I am a barely known local author. It pays the bills.
I write fantasy stories directed to the general public of my country. Mostly crime fiction. I am doing research for my next book:
My country has a very high frequency of illegal commando attacks. These often target a rural compound which is studied before hand by the assailants. Normally the attacks are set in motion by the police which take criminals and instruct them on what to do.
They usually target police compounds (filled with guns, ammo, armor to sell on the black market), big rural estates, private neighborhoods and even moving armored trucks.
As I've said, the attacks are executed by several criminals directed by the police (usually). They go in with one vehicle, they secure the valuables in 30 minutes or less, get out and ditch the vehicle on an undisclosed location.
No need to say this but it is of course a 3rd world country.
In my story the protagonist is a small rural estate owner, a family man, and he has 7 short nights to prepare for the attack. Can't reveal details but he can't move his family or little valuables he has:
My question for /k/ is, what would you do in this situation? Keep in mind this is a farmer with no training. He is a retired chemist so you can make any makeshift device that uses gunpowder, nitroglycerine, strong acids, etc.
We can collaboratively create a fictional story that uses outrageous methods like suicide vest equipped animals, but nothing impossible to make. Anything you can think of helps and if your ideas are picked I will credit you as you see fit (I'm not a big name but I credit whoever helps me regardless).
tl;dr: Let's brainstorm ideas for countermeasures against a commando attack on your own turf.
a gun would help
Would you defend yourself against a group of intruders with a single gun?
True if you are a skilled individual you might have a chance.
But keep in mind commando groups are premeditated and calculated attacks. They study their target. A single person would have trouble with many assailants in such a situation.
>you would die in a 1v1
>therefore my nogunz ass has decided that the homeowner should not have a gun at all like this is some hollywood tier Home Alone shit and instead use traps
Are you moronic? Why are you this uptight and insecure? No one mentioned not having any guns
What I mean is commando attacks are comprised of people that know how to handle a weapon.
This particular farmer does not. So in a 1v1 he would be at a disadvantage. So yeah, a sawed off shotgun will be a thing in the story but he needs to get the upper hand from the home turf advantage.
I was gonna make him just "invent them" himself since he has a PHD in chemistry, but going your rout instead of "he did it because he is naturally smart" is kind of crap now that I think about it. Like the Sherlock Holmes series with Benedict Cumberbatch
No. I said having a gun is definitely an advantage, but not as a main resource.
I am thinking either long range for concealed shooting and short range like a portable sawed off shotgun for close encounters.
Having said that I also have no expertise in weapons. Which is the whole point of this thread. I came here for your advice. What would work, what would not be a good idea, etc.
A buddy of mine is a chemical engineer so the chemistry part is covered. He's helped me with that before.
>I was gonna make him just "invent them" himself since he has a PHD in chemistry, but going your rout instead of "he did it because he is naturally smart" is kind of crap now that I think about it. Like the Sherlock Holmes series with Benedict Cumberbatch
Yep, that'd be unrealistic. PHD doesn't mean much when it comes to tactics. I mean sure, he'll be able to make explosives and stuff like that. But when it comes to employing them, the PHD would be useless.
As I wrote: Make it believable. He browses the web (kek, you could even make him browse /k/ accidentially) and gets a ton of PDFs
Improvised munitions handbook for example, Total Resistance or one of the other many, many field manuals. I'm pretty sure there are ones about insurgency and counterinsurgency tactics.
>find an old book or a PDF on Vietcong tactics
>he has a PHD in chemistry
No need to choose. It can be both. If he has access to the internet, he just searches one up & downloads it. If not, then he has one in his library that he bought in a used book store 20 years ago and just never got around to reading it until he suddenly had a need to.
If you want to credit /k/, then write it into the plot that his internet search turns up a link to PrepHole/k/ and a kind anon on /k/ posts a torrent link in response to his REQ to a collection of survivalist/anarchist/prepper manuals. From that, he has time to pick a couple semi-random ones that look promising from their titles. Could be books/mans from Vietnam Tactics, Fun Chemistry, Chechnya or Taliban Stories, Mormon Prepper Enclave, etc. Just listing the ..DIR of the unzipped torrent as he browses it is a plot point. His knowledge as a Chemistry Professor lets him evaluate which ideas are fudd stupid shit and which have potential, and how to modify formulas & ideas into ones that work instead of moron posts.
Has the plausibility of actual truth behind it to lend credibility. Normies may think it's over-the-top, but the rest of us know just how possible it is.
an AK style firearm should be extremely easy for your "farmer" to get his hands on. in fact if you're actually holding to 3rd world country, then it should actually be extremely easy for him to acquire enough AK's to arm his family (even if that just means his wife). the AK is good out to at least 400 yards (~350 meters) before the round is likely to simply drop. it's also compact enough for close range fighting such as inside the house. add onto that the standard 30 round magazine and you should have realized just how fitting of a firearm it is (especially for your story).
if you need a image, you live in a third world shithole, just look at the rifles the police are carrying; that's likely to be an AK.
the cops in your story are already blatantly corrupt, he could have easily just bought them from the corrupt police if he didn't want to deal with the black market.
the standard price inside africa is usually stated to be around $400-$500 american at the highest. far less if a war in a neighboring country just ended.
Even while being 3rd world. Guns are notoriously hard to come by for civilians here.
I'll ask around, a friend of mine knows an actual arms dealer.
Yeah.
We as a country are not quite there yet luckily.
Post your (exif file data free mind you) pics of that on here anon! I'd love to see what you can get your hands on.
Why not also let him have an old masuer style rifle? If this takes place in some 3rd world country there's bound to be at least some old military rifle left over from a previous conflict. You can say he got the guns from his grandpa or something.
He could have found one or a few hidden in the barn, leftover from some resistance movement, prepper, criminal stash. even with some old ammo that does or doesn't work reliably. He might have to do some maintenance & restoration, or might have already when he found them a couple years ago. In fact, such a weapons cache cold even be the reason why he's being raided. The police caught a rumor from some old guy they shook down or ancient prisoner who tipped them a cache was somewhere on the farm.
However, reading the thread, I get the distinct impression that OP wants a situation where his protagonist has to make do with his education, imagination, and whatever supplies he can scare up from around the farm.
OP, if you give us an idea what country he's in & approximate location, we can use our imaginations based upon history for the region to come up with what he might find & otherwise have available to him. Even shit like poisonous animals & plants he could harvest, maybe equipment, weapons, etc. leftover from previous wars & governments from in-country or from nearby areas. Even knowing the climate & season ic info that might be valuable information. Is there ice/snow? Is it rainforest?
Make him find an old book or a PDF on Vietcong tactics. Something that makes it kinda believable.
Or he's got an issue of Total Resistance.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejo_Garza_Tamez
https://www.badassoftheweek.com/tamez
This is amazing material thank you.
I am surprised I've never heard of the guy.
What a man.
a good portion of information on improvised weapons is wrong because it's not being disseminated for anything but buzzfeed-level entertainment
if the guy has a double barrel shotgun and a chemistry background that's enough to get crazy with it. set up a bunch of smoke bombs to explode when they show up and then slingshot molotov wienertails and gunfire at them in the confusion
That's good advice.
Smoke and fire. It's a fire hazard yeah but I think I can make it believable.
Considering the nature of the info and the dubious sources of it all, I would imagine OP having the farmer test out a few things and develop a discerning eye for what is and isn't BS.
many rural folks would be adept at making snares and traps or pitfalls to catch small pests
they'd probably also be familiar with powder, shotguns and basic tool use. even without all the fancy chemistry, one could easily -
>1.bury vietcong style toe-buster "mines" made from shotshells and pipe along expected routes of ingress and choke points
>2. place picrel across doors, halls, and windows
3. dig trenches or tunnels between well-concealed firing positions to facilitate displacing
4. place scarecrows or manikins in clothes "holding" sticks up in prominent, expected firing positions to draw fire
5. improvised explosives and incendiaries rigged to blow indefensible structures or likely targets once attacked
That's great I'm definitely gonna use those. Thanks.
Idk how prominent it is in OPs country but those scarecrows could be filled with tannerite and ball bearings. Bad guy shoots a human target and winds up Swiss cheese.
This doesn't seem very effective for partridges
Forget where I saw it and i’m sure some /k/ommando will correct me but isn’t there a way to make a simple explosive out of a lightbulb filled with black powder? Something to blind rather than kill? If your commando assailants aren’t wearing NODs or eye protection they could switch a light on and end up blind.
If that’s not interesting we can go with a classic and make a tiger pit underneath the welcome mat.
lmao
no tigers here sadly but the lightbulb filled with god damn powder sounds really original and amazing
Yeah, fake straw men on the open
and shrapnel filled ones on short range choke points sounds really good
No, south africa has too many white people to be like my country.
>the lightbulb filled with god damn powder sounds really original and amazing
Gasoline works too. Crack the bulb and don't immerse the filament.
Lightbulb filled with gasoline works as well.
The US army field manual on improvised munitions had something like that. It was supposed to be used as a detonator for a larger explosive though. The manual said that you should take a file and use it to make a hole in the bulb, fill the bulb in it's entirety with black powder, and seal the hole back up with tape. When you want to detonate it you flick the switch and the heat from the filament causes the powder to ignite. If you're looking to blind someone though, flash powder is probably going to be more effective, and is much easier to make to boot.
In addition to the afformentioned improvised munitions book there are some others you should check out.
The US army field manual on booby traps features tons of easily DIYable and very nasty traps like shotgun bombs, and ways to detonate them. There's also an old series of books called the "Chemical Formulary" that features some basic pyrotechnic recipes. Styropyro on youtube experimented with a few and found some, like the black powder recipe, lacking, but they'll still work in a pinch.
Overall though, finding the information itself isn't terribly difficult, not accidentally blowing yourself up is the real trick.
was in the freddy krueger movie and skyfall
So south africa?
Contributing, here. All of these parts except the shell can be bought at a Home Depot or similar stores for hardware and such.
Nitroglycerine is on the table ...
This untrained chemist living on a rural farm without access to the Internet (or maybe he does?) is able to MacGyver reasonably stable nitroglycerine from a bottle of aspirin and cow piss on his farm. (Make sure to describe, in detail, the collecting of the cow piss. We Want To Know™.)
He fills a number of antique, heavy, glass pony bottles (~7 oz. beer) he happens to have in his barn, left behind by the previous farmer from circa ~1900, with nitro, corking them with segments of his dildo collection cut into stoppers & sealed with beeswax. He puts these inside Mason jars, packing the empty space with a mixture of chicken shit, rusty screws & nails from old coffee cans also in the barn, pea gravel from his driveway, crumbled up phosphorus road flares found in the trunk of a dead '57 chevy used for occasional target practice out behind the barn, and some diesel fuel siphoned out of his tractor.
He has enough to make about a case & a half of (pony) beer's worth, and proceeds to emplace them in strategic positions as booby traps where they fall from the tops' of door frames (for example), or under stairs that are halfway cut through so when someone steps on them they break & crush the jars violently with old tractor gears, etc. He also retains several to throw as makeshift grenades, maybe even uses a sliced up old inner tube as a catapult. to launch a couple a ~100 feet or so into the parked surveillance van(s) filled with weapons, back-up personnel, and communications gear.
A couple will fail, most will work. The glass & gravel & steel fragments are devastating shrapnel, the ones that work are at least moderately successful as incendiaries (even burning his own house down), and survivors die later on from chicken shit infections &/or are blind. Maybe a plot device for how infected & disabled they become during the following week even if they somehow survive.
Just credit "to /k/ with love" if any of that inspires.
lmao I'd be reluctant to name /k/ and attract unwanted normie attention but if that is what the majority wants, will do
keep /k/'s name out of it just in case.
Just say he went to a somewhat obscure basket weaving forum dating back decades that led him down a rabbit hole of obscure but useful info from various sources ranging from torrent links, infographics, and book titles.
Naming this place as such is reference enough lol.
I'll just put "To K. with love"
Not that my rinky-dink books get any attention from the press or anything.
If anyone here finds it they'll know, although I doubt many people here can read spanish,
Yeah I'll just ask some knowledgeable people about the feasibility of these methods. These books are mostly read by grandpa normies anyway.
I do get obsessive about being realistic in my stories but my writer colleagues insist rightfully so, that people (normies that read this crap) might tell you they want believable characters and events but really they just want to read cool, emotional stuff.
no man, I mean like, have a short montage of finding out what works. a little emotional bit where he learns what he can or cannot trust, and gains confidence.
Its a nice blend of realism, cool, and emotional.
Oh I get it. No man, of course. That is the point of the 7 nights prior. Your idea is exactly what I'm aiming for.
It is hard to transcribe that into written expression, but my aim is to make it as movie like as possible.
you could script it into a snowballing effect.
make the first problem the most detailed, and subsequent issues less and less detailed in a 3 or 5 step snowball into full on competency in figuring things out.
Describe things once, then show, then show less, and then even less, etc.
Makes a nice statement about the process becoming less and less effort on the farmers part, and about it turning into a subconscious routine.
Yeah, I suggested writing /k/ into the plot ... but this is a better idea. Obscure it behind a euphemism or two. Referring to it as a "Chinese basket weaving forum, as it's tortured denizens lovingly called it" or something like that is probably reference enough. Those who know will get it instantly, everyone else will be left wondering.
putting in little puzzles for readers to figure out like that can be a fun thing for them
Look up "notch big shot". It's an line throwing device for arborists to send throw weights and lines up 125 feet vertically.
I regularly use mine to launch a 16 oz wieght into trees. And it fricking sends it to the point where I have to stop the line for safety reasons.
I believe it is reasonable to think it could be used for direct or indirect delivery of small explosive charges. Shouldn't be too hard to manufacturer in an adhoc manner. Could be a good tool for your protagonist in this story.
God damn that's a big slingshot
cool beans
Sweet. I need one of these in a bad way to take a big tree down in my yard, and have all the supplies I can possibly need to make one in my garage tomorrow. Frickin'-a, man. Thank you!
Traps and explosives are of course good.
But where does he put his family? Has he considered escape routes? It is never good to be trapped with only one way in or out. What kind of defensive fortification can he construct? Can he build up sand/dirt bags in his house to create lanes of safety for him and his family? A bunker room, or even two? How about things he can do to ensure he can see and the enemy cannot?
What about just gassing them? Lure them into a suite of rooms he has prepared as a makeshift gas chamber and fill it with something that has no smell and no visual indication? There's lots of gas options so I'm not going to offer one up.
Likewise there is the option of physical barriers and impediments. The bad guys are commandos so one thing they are probably good at is aggression. They know when to slow down and when to drive hard. Physical barriers will cause problems. Hardened interior doors, a series of baby gates in the halls. Chest high sandbag walls. Glass walls, obscured with smoke or dry ice mist. Tripwires, stumbling holes...etc. sure some of these things are better with booby traps but physical impediments to quick movement are good.
What are they trying to steal from this guy? His cows? His wife? His daughters or sons? His virgin cherryboy ass? What needs to be defended changes the approach.
I will note that among the dangerous info that has passed through this website, one bit of info may or may not have been some dubious info on how to brew fricking nerve gas of all fricking things.
I ain't saying I saved it, because it was sketchy as shit, but anything that describes NEEDING a full on insulated scuba dry suit, goggles, gloves, internal respirator, etc along with a makeshift airlock is gonna make me think of that.
If he can lure them into an enclosed area for a few minutes, carbon monoxide is pretty good. By the time they realize what's going on, they'd be out of action -- it binds to hemoglobin HARD, so they aren't going to be in the fight for a few hours.
>Too bad ammonium nitrate is illegal here.
LOL. I can't buy either that or nitric acid in my local chemistry supply shop, but I can buy a big bag of KNO3 "stump remover", and all you need to do is mix it with sulfuric acid (every fricking car repair shop has it for batteries) to distill off some nitric.
OP whatever you do: Let him mix gasoline, styrofoam and aluminum powder, making Napalm. If he puts it into bottles, let him use sparklers to ignite them - not the normie-version with soaked rags.
aluminum eh... what if some rust was put in there as well for thermite?
Don't know much about chemistry. I just know that either aluminum powder or soap shavings make the stuff splatter around real bad.
oh? so the soap isn't just a thickener then?
LMAO
>"honey, it's the commandos again"
>"oh not again, just turn on the napalm sprinklers"
I am definitely gonna use that one with some sort of twist or different version but man that is good.
Yeah, nerve agents are nothing to laugh at.
Farmers actually use them as pesticides, happy coincidence.
Yeah, the thing they spray our food with are organophosphorous compounds that inhibig an enzyme vital for biological processes.
I can definitely use that
>sparklers
Strike-anywhere stormproof matches are a readily available thing anon, this isn't the 70's anymore.
Tannerite. Perfectly legal in many places, many youtube videos demonstrating it. Not the sort of thing that you could quickly put together in 7 days without some stumbling blocks and stretched out plot holes. However, in places where it is legal, a farmer would be a smart, educated man to have some on-hand for things like stump removal & entertainment in a rural farm environment. A 2-liter soda bottle filled with it and detonated with a sniper shot would produce very impressive results.
One of many pretty solid explanations:
Yeah
Too bad ammonium nitrate is illegal here.
But a chemist can make it with nitric acid and ammonia so it works.
So you can just shoot this stuff and it detonates right? Pretty cool
What would be the difference between using this or lets say black gunpowder?
>you can just shoot this stuff and it detonates right?
High velocity rounds for normal tannerite. A .223 over 2000 fps is adequate, but a 5.56 at 2500 fps is good insurance. There are mixtures that can be lit off with a .22 lr or other 1200-1500 fps round, but those are more volatile and not as stable to handle, the mixing process is a little more complicated.
Ammonium nitrate is something that a farmer should be able to get a license for almost anywhere because it's just fertilizer. A chemist would be able to separate ammonium nitrate from regular wide-spectrum fertilizer (he could also extract potassium nitrate).
With a fireplace or burn pit on the farm, wood ash is a source of potassium. Farm livestock and their manure piles/barn cleanings are a source of concentrated nitrate. Again, a chemist would know these things. Trying to get a usable amount in 7 days or under from raw urine & manure would be a trick. For some reason or another he may have already been making some for his own use, even if he was violating the letter of the local law.
Tannerite is a more violent explosion than black powder, due to using aluminum as a component. Aluminum powder provides a LOT of energy when you get it to combust ... slowly as thermite, quickly as tannerite. Black powder can be ignited with a spark from flint or a match or a fuse, tannerite requires that extreme impact energy to vaporize aluminum & nitrate in a compressed/enclosed space to initiate an explosive chain reaction that consumes everything else available in the container.
The more restrictive the container is (filled with no air space) and the more structure it has will contain the initial explosion and generate much higher pressure before the contents completely react and breach the container, thus potentiating the explosion and making it more violent. A plastic soda bottle is less effective than a steel can wrapped in duct tape, for example.
tannerite sounds better for some application than black powder then
It's fortunate that it's so easy to make. What about shelf life?
Anyone know how much could a steel container with tannerite still be effective?
>thermite
A very instructional video with several immediately possible applications for home defense:
Also, a lot of youtube videos with thermite by other somewhat less professional people.
> picrel: I've never tried these proportions & therefore have no opinion on them. It would take research and experimentation to develop an optimized recipe, but anything even close would still generate extreme temperatures that can be applied in creative ways.
Modern Electromagnetic antenna are so sophisticated that they can, in combination with A.I. analysis, detect all sorts of booby-traps and flag them for law enforcement.
Conspiracy theories aside, modern cell-towers use a lot of very complex technology to communicate with cellphones, and those same RF emissions can be analyzed and used to detect metal objects and electrical activity similar to how Radar or metal detectors work.
hmmm
how much range do you think I could get with a directed microwave gun?
unless you have a massive generator, this kind of thing isn't too likely to be possible. there are reports of militaries deploying radar units carelessly (U.S. military for this one) that accidentaly microwaved a herd or two of cattle, but that was a military grade radar putting out somewhere in excess of 1000 watts. I say 1000 because that's the standard output of a microwave.
a man portable microwave gun probably isn't going to be possible no matter how cool that sounds.
perhaps a better idea would be to deploy a spark gap generator (actually really easy to make) in order to take out the "commandos" radios. it wouldn't fry them, but it would certainly throw up enough radio signal interference that simply yelling to each other becomes a far superior option. this would work on all frequencies btw. there's no special encryption or group of frequencies that could bypass that kind of blanket interference.
for all you American hams in this group, there's a pretty obvious reason why the fcc began requiring people to evaluate their rigs based on a safety standard regardless of output.
Cartel thugs are well known for carrying advanced radar equipment with them.
Yeah, how the frick are we gonna know who the author is or where to buy it? What language will it be in? Is OP gonna translate it into English and sell it on Amazon?
You totally should do the Amazon thing, OP.
Your cellphones have Wifi, Bluetooth, 5G, and NFC, all of which they can juggle seamlessly, but somehow that same technology which can detect devices hundreds of feet away can't be used for other things?
Are you living in fricking Africa or something?
>Cartel thugs
>commando attacks
Which is it? Cartel thugs or elite commandos?
>Your cellphones have Wifi, Bluetooth, 5G, and NFC, all of which they can juggle seamlessly, but somehow that same technology which can detect devices hundreds of feet away can't be used for other things?
Ahhh, baseless speculation and leaps of logic. Those devices have receivers in them that are supposed to pick u signals from cell towers. A Black person rigged IED doesn't
What fricks up a raid is more logistical than some kind of booby trap.
>flipped the sign posts, one FE ends up arriving too late to participate at all
>Enemy picked up sugared gasoline a hundred miles from you, enemy convoy delayed
>armored vehicle drove into a berm because you washed out the road
>helicopter takes radio guided fire when approaching, unable to support FE's which are bounding
>outbuilding filled with ammonia nitrate explodes, assault fricked up because half the FE's continue but half stop and assist the wounded.
most IED are simply triggered by a long ass wire, or a series of long ass wires with car battery repeaters.
If it works 9 times in a row when dry fired, it will work the tenth time.
Radio is pretty common, you can transmit a code via radio over a relatively short distance.
A jammer can disrupt these by blocking the radio channels with static
A laser receiver is a pretty dinky way of setting off an IED, you have a wire running to a little receiver and use a laser on a tripod to signal it.
Tricky to actually line up but you could have several targets or a huge target- it's not like the target is on the IED itself so the vehicle wouldn't be able to see it anyway.
You might use the lazer union from an unrelated system like a TOW type launcher,
You could trigger one mechanically, the Archimedes principle would allow you to use a garden hose as a switch over a surprisingly long distance, assuming the hose stayed intact it could be bent or buried any old way.
You could also use a ballistic munition to set off a mine, basically a strategic HTI on munition you planted yourself.
Or the mine could be autonomous, responding to a head signature, pressure (conventional), vibration is often used because civilian vehicles won't set them off should some moron decide to drive through your ambush site to go frick someone elses wife.
This is golden info. The most effective strategy would be sabotaging the operators then?
Anyone know how jammers work? I'm asking because it has been known for commandos to cut the electricity before a raid
>Modern Electromagnetic antenna are so sophisticated that they can, in combination with A.I. analysis, detect all sorts of booby-traps and flag them for law enforcement.
Source?
Not that anon, but I have heard the same.
But here's some additional and related info that uses the same general tech.
Sounds like a fun book. Ill buy it when its done
dsdw4k
Check out the story of Don Anejo, a Mexican rancher and sport shooter who ended up killing a bunch of cartel gunmen to defend his land. Count Dankula's video on him is a good overview of the topic and a fun retelling of it.
Imagine a fricking paraquat herbicide gas chamber
I’m suprised no one has posted this yet. Hopefully it uploads in full res, I’m on mobile
>Construct a coffin around your firing position
Probably because this is outdated information or usable only yo Europeans lol. Try stacking sandbags like that in any american home. 90 percent of floors will collapse before you finish.
Would not advise using a grenade in the room you're in even with cover. It's not shrapnel that will get you
Well in a stationary position the first issue the farmer would face is snipers.
So the first step would be installing visual barriers around the property- for instance taking bed sheets and nailing them/jamming them over windows and the OUTSIDE of doors.
The second task would be to establish a hard point, basically you'd smash the floorboards in one room, dig down and sandbag a little square above the hole.
This is so if a squad shot the shit out of the house or fired mortars at night you would be OK.
You would then dig a crawl trench from that hole under the house to your perimeter fence/an external shed.
The rationale here is that you can crawl out and flank someone who's firing at the house itself and nobody can crawl up into the house through this trench because it's a kill zone.
You can fire down into it from inside the house, you can fire straight down if from the bunker square.
You would then probably try to armor a vehicle against small arms fire, you could just bolt metal plates onto the outside of something like a tractor or a forklift, many such examples came out of Syria.
With that vehicle (or labouriously by hand if you didn't have one) you would dig a berm around your house to stop small arms fire coming in flat.
You dig this in a stare, the idea here is that you can engage enemies approaching you one by one, if they're in a circle around you they can't concentrate fire on you
Then you try to make explosives, tie these pipe bombs on poles and run wires into the house to detonate them. This discourages men on foot all rushing one side, and as you fire on men north you can set these off on anyone who's not suppressed sneaking up on your south
>tl;dr: Let's brainstorm ideas for countermeasures against a commando attack on your own turf.
Barbed wire and Razor wire, lots of it a couple of KM worth laid in coils, inside buildings. Dogs. Preferably at least two with kevlar dog armour. If the police are really co-operating there is not much you can do defensively, you need to go offense, you have your enemy the police and they are conducting armed warfare against you, you don't sit waiting to be attacked, you start taking them out while they are exposed. You get intel on who your assailants are, where their homes are where their families are and you kill them, including their kids and elderly.
Mexico?
>I am a barely known local author
lol
lmao even
Damn the thread's still alive guys.
Thank you all for your input. I'll archive all of it on my hardrive.
I honestly don't know if 7 days is enough. I think the big thing would be to try to make enough flash and noise and threat that they just go elsewhere. Like are they after HIM specifically for some reason, or just SOMEONE to steal from and they've identified him? The latter is the normal mode for criminals, and if shit is too much trouble the cost/benefit isn't worth it and they leave. You don't have to be faster then the bear, you just have to be faster then the other guy. Same reason security systems can work, it's not that they are some impossible to bypass super fort knox shit, it's just that the gay next door has zero security and a screen door in the back so a thief might as well just go next door.
In that case things like tons of fuel that can be lit on fire for flaming moats and ultra bright LED flood lights everywhere could work fine. Make the place like daytime at night, fire and smoke everywhere, everyone cares about fire because fire spreads. And with a tractor you could easily dig big trenches around and fill them with oil/diesel/whatever else burns (foam and shit). Stuff that will make them think "frick this no way is some random rural dude worth this shit there are a million more like him."
If your story is that he somehow takes them all out that's an enormously higher ask. If he was good with it and had the right luck/terrain a high power cross bow and NODs, particularly if they didn't have any, could work. Doesn't sound like that's the setting though.
Finally I will leave pic related for your brain storming. You can have some real fun with chemistry lol.
There was an old rancher in mexico named Alejo Garza Tamez who managed to fend off heavily armed Los Zetas cartel members using only hunting rifles, maybe you could try to gain inspiration from that? Granted he was a sports shooter and described as a marksman.
Fishhooks hung at about eye level from the trees.
lmao now that is creative and inexpensive man thank you
I have just the thing--trap them in quicksand.
Taxidermied tannerite dogs are very versatile
Ever watch Home Alone, OP? That's my plan and it should be yours too.
Never watched it but obviously I know what it's about
that's the kind of thing that I'm trying to avoid