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Old 01-09-2008, 03:08 PM   #11
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Default Re: [IW: 4e] Traps Abound

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Originally Posted by GhostInTheMachine
Does anyone know of or have any references to REAL life traps. Especially that of the Vietnam/Korean War Era. I am running a group of about 7-9 people in an IW Cinematic Timepiece game. I'm gonna need something more than the stuff shown in the Rambo movies. :-)
Other than the typical sharpened bamboo posts hidden in tunnels, or at the bottom of pits, I got nothing.

I much prefer to use ambushes than traps. Rather than having a 'mechanism' fire bolts at encroachers, if you can figure out a reason for there to be a team of people guarding from an enclosed and protected location, overlooking terrain that the enemy is sure to cross (shallow parts of streams, etc.) and then 'Zap' anything that comes into their engagement range.

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Old 01-09-2008, 03:25 PM   #12
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Default Re: [IW: 4e] Traps Abound

I've got a few. I vouch for the truth of none of them:

WWII Russian Front: A bomb wired to a upturned bucket with a live cat under the bucket. Who can leave the poor thing mewing under there.

Portrait of Hitler/Stalin wired to a bomb what self respecting nationalist/socialist-fanatic won't pull it down?

Neat stack of firewood, one of the logs has a stick of dynamite hidden inside.

Pot of jam mixed with posion (or from Firefly an apple with a grenade in it).

SAS: A grenade with the lever held by tape left in the enemy's rubbish tip when they burn the rubbish... Or a grenade with the lever held by a piece of string left in the gutter above a door. In a few weeks or months the string will rot. The advantage of these is that even if the grenade does no real harm the enemy will think that the infiltrators are everywhere, all the time.

WWI Australians - apparently they had a grenade with a reversible fuse - one way round it burns for the usual 5 seconds the other way round it is instantaneous. "Ha, Hans (or Hakan if we are at Gallipoli) look at this. The stupid Aussie left the pin in this grenade, watch while I throw it back at him."
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