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Credits

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Inspiration

Introduction

Dads Army (BBC TV Sitcom)

The Secret Army (BBC TV drama series about

the French resistance running from 1977 to 1979)

Enemy At The Door (LWT TV drama series

about the occupation of the Channel Islands,

which ran from 1978 - 1980)

Island at War (ITV six part drama series, 2004)

When Hitler Invaded Britain (ITV drama docu-

mentary, 2004)

The Eagle Has Landed (Novel by Jack Higgins

and a 1976 movie starring Michael Caine).

What is role-playing?

The Setting

The Background

The Battle of Britain

Occupation of the Channel Islands

Operation Sealion

A Twist of Fate

Living with the enemy

Thanks to Evan Paliatseas for helpful suggestions.

Rationing

Playtesting

The Home Guard

Timeline to Invasion

Mark George, Alyson George, Annette Flower,

Robert Irwin

Characters

1940 – England Invaded is © Simon Washbourne

2003. Permission is granted to copy for personal

use.

Creating a character

Attributes

Skills

Using skills

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Equipment & Weapons

The Weapon Table explained

Pistols

**PLEASE NOTE, THIS VERSION DOES

NOT INCLUDE THE SAMPLE SETTING

OR ANY SAMPLE SCENARIO IDEAS. I AM

STILL WORKING ON THIS!**

Sub-machine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Other weapons

Anti-tank guns

Weapon Table

Vehicles

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This is a complete revision and update of a game

that I initially designed in response to a challenge

on The Forge forum to design a complete role-

playing game within 24 hours. I actually worked

on the first draft for only 16 hours.

outcome of some of the actions that your charac-

ter undertakes during the game. So, if she is at-

tempting to persuade a German soldier to ‘look

the other way’ during a curfew, you need to

know how he might react to this. There is a

chance that he might do as she asks and there is

a chance he might arrest or even shoot at her.

The result of the dice roll helps you determine

the path that the game will take.

Whilst the final thing was completely playable, it

wasn’t really the game I wanted it to be. There

was much more work that I wanted to do to flesh

out character generation, the system, equipment

and in particular the background. I also envisaged

a complete sample setting, the fictional village of

Hockleton, complete with its church, pub, manor

house and the village green. There would be maps

and details of the people who lived there, includ-

ing the German contingent posted to Hockleton.

One player does not take the role of a character

in the game, but portrays all of the other non-

player characters (npc’s) that the characters will

meet in their adventures. That player is called

the Gamemaster (GM). It is the job of the GM to

set the scene and describe events that happen

and to which the other players can react, in their

guise as characters in the game.

I have now realised my dream - this is the fully

revised and expanded of 1940 - England Invaded.

I think it’s a great setting for role playing. I hope

you enjoy it too.

The GM will make determinations based on the

rules set out in this game, so for example he will

decide when he requires a player to roll a dice or

he will decide whether there are any modifiers

to a dice roll and so on. He will also roll the dice

for the npc’s when they are taking action, such

as when they are under fire from the characters

and want to shoot back.

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In a role playing game, you portray a character in

a world created in the imagination of you and

your friends. In that world you can play any char-

acter you want that is appropriate to the world

you are playing in. If you are playing a sword &

sorcery setting, you can portray a character like

Thongor or Conan. In a space opera, you might

want to play a character like Han Solo or a Jedi

Knight. There are as many settings for role play-

ing as there are settings for books or movies.

1940 - England Invaded is just one of them.

Although the dice are required a fair amount of

the time in 1940 - England Invaded, there will

be times when the flow of the game will be de-

stroyed by the need to look up a rule to see what

dice score is required. In these instances, it is

often better not to roll dice at all or for the GM

to make a decision on the spot. Often the players

will help with reasonable suggestions in these

circumstances and this can save the GM trying

to make an agonising decision.

The rules of a role playing game are there to help

you design a character, with

abilities and skills so that you

know what your character is

capable of. The rules also help

you determine something of

your character’s personality

and background, so that you

are able to portray him or her

as a real life person and not

just a set of statistics.

Remember, this is not a game of winners & los-

ers. The GM holds all the

cards anyway because he

plays the Germans, with all

of their superior training

and firepower, so if the

players come up with some

fun ideas or their charac-

ter’s want to do things that

are brave but ultimately

doomed, then they must be

allowed to try. Finally, just

remember, this is only a

game.

In most role playing games,

you use dice to determine the

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1940 - England Invaded has a fictional setting

that is based upon events that could have been,

had the Germans in-

vaded England dur-

ing the autumn of

1940 as they had

planned. Essentially,

the game poses the

question “What

if…?”

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Before the outbreak of war in 1939, Germany had also been secretly conduct-

ing surveillance along the East Coast of Britain. In 1938, the German airship;

Graf Zeppelin was sighted off the coast of Aldeburgh in Suffolk on a tour of

the British Isles.

By June 1940, less than a year after the start of

the World War 2, the German Army had overrun

France, Poland,

Holland, Belgium,

Denmark and Nor-

way. The beaten

British Army had

withdrawn from

Dunkirk leaving

behind many of its

t a n k s , h e a v y

w e a p o n s a n d

equipment.

Britain now stood

alone against a

German domi-

nated Europe,

with only 25 miles

of the English

Channel separat-

ing it from the vic-

torious German

armies.

There is evidence that German forces actually tried to make a landing on a

desolate stretch of coast called Shingle Street, in Suffolk. This landing was

picked up on RADAR and at the critical moment, the sea defences were acti-

vated. There are reported to have been many German casualties. In the after-

math of the attack, there were unconfirmed reports of many bodies littering

the shoreline from Shingle Street to the port of Harwich (further to the

South)- some wearing British uniforms.

The characters will

all be from, or

based, in a village in

the south of England

shortly after the

Germans land. A

small German force

is posted to the vil-

lage and the charac-

ters must live under

enemy rule whilst

all the time seeking

ways to disrupt the

Nazi plans.

During the attack, a regiment of the Local Defence Volunteers stationed at

Aldeburgh (to the North) had been placed in a state of red alert and watched

as in the distance, the sky lit up to the sound of gunfire and explosions. A wit-

ness who was serving in the LDV at the time estimates that the gunfire lasted

for several hours.

Many of the bodies of German soldiers killed at Shingle Street were washed

up on the shoreline from Shingle Street south as far as Felixstowe. Bodies

continued to be washed up for many months, even years afterwards. Local

inhabitants who came across bodies were sworn to secrecy not to reveal what

they had seen.

In Britain defences were hastily erected. On 14th

May 1940 the Local Defence Volunteers were

formed. It was made up of men too old, or too in-

firm to join the regular army. The LDV later be-

came known as the Home Guard after Churchill

used the phrase in his famous “ we shall fight

them on the beaches” radio broadcast on 4 June

1940.

The Nazis have a certain agenda and whilst they

will try to do nothing to incite resistance in the

local population (which could be troublesome to

their occupation), they are still required to carry

out their orders, which will ultimately be at odds

with the British way of life.

This is a time for ordinary people

to stand up for themselves and be-

come heroes at a time when Eng-

land most needs them.

Hitler expected Britain to surren-

der, but because that didn’t happen,

on 16 July 1940, Hitler issued his

Fuhrer Directive No 16 for the

Conduct of the War. Its key sen-

tence read, “As England, in spite of

the hopelessness of her military po-

sition, has so far shown herself un-

willing to come to any compro-

mise, I have therefore decided to

begin to prepare for and, if neces-

sary, carry out an invasion of Eng-

land.”

There is a sample setting included

in a separate file of these rules,

which is for the GM’s eyes only.

The GM can use as much or as lit-

tle of this setting as he wishes or is

welcome to make up his own.

The operation was codenamed See-

lowe (Sealion). Key to the success

of Sealion was the destruction of

the Royal Air Force (RAF).

Operation Sealion was the name given by Hitler for the

planned invasion of Great Britain in 1940. Operation

Sealion was never carried out during the war as the Ger-

mans lost the Battle of Britain and it is now believed that

Hitler was more interested in the forthcoming attack on

Russia as opposed to invading Britain.

The projected invasion on Britain included

Army Group A (6 divisions) invading Kent via the areas

near Ramsgate, Folkstone and Bexhill.

Army Group A (4 divisions) invading Sussex and Hamp-

shire via the area around Brighton and the Isle of Wight.

Army Group B (3 divisions) invading Dorset via Lyme Bay

From Kent, Army Group A would advance to south-east

London and then to Malden and St. Albans north of Lon-

don.

From Sussex/Hampshire, the 4 divisions of Army Group A

would advance to the west of London and meet up with the

other 6 divisions of Army Group A, thus encircling Lon-

don. Other parts of the group would head towards Glouces-

ter and the River Severn region.

From Dorset, Army Group B would advance to Bristol.

The whole plan relied on Germany having complete control

of the English Channel, which, in turn meant that Germany

had to have control of the skies so that the Royal Air Force

could not attack German ships crossing the Channel. Hence

victory in the Battle of Britain was an integral part of the

plan.

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