Early Phase Cache Upgrades

[Desert Mariner]

For those that don't have 4e, it specifies global cache upgrades in 1987, 1999 and 2013.

[ChalkLine]

So we are saying that all caches are upgraded? That either no M14s are left in caches before The Big Event or they are brought up to a 2013 standard?

[Desert Mariner]

I dislike the idea of replacing everything a team has trained on with possibly unfamiliar weapons and/or equipment.

I think the 1987 update would be more extensive as that's when the fusion units and lasers were added. Per 4e, this included a global update of not only the caches but boltholes as well.

Subsequent updates wouldn't have been as extensive both for the training impact and security issues.

As a side note, 4e even includes a table to randomly generate the era of cache equipment so there does appear to be some intent to possibly give a team equipment they've never seen before.

[cosmicfish]

The problems of replacing equipment gets even bigger when you consider people being used gear that they simply don't understand. Give a guy from the 60s, trained on the M14, a laser weapon that he needs to maintain and operate, and odds are good that a few dozen innocent people are going to be permanently blinded. And god help them if there is a problem with that fusion reactor and they're sitting there under fire trying to fix something that looks nothing like a gas engine.

[Desert Mariner]

Or do you create a logistical and security nightmare and wake the teams on a rotational basis so they can be trained on their new toys?

[ChalkLine]

For a change of pace playing a 1975 team with a 2013 stockpile would be interesting. Trying to play a person who missed the Information Age by a large amount confronted my modern electronics would be fun

[.45cultist]

Perhaps a clerical error means a Team and half it's caches are missed in the upgrades, so they can still feed their older gear.