Mar 27, 2026 8:21 pm
What sheet are we using? Can I get a link?
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Mar 27, 2026 8:48 pm
You can use this link here... or you can post a pic of a standard sheet, etc.
Mar 29, 2026 2:08 pm
Was able to sit down and play with one of the character generators last night. How do I submit the character? An never mind, found it.
Also according to Google light armored recon units are part of USMC instead of Army. As a result I described my character as a Marine but let me know if I should tweak that.
Also according to Google light armored recon units are part of USMC instead of Army. As a result I described my character as a Marine but let me know if I should tweak that.
Last edited March 29, 2026 2:15 pm
Mar 29, 2026 2:21 pm
You punch your character into the sheet linked above then go to the game's title page.
Hit the cube at the top, then the cube next to the T2K game.
Scroll down on that page to "Submit a Character" and select your character sheet.
Hit the cube at the top, then the cube next to the T2K game.
Scroll down on that page to "Submit a Character" and select your character sheet.
Last edited March 29, 2026 2:23 pm
Mar 29, 2026 5:55 pm
dbcowboy says:
Also according to Google light armored recon units are part of USMC instead of Army. As a result I described my character as a Marine but let me know if I should tweak that.Not exactly, Although not easily found, unless you know where to look because you served in the US Army back then, the Army did have Brigade Reconnaissance Troops or BRT, prior to the 2000s when the Recon Squadron became a part of the Brigades (which ended in the Light and Airborne units in 2016-ish time frame were inactivated and Infantry BNs were formed int he overseas BDEs).
In the 173rd, they did not have a BRT, but the 173rd did have a Pathfinder Platoon and every Infantry BN had a Scout Platoon. All of those are Infantry Soldiers (11B) with the reconnaissance training, while the Pathfinders were pathfinder trained. While in the BRTs those Soldiers were 19D (Armor Cav Scouts).
The BRTs structure is a HMMWV based organization with two platoons of ten Scout Trucks (M1025 and M1026) - Link to Doctrine and doctrine TOE is here and the link to BRT.
An excerpt on the MTOE is here;
"Under the current MTOE (modified tables of organization and equipment), the BRT is authorized four officers and 45 enlisted men, for a total of 49. This does not include attachments or other supporting slice elements. The BRT has two maneuver platoons and a headquarters platoon. Each reconnaissance platoon consists of 18 soldiers and six HMMWVs. In the recon platoon there are three M2 .50-caliber machineguns and three Mk-19s, and each soldier carries an M16 or an M203. The platoons are assigned six M240Bs each, which can replace the truck-mounted Mk-19 or can provide crew-served firepower for a dismounted observation post (OP). The headquarters platoon consists of 13 soldiers with an M1025, two M998s, M1037 w/S-250 shelter (command post, CP, vehicle), and an M923. Within the division and the brigade, other reconnaissance assets can be attached. This BRT habitually trains with combat observation laser teams (COLTs), infantry snipers, air defense artillery (ADA) sections (Avenger), and ground surveillance radar (GSR) teams. Although medics have been recognized as a necessity, they are not on the MTOE "
The Character from a US Army Scout background could be from the Embassy staff that was a Cav Scout (19D could get assigned to the Embassy's support staff as a Technical Escort member). EDIT - Or from the Scout Platoon of the 1st BN 198th Armor BN, 155th Armor BDE.
OOC:
for some reason the GM has the unit as 1st BN 155th Armor BN, 198th Armor Division???So unfortunately searches are focused on what is current for the military and not the units or the US Army in the 1990s.
Last edited March 29, 2026 8:43 pm
Mar 29, 2026 11:56 pm
Awesome, I'll update Wolfe's background to match. I'd picked the M4 as I thought he was in LAVs but I'll update to reflect the above. Great research
Mar 30, 2026 1:26 am
Radiation
Reloads
Hand grenades
Field rations
Clean water rations
Reloads
Hand grenades
Field rations
Clean water rations
Rolls
Radiation - (1d6)
(4) = 4
Reloads - (1d6)
(6) = 6
Hand grenades - (1d6)
(4) = 4
Field rations - (1d6)
(4) = 4
Clean water rations - (1d6)
(5) = 5
Mar 31, 2026 12:31 am
Muns says:
dbcowboy says:
Also according to Google light armored recon units are part of USMC instead of Army. As a result I described my character as a Marine but let me know if I should tweak that.<snip for clarity of reply>
The Character from a US Army Scout background could be from the Embassy staff that was a Cav Scout (19D could get assigned to the Embassy's support staff as a Technical Escort member). EDIT - Or from the Scout Platoon of the 1st BN 198th Armor BN, 155th Armor BDE.
OOC:
for some reason the GM has the unit as 1st BN 155th Armor BN, 198th Armor Division???So unfortunately searches are focused on what is current for the military and not the units or the US Army in the 1990s.
Apr 3, 2026 3:09 am
Radiation
Reloads
Hand grenades
Field rations
Clean water rations
Issued Gear
Reloads
Hand grenades
Field rations
Clean water rations
Issued Gear
Rolls
Radiation - (d6)
(3) = 3
Reloads - (d6)
(6) = 6
Grenades - (d6)
(3) = 3
Field Rations - (d6)
(1) = 1
Clean Water Rations - (d6)
(2) = 2
Issued Gear - (d8)
(2) = 2
Apr 4, 2026 12:44 am
This in a Marine asking how hot he is… I don’t believe I am qualified to answer that…
Apr 4, 2026 10:05 am
[ +- ] Just Getting into Character
"Boots on the shale, echo in the spray
Sent him to Jesus with a 203 round."
Rooster, as was he did when he wasn't lifting weights, performing maintenance on Hillary, or eating, was performing some unholy sounding ritual with an electric guitar and an old tube amp.
In this instance he had the guitar in Dropped D tuning and was purposefully causing a feedback screech between what was a tortured blues scale in F#minor. The resulting tone was crunchy, as well as trudgey, sludge metal, grunge rock. It was as if Silverchair and Soundgarden had had a baby with Chevelle and the result was that fried baritone vocals, with the oversexed guitar.
"Now the wind's pickin' up what the blast threw away.
Chunks in the crevice smell like, burnt ground.
Scrape what's left off the rocks boys.
Scrape off the rocks.
Confirm that kill, yeah
Confirm that kill!"
The guitar was screaming distorted feedback in between what Rooster described as "Chunga power chords." In a way fitting the raw, unfiltered, harsh reality of a shooting war in the Carpathians. The guitar played rhythm, like how the Marine fixed fire, staccato at 5/4 timing, making an intriguing desynchronized loop that fell back in time at the end of each stanza.
"No eyes left to stare, no heart left to still
Just red paste and dog tags, CONFIRM THAT KILL!
Spotter confirms "ain't nothing breathing there"
Lieutenant nods, we police the gear
One boots intact, the rest disappeared
Into the rocks like it was never here.
The power chords slowed into an almost blues sounding, if not for the overcharged distortion, sequence of barre chords and more feedback. A guitar solo?
He continued singing, half crooning half belting, and somehow all yelling.
"How many pieces make a man?
How many reports til the count is done?
Mama gets the letter "regret to inform"
We just hosed off the evidence in the
MORNING SUN!!!"
The distorting peaked as his voice intensified. It was full and conflicted. Pride, shock, humor, horror. The amp clicked and pealed for a moment as he clicked off the distortion pedal. Now playing an eerie and haunting clean tone blues riff, diatonic still in the key of F#minor. Vocals just crooning, with a trill and vibrato. Such a large man as Rooster could produce some incredible sounds when amplified.
"Confirm...
Scrape...
Confirm...
Nothing moves...
Timing remained the same but the tempo increased to 84bpm, undistorted, finger picking the same blues scale uninterrupted by distortion. Vocals more melancholic than the earlier ecstatic.
"Back in The Wire, taste won't wash out
Soap and sand, but the leads still loud
They ask for the count like its numbers on the page
I see the sludge every time I close my eyes
No body bag needed, no coffin to seal
Just a smear on the granite -"
The distortion peals full, louder than before, returning to the wails of distortion and power chords.
"THATS THE WHOLE FUCKIN' DEAL
Scrape whats left of the rocks boys
But the rocks scrape back
Yeah the rocks scrape back
CONFIRM THAT KILL!
Pin a ribbon on me, they write it up clean
"Hostile neutralized, threat no longer seen"
But the paste had a name, had a kid, had a dream
Now it's fossilized forever in between.
How many pieces make a man?
How many nights til I become one too?
The letter they sent never mentioned the smell
Or the way the wind still carries pieces of you
Scrape what's left off the rocks...
Confirm that kill... confirm that kill...
Nothing moves... but something's moving in me
The rocks remember... the rocks remember..."
Sent him to Jesus with a 203 round."
Rooster, as was he did when he wasn't lifting weights, performing maintenance on Hillary, or eating, was performing some unholy sounding ritual with an electric guitar and an old tube amp.
In this instance he had the guitar in Dropped D tuning and was purposefully causing a feedback screech between what was a tortured blues scale in F#minor. The resulting tone was crunchy, as well as trudgey, sludge metal, grunge rock. It was as if Silverchair and Soundgarden had had a baby with Chevelle and the result was that fried baritone vocals, with the oversexed guitar.
"Now the wind's pickin' up what the blast threw away.
Chunks in the crevice smell like, burnt ground.
Scrape what's left off the rocks boys.
Scrape off the rocks.
Confirm that kill, yeah
Confirm that kill!"
The guitar was screaming distorted feedback in between what Rooster described as "Chunga power chords." In a way fitting the raw, unfiltered, harsh reality of a shooting war in the Carpathians. The guitar played rhythm, like how the Marine fixed fire, staccato at 5/4 timing, making an intriguing desynchronized loop that fell back in time at the end of each stanza.
"No eyes left to stare, no heart left to still
Just red paste and dog tags, CONFIRM THAT KILL!
Spotter confirms "ain't nothing breathing there"
Lieutenant nods, we police the gear
One boots intact, the rest disappeared
Into the rocks like it was never here.
The power chords slowed into an almost blues sounding, if not for the overcharged distortion, sequence of barre chords and more feedback. A guitar solo?
He continued singing, half crooning half belting, and somehow all yelling.
"How many pieces make a man?
How many reports til the count is done?
Mama gets the letter "regret to inform"
We just hosed off the evidence in the
MORNING SUN!!!"
The distorting peaked as his voice intensified. It was full and conflicted. Pride, shock, humor, horror. The amp clicked and pealed for a moment as he clicked off the distortion pedal. Now playing an eerie and haunting clean tone blues riff, diatonic still in the key of F#minor. Vocals just crooning, with a trill and vibrato. Such a large man as Rooster could produce some incredible sounds when amplified.
"Confirm...
Scrape...
Confirm...
Nothing moves...
Timing remained the same but the tempo increased to 84bpm, undistorted, finger picking the same blues scale uninterrupted by distortion. Vocals more melancholic than the earlier ecstatic.
"Back in The Wire, taste won't wash out
Soap and sand, but the leads still loud
They ask for the count like its numbers on the page
I see the sludge every time I close my eyes
No body bag needed, no coffin to seal
Just a smear on the granite -"
The distortion peals full, louder than before, returning to the wails of distortion and power chords.
"THATS THE WHOLE FUCKIN' DEAL
Scrape whats left of the rocks boys
But the rocks scrape back
Yeah the rocks scrape back
CONFIRM THAT KILL!
Pin a ribbon on me, they write it up clean
"Hostile neutralized, threat no longer seen"
But the paste had a name, had a kid, had a dream
Now it's fossilized forever in between.
How many pieces make a man?
How many nights til I become one too?
The letter they sent never mentioned the smell
Or the way the wind still carries pieces of you
Scrape what's left off the rocks...
Confirm that kill... confirm that kill...
Nothing moves... but something's moving in me
The rocks remember... the rocks remember..."
OOC:
This is based on actual events.I think it will be ready Summer 2026. Who knows for sure with music though.
Last edited April 4, 2026 10:34 am
Apr 4, 2026 2:48 pm
Jomsviking says:
Hey man, 4/6 is exceedingly hot since we haven't been nuked yet.Apr 4, 2026 5:32 pm
in 1997 the nukes went off in the European central front IIRC and all of the editions have changed this in minor ways, but the TAC nukes still hit main Europe.
Apr 4, 2026 6:43 pm
The good doctor Octavian has taken the full 6 so something must have hit between the Carpathians and Chișinău. Although I imagine hospital radiological safety was probably not quite so good back then so he might have picked it up there. I used to do a lot of work with radioisotopes in a lab back then. And uranium. (Looks around for a Geiger counter to measure himself).
Last edited April 4, 2026 6:45 pm
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