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Do you remember the war years?
When Der
Flieger sent Polish troops
scattering with his sonic booms? When he buzzed
London without an aircraft and gained the name Mr.
Messerschmitt from a terrified populace?
Do you remember when the bombs rained down and
people died?
Do you remember Cien, the Pole who
could lift things with his shadow? Or
Prevnost, who could link any two
doorways with the power of his mind, despite the
distance between them?
Do you remember where you were when three
million men crossed the Soviet border? Do you
recall how the Indestructible Man swam away
unscathed from the burning wreck of the
Reuben James as it
dragged ninety-nine of his compatriots to a watery
grave?
Or when Charles Lindbergh left for the Reich? Do
you recall Null or
Feuerzauber or Baba
Yaga? Does the name Mr. Nowhere ring
any bells? The League of Five Thousand?
Sheol? The Eisenhower plan or
Goldberg Science? Do you remember any of these
things? Don't worry, you will....
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Forward elements of the American Sixth Army
(Talent Operation Group 141) pass the remnants of a
battle between the Fifteenth
Überkommandogruppen and "Miller's Hellions."
(Photo by Steven Hiet, taken July 22, 1944)
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Cpl Dan "The Obfuscator" Simmons renders a grunt
invisible with his Talent in the snow at
Gleinmarch, Germany. (Photo by Cpt Randolph
"Bulldozer" Berigal, February 19, 1945)
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Join the Allied parahuman Talents in their
battle against Hitler's
Übermenschen.
Take the role of a Talent, someone who can do
the impossible by re-writing reality with the power
of the mind alone, and stop the Axis. Join the
Talent Operation Group of the U.S. Army, or the
Special Sciences Office of the British Forces, or
Soviet Special Directive One and push the Germans
from your homeland with the abilities which set you
apart from the common soldier.
Land on Omaha beach and confront the
Übermenschen left there to deal
with you.
Push through the German lines at Stalingrad and
take your land back inch by bloody inch.
Skulk through the jungles of Burma and pray you
don't arouse the anger of Chanduk the
spirit of the forest, or cross paths with a
Japanese patrol.
Where you go and who you fight is up to you. The
world is at war, and there are more than enough
enemies to go around...
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Godlike is the game of paranormal powers and
World War II combat.
Talents don't wear tights, because the snipers
would know who to shoot first. They don't operate
alone because they would be overrun. They don't do
anything the superheroes in the comics do, because
they live in a world filled with death.
They don't do these foolish things because they
have something to live for, something to fight for,
and something, if they must, to die for. At the
height of World War II, 200,000 Talents from every
culture on the planet went to war to protect what
was theirs...
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An unknown American Talent lifts a 28 ton
Jagdpanzer IV somewhere in France, most likely just
to clear the road. (Photo circa late 1944)
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