Вы - Советская Атомная Кавалерия, Ход Второй: Каждый получает пони! March 3rd, 1943As you look at the horses, you envy your comrades that managed to get to the Waitlistnyev IPL. They seems... odd, slightly pulsating, and you cannot help but feel slightly sick as you approach them. Surely it is only psychological?
Near each of the horses is a backpack containing the equipment you requested.
Grigori Ursine looks at his empty backpack and cry a bearly tear as it thinks about the discrimination facing LGBT (Lynx, Grey Wolves, Bear, Tiger) people in the USSR. For all their talks of "All species united under Communism", bears like him still face specieism and discrimination at every turn. Yet again, he'll have to go to the front unarmed because of humano-centrists weapons designers.
Still, it's better than on the other side of the frontline. Despite the harsh censorship designed to prevent panic among the population, horrible rumors of the treatment of bears are coming from the other side. Getthos, vast camps, bears treated as little more than beasts. Some even pretend Hitler visit his troops wearing a bearskin coat!
Grigori Ursine may have been appoint the the Soviet Nuclear Cavalry as a token of the USSR's inclusiveness for propaganda purpose, but he'll show them all what a bear can do! He'll fight for as long as a single bear stay interned in those camps!
Commander:Captain Oleg Vasiliev
Age:29
Nationality:Russian
HP:8/8
Skills:Ballet Dancer +1 to esquive rolls.
Noticed By Stalin +1 to bragging rolls.
Horse:
Breed:Arabian
HP:8/8
+1 to charisma
Weapon:PPS 42
Range:150m
Clip:35
Burst size:6
Damage: 1D4
Precision:-1
10 spare magazines
Age:15
Nationality:Bear
HP:12/12
Skills:Paws of the People +1 to close quarter combat rolls
Bear Cavalry +1 to riding rolls
It's a fucking bear! +4 max HP
Specieist weapons manufacturer cannot use equipment designed for human hands.
Horse:Claw Marx
Breed:Thoroughbred
HP:10/10
+1 to speed
Age:21
Nationality:Russian
HP:8/8
Skills:Career Soldier +1 to relations with military
Not a Ballet Dancer +1 to shooting stuff
Horse:
Race:Mule
HP:14/14
Can carry up to a lot of equipment
Mosin-Nagant M38:
Range:500m
Clip:5
Burst size:1
Damage:1D6
Precision:+2
24 spare clips
Age:23
Nationality:Polish
HP:8/8
Skills:Partisan +1 to sneaking and hiding
It's Brzęczyszczykiewicz with 5 'z' +1 against bureaucrats
Horse:Chrząszczyżewoszyc Łękołód
Breed: Soviet Draft Horse
HP:20/20
Weapons:SVT-40
Range:500m
Clip:10
Burst size:2
Damage:1D6
Precision:+0
10 spare clips
Vis wz.35
Range:30m
Burst Size:2
Clip:8
Damage:1D4
Precision:+1
2 spare clip
Age: RAND(18,55)
Nationality:Scottish
HP:8/8
Skills:You call THAT vodka? +1 to drinking
Tsar Bomber +1 to explosive
Horse:
Breed:Warhorse
HP:12/12
+2 to damage rolls
-1 to riding rolls
Weapons:Bazooka
Range:150m
Burst Size:1/2
Clip:1
Damage:2D8
Splash Damage
Precision:-2
14 rockets
As you harness your horses, a man in a white labcoat arrives.
Well men, I hope you'll treat my children well. Well, they're not literally my children of course, but you know what I mean. Since they're nuclear, they don't actually need to eat or sleep or rest, they are powered by a natural uranium reactor in their guts. They still like carrots though.
Of course, they should have plenty of water do drink, for cooling purpose. 40 or 50 liters a day should be enough. One of our stableboy forgot to water the horses, and the results were most interesting. We're still looking into it, but I'm certain we'll find some parts to send to his family eventually.
Oh, and of course, take care not to injure them. They tend to do BAD THING when hurt. Which usually results in more hurt all around. So please take care of them, they're dear boys when they're not using their cancer ray to fry your brain.
Sadly, before you can ask how this cancer ray work the doctor walks away, muttering to himself. It seems at least one brain was fried.
As you wonder where you could by a pair of lead underpants, the important-looking-officer address you once more.
Comrades, now that you have your equipment, let me tell you about your mission. We've bloodied the fascists this winter, but as soon as the rasputitsa is over, they'll launch a great spring offensive. GRU thinks their target will be the Kursk salient, and we've spent large part of winter reinforcing it.
As a first mission, and to test your horses' capabilities, you'll go on a reconnaissance mission on the southern side of the salient. Go there, identify their units and try to capture an officer for information.
If you don't have any question, you are free to go now, the front is a mere 10 km away. If you do have question, I'm sure your Commissar will be able to make sure you don't have questions anymore.
Make us proud comrade, Stalin is watching you!