Grey Ranks

Grey Ranks is a role-playing game by Jason Morningstar, independently published by Bully Pulpit Games. The game is designed for three to five players and puts each of them in the shoes of child soldiers during the Warsaw Uprising, serving as members of the Grey Ranks. Setting Grey Ranks is set in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, with each player playing a child aged between 15 and 17. The game itself takes place over the course of ten chapters, each relating to an event that shaped the course of the Warsaw Uprising. To set the scene, each chapter begins with someone reading out a passage attributed to Radio Lightning. This is a narrative conceit as the game starts with preparing for the uprising in July 1944, and Radio Lightning didn't start until a week into August. The ten chapters are: Chapter One: Monkey-wrenching the Occupation - July 2, 1944 Chapter Two: The Nazis Begin To Get Nervous - July 27, 1944 Chapter Three: The Uprising Begins! - August 1, 1944 Chapter Four: Desperate Street Fighting - August 2, 1944 Chapter Five: The High Water Mark Of The Uprising - August 4, 1944 Chapter Six: German Tanks against Home-Made Rifles - August 7, 1944 Chapter Seven: Old Town Must Hold - August 14, 1944 Chapter Eight: Old Town Falls and the Sewers Become A Highway - September 2, 1944 Chapter Nine: The Soviets Reach the Vistula and Stop Cold - September 10, 1944 Chapter Ten: Capitulation - October 3, 1944