RE: Obstacles, Part 3

Wow....engineers must be super human!  But seriously, excellent info but
some items I question:

Wire is not impassable to infantry, first guy jumps and lands on the
wire, next guy runs over, or, if the wire has enough depth, he runs over
and takes a spot a little further ahead.  This goes on until a path is
clear (ie - everybody behind you uses you as a door matt ;-).  I think
your breaching rules would simulate this good enough.

How do you reason that engineers can move half and breach obstacles?
And how do engineers clear tanglefoot as they go through?  Are you guys
issued wire cutters on your boots?

Thanks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jatkins6@ix.netcom.com [SMTP:jatkins6@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 01, 1998 11:06 AM
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	Obstacles, Part 3
> 
> Wire!  Wonderful Wire!  I like Wire!	It's almost as much fun as 
> landmines.  Have no idea how it would affect GEV vehicles, so ignoring
> 
> them in the rules below.  Am also assuming Grav can fly over them.  
> YMMV.  Am also assuming infantry are carrying wire cutters.  Assumes 
> modern wire, you may modify to taste to reflect monofilament, etc.
> 
> Double Apron Barbed Wire Fence:  Impassable to infantry, wheeled 
> vehicles.  Poor going to tracked vehicles.  When tracked vehicles move
> 
> through, they create a breach.  Infantry may breach, Engineers may
> move 
> 1/2 normal distance and breach.
> 
> Triple Standard Concertina Wire Fence:  Impassable to infantry,
> wheeled 
> vehicles.  Difficult going for tracked, Tracked vehicles also roll a
> d6 
> when moving through.	On a 1, Satan's Slinkie has gotten caught up in 
> their roadwheels and chopped to bits, immobilizing the tank
> completely. 
>  Cannot be repaired at the battlefield.  Must be hauled back to a
> depot 
> where long-suffering mechanics will have to half-way disassemble the 
> thing and pick little bits of metal out of the tranmission.  When 
> tracked vehicles pass through, breached.  Infantry may breach.  
> Engineers may move 1/2 normal and breach.  May be mined/booby trapped,
> 
> in which case infantry may not breach, any unit attempting to breach
> is 
> attacked as per Dirtside rules.  If the first Engineer unit is wiped 
> out, further breaching efforts by dismounted Engineers may avoid
> attack 
> by rolling unit quality vs a 4.  I'm assuming the Engineers would use 
> explosives which will clear the booby traps and the wire all at once.
> 
> Tanglefoot:  Difficult going to infantry, Engineer may clear as they 
> move through, Infantry must take an activation to breach.
> 
> Concertina Roadblock.  10 coils of Concertina.  May be (with great 
> effort) extended to cover clear terrain, but that's fairly 
> labor-intensive.  Stops all vehicles except Grav.  Cold.  Try to drive
> 
> into it, and you're immobilized permenantly.	Breached by 1 element of
> 
> Engineers (Dismounted or vehicle).  Requires 2 elements/activations of
> 
> infantry.
> 
> 4-Strand Cattlefence:  What most people think of when they say "Barbed
> 
> Wire."  Not a military obstacles.  Enough can cause an area to be 
> classed as Cultivated.
> 
> Misc:
> 
> Steel Tetrahedrons, Steel Hedgehogs, Concrete Cubes, Tertrahedrons, 
> Dragon's Teeth.  Impassable to all vehicles except grav, normal going 
> for infantry (or as per terrain).  Breach requires 2 actions, 1 from 
> CEV.
> 
> John M. Atkinson