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Originally Posted by Raellus
I'm reading a chapter in The Savage Wars of Peace- Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (Max Boot) on the Boxer Rebellion and the event/setting seems to me to make for a pretty interesting alternative T2K-ish campaign scenario. You have multinational military personnel (American, British- including imperial troops such as Sikhs-, Russian, German, French, and Japanese) and various civilians (diplomats, merchants, missionaries, Chinese Christians or other friendly locals) involved, and a pretty nasty set of enemies (boxers, imperial Chinese troops) as well.
There are lots of ways you could play it. The players could be part of a multinational relief/rescue force cut off from its parent units, or a small party sent out to reach an isolated outpost to rescue civilians or reinforce a garrison, or a group of civilians trying to reach the international community in Peking, or you could simply play out a bit of intrigue in one of the besieged legations. Whatever the starting point, your players would be stuck in a strange and exotic land, surrounded and outnumbered by hordes of bloodthirsty enemies.
I think it would be interesting to research period arms and equipment- it's not my area of expertise.
The one thing that makes me a little uneasy about the idea is the latent racism that is part-and-parcel of turn-of-the-century imperialism. I wouldn't feel comfortable RP'ing that and I can see how it could cause issues for a gaming group.
Still, the 1900 Boxer Rebellion seems like an interesting premise for an unconventional T2K campaign.
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A lot of the Eight Nations Alliance weapons were still in use in World War I, so I had a lot of them already done, and added in the handful that were obsolete by the start of the Great War. These have all been calculated using FF&S, plugging in actual numbers for the cartridge data and the firearm's barrel length, overall length, and weight.
Italy:
M1891 Rifle (Carcano): Wt 3.83 kg, Dam 4, Pen 2-Nil, Blk 9, SS 4, Rng 116, Mag 6, BA
M1889 Revolver (Bodeo): Wt 0.95 kg, Dam 2, Pen Nil, Blk 2, SS 4, Rng 20, Mag 6R, DAR
United States:
M1892 Rifle (Krag-Jorgensen): Wt 3.83 kg, Dam 4, Pen 2-3-Nil, Blk 8, SS 4, Rng 121, Mag 5, BA
M1895 Rifle (Lee): Wt 3.77 kg, Dam 3, Pen 2-Nil, Blk 8, SS 3, Rng 85, Mag 5, BA
M1892 Revolver (Colt): Wt 0.94 kg, Dam 1, Pen Nil, Blk 2, SS 3, Rng 5, Mag 6R, DAR
United Kingdom:
Rifle, Charger Loading, Lee-Enfield: Wt 4.19 kg, Dam 4, Pen 2-3-Nil, Blk 8, SS 4, Rng 127, Mag 10, BA
Rifle, Magazine, Lee-Metford: Wt 4.19 kg, Dam 2, Pen 1-Nil, Blk 8, SS 1, Rng 88, Mag 10i, BA
Martini-Henry Mk IV: Wt 3.83 kg, Dam 3, Pen Nil, Blk 8, SS 3, Rng 87, Mag 1i, SS
Webley Revolver: Wt 1.10 kg, Dam 2, Pen 1-Nil, Blk 2, SS 4, Rng 24, Mag 6R, DAR
Germany:
M1898 Rifle (Mauser): Wt 4.09 kg, Dam 4, Pen 2-3-Nil, Blk 8, SS 4, Rng 126, Mag 5, BA
M1883 Revolver (Reichsrevolver): Wt 0.94 kg, Dam 2, Pen Nil, Blk 2, SS 4, Rng 21, Mag 6R, SAR
France:
Mle 1886 Rifle (Lebel): Wt 4.18 kg, Dam 4, Pen 2-3-Nil, Blk 9, SS 4, Rng 136, Mag 8i, BA
Mle 1892 Revolver (MAS): Wt 0.85 kg, Dam 2, Pen Nil, Blk 2, SS 4, Rng 18, Mag 6R, DAR
Austria-Hungary:
M1888 Rifle (Mannlicher): Wt 4.52 kg, Dam 4, Pen 2-3-Nil, Blk 9, SS 4, Rng 132, Mag 5, BA
M1898 Revolver (Rast & Gasser): Wt 0.94 kg, Dam 2, Pen Nil, Blk 1, SS 4, Rng 16, Mag 8R, DAR
Japan:
Type 30 Rifle (Arisaka): Wt 3.95 kg, Dam 4, Pen 2-Nil, Blk 9, SS 4, Rng 121, Mag 5, BA
Type 22 Rifle (Murata): Wt 4.09 kg, Dam 4, Pen 2-3-Nil, Blk 9, SS 4, Rng 148, Mag 8i, BA
Type 26 Revolver: Wt 0.88 kg, Dam 2, Pen 1-Nil, Blk 2, SS 4, Rng 20, Mag 6R, DAR
Russia:
M91 Rifle (Mosin-Nagant): Wt 4.00 kg, Dam 4, Pen 2-3-Nil, Blk 8, SS 4, Rng 124, Mag 5, BA
M1895 Revolver (Nagant): Wt 0.88 kg, Dam 1, Pen Nil, Blk 2, SS 4, Rng 17, Mag 7R, DAR
The Lee Rifle was used by U.S. Marines, the Krag by the Army.
Most UK troops had the (long) Lee-Enfield. “Colonials” (Indian, Australian, and Chinese UK troops) had either the Lee-Metford or Martini-Henry.