Gun Trucks

[Webstral]

After re-writing the introduction for a piece on gun trucks, I realized that I'm going to have to rethink certain aspects of a lot of pieces. Some of the infantry brigades and divisions operating in CONUS are going to have to have some gun trucks added to their rosters. The tracked AFVs simply can't be sent running all over kingdom come. In Sixth US Army's AO, where some oil from Bakersfield is available, gun trucks probably will be relatively common as escorts. Colorado probably has a fair number of gun trucks running on oil out of Wyoming. I'll have to think about 104th ID, though. They have great distances to cover, but I'm iffy about the fuel.

[Webstral]

Last night, I started dusting off my work on gun trucks in northern New England. I did a lot of work before setting it aside. Now I'm having trouble decidig where the boundaries are. A simple write-up for the four organizations in northern New England using gun trucks seems too brief and too narrow. An in-depth history on northern New England through 4/01 seems too broad. Still thinking...

[Olefin]

Love this thread, full of all kinds of interesting information. The Kenya module I am working on will have several different versions of gun trucks, both on the enemy side (hello Somali Technicals) as well as on the good guys side (the British Lions unit will have several gun trucks that a WWII vet who was retired to Kenya came up with)

[Webstral]

The attached piece has been idling as I flesh out other stuff. I'm very much on the fence about whether this sort of thing is useful without a larger context. How much of a larger context is needed? Do players need to know about other armed bodies in northern New England for the organizations with gun trucks to be meaningful? Do refs need to know more about the organizations in question for the OOB to be useful? Is northern New England a meaningful subdivision, or should I be talking about all of New England?

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Webstral

I'm very much on the fence about whether this sort of thing is useful without a larger context. How much of a larger context is needed?

Well I don't know about "needed", Web, but I like reading the material you write so I'd like to place my vote for more context, please

[Ironside]

So would I, very much so.

[Tegyrius]

I summon this thread to arise from the grave!

Ahem.

(Further gun truck cross-discussion here and here.)

Courtesy of the US Army's Foreign Military Studies Office, here's an interesting summary of improvised armored fighting vehicles (IAFVs) in use among the Mexican drug cartels. Relevance to our interests should be obvious...

- C.