Rumor mill tables are really good idea. one of the d20 modern games that I had played in, had a modern day setting game book with a table that covered the kinds of things you'd have heard at various locales and settings. it was really killer of just how diffrent the rumor mills you'd have depending on the location and social status of said circles...
having a rumor mill table for each of the groups (field officers, company officers, senior NCOS and NCOs and lower-ranked enlisted) would be good idea so you'd have diferent 'truths' that would be traded around... as well as some of the really nasty 'falsehoods' as well. General Officers and Colonel levels would have a much better view of the 'big picture' of what's happening, and especially the spilt between CivGov and MilGov... some lower ranked personnel wouldn't know that there was a spilt... ditto with the average citizen back home who's not being 'infringed' upon.
that was how we played it in our game. that the CivGov/MilGov spilt wasn't readly known... just that there was some 'funky' stuff going on with how the Martial Law was being done bak home...
SSG Wheeler (a farm kid) whose family owned a pretty large family-owned farm, and his mother wrote him and his brothers every week, thus letting him get a good view of just what was going on pre-TDM and just how different things were post-TDM. Especially when the government types first showed up to 'oversee' the farm, then how they were taking a more hands on 'management' of the farm operations... and the last letter was that the 'government people' had thrown them out of their family home and that they where now staying in the "tent city" that had been set up for all the refugees whom were working the fields. That FEMA was upset that they couldn't do more because "Pa and Grandpa both being veterans, they can't really order them around... but they have turned us out of the house. Gran isn't doing so well... the tents aren't very warm and her joints are hurting really bad... she can't work as hard as the others and the FEMA people are raelly getting quite rude."
Characters with family whom would "be more in the know" like those whose parent or realitive was a high-ranking state or local official might now a bit more.
it's really all up to their social circle... and the rumor mill table makes alot of sense in that manner. Heck, it gives me an idea to try and make something like that up myself...
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