Though these scenarios were designed for use with the Battleground: World War Two rules, they can easily be used with any skirmish-level infantry rules.

Each scenario consists of a briefing sheet for each player, plus a third sheet with special rules, master map, designer notes, historical background, advice on finding appropriate miniatures, and optional variants.

The supplement includes:

  • background for the operation (4 pages)
    background sheetmap showing locations for all of the scenarios
  • description of the historical battle (2 pages)
  • bibliography (2 pages)
  • description of the units involved (6 pages, including chart and two rosters)
    British parachute/glider infantry platoon roster
  • a dozen "heroes," unique leaders and soldiers to be used with the provided scenarios (6 pages)
    Heroes
  • descriptions of British equipment, with special rules (5 pages)
    • Rifle No.4 Mk.1
    • Sten Mk.V
    • Enfield No.2 Mk.1 Revolver
    • Bren LMG
    • Ordnance Muzzle Loading 2-Inch Mortar
    • PIAT
    • No.36M "Mills" Grenade
    • No.69 Grenade
    • No.75 Anti-Tank "Hawkins" Grenade
    • "Clam" Anti-Tank Magnetic Mine
    • No.80 WP Grenade
    • No.82 "Gammon" Grenade
  • New small-arms data chart, showing British and German weapons (1 page)
  • New vehicle data charts (2 pages)
    • Light Tank Mk.VII Tetrarch I
    • 7.5cm PAK 40 L/48 Auf GW LRS (F) (Lorraine Schlepper)
      Lorraine Schlepper data sheetback side of data sheet
  • New vehicles and guns data charts (2 pages)
  • New rules (4 pages)
    • night rules
    • terrain - canals, irrigation ditches, marshes
  • Scenarios (72 pages)
    Ham and Jam
    Airborne platoon must seize Pegeaus Bridge.
    Ex Coelis Chateau
    Major McLeod must neutralize a German 75mm gun at a fortified chateau.
    Para Jäger
    "Lost" paratroopers must avoid German searchers.
    Robehomme Bridge
    The British must blow this bridge, but first they need to find where their engineers have gotten to.
    Where's Merville?
    Lost, scattered paratroops encounter German vehicular traffic.
    Race for Troarn
    A jeep-load of paratroops must push through a village and destroy the Dives bridge.
    Wrong Place, Right Time
    British glider crash-lands under fire from German flak battery.
    The Last Bunker
    Assault on Merville Battery.
    Guns to the Sky
    Enemy forces blunder into each other along a road.
    Red Devil Road
    Enemy forces (again) blunder into each other, this time at a crossroads.
    V for Victory
    German counter-attack on Ranville, allowing British to use guns and vehicles that could have been present but weren't historically.
    "It's Bent, Sir"
    Paratroops must hold town center against German counter-attack.
Last Updates
10 November 1999page redesigned
22 November 1997page first published
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