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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
well considered. Have to disagree with you though. I can see the Project with a large number of Frozen Watch personnel at the regional bases/Prime Base etc. But for the local teams, the least I would consider would be 4 personnel, equipped with a hummer and trailer for mobility.
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There wasn’t any in Prime…… To date there is no canon on Regional bases. Delta base is an unmanned supply base…. The six person Frozen Watch team (FW-31) with Combined Group Seattle is the only one mentioned in text outside the entry in the game book.
Like you I would expect a number of Frozen Watch to actually BE in storage at Prime and at Regional bases. This way these persons can be woken individually without compromising a bolt hole and the other sleepers.
I think six is too large for replacements when a bolt hole is a one shot. Frozen Watch replace members of Combined Groups in the field lost to illness, injury, or death. I would expect them to be awoken to replace a specialty on a one for one basis, not a whole sale hodgepodge, hope what you need is in there basis.
That is why I contend that the Frozen Watch in the field, be in two person Bolt Holes. Still with just personal equipment and a personal weapon…… I include the Jeep because of the risk of false signals or a compromised bolt hole. The jeep affords these MP members the means to go to someone that awakens them versus waiting to be picked up. The Jeep can be converted for ethanol and be abandoned to a survivor group (3-5 year plan) or used as a light auxiliary. Surplus jeeps are in the thousands and I don’t see why the Project would not have stashed some gasoline, then converted to ethanol powered jeeps just to give away to local governments.
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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
Going with a two member team would mean that after a hard day of driving cross-country, cutting trails, sticking and unsticking the vehicle, two people would then be faced with providing security for the night...3 on and 3 off would simply result in the FW team being exhausted after only a couple of days of movement...going with four personnel at least splits the work load a little bit.
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I consider that the tradeoff……. Frozen Watch isn’t meant to be an independent team but, link up with a team in the field supplement them or replace the losses.