Anyone Have Any Good Survival Retreat Ideas

[Lokidude]

Problm with the fancy toys is they're tech heavy. Tech is fragile, and field expedient fixes aren't so great. If you're looking at societal breaks, your repair support will border on nonexistent. You need to be thinking a whole lot more Angus MacGyver here.

If you want traps, mechanical triggers are easy and time proven. No sentry beats the Mk 1 eyeball. Inaccessibility beats heavy defense, as does a low profile.

(And cold isn't the only inhospitable environment. The desert has no mercy and no love for those who underestimate her. I'd assume a Louisiana swamp or Maine backwoods is the same. Know your terrain at an expert level and you'll see how to make it work for you.)

[Bullspit]

Problm with the fancy toys is they're tech heavy. Tech is fragile, and field expedient fixes aren't so great. If you're looking at societal breaks, your repair support will border on nonexistent. You need to be thinking a whole lot more Angus MacGyver here.

If you want traps, mechanical triggers are easy and time proven. No sentry beats the Mk 1 eyeball. Inaccessibility beats heavy defense, as does a low profile.

(And cold isn't the only inhospitable environment. The desert has no mercy and no love for those who underestimate her. I'd assume a Louisiana swamp or Maine backwoods is the same. Know your terrain at an expert level and you'll see how to make it work for you.)

If I remember correctly the Seminole tribe of Florida is proud of the fact that they are descendants of undefeated Seminoles who were able to outlast the US army by hiding out in the swamps of Florida. They knew how to live there, hide there and fight there and the Army of the time couldn't adapt well enough to find them all.

[First Shirt]

As I recall (and this is not something you'd want to bet the homestead on) the Seminoles DID sign a peace treaty. In 1976 or thereabouts.

[henrybowman]

I mean the Sentry Gun idea does have some draw backs, but if it was made to take a beating, and hidden, it would be a nasty surprise..

[Aesop]

If I remember correctly the Seminole tribe of Florida is proud of the fact that they are descendants of undefeated Seminoles who were able to outlast the US army by hiding out in the swamps of Florida. They knew how to live there, hide there and fight there and the Army of the time couldn't adapt well enough to find them all.

Mainly because malaria and yellow fever usually killed you faster than bullets and arrows in the 1820s-30s. Not so much now, it's pretty much just 'gators and cottonmouths. And one stray Fountain Of Youth rumor and all of Europe was tramping around, swamps be damned. Inhospitable and worthless is the combination to strive for, trumped only by toxic.

Coming up with a believable mini-version of Chernobyl or Fukushima might do it, but it'd have to be after the EPA was a distant memory.
I know there was a local SWAT takedown of some L.A.-area nutball once upon a time, whose secret lair was an old warehouse, and it was surrounded by drums filled with and labeled as hazmat, acid gases, and other toxic waste. They got their man, but they were very circumspect about where they were shooting in the meantime.

[henrybowman]

well anyone else have any ideas?

[Jered]

Caltrops

[Greg]

People are going to have very different ideas just based on the geography of where they live.

Someone in an area that's wooded and hilly can probably work out some truly excellent camouflage to make themselves near invisible. And with a little malicious landscaping, can probably create a wonderful 'can't get there from here' effect that will passively direct all manner of baddies *around* their homestead.

Someone living on open plains, or on the shore of open water.... not so much.

[henrybowman]

Any know the name of the area denial system, It has foam that is sooo slippery tires can not get traction?