Wing and Sword: a d20 Modern military campaign
Wing and Sword is a d20
Modern play-by-post military mini-campaign of counter-insurgency actions during the Algerian War of the 1950s and 1960s.
The player characters are
légionnaires of the 1
er Regiment Étranger de Parachutistes (REP), the First Foreign Parachute Regiment, assigned to suppress the insurrection lead by the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). FLN insurgents have been striking at civilian and military targets in the hinterland since 1954, but terrorist attacks in the large cities of Algiers, Oran, and Constantine are on the rise and the
gendarmerie and sector troops assigned to the country are proving insufficient to stem the bloodshed. The French government begins a massive troop build-up in Algeria in 1956, but knows that conscripts alone will not be enough – the toughest assignments will fall to the men wearing a silver badge of a winged fist clutching a sword on their berets:
Les Paras.
The
paras are
Légionnaire Marcel Benezet Fortier (played by
Bobitron),
Légionnaire Pyotr Andreievich Kerenin (played by
shadowbloodmoon),
Légionnaire Normand Joseph Mador (played by
Barak), and
Légionnaire Vidal Gaspard (played by
знаток).
The campaign consists of eight operations (adventures) each made up of three to fourteen engagements (encounters), plus a prologue and epilogue. They are as follows:
Operations and Engagements
Chat et Souris (prologue)
Life During Wartime:
The Farm /
Hearts and Minds /
The Tomb of Abd-el-Hamou / Sidi Moussem
Maquisards: Pyrite /
Bouclage / Flight of the Toucans /
Razzia / Operation Bluebird
Musketeers: Revise III / Snake in the Garden / Al-Quantarah / Peacekeepers
The Battle of Algiers:
Ratonnade I / The Strike /
Ratonnade II / Powder Keg /
Ratonnade III / Killing an Arab /
Ratonnade IV / Corsairs of the Barbary Coast / Parade Rest / Home Guard / Hinterland /
Café Figaro / Standoff in the Casbah /
Rue Canton
Lines in the Sand:
The Legion of Gaius Marius / Breakthrough /
Regroupement / Barrages / Leopards /
Chott Melrhir / Decision at El Bira / Black Gold /
Katiba 144
Ghosts of the Sahara:
Fort Galliéni / Bir Djedad /
Méharistes
Steamroller:
Oranie:
Paix des Braves /
Courroie:
Oued Wahlah /
Courroie:
Les Lapins /
Étincelle: Little Brothers /
Jumelles: Flying Banana Down /
Jumelles:
Djebel-el-Ghazi /
Jumelles: Frostfire
Plus Ultras: On the Barricades / Peace Talks /
Sagh Ettani Rabih / "
République algierienne" /
Tricolore / Crescent and Star / The Putsch
Paris (epilogue)
(note: adventure list subject to revision)
Resources
Metagame
Characters
Story Hour