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MASSACHESETTS

1) NUCLEAR TARGETS
None.

2) ORGANIZED MILITARY FORCES
The 2nd Brigade of the 5th Infantry Division was based at Fort Devens in 1962, but was fed into the European furnace early in 1963.

26th Infantry Division--Boston (2000 men)
211th Military Police Battalion--Westover (400 men)

3) BOSTON
The war: The city wasn't hit by the bombs, but, like most large cities, order broke down pretty completely afterward. The police and the local National Guard tried to calm the people, but they would have nothing of it. And then the chaos started. For nearly three months you didn't go out at night, you always carried a gun, and if you could, you fled the city. This fact, coupled with the loss of electricity and water to the city, resulted in massive riots and looting followed by a mass exodus out of the city. A serious anti-science binge of violence raged through Boston at the end of 1962, fuelled by people's fear of the unknown. Libraries, laboratories, and colleges all went up in flames. MIT, Harvard, all the museums downtown, all were torched and looted. The brutally cold winter put an end to most of the violence, only those who had shelter survived.
Aftermath: Today, the city is under the double hit of the gangs and a plague attack. The spread-out nature of the scattered settlements in the city is helping to keep the outbreak controlled, but people are dying by the dozens by the day still, both gang member and civilians alike. Boston Commons has been designated as a dumping ground and mass cremation site for infected bodies to try and localize the germs. With the plague, looting and marauding have increased as people get desperate. In the harbor are three ships holding supplies that are afraid to dock until the plague runs it's course.
Law and Order: The remains of the state government now operates out of the a high-rise building in downtown Boston--formerly the Prudential Life Insurance building. The US Army is still enforcing the Martial Law decree in the city, the main muscle being the 26th Infantry Division, a Massachusetts National Guard unit that works with the State Police to keep the gangs out of the vital port areas. Loyal to the Civilian Government, the "Yankee" Division has a total strength of some 2,000 men. The area the military and the state government now control is small, limited to a narrow strip bordering the harbor running from Logan Airport in the north, south to Dorchester Bay, and then west to roughly Highway 3, where the line of control blurs with the local street gangs. This is a relatively small area, but it is well-organized and protected. The University of Massachusetts-Boston is a seat of power today, housing some of New England's last scientific community. This university was strangely not destroyed during the chaos, perhaps because while MIT and Harvard were private schools, UM-B was a public school open to all Bostonians. The school's football stadium is now a garden.
The gangs: The gang problem in Boston's traditionally immigrant poor neighborhoods is almost completely out of control. Following the nuclear strikes, gangs took up protecting their local neighborhoods. They were initially resisted by citizen's militias and the remnants of organized crime in the city, but the gangs won. The non-gang population is dwindling fast as they leave the city for safer areas and in another few years the gangs will be the majority. The Army here is really just concerned with protecting the docks and industrial facilities and feeding those who are of value to them. This uneven distribution of food is one of the main causes of the increase in gang activity. Some of the larger gangs are the "Skull Krushers", the "Brother Hoods", the "Night Knights", the "Blood Bandits", the "Banditos", the "Death Watch", and the "SkiBooms". All of these gangs survive largely on raiding and looting each other. Their longevity is probably short once the food runs out.
Roxbury: Right at the edge of the Army-controlled zone is the "Jaguar" gang, hold the western Roxbury area from a base in an old warehouse. They are led by a man named Horrigan.
Weymouth Naval Depot: Controlled by a gang called the "Black Widows", who, as their name implies, are a female-only gang known for their viciousness and ferocity. The depot is mostly empty, everything having been taken long ago, all that is left are some old torpedoes that the gang is trying to figure out what to do with.
Razor Heads: The largest Boston gang by far is the "Razor Heads", led by former rock and roll guitarist turned gangster Dain B. Dangerous, a charismatic and brilliant, but psychopathic and violent leader. The Razor Heads number some 1,200 effectives and are twice as large as the next largest gang in the city. They are noted for wearing outlandish clothing and hairstyles.
Northern coast: In the northern outskirts of Boston the "Gloucestermen", an alliance of fishermen, control Gloucester and have fortified the city against the starving hordes. Mostly formed by old-timers who formed the core of the fishing industry along the northern coast of Massachusetts. These people are opposed to the heavy hand of the UBF to the south and their encroachments into their fishing grounds. They are also mad that the Army in Boston has done nothing to help them, though they realize that the UBF provides Boston with twenty times the fish that they do. The Gloucestermen operate diesel-powered speed boats (running on alcohol), sailboats, and a few wood-fired steam vessels, but their patrols are limited to coastal areas. A strong militia in Newburyport works for good, patrolling by jeep in the Plum Island area and keeping the Iroquois Rangers at bay (see below).
Salem: Salem, located north of Boston, is one of the strongest, more intact survivor cities in New England. Much of the original central city remains intact and has been strengthened by various forms of fortification. Fortifications have also been constructed around the downtown area to help protect it from the ravages of bandits and marauders. The city has a total population of 22,500 people and the surrounding areas have a population of around 17,500, mostly refugees from Boston. After the city successfully defeated the first waves of attacking marauders, a council was formed from the surviving leaders and politicians. With the assistance of civic leaders university professors, especially from Salem State College, the city and its surrounding area are mostly independent and could survive on their own if needed. Greenhouses, being relatively simple technology are popular and a large amount of winter vegetable and fruit are grown in them. The biggest food supply comes from fishing of various type. Salem has a large (for 1964 standards) fishing fleet which one of the major jobs of the militia is to protect. The extra from fish harvests is much of what helps to purchase materials from other places. The city even sells fish products to the gangs of Boston although they are very careful to keep their identity private. Most of the industrial areas of Salem were destroyed in the attacks of marauders after the chaos started. What was left was some light industry only mainly in textile areas. As a result, most jobs today are related to food production and storage. The militia force is based on residents of the city who were members of the Massachusetts National Guard. It numbers some 600 effectives with large numbers of vehicles for fast transport. These include eight armored bank trucks, four armored dump trucks, and one US Army M57 APC. Salem's fishing "fleet" includes four former Coast Guard cutters, eight PT boats, and two patrol boats.

4) EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
Plymouth: Destroyed by a hurricane two months ago. Many people were killed, the rest have evacuated the town because some strange chemical weapon stored in the pre-war naval arsenal here was detonated by the storm. This weapon, instead of causing death, was a hallucinogenic, generating the most believable and deranged of visions.
New Bedford: Burnt by a series of fierce fires in 1963 that left much of the city in ruins, this city has recovered nicely in the last year. The city has a large militia/police force that is relatively well-armed and trained. There are about 2,000 men at arms, 120 horse cavalry, three armored dump trucks, an M-103 heavy tank, and two self-propelled howitzers. There is also a fishery protection force with four inshore patrol boats, two patrol torpedo boats, and a civilian observation helicopter.

5) NORTHEASTERN CITIES
Once a major industrial region, the strip of gritty manufacturing cities stretching from Chelmsford to Haverhill was devastated in the rioting and chaos of 1962. Now, the area is dominated by elements of the "Iroquois Rangers"--a large marauder band. The surviving locals live in a reign of terror. Many have fled the area, but many more have been unable to. Many of them are now force to grow food for the Rangers, but they are allowed to keep a little for themselves. The Rangers now have some 1,300 effectives, including many hangers-on and wanna-be's, and have one AFV. Their current plan is to secure the cities in the area and then move south to take on Boston by next summer. To this end, the Raiders are actively recruiting military men, especially officers, to join them for a promise of a share of the loot. The "Lowell Liberation Army" has arisen out of this dire situation, but numbers only some 50 men and is poorly equipped. Since Ranger reprisals are brutal, the people commit few acts of resistance. Appeals to the CivGov Army unit in Boston have been met with silence--they have enough to deal with in Boston.

6) CAPE COD
The United Brotherhood of Fishermen: Nominally CivGov but really themselves, the UBF is headquartered on Nantucket Island, and is a coalition of fishing and fortified communities under the control of a strongman named John Carlucci and his thugs. They control most of the coastal communities from Nantucket northward and effectively "own" all of Cape Cod. The UBF is based on the remains of the powerful Longshoreman's Union that controlled the fish industry along the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coasts since the late 18th Century. The UBF is the main provider of fish for New England and as such is virtually untouchable. The strong military forces both in Newport, Rhode Island and in Boston both are unwilling to risk disrupting the supply of food to the hungry masses. The UBF, knowing this, have taken full advantage to carve out an empire. They have a large private army and numerous armed boats to protect their industry and do a little pirating on the side. Carlucci is pro-CivGov for no other reason than they are his main trading partners in New England and Boston in particular. He does, however, harbor illusions of being president once things return to normal.
The Arm: Cape Cod is the heartland of the empire that John Carlucci is carving out for himself. The Cape Cod Canal is the border and is heavily fortified with machinegun-armed guard towers and barbed wire and patrolled by armed speedboats and walking patrols. Peace and public order are the rule all along the peninsula. The area is no longer under curfew and people are very wary of strangers. Highway 6, the main road in the area, is in good repair and is the convoy route for the UBF. They usually save fuel by hitching draft animals up to the trucks for all but the heaviest loads.
Otis Air Force Base: Otis AFB lies in the Cape Cod territory of the UBF. The base is still operated by CivGov assets, but they are basically tenants in UBF land. Carlucci uses full advantage of the base and personnel here to legitimize his control further, letting it show that he is working hand in hand with the civilian government and not against it. In truth, the base is dependent on UBF food shipments and is rapidly switching allegiance. The base is still home to the remains of the Massachusetts Air National Guard's 102nd Tactical Fighter Wing. Operational air assets include three F-86H Sabres, an old F-80 Shooting Star, a trainer-version B-66B Destroyer, two C-130s, a Piper Cub, and two T-38 Talons--former NASA trainers from Florida now homeless. Total personnel strength is around 500 and most of the pilots are Massachusetts Air National Guard. The pilots and ground crews occupy GI housing inside and outside the AFB, others started building anew.
Hyannis Port: Of special note, the Kennedy family compound at Hyannis Port on Cap Cod is now something of a memorial. The family members here scattered and the compound was burned to the ground by angry mobs in late 1962. In 1964, the ruins are frequently visited by those that do not wish to forget.
Martha's Vinyard: Still isolated, making due without supplies from the mainland. The ferries have stopped running and there is no fuel left to be wasted on airplanes. The regular residents of the island were better prepared to fend for themselves than most mainlanders.

7) WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
The western half of the state was once a fairly productive agricultural area, but the drought conditions of 1964 have changed that. The rugged timber regions have not been effected much by the drought, but local farmland has been burnt dry over the summer and is now virtually worthless.
Springfield/Westover Air Force Base: This former B-52 base is home of one group of the MilGov 211th Military Police Battalion (MA NG), one of the few MilGov loyal units in all of New England. The 211th has about 400 effectives, mostly Massachusetts National Guardsmen. The MPs are here for the long term and have began a vigorous program of planting every available acre of land with seeds, often using laborers from the refugee populations of the area. They have a compound in Holyoke along the Connecticut River. There is one old river tug here that they are fixing up to serve as a monitor. Not surprising with the security it brings, there is a large and growing shanty town of refugees around the Westover AFB encampment. The shanty town is built in and on the ruins of Smith Highlands--a suburb of Springfield. The population here has risen to 14,000 and shows no sign of stopping as many more arrive from Boston. Many of these people do the labor for the Battalion, planting and sowing crops and collecting salvage. They also have recently garrisoned a 40-man unit at the Quabbin Reservoir and are trying to restart the hydroelectric dam here. The Reservoir is also used for fishing, though it is polluted and not much use. To cover both the Westover base and the Quabbin base, the Battalion has erected an artillery firebase midway between the two at the Hemlock Hill resort. Here there are 50 men and nearly all the Battalion's heavy ranged weapons, including four towed 155mm howitzers and six 4.2inch mortars. The other half of the Battalion mutinied late last year and has since been entrenched around Fort Devin Military Reservation to the east. Neither half of the Battalion represents a significant fighting force any longer, and both are now nothing more than heavily armed warlords. Neither would obey any orders from Colorado Springs even if they received any. Other groups of the Battalion's soldiers, usually in groups about 30-strong, struck out on their own during the mutiny and have become marauders in the area. Many of these smaller groups have hired themselves out to various tin-pot warlords in the Springfield area.