Love it! And it's nice to run a 'modern' game without having to worry about smartphones and the internet. Please keep us informed on how the Argentina mission went.

So on 2-12-26 we played our second adventure of Dogs of W.A.R.  This one was titled "The Argentinean Express" it was set in November 1985.

The heros, Jack Danner and Viki Jensen were tasked to recover stolen bio-tec plans stolen from a Brazilian laboratory.  They had been informed that the sale was to take place on a train from Buenos Aires to Carmen de Patagones.

Both PCs had to sneak/conceal their weapons & suppresors on the train by making Concealment/Hide Objects task rolls @ 9 "moderate" they did.  Then they spent the next 22 hours on the train, interacting with NPCs to try to locate the bio-weapon thief or the purchaser.  Some Deception and Sense Motive rolls were done, as well as Perception rolls to try to see if anyone else was carrying.   Viki notice that one passenger had on body armor during one roll.  She also made a very good Sense Motive roll to realize that a male passenger was lying about his job or why he was headed to Carmen de Patagones.  This got her suspicious of the man.

Around 0200 hours, Viki headed to the dining car.  There she noticed the suspicous man passing a note to a female.  At 0400 hours, the train stopped at Bahia Blanca, the stop was scheduled for 1 hour and passengers could disembark to stretch their legs.  

Viki disembarked and watched the suspcious female and male exit the train and walk into the city, she motioned for Jack and they followed (good rolls to avoid being seen) the two into an abandoned warehouse.  The deal was going to be conducted inside.  The PCs observed the man handing the woman a satchel which contained $$, she in turn started to hand him a floppy disk.  That is when the PCs entered and a gunfight ensued!

During the gunfight, the man wearing the body armor arrived, he was an agent for the Brazilian Intelligence Agency and he started shooting at everyone!  The PCs prevailed, they got the floppy and the satchel with $10,000 cash.  Viki was wounded, so they took 10 to patch up her wounds.  Viki used her Cleaner specialization to exit the area without running into any police.  She found a taxi driver and offered to pay him $1,000 to Buenos Aires, where they contacted their handler and eventually made their way out of the country and back to the US.  

This one-shot took us about 2.5 hours, a good length for us.

Both of us are fighting colds, but we are going to try to play the next adventure Saturday night or Sunday.  I have it almost completed and looks like it will be another fun one.

Last edited by Sigulf (2/25/2026 5:13 pm)

Sounds like a lot of fun!

I wasn't familiar with Dogs of W*A*R so I looked it up and am intrigued. My favorite "Men's Adventure" series was The Destroyer by Sapir & Murphy, which was admittedly atypical, but the game sounds idea for doing '60s-'80s action movie adventures as well.

Thanks for sharing!