Backpack Nukes.

[Cdnwolf]

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/...he-cold-war-2/

[Matt Wiser]

Ah, yes. Davy Crockett. Nukes at battalion level.....lovely.

[Draq]

I still want Paul to stat these, just for shiggles.

[LBraden]

Originally Posted by Matt Wiser

Ah, yes. Davy Crockett. Nukes at battalion level.....lovely.

Yeah, who's great idea was it to give a 2nd Lt command of a nuclear weapon, we all know how useless those guys are.

[dragoon500ly]

Originally Posted by LBraden

Yeah, who's great idea was it to give a 2nd Lt command of a nuclear weapon, we all know how useless those guys are.

Dear Gawd...a 2nd Lt. With a map, a radio AND a nuke!?!?!?

This violates every Geneva and Hague Convention!!!

[Olefin]

there was at least one Challenge magazine article with a backpack nuke that was going to be used in Iran - so there is a precedent for them being in the game

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Yeah the Davy Crockett was a weird weapon. Nuclear authority given to 2nd lieutenants, but when they tried to implement a Permissive Action Link they found out that calling all the way up to the president when your target was a motor rifle company that was on the move, you kind of took away the weapon's biggest advantage (speed of use).

[.45cultist]

Originally Posted by Olefin

there was at least one Challenge magazine article with a backpack nuke that was going to be used in Iran - so there is a precedent for them being in the game

I think it had some stats: yield, timer, and weight. It also had the micro generator stats and other tidbits.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Olefin

there was at least one Challenge magazine article with a backpack nuke that was going to be used in Iran - so there is a precedent for them being in the game

According to canon multiple demolition nukes were deployed by US Army engineers to destroy the transport hubs around Czestochowa when NATO forces withdrew from the city (1998 I think?). But one of the rumour tables had a rumour that one of the demolition nukes hadn't detonated and may have been recovered. It was that backpack nuke that the PCs recovered from beneath the Jasna Gora in my last campaign and subsequently detonated on the outskirts of WarPac Reserve Front HQ in Lublin. The subsequent chaos among Soviet forces in Poland made Operation Omega somewhat more successful than it might otherwise have been.

For flavour, this photo is of a 6kt nuke being detonated.

[LT. Ox]

Originally Posted by LBraden

Yeah, who's great idea was it to give a 2nd Lt command of a nuclear weapon, we all know how useless those guys are.

I were one of dem guys.
Stop laughing I was honest.
Oh that is not why yer laughing.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Originally Posted by LT. Ox

I were one of dem guys.
Stop laughing I was honest.
Oh that is not why yer laughing.

"Not all who wander are lost. Except the 2nd Lieutenant. He is as lost as fuck. The 2nd Lieutenant is dying of hypothermia."