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by ottarrus
Wed 27 Oct 2021, 14:43
Forum: General
Topic: Food, Rations, Sustainability
Replies: 27
Views: 2736

Food, Rations, Sustainability

So, I'm a US Civil War reenactor and I do a lot of teaching at schools. One of the things that I really focus on when teaching is the daily life of a soldier /civilian. What they wore, what they thought, how they lived, what they ate. With that in mind, I thought I'd offer a couple of thoughts about...
by ottarrus
Wed 27 Oct 2021, 03:08
Forum: General
Topic: T2K4 "Red Shirts"
Replies: 19
Views: 2713

Re: T2K4 "Red Shirts"

Respectfully, I don’t like this idea. A shattered military unit trying to get away in small groups is one thing, but at the scale of the current armies (600 man “Divisions”, etc.) roving around with a platoon or small company represents not a shattered unit, but a sizable amount of divisional asset...
by ottarrus
Wed 27 Oct 2021, 03:00
Forum: General
Topic: T2K4 "Red Shirts"
Replies: 19
Views: 2713

Re: T2K4 "Red Shirts"

Definitely talk to your party. If someone wants to be the mechanic, hunter, cook, etc and would enjoy that, don't let an NPC step on their toes by being better at it. If your players want to go with a more base building campaign than a roaming around game then having more NPCs will be right up thei...
by ottarrus
Tue 26 Oct 2021, 15:04
Forum: General
Topic: Short T2K fan-fic -- 'Nuthin'
Replies: 2
Views: 513

Short T2K fan-fic -- 'Nuthin'

A bit of fan-fic I wrote for the T2K setting when I heard that Fria Liga was working on a reboot of the IP. I posted it to FB already, so it's 'out there' so to speak, but I thought I'd share it here. -- WARNING! NSFW! -- ‘NUTHIN’ By Carl Hicks Jr. Former tanker and Old Geek 0545 hrs., June 2000, We...
by ottarrus
Tue 26 Oct 2021, 00:44
Forum: General
Topic: T2K4 "Red Shirts"
Replies: 19
Views: 2713

Re: T2K4 "Red Shirts"

I use a vague 'reputation' scale. It's nothing hard and system crunchy, but when I generate an NPC that the party will have around for awhile I give them a personality with assets and deficits. Nobody's perfect and in any group of people [be it an office, a work crew, or a military unit] there are p...
by ottarrus
Mon 25 Oct 2021, 13:19
Forum: General
Topic: Recommended books for inspiration?
Replies: 26
Views: 6462

Re: Recommended books for inspiration?

Not really a 'recommendation' since it's only just out and I haven't read it, but this has just last week been published, and may be of interest: BATTLEGROUP! The Lessons of the Unfought Battles of the Cold War. Published by Helion. From the 'blurb': "Battlegroup! investigates the unfought lan...
by ottarrus
Mon 25 Oct 2021, 13:18
Forum: General
Topic: Recommended books for inspiration?
Replies: 26
Views: 6462

Re: Recommended books for inspiration?

Another three or four books that don't get mentioned a lot: a] 'Tomorrow When the War Began' by Marsden. It's a young adult series [seven books, iirc] about teenagers surviving the fall of civilization as an Australian /American confrontation with China gets out of hand. It's rather like the 'This W...
by ottarrus
Mon 25 Oct 2021, 13:02
Forum: General
Topic: Online Character Sheets
Replies: 1
Views: 556

Online Character Sheets

Has anyone developed a fillable online character sheet?
I've looked about for one and came up empty.
by ottarrus
Mon 25 Oct 2021, 03:45
Forum: General
Topic: Vehicle Gunner stack with other Specialties?
Replies: 4
Views: 1110

Re: Vehicle Gunner stack with other Specialties?

Wow How did miss cannons....not sure how I missed that. Lets just hope that those cannons miss you too :D Former tank gunner here. Can confirm. :D Served with the very first generations of the M1 way back when rocks were soft and Cold Warriors and other dinosaurs proudly walked the Earth... In any ...
by ottarrus
Sun 24 Oct 2021, 05:56
Forum: General
Topic: T2K4 "Red Shirts"
Replies: 19
Views: 2713

Re: T2K4 "Red Shirts"

I could see adding a couple of Red Shirts, 'recruits', whatever to a party low on skill sets. After all, not everybody wants to be the mechanic, and God knows you're gonna need one. But I personally wouldn't go much more than doubling the party's numbers and, like you've pointed out, larger groups a...