Proposed MP Bases and Overall Organization

[dragoon500ly]

Originally Posted by stormlion1

The problem for the Northeast is timeframe. Your looking at it today but you have to remember it was all being set up in the 70's and the 80's (for the original books)when population density's were much lower and housing and development more spread out. It would be very easy to place hidden Bolt Holes in New York, Delaware, and New Jersey as many areas won't be developed until the late 80's and through the 90's. South Jersey in particular only really began heavy development in the late 80's and most of the Southern Jersey is still farmfields and Pine Barrens today and large parts are essentially dead ground where maybe one or two people might go through it in a year. Delaware once you get away from the Northern part is almost all farmfields and swamps. Southern New York is somewhat hilly and heavily forested at the time so a strike on NYC radiation wouldn't really effect those areas as fallout will mostly be blocked off by terrain and prevailing winds sending the worst of it into the Atlantic.

For the new Project Book things get more problematic but setting up Bolt Holes could be as simple as hiding things beneath new Construction projects or beneath Roads when there being repaved. Just dig up a side road, drop in the cache all pre made up and then cover it up and pave over it. Then dig a tunnel off to the side and hide it as a manhole cover. Of course getting a vehicle out is a bit more problematic...

The major point of the issues with the northeastern states are the large numbers of nuclear targets, this is a portion of the country littered with SAC bases, development labs and proving grounds, think tanks, as well as major population/industrial/transportation centers. According to TM1-1, this region alone was some 80+ missiles targeted...

With this many warheads dropping all over the area, it would be reasonable, from a planning point, that Project assests are going to be seriously affected. This leads then leads you into the options of emplacing teams in the target area, with the increased risk of the teams being destroyed or rendered non-mission-capable; or emplacing the teams in the areas outside of the targeted locations, better able to assist refugees fleeing the impact zones.

Tough call to make, either way.