Editing SG/tg/ (section)

== Things to keep in mind for the campaign ==

In this version of the world Apophis never launched his little foray into the SGC, kidnapping the soldiers standing guard and setting off the series. Earth made the first strike at what was reconed as a major enemy fortress. Their tactics have caught the System Lords off guard, as Jaffa troops with almost medieval training and mindset are set upon by combined arms strategies using infantry fighting vehicles and helicopters with collapsible rotors for air support unleashing a rape train of almighty proportions on aliens with egos the size of small moons.

While Earth has advantages in terms of training and deployment of force, the Goa'uld (and later enemies) still have the technological advantage that will have to be over-come in order to turn the tide against the enemy.

The preferred tactics for the Tau-ri in this re-setting are thus:

* Use of vehicles: almost everything up to, and including main battle tanks can fit through the gate - which has a diameter of 4.6 meters, if in doubt, wiki a vehicle for its width to see it it will fit, the examples I have used thus far have been Humvees, Stryker IFVs and the M1 Abrams, but seeing as the Stargate program would now be a genre-savvy operation, every nation involved would be fielding or sharing their vehicle pools. So feel free to toss any vehicle with a dash of common sense to the campaign, remember - if you don't need it, don't send it, resources could still be finite, and you don't need to send a Challenger II tank on a "meet the natives" diplomacy mission.

* IFVs are a man's best friend, they have good range - adaptable weapons and are useful in pretty much every role. I would think each SG team would have at least 1 IFV assigned to them for transport, and at least another three to guard the gate; say two Strykers (or alternate IFVs) with .50 cal guns and smoke grenade launchers and a third with a missile launcher to deal with death glider or bomber threats, and if you were feeling mean to the enemy, many IFVs can be equipped with a gun carriage system to give them a main weapon on par with most battle tanks.

* Use of air vehicles: same as above, so long as you watch the width of the helicopter - you can send Apache longbows through with their rotors collapsed - raise them on the other side and unleash a rape train on the unsuspecting fools, secure the gate for your return, fold the rotors again and then take it back home afterwards.

* Modern battle systems: it would be safe to assume after Afghanistan/Iraq that every force would be equipped with modern communications equipment - and more than a few special forces toys (expect throat mics instead of the puny radios from the original systems), multi-threat detection systems, gun cameras as well as helmet cams and a whole plethora of modern toys that have come about IRL since 9-11 that were not in the original show.

With these changes, and the mindset of a War on Terror Earth being thrown against the backwards mindset of the System Lords, whether or not Earth is destined to be turned into a smoking crater is yet to be seen.