101 Things Found on a Battlefield

[ChalkLine]

1 - Trenches
2 - Burnt out vehicles
3 - Razor wire
4 - Shell holes (from 'small' to 'what in hell made that?!')
5 - Skeletons
6 - Used medical waste from injury treatment
7 - Bunkers; sandbag or concrete
8 - Crashed chopper

[StainlessSteelCynic]

9 - discarded smallarms
10- unused ammunition belt (for machineguns)
11- unused ration pack
12 - discarded parachute
13 - pallet for airdropped supplies
14 - stockpile of jerrycans
15 - forgotten backpack/rucksack
16 - coils of comms wire
17 - deployed bridge from AVLB
18 - civilian vehicle
19 - discarded helmet
20 - unexploded ordnance

[ChalkLine]

21 - booby traps
22 - Spent missile casings
23 - Wire guided missile wire draped over the terrain

[unkated]

24 - empty, dropped, assault rifle magazines
25 - full, dropped, assault rifle magazines
26 - deserted med station - 2-4 (bloodied) stretchers on stands, empty plastic containers; small chance of dropped small pack of pain-killers or anti-biotics.
27 - deserted MG position, with intact MG
28 - empty mortar position
29 - single, intact tire (Truck or Hummer/other recon)
30 - length of broken vehicle (tank or tracked IFV) track
31 - dead, disembowled cow
32 - pack of wild dogs
33 - murder* of crows



*flock; could be other carrion birds

[StainlessSteelCynic]

34 - shellshocked survivor (hiding in a trench, shellhole etc. etc.)
35 - a pack of scavengers looting the field for anything useful.

[Draq]

33: cigarette butts
32: latrine holes(buried and open)
31: random dismembered body part/unidentifiable bits of human anatomy
30: graffiti
29: a stash of cassette tapes with player(music junkie's collection, carefully collected and cared for, now abandon. His body is probably near by)
28: a line of executed civilians/soldiers
27: photos of loved ones/letters from home

[rcaf_777]

Originally Posted by ChalkLine

6 - Used medical waste from injury treatment

Used? as opposed to new medical waste?

[ArmySGT.]

80 blackened and dented metal tea kettle
81 East German Officer uniform with empty holster beside an open and strewn about suitcase of polish clothing.
82 Trench dugout with trash and old cigarette butts.
83 Russian donkey ears trench binoculars knocked down in the mud.
84 1d100 Free city of Krakow ration chits.
85 courier dispatch bag with papers for the evacuation of ......
86 Polish field phone....still wired in.
87 Polish civilians huddled in a drainage culvert. |
88 Engineers inflatable infiltration raft
89 bundle of 100 OD sand bags
90 bag of looted medications

[rcaf_777]

Eight more to go

[jimbo4795]

abandoned antenna farm.

broken military switchboard.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

These are all meant to be scenes to make the Players wonder. They have no answer to their mystery and they have no connection to the adventure unless of course you choose to incorporate them into your scenario.


A macabre scene of two recently dead enemy soldiers in a shellhole, arranged as though they are playing poker for empty bottles of booze (the bottles have traces of alcohol in them and they still smell of some rotgut whisky). The bodies are propped up with sticks. Their uniforms are dirty and torn and they have no usable equipment except the pack of cards.

A collection (2d10+2) of boots. They're in a range of sizes and all in usable condition except that they are all for the left foot (or the right foot, if you will).

A NATO Kevlar helmet with scraps of hair and large splotches of blood. Nothing particularly unusual except that the helmet has been cut into two halves and what you're looking at is the right side half.

A crashed military light truck/jeep. There's bloodstains on the seats but the most interesting thing is that there are several circular saw blades embedded deep into the bodywork, doors and the windscreen. It's as though they were launched from some device. Some of them have penetrated through the doors and could have injured the person sitting next to that door.
(If you want to give the Players a clue, I imagined this scenario as one where the attackers had built themselves a ballista or three that could fire the sawblades. One ballista may have been damaged and left behind and can be found nearby in a typical ambush position, with about a dozen unused sawblades piled next to it).

EDIT: I meant to say as well, that these are in response to Draq's request for some more of the "stranger" things to encounter.