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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dallman" data-source="post: 9707678" data-attributes="member: 6999616">After something of a real-time gap, our heroes recapped.They're on an Antarctic expedition, in May 1951, looking for Nazis who fled in spring 1945. They've found two cargo U-Boats, which had been mothballed, and a tunnel leading from the cove where they are to a rail tunnel. That seems to be the service tunnel for two much larger rail tunnels, which are flooded and unserviceable. Their PC with psychometry and precognition had a vision of some very strange alien things which shook her badly. They've found out how to use the service tunnel vehicles and discovered a map of the tunnel system, which goes all the way round the edge of Antarctica.Then they captured three low-ranking Nazis, one of whom they'd met before in Argentina, where he was crew on a very advanced helicopter. They disabled that helicopter, but left the Nazis to recover it because it seemed the only way to keep it out of the news, and the PCs were busy fleeing the country. That fellow, a Luftwaffe sergeant, was willing to talk if it got him out of Antarctica. He and his two men had been delivering tribute to the alien things via the service tunnel.He told them that there was a large and advanced bomber aircraft at the Nazi base, which was an obvious serious threat to their expedition's ship. There are about 250 Nazis there (100 from each of the submarines, 50 who got there in the bomber), plus two helicopters. There were two ways to the base, one through a side-tunnel from the service tunnel that the Nazis bored, and one through a natural fault that the Nazis used to find the tunnel system. The base is at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schirmacher_Oasis" target="_blank">Schirmacher Oasis</a>, which was discovered by the Neuschwabenland expedition of 1938-39, and named after himself by its discoverer, Richard Schirmacher. He is one of the leaders of the Nazi group, along with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kammler" target="_blank">Hans Kammler</a>.The party's expedition had come expecting submarines, and had brought a supply of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka#Rocket_launcher,_M20_%22Super_Bazooka%22" target="_blank">M20 "Super_Bazooka"</a> so that infantry could punch holes in submarine hulls. They were expected to be effective on aircraft, so they were taken along. The party went in two of the service tunnel vehicles with the four main PCs, two of the supporting-cast additional PCs, and two NCOs from their supporting company of the US 87th Mountain Infantry. Getting past the Nazi-bored tunnel was done simply by zooming past at high speed and hoping the sentries weren't feeling keen. It seemed to work.They climbed the fault, and managed to spot the base without being spotted. As they'd been told, the hangar doors were open during the afternoon, but were closed as they watched. They waited for dusk, approached, blew a hold in the doors with gizmo explosives, and successfully put a bazooka round into each of the three aircraft, doing lots of damage, and revealing a large glowing metal object in the wreckage of the bomber. Then they ran away, and we ended the session."Better than we deserved" remarked one of the players, given that they were trying to rol under 11 or 12 for each of the bazooka shots and all of them hit.</blockquote>

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