American WWW2 Weird/Supernatural Forces

[Kieron]

How about taking some inspiration from the Salem Witch Trials and having a coven of witches available for the US?  Or what about drawing on Sleepy Hollow and have a squad of ethereal headless motorcycle riders?

[dijit]

I don't think you can avoid 'Shellhole Sam', a character that in various forms a guises turns up unexpectedly and finds lost troops and leads them to safety - through minefields, back to friendly lines, etc. The troops that try to find him and thank him only to find he'd died days/weeks/months earlier. There's loads of those sort of stories.
How they'd work on the table though I have no idea
Duncan

[TheShadow]

how about a ww2 version of

[proditor]

The coven idea also leads to all sorts of interesting propoganda posters.

Variations on: seem like a given.

[MajorTalon]

I don't think you can avoid 'Shellhole Sam', a character that in various forms a guises turns up unexpectedly and finds lost troops and leads them to safety - through minefields, back to friendly lines, etc. The troops that try to find him and thank him only to find he'd died days/weeks/months earlier. There's loads of those sort of stories.
How they'd work on the table though I have no idea
Duncan

Sounds like interesting reading. Any links to some stories?

[dijit]

Unfortunately I can't remember where I've read those stories. One was based in North Africa, were an ambulance got stuck in a minefield, and some engineer showed up who showed them the way out, only for them to find out afterwards he was dead. Then there's quite a few tales from WWI of soldiers lost in no man's land being brought home by dead soldiers. 'Shellhole Sam' is a character from one of Robert Holdstock's books about the Mythago Wood.
Duncan

[joroas]

Frederick forsyth's The Good shepherd novel as well.