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.

 

[Not a Decepticon]

Treacherous swamp. During last war, many times a tank or another vehicle tried to coss it to outmanover or escape an enemy, they all would sink. Now people go there looking for scrap and war-telated thropies and artifacts to sell.

 

[Zardnaar]

Treacherous swamp. During last war, many times a tank or another vehicle tried to coss it to outmanover or escape an enemy, they all would sink. Now people go there looking for scrap and war-telated thropies and artifacts to sell.

They've pulled entite tanks out of rivers and bogs from WW2.
. One of the better preserved ones they hired it fien, changed the sparkplugs and had it tuning in a few hours.

The holy grail is a lead on a potential Tiger II. I think there's something like 6 total left and 1 in running order.

 

[John Dallman]

In our occult WWII game, the tank graveyard held the cremated remains of 1st Fallschirm-Panzer Division Hermann Göring. It had a "mysterious fire" shortly before Operation Husky. This was due to some British agents (the PCs) who figured out that it had a magical network between all its vehicles, allowing them to be refuelled, re-ammunitioned and even repaired remotely, while in combat.

They managed to insert a lot of fire elementals into the network, causing all the fuel and ammunition in all the vehicles to ignite simultaneously.

 

[Zardnaar]

In our occult WWII game, the tank graveyard held the cremated remains of 1st Fallschirm-Panzer Division Hermann Göring. It had a "mysterious fire" shortly before Operation Husky. This was due to some British agents (the PCs) who figured out that it had a magical network between all its vehicles, allowing them to be refuelled, re-ammunitioned and even repaired remotely, while in combat.

They managed to insert a lot of fire elementals into the network, causing all the fuel and ammunition in all the vehicles to ignite simultaneously.

I thought the Germans did that themselves?

Panther great rank just ignore the 1/3rd to 2/3rd failure rate.