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Originally Posted by mikeo80
I was in a game a couple of years ago. Based out of rural Kansas as part of a Recon Team. We (two of us) were looking over a very small town (22Survivors). We were about 7 days light travel from our base camp. We stumbled upon a few of the survivors and started to help with food, water, med kits, etc.
Then it dawned on us...we and these people were screwed. My buddy and I each had 7 days of rations in our back pack. We had one ration pack, good for four people for 15 days...
So here comes the math.
In personal rations/mre's/whatever, we started with 84 meals. ((3x14)x2)
We used 42 in our travels to here. ((3x7)x2) (Yes, the GM made us track consumables. PITA but worth the detail once we got ourselves into this mess.)
In the ration pack, we had 180 meals. ((3x15)x4)
Total of 222 meals
So, to feed these people until we could get back to base, and then return.
We needed 924 meals. Just for them. ((22x3)x14)
Even if we rationed to one meal a day. (Better than eating the rats and other little things they HAD been eating.) we needed 308 meals (22x14)
Oh, BTW, you might notice WE are not eating !!!
The TL had a strong sense of duty and honor. He opened a nearby cache, dumped everthing into his V-150, and drove like hell.
He got there in 5 1/2 days.
So we used ((24x1)x6) or 144 meals.
We made it. But no one was happy. But we did save those 22 people.
But the math sucks.
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No kidding... that's why I've been trying to figure out how best to set up these Caches that are a lot more realistic and capable of setting up a way to save as many lives as possible.
I like the idea of having the Caches set up in an area that has already been 'pre-seeded' for building a camp... Especially with the addition of the protective pits holding gravel, sand and concrete blocks that can be used for water storage and septic tanks when they have been emptied.
And making the "Star of Life" shaped supply cache with two to four containers deep... thus able to hold all of the materials needed for such an undertaking.
Morrow Project Facilities are going to be massive to hold all the supplies needed for post-TEOTWAWKI reconstruction planning. They'd need all that just to do the task... Yes the personnel are suppose to be there to act as advisors and using the 'skilled' and 'unskilled' labor pool drawn from survivors.
But it still comes down to the fact, you need the materials to rebuild with. Or the means of making those materials.