104th ID Location

[Webstral]

Howling Wilderness repeats what is in the US Vehicle Guide regarding the location of the 104th ID: "...the division was withdrawn from the front line to take over internal security duties in the Montana-Idaho region." Yet under Current Location, the division is listed as being in Cheyenne, WY. Does anybody have any further information on this apparent discrepancy?

Webstral

[HorseSoldier]

No clue, but trying to spread one T2K sized division over any one of the three states they are associated with would be just about zero actual control on the ground.

Cheyenne could be a viable staging base north out of MilGov's Colorado cantonments looking to move into Montana and Idaho, though, and that region is supposed to be pretty thick with New America, so maybe the location reflects them gearing up to try and move north circa June 2000? (How they got from the Pac Northwest to Colorado/Wyoming is another question, though.)

[jester]

I can see two possibilities.

1.) What is the timeline for those locations in the vehicle guide and the howling wilderness? If there is a difference of a few months, then poof they moved from one location to another.

2.) Elements are in those locations. I equate it like the old western forts <this seems appropriate considering the location> With a HQ element with support forces in one location, and then one of the main elements at the outpost away from the HQ and other elements.

This could be to give some form of stability to the region as MilGov attempts to gain the confidence in the public and wrestle control of the region from that of New America. They could also conduct patrols much like was done in the old west, with units moving around the circuit, and conducting patrols and operations to combat the lawlessness.

Just a couple ideas.

[pmulcahy11b]

Maybe their HQ is in Wyoming, but their area of responsibility is the Montana/Idaho region. Where is Cheyenne in relation to the Montana/Idaho border?

[Rainbow Six]

Isn't Cheyenne right next door to Warren AFB? Would have thought that Warren might be fairly high on any list of Soviet nuclear targets or did it escape in canon?

[HorseSoldier]

Warren AFB is on the edge of town, and I think was one of the listed US targets. Cheyenne itself is in the southern portion of WY, just over the Colorado border.