Buying equipment in special ops/military type games

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by safisher

Sure, but the issue is how to run it in a game. The money here doesn't have to be cash, it just represents an amount of haggling, horse trading, access to unvouchered funds or a alphabet sourced untraceable govt. credit card, or a doting unit commander, loose unit acquisition policies, friendly former unti members who own their own milspec uspply business, etc. This specifics aren't important. It's what it represents in agreed-upon meta-game terms to the players that matters.

Aren't they? They add quite a bit to the game that would not be there.