From sands@netcom.com Mon May 20 08:56:24 1996 Received: from netcom17.netcom.com (sands@netcom17.netcom.com [192.100.81.130]) by deliverator.io.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA18920 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 08:53:49 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from sands@localhost) by netcom17.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom) id GAA23646; Mon, 20 May 1996 06:53:48 -0700 Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 06:53:48 -0700 From: sands@netcom.com (Sue and Sean) Message-Id: <199605201353.GAA23646@netcom17.netcom.com> To: gurpsnet-files@io.com Subject: [jon.glenn@emachine.com: TL8 Infantry Squad -- Equ] Return-Path: From: jon.glenn@emachine.com (Jon Glenn) Subject: TL8 Infantry Squad -- Equ Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 06:16:00 GMT Organization: The Energy Machine Information System 504-733-8380 To: gurpsnet-l@io.com Sender: owner-gurpsnet-l@io.com Precedence: list Reply-To: jon.glenn@emachine.com (Jon Glenn) Content-Return: prohibited X-URL: http://www.io.com/sjgames/gurps X-URL: http://www.io.com/~ftp/GURPSnet X-URL: http://www.io.com/user/epopt/gnetfaq.html Awflower@midway.uchicago. posts in the sunlit world he believes is reality... Aw> Some premises: This'll be fun, hehehe..... popping Die Walkre into the tape deck.... Aw> General Kit Aw> Combat Load: 5 lbs. Uniform, boots, and LBE var. Primary weapon 6 lbs. 2 Filtration canteens 4 lbs. 4 grenades (usually frag) 1 lbs. 1 smoke grenade 1 lb. super-fine bayonet 10 lbs. Light Clamshell torso armor (DR:25) 9.5 lbs. CID helmet w/ built in multiview goggles .25 lb. mini-flashlight 1 lb. Medkit w/ 3 Hypercoagulin, 3 neurovine, 5 superstim, 1 morphine equivilent neg. mil-spec compass TOTAL: 37.75lbs. I'm going with the squad set up used by the U.S.M.C., which consists of three 4-man fireteams. These are made up of a team leader, a rifleman, a machine gunner, and a Asisstant Gunner. Squad/Team leader: 11.5 lbs. Type 96 rifle w/ underbarrel GW-2100 6.6 lbs. 6 magazines .13 lbs. SR communicator 4.8 lbs. 12 30mm HEDP 5 lbs. maps and mil-spec GPS total combat load: 65.78 Rifleman: 7.5 lbs. Type 96 rifle 6.6 lbs. 6 mags 3 lbs. 2 Type 98 drums 5 lbs. Anti-tank rocket total comat load:59.85 Machine Gunner: 18 lbs. Type 98 LMG 6 lbs. 4 drums 2.75 lbs. Russki-9 w/ holster 2 lbs. 2 clips for pistol total combat load:66.5 Assistant Gunner 7.5 lbs. Type 96 rifle 6.6 lbs. 6 mags 12 lbs. 8 drums for Type 98 total combat load:63.85 Mission Load: 4 lbs. rucksack 6 lbs. envirobag 1 lbs. poncho/shelter half (the more things change....) 10 lbs. 20 neo-MREs 1 lb. 20m biphase rope 20 lbs. extra uniforms 2 lbs. smart mine or PLASTEX satchel charge 3 lbs. 2 drums for Type 98 7.5 lbs. 500 rounds 5.5mmCL, boxed 1 lb. entrenching tool .5 lb. mess kit Total:54.5 Total mission loads Squad/Team leader:121.78lbs. Rifleman:115.85 Machine Gunner:122.5 Assistant Gunner:119.85 They still work out to medium combat loads and heavy mission loads, but my set-up has it's advantages. The armor weighs 30 pounds less, so that's 30 more pounds of bang-bang to send downrange. My troops are much less dependant on batteries than yours are. Everyone in the squad carries the same ammo. This is a very important point. Imagine that you are stuck in a foxhole with an empty carbine, and the corpse next to you has gyroc clips, but no launcher..... Stats and descriptions of my guns follow. They were designed for early GURPS TL8 using 3G3. Rifles weapon malf dmg ss acc 1/2 max wt. rof shots st rcl cost Type 96 5.5mmcl* crit 5d+2 12 10 450 5284 7.5 10**55+1 9 -1 560 Grenade Launchers weapon malf dmg ss acc min max wt. rof shots st rcl cost GW-2100 30mm CL* crit 2d(10)[2d] 14 5 12 390 4 2~ 2+1 11 -1 500 Machine Guns weapon malf dmg ss acc 1/2 max wt. rof shots st rcl cost Type 98 5.5mmCL* ver 5d+2 15 8 450 5284 18 12* 75/75D 12 -1 550 The Type 96 is a caseless Japanese assault rifle from a game I once ran, set during a war between us and a Russo-Japanese alliance. It is a bullpup with a flat top-mounted magazine similar to the one used by the FN P90. The Type 98 Light Machine Gun is from the same game. It has a conventional layout, with two 75 round drums and a dual feed mechanism. The GW-2000 is a hypothetical caseless pump action grenade launcher. It looks like a SPAS-12 shotgun with a fixed stock. The GW-2100 is a similar weapon which attaches to the barrel of most assault rilfes. U.S. troops refer to this combo as a "Ripley Special".