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Old 11-12-2018, 07:10 PM   #478
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The PCs are a forward armored car troop looking for a passage across the Rhine in 1945.

While they probe around they find a civilian delegation from a local town. They are sick and tired of war. If the Allies will hurry the locals will promise an open city, including an intact bridge on their own authority. The catch is, besides Wehrmacht units along the river, SS death squads are about, coming to execute anyone who seems like they might be surrendering.

The municipal government will want to negotiate for a number of things, including billeting as few troops as possible on private homes and as many as possible on government buildings and the local hotel. However they have little to bargain with as if the SS arrives they will execute the town VIPs and if the surrender is not put through first, the town will likely get blown up.

P.S. If the town has a bridge almost certainly it has a garrison. Did they explain how they are going to persuade it to move?

Looking back I suggested two variations of this before. But it is a very interesting situation.
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