Twilight2013 starting equipment scarcity

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Brother in Arms

I can see why the players would want a anti-material rifle but consider this:

The Barrett M82 TODAY costs around 8,500 USD on the civilian market here in the U.S. That beings said the price has been dropping they used to be around 10,000 USD. Now I have no idea how much they cost the military but when one unit costs that much they pretty cautious about handing them out.

But why have a semi auto AM when you could have a Full-auto HMG like the M2HB?? That can really give soft skinned vehicles a bad hair day.

The M2HB seemed to have worked well enough for Carlos Hathcock.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Hathcock generally used the standard sniper rifle: the Winchester Model 70 .30-06 caliber rifle with the standard 8-power Unertl scope. On some occasions, however, he used a different weapon: the M2 Browning machine gun, on which he mounted a 10X Unertl scope, using a bracket of his own design. Hathcock made a number of kills with this weapon in excess of 1,000 yards, including his record for the longest confirmed kill at 2,500 yards.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

In 1967 Hathcock set the record for the longest sniper kill. He used a M2 .50 Cal Browning machine gun mounting a telescopic sight at a range of 2,500 yd (2,286 m), taking down a single Vietcong guerrilla.

[headquarters]

Depending on the scope of your game-

if the players are dedicated they will like the challenge of trying to improve their lot through better gear

gives the gm a lot of momentum in the group to keep things going.

after all - many players tend to say "naaaahh.. my PC is loaded with gear and rations I don not hink I will come to the villagers rescue..I got all I need right here"

Doing good deeds or indeed evil ones through GM generated missions is moe likely to get underway if the party lacks for means and can get booty from the job.

Yes.

I mean booty as in loot / payment.