Conflicted Survival Game:
BEFORE the SHTF!
Conflicted is a Survival Game. Each card in the deck has a scenario that will stretch how you would respond in an SHTF situation. What would you do? Leave your thoughts in the comment section below!
SCENARIO – Your scouts inform you about a small-time kidnaper who is holding people hostage and engaging in human trafficking. The initial intel is that he has a force of 4 other men with him who are well armed and dozens of victims, most of them women and children.
It sounds like they would be an even match to your current survival group and your capabilities. As your group’s leader, would you waste supplies and risk the lives of your group members to rid the world of such characters or would you let them continue to prey upon the weak?
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there is nothing worse than human traffickers and they could try to do the same to your group and family, they need to be disposed of before they have the chance. let the hostages go, help them as much as possible.
My group and myself have no past military training. Probably wouldn’t take on a mission like this without some ” trained ” help. There are some friends of mine around that I could ask. The local sheriff is a friend of mine. If he is still around, I could talk to him about dealing with the situation.
My group is family, not ninjas. We have the numbers but I worry that the bad guys are more trained and probably have less scruples.
I agree with Mark. These people need to be dealt with. Just a question of when and how.
Usually this sort of problem only gets worse not better. Factor SHTF, WORL.
All that is needed for evil to thrive is for good men to do nothing.
My personal answer is yes, I would risk myself to try to rescue the hostages. Being formal military and currently in law enforcement, I believe I could make a good run at it. As a group leader, I would have a group meeting and discuss the situation and take a vote. If everyone is willing, then we will plan and move out. If everyone votes no, then I will would give up my position as group leader. I would leave and try to find other like-minded people willing to assist me.
That’s right ….
Gather more intel and try to find another group willing to pitch in to take them on. Evaluate the prisoners to bring into the group.
My group is to small to try a armed response so it will be done by stealth and gyel. Many on the net talk about how they will over run the small weak groups or pick them off one at a time that is what most would do. So a small group of farmers is going to have to trap the slavers at a meeting and a second small group of farmers will need to take out there camp.
This could be the beginning of a new community in that small groups come to gather for a common cause, complete it,and go home. The going home is the piece that is never talked about and that is the key to rebuilding. This could be the spark that moves the groups in the area to form a county wide net work.
I think this action should be done by two or more small groups that way nobody will try to restart this bad idea of human bondage they will have to take out more than one group to get started. Agine my group by itself is to under gunned to be the calvery by itself we have the high ground so we can defend from above. This gives us the time to work the small field in the valley so we have spent the most on horses, wagons,plows and other emplaments.
OldIron is not just a clever Nick name it’s what I work with
The only real facts presented are that there are 5 well-armed men who are up to no good, present a threat by their obvious acts and requiring physical removal/killing. Doesn’t mention anything else….. friendlies in the group, type of arms, location, number of armed (and training of) men in your group, visible defenses, any other facts that could be determined by scouting and study of habits, and so on. If the question is simply would you do something?, then most, including myself, should say ‘yes’. Provided the un-mentioned facts have become known. It really isn’t some ethical or moral question I would hope for any here. As said – scouting and information gathered first, planning based on that same, execution of the plan (having practiced/drilled) and follow-through. Once committed to action and its hoped-for success, the matter of resources and recovery of those prisoners will become the issue to deal with.
It seems like SOME action would be required, as leaving a group like that in your area would be a cancer that would get to you eventually. Others can (and did) suggest tactics. The notion that you could ignore that sort of evil in your vicinity and be ‘okay’ is naive.
I am probably in the minority here, being a female group “leader”. Given the lack of numbers in my party I would have to gather some additional fire power before trying to take out the vileness in the neighborhood. If I was unable to gather greater numbers I would have to wait until I was able to figure out another way to free the captives. (Which may never happen and THAT would suck)
Who has enough food surplus during a collapse to delve into human trafficking? Leaving that aside, why is the only option a full frontal assault? If you already know where they are and your scouts have discovered them without being spotted it would be a lot simpler to just snipe them one at a time and run. No need for a confrontation at all.
I can tell you that if you confront them make sure that the women are in fact captive. I have seen how people are in some of these cases.. women may care for their captors.. also.. if you do not do something NOW before they get more power.. then you will be the one that gets hunted by them.. that is 100 por cent certain. Been there. Done that. Look at venezuela.
Send a trading representative, with significant “overwatch”.