Announcement

**pmulcahy11b** · 08-11-2015, 02:44 PM

I'd want something that can transport a decent amount of people/stuff, has parts compatibility with a lot of vehicles already out there, can be easily modded to do something about the armor, and can have retrofitted weapon mounts. For all this, I say...

...the M577. It's a decent compromise between cargo hauler and armored vehicle. Just needs some work first.

**ArmySGT.** · 08-11-2015, 03:11 PM

Originally posted by pmulcahy11b View Post

I'd want something that can transport a decent amount of people/stuff, has parts compatibility with a lot of vehicles already out there, can be easily modded to do something about the armor, and can have retrofitted weapon mounts. For all this, I say...

...the M577. It's a decent compromise between cargo hauler and armored vehicle. Just needs some work first.

"The Dukes of Hazzard" Follow That Still (TV Episode 1980) ⭐ 7.5 | Action, Comedy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0567165/

50m | TV-PG

**Olefin** · 08-11-2015, 03:16 PM

a gun truck can be a very good vehicle - agree with you there for sure - and considering the background it could have a very big range of possible weapons (all the way up to helicopter rocket pods if you look at what was used in Libya when they improvised mounts on trucks there)

**.45cultist** · 08-11-2015, 03:36 PM

Originally posted by raketenjagdpanzer View Post

Is that the one that got popped in the turret with an ATGM and tipped it's hat

Yep! Be sure to get an enhanced armor package.

**LT. Ox** · 08-11-2015, 03:37 PM

Civ. model

Originally posted by raketenjagdpanzer View Post

For civilian settings A garbage truck. Ditch the hydraulics, do some face-hardening of available mild steel (like from dumpsters and whatnot), make it splinter and small-caliber resistant, loads of room in the back, durable as hell. Stinks to high heaven but if you clean it out and pad it out you've got a 20-passenger personnel carrier. And it absolutely has the suspension and horsepower to carry the additional armor (esp. once you ditch the hydraulics) and so on.

Military Stryker or LAV. Possibly M113 although throwing or breaking a track would be a constant worry. If I'd established a landhold/firebase/cantonment somewhere, an Abrams or a Stingray plus a few trucks as a QRF.

Interesting thought. I had not really given consideration to what I might use at or around 1998 to 2000 here in the states and since I am thinking about a game in that time frame here goes;
1. An older Brinks armored van that is sitting in a junk yard somewhere and has a Restorable engine, IE pre electronic ignition.
2. Any one of the "surplus armored cars in use by law enforcement
3. Above Garbage truck.
4. Dump truck "Diesel" mod.
5. above recreational .
Hmmm I am going to spend some more time on this.

**Olefin** · 08-11-2015, 03:41 PM

Heck if you are here in the US you could have almost anything you can think of - sheer variety of vehicles here, combined with what collectors have that is still operational (Stuart tank anyone), means you could have just about anything - and the idea of bank armored cars being turned into APC's is one that is basically canon

they are in both the the Urban Guerilla module and A River Runs Thru It in Challenge - so having a character in a US setting start out with an armored bank car turned into an APC is completely believeable

**.45cultist** · 08-11-2015, 03:42 PM

Originally posted by LT. Ox View Post

Interesting thought. I had not really given consideration to what I might use at or around 1998 to 2000 here in the states and since I am thinking about a game in that time frame here goes;
1. An older Brinks armored van that is sitting in a junk yard somewhere and has a Restorable engine, IE pre electronic ignition.
2. Any one of the "surplus armored cars in use by law enforcement
3. Above Garbage truck.
4. Dump truck "Diesel" mod.
5. above recreational .
Hmmm I am going to spend some more time on this.

One of the competitors to the MRAP uses garbage truck componants to ease city costs, but most get "free" MRAPs that use the more costly and rarer Family of Tactical Vehicle parts or what ever the new "M" series trucks are called.

**LT. Ox** · 08-11-2015, 03:55 PM

Round table

Back in the day I sat in on more than a few roundtable discussions with local and state Law enforcement people. (Some of them were after hours and admittedly during the relaxation period)

The talk was oewhat do we use if" I will not herein go into the ifs as they are not all politically correct.
But first among the solutions were the armored car idea, having firing ports and small arms protection and being immediately available to us (Sheriffs Office) through state law of commandeering any private vehicle in times of emergence.
Next was a big jump in time, the National Guard equipment. Man what a mess dealing with the rules of engagement.
On down the line was the privately held military equipment. I learned just what and how good some of the stuff we have here in Western Colorado USA is!!!
Oh well memory lane. That was 1985 86.

**Ancestor** · 08-13-2015, 06:12 PM

When

During the Twilight War (V.1) and shortly thereafter I concur with your LAV-25. Come Howling Wilderness, however, only a Doof Wagon will suffice:

Here’s how the insane vehicles were created in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’

http://www.businessinsider.com/mad-max-fury-road-how-cars-were-made-2015-5

Check out the photos.