TEXT: T-72
  a fiasco playset from the VSCA
  B.Murray
  
  Relationships...
  1 work
  1 Tank / driver
  2 Mentor / student
  3 Rivals for a plum job
  4 Commander / rebellious underling
  5 Party spy / student activist
  6 Stalwart comrades in arms
  2 Friendship
  1 Thrown together by fear
  2 Coward / protector
  3 Drinking buddies
  4 Competitive killers
  5 Mutual hatred of another
  6 Brothers
  3 Politics
  1 Party members
  2 Mujahadeen sympathizers
  3 Business partners
  4 GRU agent / informant
  5 GRU investigator / investigated
  6 Western European agents
  
  ...in the Afghan 
  desert, 1981
  4 crime
  1 Drinking the brake fluid
  2 That time with the headman’s daughter
  3 Wanted back home for armed robbery
  4 Smuggling out opium
  5 Secret capitalists
  6 Foreign saboteur and the one who knows
  5 Community
  1 Neighbours in Pskov
  2 Friendly with Afghans
  3 Trainers
  4 KGB political cadre
  5 Professional soldiers
  6 Chef / gourmand
  6 Soul
  1 We know who poisoned the well
  2 We watched and did nothing
  3 We want to be here
  4 Suicide pact
  5 We saw it being buried
  6 We fixed it last time
  
  Needs...
  1 To get out
  1 ...of Afghanistan
  2 ...of the Communist party
  3 ...of this desperately cramped tank
  4 ...of work
  5 ...of this fix
  6 ...of that marriage
  2 To get even
  1 ...for being cheated at cards
  2 ...for being turned in
  3 ...for the death of a mate
  4 ...for being drafted
  5 ...for being a subordinate
  6 ...for being forced to do that
  3 to get off
  1 ...on a new high
  2 ...on those lovely Afghan girls
  3 ...on power and command
  4 ...on a secret
  5 ...on fucking shit up with this tank
  6 ...on being the hero
  
  ...in the Afghan 
  desert, 1981
  4 To get respect
  1 ...as warriors
  2 ...as brokers of peace
  3 ...as a commander
  4 ...by bucking authority
  5 ...as a saviour
  6 ...as a wheeler and dealer
  5 To get the truth
  1 ...about the war
  2 ...about the tank
  3 ...about the helicopter crash
  4 ...about the village
  5 ...about the poisoned well
  6 ...about the dog
  6 To get this tank
  1 ...to the front lines
  2 ...repaired
  3 ...ruined, mired, or otherwise fucked
  4 ...sold to the Americans
  5 ...in shape for parade
  6 ...under our command
  
  Locations...
  1 The Oasis
  1 Quicksand
  2 Sweet water pool where Sergei drowned
  3 In the romantic shade of a date palm
  4 The ford in the river
  5 The Mujahadeen camp
  6 The chemical sheds
  2 The Village
  1 In the bazaar
  2 The coffee seller’s stall
  3 The stables with the prize race-horses
  4 GRU safe house
  5 The well
  6 The only gas station for miles
  3 The MI-24 Wreck
  1 The cockpit
  2 In the shade under the guns
  3 Behind the rocket launchers
  4 The electronics station
  5 The tail rotor
  6 The cryptography locker
  
  ...in the Afghan 
  desert, 1981
  4 The narrow pass
  1 On the ridge overlooking the pass
  2 The road right through
  3 The observation post
  4 A hidden trail
  5 Under that huge rock
  6 The minefield
  5 Headquarters
  1 The canteen
  2 Major Renkov’s office
  3 The infirmary
  4 The latrine
  5 The armory
  6 In the wire
  6 Headman’s Tent
  1 His daughter’s bed
  2 His wife’s bed
  3 His bed
  4 The celebration with the dancing
  5 Hidden in the shadows
  6 The empty cistern
  
  Objects...
  1 Untoward
  1 A 100 liter drum of adulterated fuel
  2 A list of collaborators’ names
  3 A medical kit missing all the opiates
  4 A case of blank ammunition
  5 A sack full of krugeraands
  6 The keys to a big cream Cadillac
  2 Forbidden
  1 American jeans
  2 Vodka...a lot of vodka
  3 Short wave radio
  4 Pornography of the worst kind
  5 Notebook detailing atrocities
  6 Real coffee
  3 Transportation
  1 A helicopter headed to the front
  2 A huge Antonov transport plane
  3 A brand new T-80 tank no one is using
  4 An old battered jeep
  5 A horse and saddle
  6 A battered bicycle
  
  ...in the Afghan 
  desert, 1981
  4 Weapon
  1 Grenades
  2 An ornate Afghan flintlock rifle
  3 Flamethrower
  4 The tracks are weapons too
  5 A Spetsnatz dagger
  6 A handy rock
  5 Information
  1 The mirab’s water records
  2 Where they hid the money
  3 Where the body is buried
  4 Who got paid
  5 Where the attack will be
  6 A ruinous sexual history
  6 Sentimental
  1 A lock of golden hair
  2 Your father’s pocket-watch
  3 An Order of Alexander Nevsky medal
  4 A WW2 Luger pistol taken in Berlin
  5 A faded photograph of a child
  6 The old man’s promise
  
  A T-72 INSTA-SETUP
  Relationships in Afghanistan
  For three players...
  •	 Politics: business partners
  •	 Work: commander / rebellious underling
  •	 Crime: drinking the brake fluid
  For four players, add...
  •	 Soul: we want to be here
  For five players, add...
  •	 Community: chef / gourmand
  Needs in afghanistan
  For three players...
  •	 To get even: ...for the death of a mate
  For four or five players, add...
  •	 To get this tank: ...repaired
  Locations in Afghanistan
  For three, four, or five players...
  •	 The headman’s tent, in his wife’s bed
  Objects in Afghanistan
  For three or four players...
  •	 Weapon: the tracks are weapons too
  For five players, add...
  •	 Forbidden: American jeans
  
  Glossary
  GRU
  Glavnoye Razvedyvatel’noye Upravleniye. 
  The Russian military’s private foreign 
  spying service.
  KGB
  Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti. 
  The Soviet (now Russian) state security 
  agency.
  Malik
  The headman of an Afghan village. One of 
  three sources of authority.
  Mirab
  The water keeper in an Afghan village. 
  One of three sources of authority.
  Mullah
  The third source of authority -- the 
  religious leader of the village.
  Mujahadeen
  The rebel opposition in Afghanistan that 
  mired the Soviet Union in an expensive 
  and largely fruitless guerilla war.
  Order of Alexander Nevsky
  A medal of honour, not always military, 
  that references one of the great 
  medieval repulsions of German invaders 
  of Russia.
  Spetsnatz
  Bad-ass Soviet special forces.
  
  Legal stuff
  T-72 is copyright 2011 by VSCA 
  Publishing and released under the 
  Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 
  license. Do what you want with it, but 
  please name names if you do. The cover 
  art is copyright 2011 by Brad Murray.
  Fiasco is copyright 2009 by Jason 
  Morningstar and if you haven’t got it, 
  go get it. It’s got ISBN 987-1-934859-
  39-1 and is made by Bully Pulpit Games.
  The cover image is traced from a US 
  military photo (and thus public domain) 
  from http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/ ID: 
  DNSN8307101 Caption: “Front view of a 
  Soviet T-80 main battle tank. “Soviet 
  Military Power,” 1983, Page 39 Date 
  Shot: 1 Apr 1983“. Honestly, though, I 
  got my copy from Wikipedia.
  This playset is loosely based on The 
  Beast of War, a 1988 film by Kevin 
  Reynolds, starring George Dzundza, Jason 
  Patric, and Steven Bauer.
  You’ll find more stuff from the VSCA 
  (including the award-winning game, 
  Diaspora) at the VSCA web site:
  http://www.vsca.ca
  r1.0
  
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