YEPPERS. BEEN THERE, DONE THAT A BUNCH OF TIMES....
and it can be a lot of fun.
for instance....
oil drilling operation in the middle of a vast grassy plain. there is an
electrified chain link fence around the drilling site, employee housing,
offices, labs, and rec facilities with perimeter lighting and security
systems.
there is a 50 man security detachment from STELLAR PETROCHMICALS SECURITY
DIVISION, armed with small arms, integral grenade launchers, squad automatic
weaponry, and crew served support weaponry ( 3 mortar tubes, 3 rocket
launchers, and 3 PIGs).
the security detachment is protecting 100 or so STELLAR PETROCHEMICALS workers
and scientists.
there is at least one shuttlecraft on the shuttlepad (outside the driling site
in a compound of its own). it is a tanker, with limited passenger accomodation
(say 24 max), and requires a crew of 3. the shuttle IS NOT READY FOR LIFT OFF!
the storage tank farm is in another seperate fenced in area.
no aircraft are assigned here but a dozen or so vehicles of different types.
the STELLAR PETROCHEMICALS operation is approached by a delegation of low tech
native warriors riding (insert animal of choice here) who demand the starmen
pay them tribute for the use of the land, or else!
they are rudely shown the door after being roughed up by company storm
troopers.
time passes....
and then one fine day the STELLAR PETROCHEMICALS folks find themselves being
attacked by a vast herd of huge lumbering wotzits, driven by the mounted
native warriors!
modern technology and firepower versus brainless brutes in an endless
stampede!
and when the fencing is down, soldier isolated in defensive sitions or tramped
or hiding, a seemingly endless wave of mounted barbarians storm the mining
site!
animal and barbarian casualties are heavy, but guess who lost 100% of its
employees, equipment and etc?
STELLAR PETROCHEMICALS!
got the idea from an ancient HARRY HARRISON sci-fi novel about another
type of deathworld.
used scythians, huns, mongols, any horse barbarian i could lay my hands
on along with about 100 $0.10 plastic cows from M.E.MOSES and the
dollar store.
LOL recycled lots of both before the off-worlders were all dead!
the STELLAR PETROCHEMICAL civilians were assorted maker civvies but mostly RP
SHADOWRUNNERs, and the company soldiers were IG from the 40K universe.
played on a ping-pong sized table in DFW area several years ago.
DAWGIE
From: <DAWGFACE47@webtv.net>
> YEPPERS. BEEN THERE, DONE THAT A BUNCH OF TIMES. . . .
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction department.
> From http://ecosonics.homestead.com/Bougainville.html (Unbiased
In 1965, huge quantities of copper were found at mountainous Panguna.
Bougainville Copper Limited was formed with Conzinc Rio Tinto (CRA) owning 53%
and the PNG government 20%. In 1969 the Bougainville women protested about the
loss of their land, lying down in front of the earth movers and were forcibly
removed. Production began in 1972 and by the 1980s the Panguna copper mine
accounted for 40% of all of PNG's exports and 19% of state revenues. In 1989,
the Bougainville people, lead by Francis Ona destroyed pylons to the mine
effectively closing it down. They demanded 11 billion dollars compensation
from BCL. PNG replied by sending in the police, and as trouble escalated, they
also sent the PNG Defence Force. Bougainville was without an effective
fighting force and both the PNG and Australian governments assumed that the
trouble could be resolved relatively quickly.
However, Sam Kauona, a Bougainvillean lieutenant with the PNG DF and trained
in Victoria, Australia, specialising in ammunitions, returned to his island
where he began to train a guerrilla-style fighting force called the
Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA). Significantly, Sam Kauona has been the
only Bougainvillean trained within the PNG Defence Force. He and other
Bougainvilleans, notably Ishmael Toroama were instrumental in a number of
successful campaigns against the PNG DF. After the initial temporary
withdrawal of the PNG DF the BRA claimed the independence of Bougainville in
1990 using the name Me'ekamui (God's chosen island).
From
http://www.alastairmcintosh.com/articles/1990_bougainville.htm (Unbiased
Secessionist sympathiser)
In August 1988, Francis Ona warned that landowner patience was running out. By
November he had established the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) after
stealing explosives from the Panguna mine and declaring that "the only way is
for us to shut the mine". Following police clearance of a landowner road block
the explosives were used for the sabotage of BCL and later, government
property. Powerlines, transportation, the telecommunications station and the
international air terminal have since been blown up. By Christmas 1988, the
mining operation had been forcibly halted.
From
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/24/146.html (Straight reporting of
one side only)
SYDNEY (Mar 3, 1997 07:49 a.m. EST) - South African and British
mercenaries
have begun reconnaissance missions over Papua New Guinea's war-ravaged
island province of Bougainville, secessionist rebels charged here Monday.
-->8--
His claim followed weekend reports from rebel sources that 170 "foreigners"
had already landed on Bougainville and that up to 190 paid fighters had been
hired by Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan's PNG government.
Havini said the mercenaries were on the island to conduct "surgical
operations" aimed at wiping out rebel leaders.
From
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2001/475/475p14.htm (Loony Left)
The Bougainvilleans won the war, and have kept the Panguna mine, "stolen" from
Rio Tinto, closed.
Now these Bougainvilleans - cheeky buggers! - are even suing Rio Tinto
in a US court for damages and reparations for the deaths and devastation they
suffered in the 10-year war.
The Bougainvilleans found a Seattle lawyer, Steve Berman, famous for having
beaten American tobacco companies in major legal battles, to take their case
to the Federal Court in California.
From
http://www.atimes.com/oceania/DD12Ah02.html (April 11, 2002) ( Strictly
Business)
BRISBANE - Bougainville Copper Ltd (BCL), the operator of a giant
Panguna
These might just work with a bit of modification for a low tech
adversary.....)
G'day,
> Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction department....Bougainville
Given their ingenuity with regard to making anything the rest of the world had
stopped sending (water pumps made from bamboo and cane, car fuel from
coconuts, hand made guns etc) you could have some truly amazing things grace a
scenario based on this!
Cheers