[AtE] Postapoc parkour, and it's management

[Luke Bunyip]

Originally Posted by Michele

... if firearms are in serious shortage, what about bows and crossbows (maybe made out of recycled equipment springs)?

If what you mean by serious shortage is, say half the gun ownership of Canada, yes, there's a shortage. Doesn't mean that there isn't black powder improvised weapons, zip guns, and the like.

Have actually fired a crossbow made from a Morris Minor leaf spring, so crossbows and swords will be a given. Spear tips from hammered rebar, scale armour fashioned from lots of spoons...

Amongst all the salvageable material will be a variety of gas bottles. These will see reuse as the reservoirs for a variety of air guns.

[Michele]

Originally Posted by Luke Bunyip

If what you mean by serious shortage is, say half the gun ownership of Canada, yes, there's a shortage. Doesn't mean that there isn't black powder improvised weapons, zip guns, and the like.

Have actually fired a crossbow made from a Morris Minor leaf spring, so crossbows and swords will be a given. Spear tips from hammered rebar, scale armour fashioned from lots of spoons...

Amongst all the salvageable material will be a variety of gas bottles. These will see reuse as the reservoirs for a variety of air guns.

Then a fortification, and even a battle in a non-prepared urban location, must take into account things like clear fields of fire (and, conversely, cover), enfilades sweeping straight streets, commanding positions, L-shaped ambushes etc. Both you and the in-game tacticians (be they the PCs or the enemy) will need to consider that sort of things.

On the plus side, everything can be less tiresome, because ranges will be much shorter than when you have emplaced heavy MGs, and penetration of cover is much less of a problem. A couple of swordsmen can push a wheeled trash dumpster as moving cover and quickly come close enough to the pesky slinger to jump out of their cover and deal with that enemy with their hand-to-hand weapons. You wouldn't do that to deal with a 14.5mm KPV gunner.

[Luke Bunyip]

Originally Posted by Michele

...On the plus side, everything can be less tiresome, because ranges will be much shorter ... and penetration of cover is much less of a problem.

Going to rely on megafauna to be the "big artillery". Something akin to the Watcher in the Water (in the lake outside of Moria) in terms of asymmetric threat, and as a railroading story development device.