Caribbean/South America Targets?

[kalos72]

So I am trying to develop some other campaigns for my team in Texas.

They really liked the "Spanish Main" story line and I was thinking about trying something like that again.

They also like story around acquiring resources for Texas at the same time...

I was thinking maybe trying to steal/buy some Mexican naval ships stuck in Tampico or maybe trade for minerals some where but have to deal with the local warlord or something.

Any suggestions for good targets?

[swaghauler]

Originally Posted by kalos72

So I am trying to develop some other campaigns for my team in Texas.

They really liked the "Spanish Main" story line and I was thinking about trying something like that again.

They also like story around acquiring resources for Texas at the same time...

I was thinking maybe trying to steal/buy some Mexican naval ships stuck in Tampico or maybe trade for minerals some where but have to deal with the local warlord or something.

Any suggestions for good targets?

Check out the Windjammer fleet based in the Caribbean. 100ft+ sailing vessels can carry a great deal of cargo pretty effectively. For smaller missions; the 40 to 60 foot long sailing vessels of companies like The Moorings Group and Sunsail Charters can be handled by just two people but can support a crew of 4 to 8. There are literally hundreds of these vessels all over the US gulf states, the Caribbean, and South America. Several very poor islands in the Caribbean now have a VERY valuable commodity- sugar. Sugar has a much higher energy output than corn or grain ethanol. This means that you can make more fuel from an equal weight of sugar than either that of corn or grain. All you have to do is secure the cane fields and sail the crop to wherever you need it.

[stormlion1]

We played a game once where we had to steal a Cuban Corvette. A Pauk class I think it was. The entire scenario became that the ship was essentially the big power in the ocean around Cuba because it had fuel while everyone else was bone dry because the Cubans early on had seized several tankers for there fleet. Went well as we stole it but then the group decided going pirate was the way to go. A month later and out came the life rafts...

[Slappy]

Venezuela is a pretty big oil producer with fairly distributed wells. Nukes may have got the refineries, but not all the oil. That's ripe ground for recovery, raiding, escort, etc.

I ran a decent campaign ages ago with the players contracted to an underdog Dutch effort out of the ABC islands to maintain a hold on some wells against a better supplied French effort coming down from the Antilles. It was fun. Definitely a Pirates of the Caribbean feel.

If you like, you can have a small UK squadron based in Barbados. Cubans, Mexicans and Americans can show up. The area is navigable by sail and pretty low tech even today. I thought it was a really fun location as a break from Europe and the US.

[kalos72]

Great ideas!

I love the "Pirates" feel to this area myself. I wonder what natural resources or maybe industrial ones would be targets?

There is still the infamous Panama Canal and the 193rd IB. :P

[Olefin]

Well we know Aruba wasnt hit as it was mentioned as a pirate target in the Caribbean module.

However you can bet that Venezuela got nailed big time - its mentioned in the canon as being nuked to take out its refineries and oil fields. Probably add in Curacao as well (with Aruba maybe being spared by a near miss or lucky hit by an ABM of some sort) and the refineries in Trinidad.

Another interesting angle that I have been looking at is the Netherlands and French going at it in the Caribbean - you have a Netherlands Marine Battalion stationed there as well as some ships and the French have forces there too - with the fighting going on in Europe between the two it could very easily spill over into the Caribbean