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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ledded" data-source="post: 1383352" data-attributes="member: 12744">Yeah, those were done pretty well in the series, if briefly. There were quite a few memorable moments from the book and other veterans accounts that were quite good but didnt make it to the show.  Such as in the aforementioned bazooka scene, the loader for the guy manning the bazooka came up to him the night before when they were getting into position (just a few hours before the German counterattack) carrying an armload of bazooka rounds very gingerly.  When asked what he was doing, he said he removed all the arming pins from the bazooka rounds (which I didnt even know they had).  The other guy freaked, afraid they would get themselves killed, and yelled at him to put them back in.  The guy just shook his head and said he couldnt, because he pulled 'em in the dark and lost them.  They both scrambled around the area, carrying the bazooka rounds until they found the pins and put them back in;  they got done not too long before the German attack. And Dana, I agree, you would have to go with a little more of a 'heroic' feel, with special commando kind of missions with a d20 Modern WWII campaign unless you like tons of just high-mortality combat in your game.  Where Eagles Dare would actually be an extremely fun scenario to play out, and a Kelly's Heroes type game would be a lot of fun for my group to play out as they tend to be a bit too chaotic to go around following orders and doing the right thing all the time ;^)</blockquote>

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