Oddball Items...

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Hey, how about a portion of your ammo stocks in paint filled shells?

"They make...pretty colors when they hit."

[Adm.Lee]

My brother's original PC had a rubber duck on a string around his neck.

They talked me into mounting speakers and a tape deck on their no-ammo M1A1, so they could play Wagner or Steppenwolf while attacking.

[boogiedowndonovan]

Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer

Hey, how about a portion of your ammo stocks in paint filled shells?

"They make...pretty colors when they hit."

Kelly's Heroes!

[Canadian Army]

A 1985 NASCAR Monte Carlo SS and Hitler's canoe

[bobcat]

i know all the other "riders" here would disagree with this being oddball. but i had one PC searching Europe for his stetson. seems he got knocked out and a commie stole it right of his head.

towards the end of that campaign he got his chance for both a saber kill and to get his stetson back.

[Abbott Shaull]

Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer

Hey, how about a portion of your ammo stocks in paint filled shells?

"They make...pretty colors when they hit."

Hey I have always thought about that, and the loud speakers. In the T2K world, many people would care, either way when you show up in AFV people tend to leave town quickly unless they legit AT capability....lol

[Abbott Shaull]

Always thought Kelly's Heroes when I think of t2k.

A group of misfits thrown together to survive on one hand, and their enterprising mission on the other hand. What is not love about it.

Kinda like the idea behind the movie "The Postman" and the book to a point. Where someone tries to commit fraud to get feed, to only feel guilty when he realizes that the people he trying to dupe look to him for hope that things may be just getting back to something called normal.

[95th Rifleman]

Swords

Every time I played a T2K char I made a point of hititng the first museum i could find and get a useable, reliable sword. Drove my GM nuts, but it's so damned useful for practical and pyschological uses.

[Legbreaker]

Heh, I can relate to that.
I once fitted a .303 SMLE bayonet to my Steyr AUG. Scared the pants of the unit I was acting as enemy for. The blade was nearly as long as the entire rifle.
Only requires an allen key applied to the rear bayonet lug on the F88 which is then slid rearward about an inch.

[WallShadow]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Heh, I can relate to that.
I once fitted a .303 SMLE bayonet to my Steyr AUG. Scared the pants of the unit I was acting as enemy for. The blade was nearly as long as the entire rifle.
Only requires an allen key applied to the rear bayonet lug on the F88 which is then slid rearward about an inch.

To quote Dad's Army Corporal Jones: "They don't like it up 'em!"

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by WallShadow

To quote Dad's Army Corporal Jones: "They don't like it up 'em!"

No, they certainly don't like the foot and a half of cold hard steel...
The one I had was a Model 1907 which from memory was stamped 1915 and showed some clear signs of having been used. Probably worth a few coins now, but the ex disposed of it when I was away for a few months.
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-...s/bayonets.htm

[Targan]

Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman

Swords

Every time I played a T2K char I made a point of hititng the first museum i could find and get a useable, reliable sword. Drove my GM nuts, but it's so damned useful for practical and pyschological uses.

Totally. In my last campaign melee weapons were pretty popular among some of the scarier PCs. Major Po regularly carried a Chinese lion sword with him. The Gurkha PC Tenzin Gurung carried a kukri knife that was one of the larger sizes than normally seen. My brother's PC, the 6'4", massive framed, 230lb Samoan USMC Cpl Urana Ratowi carried a fireman's axe that he found in NYC during Armies of the Night. And the last PC to enter the campaign, our new member Arrissen's SEAL, Lt Cdr H.D. Black carried a variety of melee weapons including a throwing knife, a heavy combat knife, a tomahawk, a Spyderco rescue lockknife and a garotte.

[Adm.Lee]

One of my players once ran both a Gurkha, kukri included, and a SEAL officer with a cavalry saber. He liked to draw that one and announce, "No gunfire" before attacking at night.