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Originally Posted by Mohoender
Someone might object that it's not entirely relevant to Twilight but Jester reminded me that it might well be. Therefore I post an interesting site on the Italian Arditi of WWI.
http://www.worldwar1.com/itafront/arditi.htm
In a twilight setting such type of warfare might become useful again and I wouldn't be surprise to find again middle ages type weapons and armors as in WWI. If anyone has something on this, I'll be most interested.
As modern bodyarmor become rare, troops might rely on old types of body armor suits. Moreover, a mace or a battle axe is a scary weapon in close combat even when you are facing it with modern rifle. As Jester said, especially when you are taken by surprise. |
The various militaries all reverted to old school trench warfare tactics of the 1400-1500s at some time during the "Great war".
You can find examples of industrially massproduced trench knives,maces,mortars,bodyarmour and grenades and so on that are based on or exact copies of centuries old gear .Saw a german trench club on some auction site some time back - it was based on a mace popular in Central Europe around 13-1400 .
Our site contains a few examples of WWI gear such as "Graben panzer",as well as melee weapons that could be easily made when other weapons cant be .As the world of T2K grinds on and units go into cantonments etc the occupation of trade routes,farmland etc becomes more vital to the individual commander.Entrenching and fortifying would be a natural thing to do considering the "old tactics" of fire and manouver are becoming obsolete-fuel and ammo is getting scarce and risking what little you have left in an assault could be too risky .There will be little or no resupply .
We played a great big scenario on trench warfare some time back in our group .Inspired by the book "The Somme" -excellent read btw ,I as GM had my players face trenches and bunker systems on a large scale .It was great fun considering the old school rpg feel of the mapped out "dungeon like trench systems " -on the map they do look like an old ADnD dungeon -and plenty of action to be had -after all the enemy lies in wait in droves just around the next bend or in the next section of the trench.