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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Intercontinental Arms Race: Summer 1940 (Revision Phase)
« on: May 20, 2017, 08:13:17 am »
Here is the full QOL list. I divided it into two sections: uniform and equipment.
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Equipment
-Binoculars. We've enough experience with lenses that we can surely design a decent pair.
-Medkits. A little first aid can save hundreds of lives. More to the point, knowing that help is available improves morale.
-Bayonets. Sometimes you just need a knife. On the end of your gun. A big knife.
-Entrenching tools (foldable/collapsible spades). Double as highly effective melee/throwing weapons. Just ask the Spetsnaz. Also, foxholes are good for paratroopers.
-Engineering equipment (Sandbags, dedicated tools like wire cutters, barbed wire/razor wire, small axes, pickaxes, etc). Aimed at improving the quality of our minefields, traps, and defensive positions.
-Healthier and tastier rations. A well-fed soldier is a hard fighter.
-Flashlights. Hands free, attachable to guns or helmets. Different coloured lens filters to use for signaling.
-Flares and flareguns
-Cricket (or other innocuous animal) noisemaker. Sounds like a cricket. "Operation was simple: If someone approached, you clicked your cricket, making the most innocuous of night-time sounds. If the passer-by clicked back, you knew you had encountered a friendly comrade." (This is based on a real thing, by the way)
-Improved compasses and navigation equipment.
-At least 3 different ways of starting a fire (lighter, matches, flint&steel).
-Mosquito nets. Our soldiers in the jungle will praise our name to the high heavens if we can deliver this.
-Plastic explosive demolition charges.
Uniform revision
-Manganese steel helmets and vests. Can't kill what they can't kill. Wait a minute....
-Better Parachutes: Basic steering and possibly higher weight capacity increase our paratroopers' self-reliance.
-Boots. A good pair of boots. Infantry love boots. Goal: excellent hiking boots with minor protection from shrapnel (As in, made of tough fibers. Not metal.)
-Vests, bags, bandoliers, pockets and pouches, even elbow ones. Carry capacity for soldiers---more ammo means more bang-bang-bang-bang-bang means more kills, means more survivability, means a place to put everything we're about to drop on them
-Sunglasses. You try shooting someone with the sun in your eyes.
-Waterproof camo cloaks.
-Knee and elbow pads.
-Gloves, fire resistant and capable of fast-roping or rock-climbing or similar hard-wearing activities.
-Fire retardant uniforms. We've got flamethrowers running around here!
-Winter and tropical versions of the uniforms.
-dim glow in the dark patches, can be worn on back. Allows troops to spread out more in the dark. (Based on a real thing)
-Binoculars. We've enough experience with lenses that we can surely design a decent pair.
-Medkits. A little first aid can save hundreds of lives. More to the point, knowing that help is available improves morale.
-Bayonets. Sometimes you just need a knife. On the end of your gun. A big knife.
-Entrenching tools (foldable/collapsible spades). Double as highly effective melee/throwing weapons. Just ask the Spetsnaz. Also, foxholes are good for paratroopers.
-Engineering equipment (Sandbags, dedicated tools like wire cutters, barbed wire/razor wire, small axes, pickaxes, etc). Aimed at improving the quality of our minefields, traps, and defensive positions.
-Healthier and tastier rations. A well-fed soldier is a hard fighter.
-Flashlights. Hands free, attachable to guns or helmets. Different coloured lens filters to use for signaling.
-Flares and flareguns
-Cricket (or other innocuous animal) noisemaker. Sounds like a cricket. "Operation was simple: If someone approached, you clicked your cricket, making the most innocuous of night-time sounds. If the passer-by clicked back, you knew you had encountered a friendly comrade." (This is based on a real thing, by the way)
-Improved compasses and navigation equipment.
-At least 3 different ways of starting a fire (lighter, matches, flint&steel).
-Mosquito nets. Our soldiers in the jungle will praise our name to the high heavens if we can deliver this.
-Plastic explosive demolition charges.
Uniform revision
-Manganese steel helmets and vests. Can't kill what they can't kill. Wait a minute....
-Better Parachutes: Basic steering and possibly higher weight capacity increase our paratroopers' self-reliance.
-Boots. A good pair of boots. Infantry love boots. Goal: excellent hiking boots with minor protection from shrapnel (As in, made of tough fibers. Not metal.)
-Vests, bags, bandoliers, pockets and pouches, even elbow ones. Carry capacity for soldiers---more ammo means more bang-bang-bang-bang-bang means more kills, means more survivability, means a place to put everything we're about to drop on them
-Sunglasses. You try shooting someone with the sun in your eyes.
-Waterproof camo cloaks.
-Knee and elbow pads.
-Gloves, fire resistant and capable of fast-roping or rock-climbing or similar hard-wearing activities.
-Fire retardant uniforms. We've got flamethrowers running around here!
-Winter and tropical versions of the uniforms.
-dim glow in the dark patches, can be worn on back. Allows troops to spread out more in the dark. (Based on a real thing)
