Your Equipment List

[Olefin]

Keep in mind that shipments of things like uniforms and gear may have continued long after factories making tanks and planes and artillery stopped going.

Plus the US Army and other armies had a lot of equipment stockpiled in Europe - including material to resupply full sized divisions - as those divisions got much smaller that gear would have gone further than originally intended

as for weapons - if you know how to keep a weapon clean (and everyone in the military gets that drilled into them ad infinitum) then even after several years of war it would still be in good shape - my uncle Charlie had the same rifle he got issued from 1942 in Africa till he got captured at the Bulge

[Olefin]

My GM did something like this once as a change of pace - only a couple of us were around over a vacation and we did a scenario where we used our original characters but only equipped them with what we could have grabbed bailing out of a vehicle under fire

so very minimally equipped and only a couple of weapons with limited ammo

basically started with an M16, a 9mm and only a couple of clips for each and very minimal gear

[Cdnwolf]

Originally Posted by Olefin

Keep in mind that shipments of things like uniforms and gear may have continued long after factories making tanks and planes and artillery stopped going.

Plus the US Army and other armies had a lot of equipment stockpiled in Europe - including material to resupply full sized divisions - as those divisions got much smaller that gear would have gone further than originally intended

as for weapons - if you know how to keep a weapon clean (and everyone in the military gets that drilled into them ad infinitum) then even after several years of war it would still be in good shape - my uncle Charlie had the same rifle he got issued from 1942 in Africa till he got captured at the Bulge

Equipment gets used up pretty quickly and after the Thanksgiving Massacre, I don't think shipping was a high priority for the troops in Europe. Also remember these troops have been cut off from the regular forces and are heading out in the during a massive artillery barrage in the middle of the night. My equipment list is after being on the road for a couple of months.

[mikeo80]

Originally Posted by Cdnwolf

Equipment gets used up pretty quickly and after the Thanksgiving Massacre, I don't think shipping was a high priority for the troops in Europe. Also remember these troops have been cut off from the regular forces and are heading out in the during a massive artillery barrage in the middle of the night. My equipment list is after being on the road for a couple of months.

I agree with your equipment list 2-3-4 years post TDM.

General Pain was speculating with unlimited funds and availability. As was I.

My $0.02

Mike

[Cdnwolf]

Originally Posted by mikeo80

I agree with your equipment list 2-3-4 years post TDM.

General Pain was speculating with unlimited funds and availability. As was I.

My $0.02

Mike

Thank you. I just re-read the original post.

[Olefin]

it does say that there were supplies still being sent but it was light equipment, not heavy any more - most likely happened during the last surge of men to Europe as CivGov and MilGov competed aganist each other

and there could be new equipment being made, just not to the same standards - the Germans in WWII were still turning out all kinds of tents, sleeping bags, mess gear you name it even as late as March and April of 1945

so you could see that continuing here - but now the materials are different, the uniforms dont last as long, the weapons have different quality of steel or wood subsituted for plastic, etc..

[bobcat]

a battered G3 with a claymore bag full of magazines.
a battered ARVN rucksack
a mess kit and canteen cup for cooking
a khukuri knife.
a wore out survival firestarter
scavenged clothes in earth tones
a small american flag hanging off my ruck for IFF
a USGI poncho with liner
a small dark tarp.

[.45cultist]

With an unlimited budget, titanium mess kit, and a Kifaru woobie and shelter! Might need to stat those up.....