BP said:I like making up and researching new gear for my players.
Here are some I came across accidentally
Most of them I'd heard of (though can't speak to their veracity), but Acoustic Kitty was a new one that had me rolling...
And Project Pigeon might have merit for lower TL ship missiles 8)
Enjoy
middenface said:How about Tac-Nuke Hand Grenades - great in low G Environments..
Mind you those nuclear land mines where a great idea.......
The deployment of these weapons over here was one of those things thatcaptainjack23 said:Either an insane idea, a players wet dream, a model for a traveller ship-mounted atomic missile , or all three.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device%29
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rust said:The deployment of these weapons over here was one of those things thatcaptainjack23 said:Either an insane idea, a players wet dream, a model for a traveller ship-mounted atomic missile , or all three.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device%29
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caused a little doubt which side our supposed allies really were on ...
Especially the chicken powered version:middenface said:Mind you those nuclear land mines where a great idea.......
"...not only destroy facilities and installations over a large area, but...deny occupation of the area to an enemy for an appreciable time due to contamination..."
rust said:Well, at least our British allies who had developed that slightly unfriendly
plan to make Germany uninhabitable "for an appreciable time" reconsi-
dered the idea in a moment of sanity, although I am not absolutely cer-
tain whether they wanted to spare the chickens or us. :shock:
Well, Khrushchev was never very subtle, he really loved to show off ... :shock:The fireball ... was seen and felt almost 1,000 kilometres (620 mi)
from ground zero. The heat from the explosion could have caused
third-degree burns 100 km (62 miles) away from ground zero.
Captain Jonah said:Ndampers move nukes down to tactical weapons because the long term effects can be removed, they are simply a bigger bang rather than a weapon that will radiate an area making it useless for years.
I assumed they meant for the dampers to be used to 'safely' allow for the proper cleanup - i.e. retard the decay, then remove the radioactive material with water, burial or other direct means...Ishmael said:I've never understood how nuclear dampers could be used to 'clean up' radiation and remove radiation effects as Captain Jonah ( and others ) believe.
rust said:Especially the chicken powered version:middenface said:Mind you those nuclear land mines where a great idea.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_powered_nuclear_bomb
I especially like the basic idea behind the plan to deploy them over here:
"...not only destroy facilities and installations over a large area, but...deny occupation of the area to an enemy for an appreciable time due to contamination..."
Well, at least our British allies who had developed that slightly unfriendly
plan to make Germany uninhabitable "for an appreciable time" reconsi-
dered the idea in a moment of sanity, although I am not absolutely cer-
tain whether they wanted to spare the chickens or us. :shock:
Ok - I'll bite... (follows link hoping computer stays free of any avian flu...)rust said:Especially the chicken powered version:middenface said:Mind you those nuclear land mines where a great idea.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_powered_nuclear_bomb
Yeah, you do get the impression that Germany was written off by the rest of NATO (and the USSR) as a general battleground, with France and the UK as 'fall back positions'....
Well, the majority of roleplaying games produced in Germany has post-locarno24 said:Growing up being told that your village was the 'default co-ordinates' for quite a large number of tactical nuclear weapons must have messed with your head as a kid...