Andrew Wyatt
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I'm working up a TO&E for a fictional organization for a Role playing game a couple of my friends are going to be playing.
Anyway, the group is organized in 11 man squads, with two five man fire teams and one squad leader. They use a fairly sedate form of power armor which basically just allows them to carry an absurd amount of equipment and guarantees them breatheable air and limited ballistic protection, and they explore other planets through the use of a transportation device that instantaniously transports them to their destination. They have a choice of weapoins within some fairly broad parameters: 1. no energy weapons 2. the weapons must be reliable, trouble free, and parts must be available 3. the weapons must use Current (2002) technology 4. The weapons must use ammunition that is either readily available in the US, or can be wildcatted on available equipment.
here comes the question.
If you were a member of this group, and you had to face hostile flora and fauna of vastly varied size, shape, and toughness, what would you use? (assuming you'd get some foreknowledge of what you'd be facing from probes or UAVs or something.)
I'm thinking that they'd have a Couple different levels of kit:
Light, for wandering around places where the largest thing is equivalent to the toughness of a deer.
Medium: where most things are about as tough as a deer, but there are larger things about
Heavy: where most things are at leas as tough as a black bear, and there are things that are elephant size about.
We probably shouldn't be here: everything is as tough as a cape buffalo or tougher.
I was thinking that light would be .223's or .243, medium would be .308s, heavy would be .376 steyr or .375 WSM or similar, and the heaviest level, everyone would carry .50 BMGs, and the SAW gunners would carry M2's kitted out with buttstocks and bipods or something.
What would you Equip a squad with under these circumstances?
Anyway, the group is organized in 11 man squads, with two five man fire teams and one squad leader. They use a fairly sedate form of power armor which basically just allows them to carry an absurd amount of equipment and guarantees them breatheable air and limited ballistic protection, and they explore other planets through the use of a transportation device that instantaniously transports them to their destination. They have a choice of weapoins within some fairly broad parameters: 1. no energy weapons 2. the weapons must be reliable, trouble free, and parts must be available 3. the weapons must use Current (2002) technology 4. The weapons must use ammunition that is either readily available in the US, or can be wildcatted on available equipment.
here comes the question.
If you were a member of this group, and you had to face hostile flora and fauna of vastly varied size, shape, and toughness, what would you use? (assuming you'd get some foreknowledge of what you'd be facing from probes or UAVs or something.)
I'm thinking that they'd have a Couple different levels of kit:
Light, for wandering around places where the largest thing is equivalent to the toughness of a deer.
Medium: where most things are about as tough as a deer, but there are larger things about
Heavy: where most things are at leas as tough as a black bear, and there are things that are elephant size about.
We probably shouldn't be here: everything is as tough as a cape buffalo or tougher.
I was thinking that light would be .223's or .243, medium would be .308s, heavy would be .376 steyr or .375 WSM or similar, and the heaviest level, everyone would carry .50 BMGs, and the SAW gunners would carry M2's kitted out with buttstocks and bipods or something.
What would you Equip a squad with under these circumstances?
