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Originally Posted by Raellus
For some reason, I started thinking about this topic again today. I've been toying with the idea of a campaign where the PCs are crewmen on a gun truck convoy for quite a while now, but I couldn't come up with any kind of story hook beyond the standard "stuck behind enemy lines" trope. Then it dawned on me- make the gun trucks mail trucks and send the PCs on an long-haul interstate mail run. Now I've got a clear objective for the group.
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I like this a lot. It aligns with my own preferred campaign style, which isn't as homogenous as v1's default all-Army, all-Europe assumptions.
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And it's not going to be a milk run point A to point B type mission. One washed out bridge and the mission's going to be anything but routine.
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Given that, the team might be better served with more engineering and maintenance support than a HMMWV pulling a tank trailer. Perhaps a HEMTT with 5-ton crane operating in the "water buffalo" role, with a bunch of 55-gallon fuel drums or a non-trailered fuel tank strapped down in the load bed?
Also, depending on the local political environment, this might make for a mixed team, with a couple of civilian representatives (CivGov or local enclave) riding along to reassure any anti-MilGov communities along the route. Part of MilGov's long-term strategy should be to re-establish civilian governance as per the Constitution, so visible steps toward that goal would, ironically, establish MilGov's short-term legitimacy as much as actual mail service would.
- C.