RMS Oceanic
2009-02-10, 07:15 AM
Having watched Valkyrie recently (Good movie, in spite of Tom Cruise), I thought it would be interesting to try and recreate the July 20 Plot for PCs to try and execute.
The summary of the plan:
The Original Operation Valkyrie was a Military Operation designed to secure Adolf Hitler's Goverment should he be killed or otherwise isolated, wherein the Army Reserves would sieze control of Government buildings in each region of the Reich in order to maintain control. The conspirators managed to get it revised so that the SS were not included in these plans, and the Reserves would focus on controlling Berlin, as the rest of the Reich would follow whatever Berlin ordered anyway. After blowing up Hitler with a bomb, Operation Valkyrie would be executed, and SS/Nazi members would be arrested. The reserves would believe they were upholding the Government of the Reich, while the conspirators would install a Government that could negotiate with the Allies.
Of course, for want of open windows and table legs, Hitler survived the bomb and retained control, and we all missed out on an opportunity to end the war nine months earlier.
I thought that if one stripped away all the Swastikas and flavoured it accordingly, this could make for an interesting mission in a military/political campaign, the success or failure of which would drastically alter the course of fate for the PCs. How would you plan it? Obviously some sort of Delayed Fireball variant for the bomb...
The summary of the plan:
The Original Operation Valkyrie was a Military Operation designed to secure Adolf Hitler's Goverment should he be killed or otherwise isolated, wherein the Army Reserves would sieze control of Government buildings in each region of the Reich in order to maintain control. The conspirators managed to get it revised so that the SS were not included in these plans, and the Reserves would focus on controlling Berlin, as the rest of the Reich would follow whatever Berlin ordered anyway. After blowing up Hitler with a bomb, Operation Valkyrie would be executed, and SS/Nazi members would be arrested. The reserves would believe they were upholding the Government of the Reich, while the conspirators would install a Government that could negotiate with the Allies.
Of course, for want of open windows and table legs, Hitler survived the bomb and retained control, and we all missed out on an opportunity to end the war nine months earlier.
I thought that if one stripped away all the Swastikas and flavoured it accordingly, this could make for an interesting mission in a military/political campaign, the success or failure of which would drastically alter the course of fate for the PCs. How would you plan it? Obviously some sort of Delayed Fireball variant for the bomb...