Don't have my "Into the Howling Wilderness" yet...

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Did Fort Knox get hit? I'm guessing that's a yes.

The reason I ask is : would a military desperate enough for armor pull down and try to salvage/refurbish some of the less onerous stuff from the museum there? Regardless of sending it to Europe or using it at home (in AK to hold off the Reds there, or against Division Cuba or the Mexicans).

Curious.

Oh, also, I seem to recall that the AMARC did not get pasted: it's full of a/c and parts, and while avgas is of course a huge issue, even a handful of refurbed or salvaged A1s or Huns flying - albeit rarely - could be a HUGE asset for one of the above situations for either CivGov or MilGov.

[Legbreaker]

I was looking at that a month or so ago and I think it's not on the list of targets....
Milgov did pull out of the area though, and it's well out of Civgovs region so.....

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

I was looking at that a month or so ago and I think it's not on the list of targets....
Milgov did pull out of the area though, and it's well out of Civgovs region so.....

AMARC or Ft. Knox?

[Legbreaker]

Fort Knox. I'm going from memory though, but I'll check in a couple of hours.

[HorseSoldier]

I'm pretty certain Knox was not nuked, it doesn't have anything there that would warrant a nuke in T2K's exchange.

Nothing at the Patton museum would be of real value, outside an exemplar or two of stuff still in the inventory that 194th probably took with them when they left the area. All the vintage and foreign stuff would be maintenance deadlined within 100 miles or a couple months. It's value would be some impressive pill boxes and that's about it.

AMARC may be in Mexican hands. In any case post TDM I don't think the distribution network to get parts and qualified maintainers married up with lower cost airframes is available, which is a bigger show stopper (or a deal breaker) before the fuel crunch enters the equation.

[Legbreaker]

Confirmed. Ft Knox is not on the list and there's no mention of it being attacked in Howling Wilderness.
In fact there doesn't appear to be any strikes anywhere near Ft Knox.

Quote:
"The western part of Kentucky is controlled by Milgov, but as in Tennessee, the military government has not been able to extend it's control eastward."

From that I think it's fairly clear Ft Knox has been abandoned.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Originally Posted by HorseSoldier

I'm pretty certain Knox was not nuked, it doesn't have anything there that would warrant a nuke in T2K's exchange.

Nothing at the Patton museum would be of real value, outside an exemplar or two of stuff still in the inventory that 194th probably took with them when they left the area. All the vintage and foreign stuff would be maintenance deadlined within 100 miles or a couple months. It's value would be some impressive pill boxes and that's about it.

Ah, but they do have a pretty well-equipped machine shop for restoration and repair of the working models - that'd have some value to one side or the other (an AFV repair shop, that is).

AMARC may be in Mexican hands. In any case post TDM I don't think the distribution network to get parts and qualified maintainers married up with lower cost airframes is available, which is a bigger show stopper (or a deal breaker) before the fuel crunch enters the equation.

Oh I'm not suggesting it'd be a day at the aircraft mall or anything, just that it'd be a long-term asset worth grabbing, (or grabbing back as the case may be).

...which also leaves me wondering what shape Mexican oil production is in.