From: | jhubert@***.de (JÃŒrgen_Hubert) |
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Subject: | Shadowrun stats for WWII weapons |
Date: | Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:01:54 +0200 |
session - an astral quest that's a little heavy on the foreshadowing.
The various locations of the quest will all represent future runs.
And one of the runs will take place in the Philippines, at the same
time a major part of the Japanese forces is withdrawn there to help
with the reconstruction of Japan after the Big Quake.
So I thought that in the astral quest the runners should take the part
of US Marines in the fight to retake the Philippines in late WWII. So
I'd like to know from any WWII buffs on this list:
- How can the weapons and the equipment the Marines used back then be
represented in Shadowrun terms? What _was_ the typical equipment for
US forces during this period?
- Any particular fights and battles you could recommend? The
modern-day Shadowrun will involve Winternight trying to gather energy
from the sites of major massacres, so it would be good if the astral
quest involved something similar...
- Any good links that detail this WWII theatre? My local library is
rather skimpy on this subject (none too surprising - since I live in
Germany, most of the books about WWII deal with the European front...)
Thanks,
- Jürgen Hubert
Urbis - A World of Cities
http://juergen.the-huberts.net/dnd/urbis/index.html