Barbed Wire

Description

Barbed wire entanglements are impediments to the movement of troops and wheeled vehicles.  50 meters of wire entanglements, 2 meters in depth, may be laid per man-hour of work.  Wire may be laid by anyone, not just engineers.  If a person has wire cutters, it takes 1-6 turns to cross two meters of wire.  Without wire cutters it will take 2-12 turns and the character crossing suffers 1D6 hits to random body locations.  Drivers of wheeled vehicles crossing barbed wire at safe speed must roll an Easy: Vehicle task to avoid becoming entangled.  The task becomes one level more difficult at twice safe speed and two levels more difficult at three times safe speed.  Freeing an entangled vehicle is an Impossible: STR task.  Wire entanglements may be breached by bangalore torpedoes and line charges in the same manner as minefields.  Additionally, any ground vehicle passing through a wire entanglement creates a breach, and any demolition charge will create a breach.

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Originally Published:  2003-02-04
Last Updated:  2009-09-20
Original Concept:  Historical
Final Design: GDW, Inc.

 

Equipment Statistics

Name:  Barbed Wire
TL:  3M
Year:  —
Nation:  Generic
Volume:  50 liters (50 meters × 2 meters) 
Mass:  50 kg
Price:  §20