Foreign military vehicles to add to US units for variety

[Olefin]

If you are playing a game in Korea there are lots of ways you could introduce alternate vehicles - South Korean, Chinese, North Korean and Russian equipment could all be part of US units

Especially with any units that got all the way to the Yalu and then had to retreat under the Russian attack - they could have cutoff Chinese troops as part of their forces, still equipped with Chinese tanks, APC's or SPG's

Especially among either the USMC units (see what they have done in Europe for ideas) for the units like 25th, 41st and 45th that lost most of their equipment in the fighting. Most likely they would be re-equipped with either captured or repaired enemy equipment or South Korean equipment that they were issued once they got back to US lines - i.e. older second line equipment

For instance in 1996 South Korea still had 400 or more M47 tanks and several hundred old M48A3 tanks in reserve storage - some of those tanks could be issued to the American units to give them an armored component again to replace the lost LAV-75's and M60A5's of those divisions.

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by Olefin

If you are playing a game in Korea there are lots of ways you could introduce alternate vehicles - South Korean, Chinese, North Korean and Russian equipment could all be part of US units

Especially with any units that got all the way to the Yalu and then had to retreat under the Russian attack - they could have cutoff Chinese troops as part of their forces, still equipped with Chinese tanks, APC's or SPG's.

Probably a bit of a long shot, but you could also add British vehicles (and troops) into that mix - the 6th UK Infantry Division briefly linked up with US forces on the Yalu around about July / August 1997 before withdrawing back to Hong Kong after the nukes started flying. It's not impossible some UK forces could have been cut off and unable to withdraw to HK with the main body of the Division so found a home with the Americans.

[Webstral]

A small amount of Aussie and Kiwi gear might be present in Korea, too.

[Olefin]

How about a real wild card and have an American unit either encounter or capture a FV 4101 Charioteer tank destroyer from the Finns? They still had 38 of them in usable storage until 2007 in the real world.

You could easily see them being pulled out of storage and put into the line. Definitely would be something unique for them to come up against. And while a M1 would make easy meat of it I would hate to be in a Bradley or LAV25 and run into one of them and its 84mm anti-tank gun.

Could also see them in the hands of marauders in Finland or Norway as well for players who have campaigns in those areas

[Olefin]

How about the Daimler Dingo/Ford Lynx as a vehicle for your group to encounter? There are a ton of them that even today in 2014 are still being operated by private collectors. They made such great recon vehicles that they werent replaced in the British Army till well into the 1950's. And they would be perfect vehicles for someone like New America, a marauder group or one of the breakaway armies/marauder groups in the UK to be operating.

Not sure if Paul ever worked up stats for it but running into one would be a real possibility in the UK, Canada or the US given how many were in collectors hands.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Even before the cold war ended it seems like every other medium-sized town had a Cadillac-Gage V100 or V150; the "RV" the LAPD uses in Die Hard is an M3/M5 Scout car (making the ATGM the bad guys used on it - on its top deck no less! - entirely overkill).

[jester]

Something else to consider.

The assorted vehicles in stores at the various depots in the US.

Remember, a lot of these depots service vehicles from other nations as well.

And then there is storage. The DRMO process is long and slow. For game play, we could probably toss in some old M3 Halftracks being found.

And if one can get a depot, you have the ability with machineshops, tools, spares, schematics and most likely local talent (since most towns in the vicinity have a large portion of their people working there) to build any form of vehicle that that place would of serviced.