Fighting Light: what starting T2K gear?

[Brother in Arms]

I have been thinking a lot of running a campaign for T2K soon and the question of equipment keeps coming up in my mind. It seems that many T2K games revolve around vehicles,fuel. And not much on personal gear. Also since vehicles allow you to carry more and more equipment things start to get out of control.

Lately I have been looking at pics of Sandinstas guerrillas. They usually have a Rifle, A magazine pouch, a small ruck sack, and maybe a belt, hat or machete. I have also been watching episodes of the old SURVIVOR tv. series and the characters are always very lightly equipped with practically no "gear" to speak of.

Then the other day I was reading the "unit encounters thread" and Ole Fin really summed it up when he wrote:

"Played a game once where all we had was our uniforms, small arms, two clips of ammo and one grenade each and water and food for two days to start - we spent a lot of time initially doing searches of places like that described above just to get equipped enough to survive, let alone try to get home."

basically just enough gear for a short patrol (a 3 day pack is typical today) but I like the light weight lack of gear the Rhodesian and later South Africans carried during "COIN" warfare ops.


What do you think good grab and go start up gear would be for NATO or Warsaw troops? Also I have been looking at a lot of photos the fantasy post apocalyptic video game STALKER. And Minimalism really seems to suit the looks of Soviet gear.

BIA