Starting a new base

[Rswintek]

I have started a new group. They are a special forces team. They want to create their own settlement what should they build what should I build first??

[ArmySGT.]

Hi,

Could you provide some more details?

3rd or 4th edition?
Canon timeline or GMs?
Any veterans among your players?
What kind of settlement and for what purpose?
Snake Eaters or someone outside?

You should build a nice stack of 30 -60 NPCs from every imaginable post apocalyptic job skill set.

Also make some stacks (3x5 cards ) of low level mooks, cannon fodder, mine finder, expendables for them to mow down...... some with primitive weapons and a scarce few with firearms, and a rare modern firearm.

[Matt W]

Is this a base (for Morrow Project operations).or a settlement (a village for local people)?

[rob]

When I started my campaign, I had the MP team in cryo from their bolt hole in a rural setting. They settled in a small fortified village (population around 100), and started to get their bearings in the post nuclear war world. Over time, they started to help the villagers by increasing food production, the aiding with the MP EMDEE and other small things. Over time, the survivors from three other MP teams, joined by a Snake Eater survivor, joined the MP team. Now that winter is approaching, the group has helped establish a local government of about 10 villages, local defense forces in each one. a network of 'observers' based on the Snake Eaters (watch and listen), trade with other adjoining villages and a medical clinic in the base of operations. Now keep in mind, they have access to an old Federal Government base that has an AI computers system that makes Damocles look stupid (based it upon 2015/16 tech with enhanced capabilities). The group's next major issue comes from an organized religious group (not jihadists but almost as bad).

[rob]

When I started my campaign, I had the MP team in cryo from their bolt hole in a rural setting. They settled in a small fortified village (population around 100), and started to get their bearings in the post nuclear war world. Over time, they started to help the villagers by increasing food production, with the aid of the MP EMDEE and other small things. Over time, the survivors from three other MP teams, joined by a Snake Eater survivor, joined the MP team. Now that winter is approaching, the group has helped establish a local government of about 10 villages, local defense forces in each one. a network of 'observers' based on the Snake Eaters (watch and listen), trade with other adjoining villages and a medical clinic in the base of operations. Now keep in mind, they have access to an old Federal Government base that has an AI computers system that makes Damocles look a slow and old (I based it upon 2015/16 tech with enhanced capabilities). The group's next major issue comes from an organized religious group (not jihadists but almost as bad).

[dragoon500ly]

Originally Posted by Rswintek

I have started a new group. They are a special forces team. They want to create their own settlement what should they build what should I build first??

Special Forces team?

Well, to build a new settlement you are going to need access to clean water, decent farmland, access to a fuel source/building materials.

First priority is water and securing it for your settlement, preferably a well or walled off spring for year-round use and large enough to allow for irrigation, if necessary.

With access to building materials, a team house, first-aid station, several homes, all within a defensive perimeter. This defensive perimeter can take the form of individual fighting positions, crew served weapons positions, stone or wooden walls, barbed wire barricades, etc. You will also need a tower or a lookout position for early warning.

For the farming and grazing lands necessary to support the settlement, you will need to consider the sizes necessary as well as the need to secure the plots.

Hope this helps!

[Rswintek]

I am doing morrow 4. I started them with a small base by lake Michigan in Gurnee Illinois.they have a small underground base with fusion power

[Rswintek]

It will be a new base. They encountered a slave group. Killed everyone of the slavers. Problem is the slavers burned down there farm. They have nowhere to go no supplies no food. And the group Of captives is a farm family. I mailman and two fishermen and a medic.

[Rswintek]

I picked them to be a special forces team. They are not gonna wait around for help to come from the government or morrow project. Also as a tribute to my brother that was a Green Beret

[Matt W]

Why build a base/settlement immediately? Isn't the absence of food a more urgent problem ? Why hold on to a farm that's lost its buildings in a firefight?

However

1. The presence of Slavers indicates that there are people willing to buy slaves. Those slave-owners have food and might be willing to trade (for something other than slaves)

2. The presence of a Mailman indicates that there are other communities - and that these communities are in contact with each other. They may be willing to trade for food. Freeing the Mailman should get some goodwill. In any event, this guy will not want to stay

3. You mention "two fishermen" and a Medic . So, presumably at least one community has access to fish. This community might be willing to trade (again, if only to show gratitude for returning their guys)

You also mention that they "have nowhere to go". That seems odd. The Mailman, the fishermen and the medic must have either come from somewhere else or, at least, be aware of other communities. What happened to these places?

So, IMHO, the first thing that your PCs should be building is transport. They need to get people to other places and bring back food (if they intend to stay at the "new base"). Perhaps the Slavers' vehicles can be repaired? Or at least towed by one of the team's vehicles?

Secondly, the "new base" needs a secure place to store food. After that, they can worry about rebuilding and/or fortifying the farm.

I would suggest that you give thought to the politics of the area. Were the Slavers "organized" and an accepted part of the local system? Perhaps the locals might not be grateful that the Slavers have been killed off? The PCs might be disturbed to find that the Slavers provided protection in exchange for "Tribute" (a few slaves every year)? Perhaps the nearby villages now worry that there's nobody to fend off attacks by outsiders who would be more greedy? This could be Bandits/Bikers/Mutants/Orcs or other Slavers who now "have to make an example".

[Rswintek]

Thank you


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[.45cultist]

If you can find them, Special forces skill manuals, and Paladin Press used to publish a book about A-Team camps. Chicago Module had "Fort Morrow" you may wish to study. One of the field manuals on guerilla warfare had the supply packages, with an update to equipment(M4/M16/M249 instead of M1 car/M1 Garand/M1918 BAR) you can create caches. It would be neat to see your PC' faces when one cache is centered around a disassembled 105MM howitzer(heaviest A camp armament)! The caches could be standard stuff to avoid suspicion, perhaps even marked DRMO or destroyed.

[cosmicfish]

If they are Snake Eaters, you should bear in mind that they will have a different mission and different resources than a Project team - I am not sure if 4ed changed them at all but in 3rd they were specifically tasked with investigating TMP and were likely minimally equipped (if at all) for civilization-building. It would not be unrealistic for them to stick to mission and hunt down leads on the Project rather than building villages.

[Matt W]

http://www.gia-vuc.com/virtual%20cam...ual%20tour.htm

This is one of the websites I found that features details about Special Forces camps

[Rswintek]

This is extremely useful. Thank you


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[Rswintek]

I am using the group like the one in Chicago scenario. Plus adding some aftermath.

[RandyT0001]

Originally Posted by Rswintek

I am using the group like the one in Chicago scenario. Plus adding some aftermath.

I always thought that a fusion of MP's module "The Ruins of Chicago" (R-004) and Aftermath's module "Chicago and the Illinois River Valley" (Campaign Pack: C1) with "Empire of Karo" (Adventure Pack K1) would make a good starting setting. IMO, J. Andrew Keith (RIP), a major contributor of material to the Traveller game by GDW, wrote the best module ("Chicago") for Aftermath. Either adjust the wake up time of the team to D+20 years and modify R-004 or modify the Packs C1 and K1 to fit into MP's D+150 years timeline.

Good luck!