What does a tank graveyard mean to you in your game?

[Zardnaar]

Variation on Tank Graveyard : Battle of Kursk - Wikipedia

Makes the numbers from the Gulf War seem rather trivial.

Thise numbers tend to get revised downward.

Most casualties were final two years of the war iirc.

USA deathtoll in the civil war/ww2 was 1-4 weeks depending on the particular week.

If you weren't in Poland, USSR or China your country skipped the worst of it.

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

To me it’s a warehouse or sewer system with discarded barrels or tanks of discarded refuse - like a toxic waste dump - filled with oozes, rats and other nasty creatures

 

[DragonLancer]

Anyway that got me looking at train golems and eventually coming across "the Scrapyards of Sodor", and the faceless Scrap Trains - the dark shadows of world of Thomas the Tank Engine. Beware the undead Shed and the Mad Controller, who takes away your pain but keeps the engines running ...

Oh my word. The imagery. You good person, have just added something cool to my campaign setting.

 

[Edgar Ironpelt]

1. A reveal that the supposed fantasy campaign is actually post-apocalypse, which is something I can sometimes admire from a distance but would never actually run.

2. A junkyard or cache of old tanks in an openly post-apocalypse game where tanks are advanced tech from the Before Times. The tanks might be actually dead, or might just be resting after a particularly loud BOOM!

3. A junkyard or cache of old tanks in a science fiction game with advanced science fiction technology of the sort that makes tanks as obsolete as catapults. They might be valuable - but as antiquities or archeological finds, not as weapons.