LordGhee

Re: Cool Guns for your Games

Now the Mounted Soldier System (MSS)

this is a Heads up display, cordless Communications (Army got Blue-tooth), Microclimate Cooling, (water vest) and Improved coverall, fire Resistant Acu and the new Maxillofacial shield, improved body armor.

and a CVC helmet system (camera?)

now we are truly as equipped as the marines in Aliens!

Lord Ghee

Re: Cool Guns for your Games

More PEOS stuff

https://peosoldier.army.mil/newpeo/Equipment/Temp.asp?id=SMS_IGD

The Individual Gunshot Detector (IGD) (PR guys get a workmen rating here)

This is the Furture

Re: Cool Guns for your Games

just scored big Gents,

The Program Executive office Soldier (you spend money on PR officers . . . .)

lots of cool stuff

https://www.peosoldier.army.mil/index.asp

show up not cert but us army site

and to start our show

M26 12-Gauge Modular Accessory Shotgun System (Mass) (PR guys did good here

https://www.peosoldier.army.mil/newpeo/Equipment/Temp.asp?id=IW_MASS

it has a flicker page LOL

This is put where the 203 grenade lanucher would go or be sued as an auto shotgun stand alone.

This is a Great find a US Army site announcing Rapid fielding Initiative stuff.

Lord Ghee

Re: Maps for Secret Military Bases

this is a great secret base oh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Island_Animal_Disease_Center

then in England is porton down and the US is Fort Detrick

here is a great one : A PYRAMID with a Spinks that is a GAINT ROBOT

http://pinktentacle.com/images/secret_base_pyramid_2.jpg

An Ufo base. . . .really . .. with shuttle to LA . . . . Underground even.

http://www.unsolvedrealm.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/underground-base-dulce.jpg

man you can google any thing LOL

Re: Cool Guns for your Games

and for your enlightenment

Peter Rabbit tank killer

http://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/military_jokes_200691721.asp

Re: Cool Guns for your Games

Great find on that panzerfaust. notice that he skipped it, yes it hit the ground and kept going. I heard of saggers and Hawk missles doing this but not a shoulder held.

Look at the Afganistan shot. it takes 2 sec to go down range and look like a bloody nuke LOL (also looks like he missed)

Also the prefreed posin on bullets is garlic, I know this as I wacth the Untouchables on tv as a kid. and if it is good unough for the mob well it is good enough for me. (blood poisoning)

Lord Ghee

Re: Maps for Secret Military Bases

this is a cool base but not so secret

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower

Lord Ghee

Re: Cool Guns for your Games

Not a gun by what i would like to carry in a fire fight introducting the switchblade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ddi-IandlBE

Lord Ghee

Re: Mongol Ninjas!

In Ancient Rome on many tombstones of Aluxillri archers was the inscription "I shot an arrow into the air and shot it with a secound before it hit the ground". This was consider the the height of skill.

Lord Ghee

Re: ghost ship

Now There are two!

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htseamo/articles/20110407.aspx

Insurance fraud or man killing machine virus?

Lord Ghee

THis is cool

printing organs!

Lord Ghee

Re: Mongol Ninjas!

Russian commander to Commissar, Everytime we send in troop to that lake area they dissapear.

Arrow strikes next to Commissar

vast empty steppes surround

Commissar, of course this is a military zone it is death to enter, from here to the lake.

secound arrow impacts closer to commissar

Commissar, to the river past the lake.

vast steppes with wind noise

General, Yes sir, Military zone sorry I was not cleared.

Lord Ghee

Re: PCs owning slaves: Do, or Don't?

Mark,

off the top of my head,

Joseph went from captive slave to right hand of Pharoh.

Ancient jewish culture, which my law limitied how long you could keep a slave. The ancient greek culture (bronze age), later the ancient Greeks would send you to the mines.

Russia liked to take prisoners and work them for twenty yearsand some would stay other went home (swedish, French).

I know of two prisoners who where captured during WWII who when returned home came back to US casue they like what they saw when working as POW labor and one who was smart enough to stay after release.

Lord Ghee

All those movies where the drifting ship comes into view, my inner voice said "no way". As alway truth is stranger than fiction.

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htseamo/articles/20110228.aspx

Lord Ghee

Re: What would you do as GM when our intrepid . . . . . .

Thanks everyone for their answers!

Baronspam,

this is a what we call a realistic horror game. We are Medieval knights who believe in the supernatural ect but as in the real world have never really seen any magic or mystical stuff.

The forester left when we enter the woods and realized that the trip would take much longer and food could be a pressing issue. The woods are scary and that is where he goes, out into the scary woods and get food.

Now once we came under attack, we reacted as under attack and stuck together.

Lord Ghee

Last night we started into what we call a one shot Fantasy Horror game. Our intrepid group was signed up, order to, tricked and volunteered to take a witch prisoner to a monastery and save the countryside. when we got to the dark old damp evil feeling forest of wormwood our forester went off to hunt in order to feed the party. The GM asked for a survival skill roll and with a smirk of the highly skilled, the player threw, yes that right, you guessed it, an

18

and we use critical hits and fumbles.

so

as GM

What would you give as a result?

Thanks

Lord Ghee

Re: Fantasy game props

last year I ran a Musketeer game which I painted up some figures. I found at Michaels hobby stores sets of stuff from safari ltd toob toys. I use 28m and 25mm figures (old domion, bule moon and foundry). The toobs set where the farm set, the horse set and the tree set.

with a box turn into the Inn of the dancing pig

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u42/LordGhee/Musketeer/DSC00784.jpg

The Duc du Orleans coach arrives (with bland (unpainted attackers)

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u42/LordGhee/Musketeer/DSC00785.jpg

Pothos (the father of the one in the book) sargent of the Musketeers fight the bland villians

by picking table up (he under the block which was table fences ect) and throwing it a villians on fence. notice the wenches and the toob dog (trusty the wonderdog) at fence and the dancing pig above door.

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u42/LordGhee/Musketeer/DSC00786.jpg

The toob tubes where about ten bucks and now they have double size ones. and for your pulp goodness the toob set Ancient Egypt toob is just great. muu ahaha.

google sarfi ltd toobs

Lord Ghee

Look above the door-

Re: Looking for a source of Victorian Miniatures

Foundry has some,

http://wargamesfoundry.com/historical_ranges/collections/victoriana/victoriana/

http://wargamesfoundry.com/historical_ranges/single_packs/colonial/

http://wargamesfoundry.com/historical_ranges/collections/colonial/indian/

http://wargamesfoundry.com/historical_ranges/single_packs/colonial/indian/?sector_id=12&page=3

http://wargamesfoundry.com/historical_ranges/single_packs/colonial/british/?sector_id=6&page=2

Re: Arabia

The Lost city of Ubar,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubar

A researcher looking a land sat data one day said "hum, thease look like old roads and they all go to this spot in Arbia" and the search for Ubar was on.

Ubar where you had to get your Frankincense from.

Lord Ghee

Who said "humm it that the Ubar of Tarzan fame and read the article more closely".

Re: GM chart / screen referance?

Murp great find rep

Re: Which is easier to swing, an axe or a sword?

according to accounts the Macedonians where horrified by the devastating wounds that the Roman's short swords gave (lots of arms chopped off) at the battle of Pydna 148BC.

Short history

up until 3000 BC the main close combat weapons where the mace, the dagger and the spear.

then around this time a new powerful new mace appeared and spread around the Levant the pear form know as a pieriform which allowed a solid attachment to the handle. The mace is the first weapon that is considered to have been invented to kill one fellows better. The head blow is not unlikely to be recovered from where a stab can be treated. One reason it is the symbol of the Kings justice from that time. the ax came in next as the hand weapon of choice as armor piercing forms came in. From these the sickle sword was developed. just as deadly at chopping but handier. the sword is the second weapon developed to kill one fellows easier. As metals got better the straight sword arrived.

If a sword was not a better weapon than an ax then it would never have replaced it as the hand weapon of choice for 4000 years.

With an ax you can chop or bash. with a sword you can chop, stab, slice and bash. Same amount of metal with the sword harder to make. The greater choices with a sword makes it a better weapon to use with a shield as you can reduce your chance of getting hit.

just as a mention all warriors used a spear as their first weapon as the reach reduce your vulnerably in combat. Samurai used spears when at war as did the Greeks, the Normans, vikings and all armies in Europe after 1500.

Re: Which is easier to swing, an axe or a sword?

Have you ever been hit with a hammer?

Re: Cool Guns for your Games

No that is the AK LOL

Re: Which is easier to swing, an axe or a sword?

The Bayeux tapestry shows how both where used in combat take a look

http://hastings1066.com/

Re: Which is easier to swing, an axe or a sword?

After twenty years of reenacting where I got my gaming nom de guerre, what has been stated is true sword are easier.

lab work: go to kitchen grab biggest cooking knife. go to tool box get hammer and swing both, watch the cat.

in 5th edition swords getting a +1 ocv and ax more damage works.

as far as weight, short swords 2lbs to 2and 1/2 and sword 3 lbs, when you need to chop thru armor they get a little heavier.

once stirrups come into use (400 AD) swords stay the same weight but get longer (and thinner) so you can reach the ground by leaning over on the stirrup and stabbing the victim on the ground. Ancient cav used javelins for reach as no stirrups.

I once went to my Museum Replicas catalogs and listed every swords weight and length, lost that but that information is on the site (great stuff which can be found much cheaper -there stuff is made in India)

http://www.museumreplicas.com/c-15-swords-knives-daggers.aspx

so in very broad terms the sword is a 3 pound weapon, thicker to chop through armor and thinner to thrust through armor.

oh and rapiers were noble weapons whose main use was as a cav weapon. they where long to stab from horse back, the fact they where good weapons in a duel was a bonus.

thoughts

Lord Ghee