One of my plans for the summer, when hopefully I and my friends have a bit more time is to get a GURPS campaign running. I haven't run a GURPS game in about five years, near as I can figure, and to help get my head back in it - as well as to get some experience with GURPS 4th Edition I decided to run through a little encounter with some NPCs for one of the campaigns I've been working on for oh, six years or so

Read on for a blow-by-blow of this fight! 

(UPDATED) 

Been really busy with work lately, but still getting a little time now and then to play some  Hearts of Iron - a strategic-level WWII wargame that lets you take control of pretty much any nation in the war. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it before. Every so often the mood for a complex, in-depth strategy game strikes me, and I'm back to HOI.

Anyways, this time I was playing Soviet Russia. [Insert your own "In Soviet Russia..." joke here]. I did the "Grand Campaign", starting in 1936. I almost always play this campaign, as I like the planning involved with building up for the inevitable war you know is coming, and trying new strategies. Plus I wanted to play the USSR in the late game which models the Cold War and see what it's like.

Anyways, I tried one early war with Germany, attacking when they were busy fighting France. Didn't go so well, so I reloaded the game. Then things followed a pretty standard path, with the Germans attacking in spring 1941. The war went better for me than it did in reality, and by 1944 I'd conquered Germany, as well as turning Poland, Bulgaria and Italy into puppet states. I had most of the former German territory, while the US and France had the rest.