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I have just completed BGB:EttW (mentioned in a previous thread) and am in the process of releasing it on DTRPG under the Free League Community program.

It took seven weeks longer than I estimated, but also runs to just under 400 pages, not the 200-240 I originally estimated.

This ius a 'high adventure campaign' of small unit actions in a post Exchange USSR - Siberia, around Lake Baikal, initially -- not some hard scrabble Mad Max version of post apocalyptic howling wilderness of Poland or Sweden where every meal, bullet and litre of fuel is a virtually impossible quest to find and acquire ...

The premise is an uprising (a successful one) by the POWs of a GUPVI POW Camp near Severobaikalsk on the Baikal Amur Mainline offshoot of the Trans Siberian RR hooking up with the local separatist Partisans, the Baikal People's Army, and stumbling across a secret Magazine full of stockpiled obsolete WW2 and 1950's weaponry -- enough to allow the POWs to form a Brigade sized Task Force ('Battlegroup Blue') and leave lots over for the Partisans to form their own army.

BGB will attempt to emulate the exploits of the Czechoslovak Legion of WW1 and fight its way back home -- but will move west towards European USSR and drive through the remnant heartlands of a mortally wounded Soviet state ...

This will be the first part of at least two books covering their adventurous journey and is released as a single, complete, Campaign Book, Battlegroup Blue: Escape to the West -- Part #1: Severobaikalsk to Ust Kut (398 pages, US$34.99 from DTRPG), a fair chunk of money, I know -- but only ~8.8c a page rather than the 20-50c per page most recent TW:2000 projects charge.

However, I have taken on board complaints that this is a lot -- so I have done two things to reduce the pain --

Firstly I have divided the book into three parts at lesser cost individually, but at a premium when compared to the cost of the whole book --

* BGB:EttW - The Uprising (119 pages) -- $14.99 (just over 12.5 cents per page)
* BGB:EttW -- Defence to the West (90 pages) -- $11.49 or, again, just over 12.5 cents per page
* BGB:EttW -- The Ust-Kut Campaign (264 pages) -- $29.99or just under 11.5 cents per page

Secondly, I am releasing a sample adventure --

* BGB:EttW -- The Ust-Kut Central Post Office (19 pages) -- which will sell for $1 on DTRPG as a teaser, and which covers a single element of the last stages of the Battle for Ust-Kut. However, as a special deal for readers of this forum, it will be available as a free download through the attached Dropbox link through to at least the end of September.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/mzubxpwx ... bxdqs25l7x

All the books include the NPC, Weapon and Vehicle stats and other rules needed to make them playable as a campaign all culled from the other PGD products -- RTA: Modern Encounters (and its separately available chapter on Cardboard Characters/NPCs), RtA: Gear Book (and its separately available chapers on Gun Trucks, Technicals and Zombie Armour; Weaponry Catalogue and Vehicle Catalogue) as well as RtA: Category IV Wartime Mobilisation Only Divisions, all also available on DTRPG as part of the Community program)

Phil McGregor

I’m very interested in your materials, but the above sample link is not functional.

That's interesting, because when iI click on it it takes me diredctly there!

Have you tried a different Browser?

It's too large (3.7 MB) to addd as an attachment ... if you really cannot get the link to work email me at ...

aspqrz at tpg dot com dot au

... and I can send it direct as an email attachment. Assuming your email can handle a 3.7mb attachment.

If it can't, I can probably send you a free coupon for DTRPG where it's on sale for $1.

Same offer applies to anyone else who cannot acces DropBox for some arcane reason,

Phil McGregor

I managed to download it. I am not an expert in dropbox but dropbox actually said that it couldn't do the request, but after a while, voila, the file was downloaded. I tested with Edge, Firefox and Chrome. Edge and Firefox worked, but Chrome took to long so I stopped. I normally use Chrome so I have a lot of extensions for it so that might be the reason it didn't work for Chrome.

I normally use Opera -- but for downloading large files I use Edge which has become less intrusive than Opera. ... so I am aware they all have their quirks and/or limitations.

Glad it finally worked foir you!

Phil

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I’m very interested in your materials, but the above sample link is not functional.

I have the same problem with this link and get the bad request message @Fenhorn received as well. Dropbox is browser agnostic, so I would think the problem isn't with Firefox (my browser), Chrome or Opera.

I’m very interested in your materials, but the above sample link is not functional.

I have the same problem with this link and get the bad request message @Fenhorn received as well. Dropbox is browser agnostic, so I would think the problem isn't with Firefox (my browser), Chrome or Opera.

It's too large (3.7 MB) to addd as an attachment ... if you really cannot get the link to work email me at ...

aspqrz at tpg dot com dot au

... and I can send it direct as an email attachment. Assuming your email can handle a 3.7mb attachment.

If it can't, I can probably send you a free coupon for DTRPG where it's on sale for $1.

Same offer applies to anyone else who cannot acces DropBox for some arcane reason,