Subject: [[email-masked]: TL8 Infantry Squad -- Equ]

From: [email-masked] (Sue and Sean)
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 06:53:48 -0700

From: [email-masked] (Jon Glenn)
Subject: TL8 Infantry Squad -- Equ
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 06:16:00 GMT
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 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".