What would your ideal hidden guerrilla base look like?
Food, water, shelter, weapons, ammunition, triage, that's a given.
Intelligence and communications, propaganda operations, company command.
But in the 21st century, we can have digital surveillance, solar power, phones/computers.
Say you are tasked with planning a hidden guerrilla base for a company of 100 fighters.
It is a tunnel or cave and will serve as the company headquarters for operations.
You have access to power tools, lumber, and labor (including your own).
Are there any special amenities or features you would plan for?
It's not a hotel, but it can have modern amenities.
Needs a battle station. For gaming.
Since it's on topic, have this blast from the past.
https://imgur.com/gallery/XonR5rn
The file is too large to be uploaded here and still be readable, so that's why I've had to link it this way.
Bro literally what that’s double digit pixels
>https://imgur.com/gallery/XonR5rn
FromQueerToEternity
•7h ago
I haven't enjoyed a PrepHole screenshot thread since the Gametrailers forums were still a thing. This is just obnoxious.
>no fresh air in the "hospital"
what did they mean by this?
I'm now imagining a singular long pile with a fan infront of it
I like how anything round that drops in there is gonna roll right into either the hospital, your food stores, or your water supply
It's clearly a simplified diagram
sure, but that doesn't make it any less amusing
What is the proper way to look at it? Did the Viet Cong really dig tunnels with chambers that were basically three "stories" deep like ants? How would one exactly go about constructing something like picrel?
>Did the Viet Cong really dig tunnels with chambers that were basically three "stories" deep like ants?
They did, many however, were continuation of tunnel networks built by the Viet Minh, what also helped is that many peasants already had tunnels which they used to store rice or protect themselves from bombings. Vietnam's soil was special in that it was perfect for these types of tunnels and were resilient to cave-ins given they weren't directly bombed.
>How would one exactly go about constructing something like picrel?
Picrel is a good book on the subject, it explains the techniques they used to build them and the tactics they used to hide the construction process. But generally, it was time consuming, labor intensive and very dangerous.
Underground cocaine production and storage. Weapons room with loads of ammo and a shooting range with adjacent lounge to clean guns and do lines.
My first step would unironically be a crash course in geology and basic tunnel engineering mathematics. I know there are equations around maximum angle and size for given material vs stability, and I'd want to know them and have at least a rough ball park for figuring out how to make stuff that reliably will not collapse. It'll be vital to have a basic idea of the terrain where this is going to be and the material I've got to work with, then to figure out what to do about things like drainage. If the whole place floods that's it (and in many cases that'd also be the obvious way to deal with a tunnel base, just pump water into it. OP's pic is a lot shittier and more fake looking then others I remember seeing from Vietnam, it includes no traps vs invaders, no water traps to prevent trivially pumping in gas, no serious large ventilation network.
Some power would definitely make things easier. Quality lighting and ventilation with HEPA/carbon/chem filtration would not demand enormous juice but enormously increase options, survivability and livability, so that'd be my first priority to try to figure out. Problem with solar is it's not generally very easy to conceal and is inherently vulnerable. Good for "luxury" power use perhaps but wouldn't want to depend on it here.
I used to dream about making a small underground base with a tunnel network, when I was a kid.
But then I realized I live in finland, and we have like 2 meters of topsoil and then it's right to granite bedrock.
And even in places where there is a decent amount of soil, there's going to be an aquifer and anything dug under 2-3 meters gets immediately filled with water.
So the I started to look for fossils. I thought it might be cool to find some dinosaur bones or something.
And then I learned that Finnish bedrock is pre-cambrian and super old. There are no fossils in it because complex animals had not evolved yet when it was formed.
Reality can crush young dreams.
We do have some cool geology, though. Lots of metals and minerals. Gold and gemstones and such. Old deposits and structures formed by ice-age and such.
Guerillas could have access to lots of explosives though, and in turn blast out tunnels. Any granite base would certainly be very durable vs air/artillery strikes.
Granite is also pain in the ass to dig through. You need a shit-ton of explosives.
Certainly not something you do with hand tools.
very sad ):
I'm sorry for you
you still have a very pretty country and pretty nature
>a single steam exhaust from the kitchen
Have fun being found immediately. Steam needs to be despersed and leave the kitchen through multiple spread out exhaust tunnels.
>You should put all your eggs in one basket
No tank you, I'd rather have two separate bases, minimum. Racketeer surrounding populace for protection money, purchase fuel for generators and light the place up. Simple as.
In case one base gets busted use secret tunnels and escape to other bases. Trying to have a permanent base as outgunned militia is probably a futile endeavor, hit and run as well as scorched earth tactics is the way.
Where's Saddam Husein??
An entire building in a city, perhaps a brownstone with a garage or a mixed-use skyscraper, with perfect operational security maintained at all times, would be an ideal guerilla base of operations hidden in plain sight within a major operating area (the entire surrounding city) and connected to the rest of the world via air etc. Ideally, this would take the form of an entire "co-op" apartment building, with 24/7 door attendant et al required to keep everyone that's NOT one of us outside. A few operatives disguise as street people in order to always have a team distributed on the ground surrounding the building to keep an eye on everything. All operatives would have living space within the building. It would appear as a normal, legit co-op, with a carefully curated paper trail and everything. If possible, it has a helipad on the roof, and nearby subway access. I suppose you could just kinda "steal" a "forgotten" floor in the ESB or Chry, lol. This is all very doable in any major city thanks to buildings being disused or owners distressed, and, with the right kind of network leverage, a group could handily take control of such a structure. I believe that there might be groups already doing this... actually, it's CIA 101 for extended operations in foreign cities.
>Food, water, shelter, weapons, ammunition, triage
You missed something...
Always wanted to live underground.
It just feels right being below surface level.
I know a few guys that have a thing for sub-surface living too, always talking about how much more space efficient it'd be digging your living space out of the ground would be.
Parents also have a lot of land and don't mind me digging on it.
Should I just get a bunch of shovels and start a molepeople commune?
Tora bora. Protects the guerrilla from any aerial surveillance/bombings and is a pain to clear out with infantry. Has a ton of escape routes and can be used as a workshop/HQ.
My mother's living room and basement.
Not even joking. Having one big base is the absolute dumbest thing a guerilla movement could ever do. You spread that shit out.