this is aggrivating... i had a good post ready to go, and now i can't find it...
today i contacted three friends aboiut this. One is an engineer and blacksmith up in Canada who was the armorer for the Roman Legion reinactor unit he was part of. He made all their swords, shields, armor and spears...hes the one who made my American Patriot kite-type sheild that can stand up to small arms fire...
He was telling me what it would take teo recharge and get old AFV brought back up to combat capable assets. Some he said would be easy to get back up and running but would be more morale building units more than anything else.... namely setting them in the town square, and having them supported by large anti-armor guns (to make the main gun of the tank look as if it can fire and destroy appraching attacker unit).
The support with light Mortars with snipers equipmented with anti-tank or anti-material rifles would go a long way to make said AFV capable of dealing with any criminal element coming your way.
It's the determened raiders who you'd have to come up with a plan on how to deal with them. Take Kevin Cosners post-apoc movie "The Postman"... a force like that would need to be dealt with in a way that completely wipes them out, tricks are good to get them over extened... but you still need to make sure the ambush you are getting them into will be a tpk...
The Home Guard would have a high concentration of the older vets, working with the Law Enforcement, Emergency Services and the like... they are the ones who you want to be the most visible of the defenders. They are the police and peacekeepers whom are responsible for keeping the peace. watching for troiubles and keeping people in the communit calm and living their lives in a manner that won't get them selves into a polce where they would get themselves killed.
The Militia units would be the romers who go out and patrol the borders, do the recon and scouting missions to keep the community informed aboiut what is going on in their region. take the way that the people in the TV Show Jericho used the Jericho Rangers. they were part scouts, part spys, part special warfare operators... they dealt with threats as far from home as possible... they gathered intelligence and brough it back home so that the community leadership could do the right thing.
The creation of a militia engineering unit whose main job would be to construct all of the fortifications and create the kill and free-fire zones... to build ambush traps and the like... Constrcution vehicles would also be able to be modified into lightly armored combat vehicle.
i wish i still had all i ahd written out. the info on what the three guys i talked to tonight would be amazin gto share.
having Gunsmiths, blacksmiths and engineers working with military veteran armorers would be able to create, build or refurbish the recovered collection AFV... Depending on the facilities they have available.. they could turn an older armory into a factory producing munitions, spareparts, refurbished vehicles, body armor and the like.
It all just goes to what they have acces to... so i am working on a set of tables of community resources.
Anyone who wants to help out building the tables, please let me know... and when we get them written up, we'l be abl to post them here and maybe get them into the fanzine.
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