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# Result # Result # Result
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12 32 52
13 33 53
14 34 54
15 35 55
16 36 56
21 41 61
22 42 62
23 43 63
24 44 64
25 45 65
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Not One Step Back Comrades
Matt Russell (order #9597485)
The Directorate of the Armoured Forces of the Red Army
Peoples Technical Writer
DEREK CHAPPELL EDITing Commisar
JOE MCNEIL
HELL ON TREADS
T34 Tank SERVICE MANUALand
D66 TablesMoscow 1942
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Table of ContentsAllied Tanks
4-5Axis Tanks
6-7Crew Generator
8Crew Twist Generator
9Standard Feature Generator
10Strange Feature Generator
11Mission Generator
12-13Obstacle Generator
14Complication Generator
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IntroductionThe d66 Table is a random generation table, crewed by two brave six-sided die and ready to serve the Motherland! Using these tables, much stress can be avoided by tank crews, as these clever systems, designed by top Soviet Roleplaying Engineers beyond the Ural Mountains, allow the automation of previously difficult choices which could paralyze a
man with indecision!
The Operation of the d66 Table is simple, and will pose no great challenge to the clever Soviet crewman. To employ a d66 Table, simply select the relevant table using the Table of Contents, and acquire two six-sided die of different colours. Designate one die the “10s” and the other the “1s”, and roll them both on a hard surface. Then, compare the results of the dice to the charts to get your results!
d66 Tables can be employed in any situation and any weather. In the unlikely event of dice shortages, one can roll the same die twice to get each number. Under no circumstances should you attempt to roll
on a d66 chart using a die with fewer or greater than six sides. This could cause irreversible damage to the charts, and put your life, and
the lives of your comrades, in jepordy!
This book contains generation charts for missions, vehicles, crew members, features, complications, and obstacles. However, they are
no subsitute for the revolutionary imagination of the Soviet fighting citizen. These tables are to be used only in creative emergencies to avoid becoming complacent. Commissars have been ordered to monitor
citizen-soldiers for signs of d66 Table abuse.
Under no circumstances can you allow these charts to fall into the hands of the Fascist. If you are threatened with capture or
your position is to be overrun, these charts are to be immediately destroyed with any means avaliable.
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# Result
11MEDIUM TANK M3 Lee
An ungainly American tank with a hull cannon and a small turret, you can invite ten of your infantry friends along for the party. Close friends.
127TP LIGHT TANK
A heavily armed Polish light tank of the early war. Some had two turrets with machine-guns, because that makes sense.
13LIGHT TANK MK VII TETRARCH
A tank so light, they ended up using it more like an armoured car. Crew of just 3, for those small games.
14M4A3E2 JUMBO SHERMAN
A potent solution to the “exploding” problem was to simply add another inch of metal to every surface.
15TANK, CRUISER, MK. VIII. CROMWELL
This British Cruiser is fast, well armed and tough, but about as high-maintenance as your last girlfriend.
16UNIVERSAL CARRIER
Less a tank and more a kind of jeep with treads, the Brits used this for everything they could think of.
21T-34/76 MEDIUM TANK
If you dont mind freezing to death in a cramped box with absolutely no visibility, comfort or division of labour, its the finest tank in the world.
22 M22 LOCUSTSmall. Fast. Airmobile. Would have been a great tank... three years earlier.
23SHERMAN FIREFLY
The British loved the Sherman, but decided it could use a little something extra. Like a gun so big it would set the stuff around it on fire.
24M18 HELLCAT
The bigger, badder Wolverine, with an excess of speed and a minimum of armour. Still no roof, though.
25RENAULT R35
A light infantry support tank with an adorable little cannon and surprisingly thick armour.
26TANK, INFANTRY, MK IV A22 CHURCHILL
It will fight them on the beaches, it will fight them on steep inclines, it will fight them in the slow lane, and it will take frequent breaks for
maintenance.
31LANDING VEHICLE TRACKED A-4
Drives like a tank, floats like a boat, the Amtank is your go-to if you need something exploded, but it is across some water.
32 VALENTINE MKI ARCHERPros: 17 pounder. Cons: 17 pounder can only fire backwards.
33KV-1 HEAVY TANK
Made of glorious Stalintanium, the shells it fires are guided by Lenin himself from the heights of Marxs historical materialist heavens.
34LIGHT TANK M24 CHAFFEE
After everyone else abandoned the light tank, the Americans made it work with a big gun and Detroit steel.
35TANK, INFANTRY MK III VALENTINE
Send your special somebody a tough, reliable British infantry tank that carried them through the first half of the war.
36TKS TANKETTE
The most adorable fighting machine, for if you and your only friend want to play Hell on Treads.
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41MEDIUM TANK, M4 SHERMAN
The girl next door. Sweet, steady and reliable, and hot as all getout. No, seriously, they have a tendency to catch on fire.
42 MEDIUM TANK, M4A3E8 SHERMAN “EASY EIGHT”The girl next doors sexy older sister. 76mm gun for days.
43M7 PRIEST
An American artillery vehicle with a pulpit-mounted machine-gun, capable of delivering a sermon from 11 kilometers away
44 INFANTRY TANK MARK II MATILDASlow, poorly armed, and so tough they needed an anti-aircraft gun to kill it
45TANK, CRUISER, COMET A34
The Cromwells been hitting the gym, working biceps, and downing frankly terrifying amounts of 'roids. It's turned it into a 77mm HV-spewing monster.
46SU-122 ASSAULT GUN
A stout little tank destroyer with a 122mm howitzer in the hull, based on the T-34.
51T-34/85 MEDIUM TANK
Hey, maybe tanks need things like commanders, cupolas, turret baskets and radios. Who knew?
52T-35 HEAVY TANK
It's bigger than a schoolbus and carries about as many people. Seriously, the thing has more turrets than most tanks have crew members.
53M10 Wolverine Tank Destroyer
The solution to the Sherman not having enough punch was to make a lightly armoured version with a bigger gun. Best of all, it's a convertible.
54M3 STUART
A sleek, modern light tank of the early war, tasked with finding danger for the bigger tanks by running into it face first.
55 T-26 LIGHT INFANTRY TANKCheap, fast, flexible, and it threw the crew around like a tumble dryer.
56SOMUA S35
A boxy French cavalry tank with the speed to break down exactly where it needed to be.
61M36 TANK DESTROYER
Bigger enemy tanks means bigger American tank destroyers. And they finally put a roof on it.
62HEAVY TANK M26 PERSHING
The sequel to the M4. Like most sequels, it cost too much, took too long and had too many special effects.
63KV-2 ASSAULT GUN
It's got more turret on it than most tanks have... tank, and it uses it to carry the biggest howitzer they could conceive of.
64CHAR B1
The French forgot what war they were fighting and built a tank the size of a house, with a big gun in the turret and an even bigger one on the hull.
65BT-7 CAVALRY TANK
Lightly armoured but extremely fast, these little Soviet light tanks packed a punch above their weight.
66IS-2 HEAVY TANK
Uncle Joe gave us a present, and it's fast, invincible, and deadlier than anything the fascists could come up with.
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11 L3/35 TANKETTEHonestly, this two-man tankette was the best Italian tank of the war.
12TYPE 3 HO-NI III
An enclosed tank destroyer with a 75mm gun, these never saw combat, which is a shame, because they were really only a few years obsolete.
13FIAT M14/41
You know it's bad when you are going into battle in a tank affectionately known as the “Rolling Coffin”.
14PANZER VI TIGER
Expensive, difficult to transport, too heavy for it's own good, and by far the most feared tank in history.
15TYPE 1 CHI-HE
A Japanese medium tank built so they could have something that would lose less embarrassingly to the Sherman.
16PANZER IV OSTWIND
A Panzer IV hull, an open turret, and an automatic anti-air cannon which, like the bigger 88mm, proved just as awesome against ground targets.
21PANZER III
About the time when the Panzers stopped playing nice and started to get real, with a proper gun and real armour.
22 STURMGESCHUTZ III ASSAULT GUNYou didn't choose the StuG life, the StuG life chose you.
23PANZER VIII MAUS
This 200 ton supertank would have been the most dangerous tank to ever fall through a bridge and drown in a river.
24JAGDPANTHER
Another in the line of “Off with the turret, on with the big gun” German tank destroyer designs, with the toughness of a Panther and an 88mm.
25LANDKREUZER P. 1000 RATTE
Straight up, it's a battleship with treads. Hitler hopes that if he builds a tank big enough, maybe daddy will finally love him.
26TYPE 5 CHI-RI
The end-war prototypes of Germany were for gigantic supertanks. The end-war prototype of Japan was pretty much a Sherman.
31TYPE 2 KA-MI
It's a Japanese light tank, with everything that implies, but it can dress up as a boat and go swimming.
32STURMPANZER BRUMMBAR
An oversized stubby cannon on an assault gun frame, designed to support infantry by blowing up entire buildings in one go.
33TYPE 100 O-I SUPERHEAVY TANK
Apparently, the Japanese built a four-turreted supertank and lost it somewhere in Manchuria. There's even odds it was actually a giant robot.
34PANZER IV AUSF A
They designed it as an oversized heavy with a stubby little gun to support the “real” tanks...
35PANZER IV AUSF H
...and a few years later, it was the Real Tank, with spaced armour and a powerful long-barreled cannon. The PzIV finally hit puberty.
36JAGDPANZER 38 HETZER
Mien Little Panzer gives a strong showing by combining surprisingly restrained size with a deadly little cannon for a low-profile tank-killer.
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41 TYPE 95 HA-GOFor anyone else, a light tank. For the Japanese, the only tank.
42BT-42 ASSAULT GUN
The Finnish needed their own tanks, so they did what they do best and chopped up a bunch of Russians.
43PANZER II
It's hard to believe the Germans invaded most of Europe in what is basically a tracked car armed with a popgun.
44TIGER II
What weighs 70 tons, is armed with the deadliest anti-tank gun of the war, and is currently broken down ten miles behind the line?
45SEMOVENTE 75/18
The only Italian AFV that wasn't complete garbage was actually this little assault gun meant to tide them over until they could build something
terrible to replace it.
46CAPTURED SOMUA S35
The Italians quickly realized that the only way they were going have a successful tank design is if they stole some.
51 PANZER IV WIRBELWINDThis is the Wirbelwind AA Tank. With it's 4 20mm cannons, it wirbels wind.
52PANZER V PANTHER
The Germans response to the T-34 was to make a copy of it, but even cooler. The result was one of the best tanks of the war.
53CARRO ARMATO P40
An Italian heavy tank, suffering from riveted armor. And being the same weight and capability as everybody else's mediums.
54STURMGESCHUTZ IV ASSAULT GUN
The bigger, badder StuG. The kind that keeps putting out albums even a decade after it gets destroyed.
55 TYPE-3 CHI-NUThe best of the Japanese tanks, they left these at home in case of invasion.
56 TYPE 92 HEAVY ARMOURED CARThis 3-man ultralight tank could effectively run away from real tanks.
61JAGDTIGER
Take a Tiger II, replace the turret with a solid block, and put an even bigger gun in it, and this is what you get.
62PANZER I
No tanks here, League of Nations! These are just turreted, machine-gun armed agriculture tractors!
63TYPE 2 HO-I
A Panzer IV style support tank with a low-velocity short gun, this startling vehicle was halfway to competent and thus was never used.
64TYPE 4 KE-NU
The baddest Japanese tank of the war was pretty much just one of their light tanks with a bigger turret.
65ELEFANT TANK DESTROYER
This tank destroyer combined the deadly 88mm gun with some of the thickest armour around. Shame they forgot to put a machine-gun on it.
66TYPE 97 CHI-HA
Another hopelessly obsolete Japanese medium tank, this one at least vaguely resembled contemporary vehicles.
AXIS Tanks
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Crew Generator“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte
If you are having difficulty summing up your entire person in a single short description, you've come to the right place. Deviation from the approved personality attributes has been declared counter-revolutionary by the Department for Archetypical Characterization.
# Result # Result # Result
11 Aggressive 31 Shirker 51 Good Humoured
12 Emotionless 32 Friendly to a Fault 52 Religious
Fundamentalist
13 Psychopath 33 Nationalist 53 The Quiet One
14 No-Nonsense 34 Perpetually Angry 54 Homesick
15 Bitter 35 Rural Hick 55 Natural Leader
16 Fool 36 Distrustful 56 New Meat
21 Desperate 41 Thief 61 Upper-Class Twit
22 Fanatic 42 Perpetually Confused 62 Army Intellectual
23 Professional 43 Cold 63 Pacifist
24 Defeatist 44 Coward 64 Desperate
25 Drunkard 45 Berzerker 65 Veteran
26 Cynic 46 Lecherous 66 War Hero
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Crew Twist Generator
If a single attribute isn't enough, you can roll one or more times on the below chart to spice up your character a bit with some secondary characteristics. Be warned; if you employ too many, your character will be dangerously close to being a person.
# Result # Result # Result
11 Last Survivor 31 Bigot 51 Shell Shocked
12 Underweight 32In Tank due to Beaucratic
Error52 Atheist
13 Convicted Crimnal 33 Death Wish 53 Sympathetic to Enemy
14 Gets Motion Sick 34 Former Infantry 54 Lied about Age
15 Speaks Enemy Language 35 Heavy Accent 55 Member of Allied
Nation
16 Hates the Army 36 Seeking Vengence 56 Enthic Background in Enemy Nation
21 Wishes to Desert 41 Heavily Burned 61 Drug Addict
22 Parent 42 Deaf 62 Overweight
23 Deeply Patriotic 43 Liberated POW 63 Happily Married
24 Homosexual 44 Child of Senior Officer 64 Double Agent
25 Loves the Army 45 Orphan 65 Loathes Government
26 Surprisingly Old 46 Recently Divorced 66 Illiterate
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Standard Tank Feature Generator“Technological Progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
- Aldous Huxley
If you aren't sure what is special about your tank, you can roll here to find out! The results might be a little incongruous with the tank you are actually driving, but who ever let little details like that get in the way?
# Result # Result # Result
11 The Range of the Main Gun 31 The Powerful
Radio 51 The Extra Legroom
12 The Camo Paint 32 The Mine Shovel 52 The Above-Average Speed
13 The Thickened Front Armour 33 The Great
Visibility 53 The Onboard Sidearms
14 The Powerful Headlights 34 The Extra
Ammunition 54 The Wide-Bore Cannon
15 The Rapid Turns 35 The Intimidating Paintjob 55 The Quiet Engine
16 The Spaced Armour 36 The Powered Turret 56 The Amphibious
Capabilties
21The Fire Prevention Systems
41 The Pinpoint Accuracy 61 The Airtight Seal
22 The Flamethrower 42 The Improvised Armour 62 The High Velocity
Gun
23 The Reliable Engine 43 The Machine-Gun
Coverage 63 The All-Terrain Ability
24 The Rest of the Squadron 44 The Ventilation 64 The Mine Flail
25 The High Torque 45 The Leather Seating 65 The Emergency
Escape Hatches
26 The Operational Range 46 The Variety of
Ammunition 66 The Loudspeakers
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Strange Tank Feature Generator“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
- Albert Einstein
If you are playing a slightly weirder game, perhaps one with a futuristic setting, then this Strange Feature generator might be more to your liking. It contains a variety of attributes and technologies beyond the reach of even the most clever of Soviet sciences.
# Result # Result # Result
11 The Medical Station 31 The Energy
Shield 51 The High-Powered Railgun
12 The Laser Target Painter 32 The Vacuum Seal 52 The Universal
Translator
13 The Articulated Tracks 33 The Clone Bay 53 The Targeting
Computer
14 The Plasma Cutter 34 The Underwater Capabilities 54 The Demonic
Possession
15 The AI Assistant 35 The Composite Plate 55 The Length of the
Legs
16 The Cryo-Cannon 36 The Wi-Fi 56 The Point-Defense System
21 The Onboard Wizard 41 The Onboard
Drones 61 The Mystical Protection
22 The Grinder Crusher 42 The Stun Setting 62 The Tunneling
Equipment
23 The Nuclear Engine 43
The Teleportation
System63 The Regenerative
Nanites
24 The Twin Barrels 44 The Hull Laser 64 The Hover Capabilities
25 The Reactive Armour 45 The Tesla Coil 65 The Depleted
Uranium Shells
26 The Missile Rack 46 The Magical Runes 66 The Extra Turrets
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MIssion Generator Part 1“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.”
- Ulyssess S. Grant
Spoiling for a Mission to test your mettle? Fear not comrade, these generators will produce nothing but quality objectives for you and your tank to pursue! Simply roll once on either table and add the results together to recieve a task worth dying for!
# Result # Result # Result
11 Destroy 31 Attack 51 Hold Off
12 Move To 32 Police 52 Advance To
13 Warn 33 Move Through 53 Arrange Surrender Of
14 Reconnoitre 34 Scout For 54 Harass
15 Protect 35 Inflitrate 55 Retreat To
16 Bombard 36 Fortify 56 Surrender To
21 Rescue 41 Intercept 61 Retrieve
22 Capture 42 Defend 62 Disrupt
23 Assist 43 Raid 63 Communicate With
24 Accompany 44 Loot 64 Escort
25 Evacuate 45 Intimidate 65 Investigate
26 Ambush 46 Wreck 66 Raze
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Mission Generator Part 2
Note that, due to the fog of war, not all generated missions will be well-advised, morally sound, or even physiologically possible. It is generally recommended that one rerolls these results, unless they want to go ahead and give it a shot anyway. Red Army Armoured Command officially absolves itself of any responsibility for these unauthorized missions and their negative consequences.
# Result # Result # Result
11 Landing Site 31 Highway 51 Refugee Camp
12 Rural Village 32 Factory 52 Infantry Division
13 Political Leader 33 River Crossing 53 Hospital
14 Capital City 34 Wounded Troops 54 Crossroads
15 Evacuation Point 35 Jungle Clearing 55 Staging Area
16 Elite Unit 36 Dirt Road 56 Double Agent
21 Destroyed City 41 Tank Company 61 Important General
22 Advancing Forces 42 Harbour 62 Air Base
23 Neutral Town 43 Retreating Forces 63 Beach
24 Secret Weapon 44 Bridge 64 Advanced Technology
25 Mountain Pass 45 Border Crossing 65 Fort
26 Fuel Pipeline 46 Political Rally 66 Ammunition Dump
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Obstacle Generator“Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.”
- William Arthur Ward
At a loss for what sort of things might interrupt your glorious undertaking? This chart can help. For an interesting twist on the regular game, roll on this chart each turn instead of planning your Obstacles out ahead of time, so nobody has any idea of what lies ahead!
# Result # Result # Result
11 Infantry Ambush 31 Gas Attack 51 Forest Fire
12 Crossing Enemy Trenches 32 Low on Gas 52 Enemy Heavy Tank
13 Tank Traps 33 Blizzard 53 Disembarking
14 Tank Breakdown 34 Enemy Commando Raid 54 Enemy Patrol
16 Minefield 36 Dug In Anti-Tank Guns 56 Mud or Soft Sand
21 Attack Aircraft 41 Military Police 61 Navigational Problems
22 Bridge is Out 42 Out of Food 62 Dangerous River Crossing
23 Confrontation with Civilians 43 Refugees in the
Road 63 Thrown Track
24 Pinned Down Friendlies 44
Ambush by Child Soldiers with AT Weapons
64 Wounded Friendlies
25 Crossing Dead Ground 45 Squadron of
Armoured Cars 65 Flooding
26 Peer Tank 46 Tank Destroyer Overwatch 66 Evading Enemy
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Complication Generator“In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.”
- Douglas MacArther
The Complications here each map to a different crew member: 1 for Drivers, 2 for Gunners, 3 for Loaders and 4 for Assistants. Just roll the “1s” die to get your result. This can be especially useful for battle damage.
# Result # Result
11 Gearbox Stuck, Tank strug-gles at high/low speeds. 31 Tank is On Fire
12 Track Damaged, Tank Leans Right/Left 32 Wet Storage Compromised
13 Engine Damaged, Power Reduced 33 Out of HE/AP
14 Visibility Compromised, Manuvers More Difficult 34 Tank's Electricals Out
15 Transmission Damage, No Reverse Gear 35 A Part of the Armour is
Compromised
16 Rollers damage, top speed lowered. 36 Out of Machine-Gun Ammunition
21 Turret Traverse Stuck 41 Out of Small Arms
22 Vertical Traverse Damaged, Range Reduced 42 Radio Interference
23 Gunsight Damaged 43 Special Weapon Compromised
24 Rifling Worn Down 44 Allies Retreated or Defeated
25 Co-Axil Gun Out 45 Hull Machine-Gun Jammed
26 Bore Ruined, Velocity Lowered 46 Enemy can Hear Radio Signals
