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08-25-2013, 09:56 AM | #22 |
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Speaking as a guy who is sitting in a Special Forces DSP in Afghanistan as I type this- the local green Berets and SEALs are tooling around in MATVs mounting .50 caliber machine guns and Mark 19 AGLs in CROW remote-weapon mounts. There is nothing "man portable" about that...
The 18Bs are weapon specialists, and there is an old saying- "To be a good special operations soldier you first have to be a good soldier." Trust me- those guys know how to operate an HMG and a mortar. Also- it is worth remembering that the SEALs in GURPS Seals in Vietnam were not a very mature force. The SEALS nowadays are trained somewhat differently. |
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Absolutely, all the units evolve their training. This is part of why I am so eager to see the not-gonna-happen GURPS Modern Military or Special Ops 4E. |
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08-26-2013, 12:48 AM | #24 | |
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There are a couple of supplements on modern militaries for the 1st Edition Spycraft RPG, but while they're useful, there's a lot of stuff they don't talk about, often because it flat out doesn't fit into the rigidly class-levels-and-feats -based structure of a d20 RPG. |
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08-26-2013, 01:27 AM | #25 | |
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That having been said, I think a Modern Military book would solve a lot more problems and could probably include enough Special Ops templates to make filling out the rest pretty easy. *: Or so I hear! |
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08-26-2013, 01:46 AM | #26 | |
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08-26-2013, 02:14 AM | #27 |
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08-27-2013, 07:05 AM | #28 | |
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Speaking of which- I am quite sure that SEALs get heavy-weapons training. Again, every day I see them tooling around in MRAPs with erotically large weaponry mounted to the roof... |
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08-27-2013, 10:59 AM | #29 | ||
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Of course, there are no doubt platoons that go through additional training which DOES include some real heavy weapons training, but I have not seen anything to suggest run-of-the-mill SEALs get more than "This is how you shoot it, this is how you load it, here are the two most common jams... now fire a belt downrange, see how it feels. Good? OK, next guy!" |
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