Quote:
Originally Posted by Gunner
Besides diverting a ship that was headed for "recycling", another source of NA maritime assets would be museum ships. I don't recall off the top of my head where NA strongholds are, but there are small- to medium-sized maritime / naval museums in lots of places, and some of the ships are in amazingly good shape...
The WWII-era Liberty Ship JOHN BROWN in Baltimore is kept in good enough shape to pass its USCG inspection and carry passengers every year. Other museum ships have running engines, working radars, etc. Of course, none of the weapons on ANY museum ship work, but, if you can put a tank turret on the back of a medium-sized truck, you can put one ANYWHERE...
A museum ship could have been in drydock in a small city when the Twilight War started, and an NA cell could be strong there, for example...
|
Tampa now has the Liberty ship USS
American Victory, but it only arrived there in 1999. That's their only real coastal enclave in the contiguous US (north woods of Maine, Adirondack mountains, West Virginia, northern GA and AL, eastern KY/TN and western NC/SC, the Ozarks, Snake River Basin in ID, OR woods, and Seward in Alaska). Their best option might be to capture a cruise ship in Alaska (that's mostly a joke, but NA really doesn't have any good shots at museum ships).