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GDW

CREDITS

Design: Peter Phillipps

Development: Loren K. Wiseman

Art Direction: Amy Doubet

Cover Design: Radley Masinelli

Interior illustrations: Kirk Wescom, Tim Bradstreet

Text Manager: Michelle Sturgeon

Text Processing: Julia Martin, Julie Amdor

Survivors' Guide to the United Kingdom

ISBN 1-55878-009-2.

Twilight: 2000 is GDW's trademark for its role-playing game of survival in a devastated world.

SINCE

1973

P.O. Box 1646

Bloomington, IL 61702-1646

Survivors' Guide to the United Kingdom

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Wales

Southwest England

CONTENTS

Survivors' Guide

The Bristol Channel

Southern England

Developer's Notes on Maps

Personalities

Designer's Notes

Sir Ian Burton

What the Future Holds

Sir Joseph Wellington

Getting There

Major Richard Rossi

Timing

David Hudson

Going Home

Colonel Nikita Borisov

Boomer

Colonel Piotr Bulganin

Accidental Tourists

Colonel Mikhail Tumanski

Intentional Landfall

Colonel Patrick Rochefort

Tasks

Organizations

The War

His Majesty's Government

1996

MIS

1997

M16

1998

DIA

1999

American Legion

2000

CIA

The Land

KGB

Geography

GRU

National Government

Direction Generale

The People

Baby Squad

The Economy

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Red Devils

The War

Tartan Army

Life in Great Britain

Democratic Front

Living Conditions

New Royalist Army

Housing

Encounters

Money

General Encounters

Health and Medication

Road Encounters

Work and Wages

.....19

Town Encounters

Social Life

England Encounters

Distribution

Animal Encounters

Prices

A Special Note

Services

British Characters

Weaponry

Service Branch/Specialty Tables

Fuel Ownership

Rank

Off Shore

Language Table

Regional Guide

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British Vehicle Table

The Highlands

Demolitions Skill

Central Scotland

Additions to The Equipment List

The Shetlands

Basic Fire Charts

The Orkneys

Vehicle Damage Location Chart

The Coastal Islands

British Army

Anglo-Scottish Border

Order of Battle

The Midlands

Unit History and Current Status

Anglia

Combat Vehicles and Weapons

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SURVIVORS' GUIDE TO

THE UNITED KINGDOM

This sourcebook, like all Twilight: 2000 sourcebooks, is not an

adventure—instead it provides the sotting and backdrop for a se-

ries of adventures. It gives a brief overview of the land, the military

and political organizations, and major personalities involved, and

it suggests campaign and adventure possibilities.

Survivors' Guide to the United Kingdom is intended to famil-

iarize referees (and players, to a lesser extent) with Great Britain,

the "unsinkable aircraft carrier" (as the country was sometimes

called during WWII). The country has fallen into anarchy despite

the relative lack of damage (compared to central Europe and North

America) caused by the war. Powerful warlords control much of the

country, their territory encompassing a number of towns. Some of

the country is controlled by the British Army, but outside these re-

gions the story is different—law and order are nonexistent, and few

venture into the countryside without good reason.

One special note to avoid confusion: In all references after 1999,

the word "England" is used to mean that area of the UK under con-

trol of the British Army and what remains of His Majesty's Gov-

ernment (which is only part of the island). In references previous

to this date, the word has the same meaning as in 1990.

GDW

Wales already have a reputation for enforcing their independence,

so only a few brave refugees will be desperate enough to head for

these areas.

Northern Ireland is, for all intents and purposes, an independent

country. The war with Eire will continue to be bogged down, with

both sides launching a number of unsuccessful attacks. The on-

coming blight will increase hardships on both sides, but the war will

continue—the government that sues for peace is the government

that is overthrown. The situation will come to resemble that found

in places like Ethiopia, the Sudan, and various other African coun-

tries during the 1980s.

In England, the military area will not suffer a major crop failure.

Unfortunately, a trickle of refugees will slowly become a flood, and

resentment among the border towns will result in an escalating

number of bitter clashes toward autumn. Military intervention will

stop many of these, but as winter settles in, large shanty towns will

spring up along the military border. Elsewhere, many warlords will

find themselves unable to feed their people. As the summer ends,

civilian unrest will slowly begin to ferment, and several towns will

become battlegrounds—some fighting for independence, others

fighting their neighbors for vital supplies of food. Marauders will try

to take advantage of the chaos to loot and pillage.

As autumn begins, many families wilt leave the towns and trek

south to the military area—many will not make it, killed by cold,

hunger, exhaustion, and marauders. Surviving towns will became

quite ruthless in their attempts to maintain control and keep out

refugees.

Marauder bands will become more concerned with food as the

summer progresses and will sweep through the countryside. Ref-

ugees will be picked off; convoys will be massacred. Numerous

towns will be attacked—some will be tooted; others will resist The

Tartan Army will dissolve in September, and by the end of the year,

the majority of the other large gangs will be gone—in their place will

be a mass of small gangs. All in all, it will not be a pleasant situation.

DEVELOPER'S NOTE ON MAPS

The United Kingdom is one of the best mapped places on the

planet. Referees in the UK should have no trouble obtaining

detailed maps of whatever region they wish from local libraries,

stationery stores, etc. (the various ordnance survey maps are

more than adequate). American referees who plan extensive

campaigns may wish to invest in the Ordnance Survey Touring

Atlas of Great Britain, by Paul Hamlyn (check the local bookstore—

Barnes and Noble carries them).The JNC and ONC series of maps

will provide more detail than most referees need (check a university

map library),

DESIGNER'S NOTES

When devising the conditions in the United Kingdom, I made an

effort to give the region a flavor different from that in Europe, Iran,

and America. Initially, I had in mind a Britain in which there were

numerous "free cities" (some under government control, others in-

dependent), where, apart from a considerable drop in the standard

of living, life continued as normal. Later on, as I worked on the

background, I dropped this idea for one where local warlords had

begun to conquer their neighbor, thus building up a number of mini-

states.

In all the published GDW material at the time of writing, there was

almost nothing about the UK, beyond the fact that it had been

nuked and that certain military events had occurred. This basically

meant that I had a free hand to determine what had happened in

Britain, knowing that I didn't have to have any already detailed

events crop up.

WARNING:

PLAYERS SHOULD

READ NO FURTHER

IN ORDER TO

PRESERVE

THE ELEMENT

OF SURPRISE.

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS

The Scottish Highlands and much of Wales are already indepen-

dent of much of Britain, and this trend will continue. The oncoming

blight mentioned in Kidnapped will affect both areas, but not se-

verely. Both will suffer crop reductions, but the smaller, more widely

scattered populations will still have enough crops to prevent major

famine from breaking out. The locals in the Scottish Highlands and

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