EQUIPMENT
PPE isn’t for cissies. Modern operations make use of sophisticated gear and sometimes the danger isn’t just from bullets. Professionals always want to minimise potential risks through the selection of appropriate kit from this section.
Gloves
Just like boots, gloves come in all shapes and sizes, for varying purposes. The basic purpose is to protect or disguise the hands, whether it is from heat, moisture, transfer of toxic or bio-hazardous substances, or simply to avoid leaving fingerprints.
Black Diamond Guide Gloves
The Guide Gloves are some of the warmest gloves available, made with very high quality materials for Alpine climbing. The palms are goatskin with the backs made of stretch fabric, sewn together with a Kevlar thread. They are lined with an insulated Gore-Tex liner to keep your hands totally dry. Additional features include one-handed drawcords, nose wipes on each thumb and elastic gathering on the back of the hand. They do not permit any activity requiring dexterity beyond that to hold an item (such as a ski stick).
BlackHawk Hellstorm StrikeForce Fast-Rope Gloves
StrikeForce gloves are tough leather gloves with reinforced palms, designed for rope handling and specifically rappelling / fast-roping. They are large and intended to be worn over assault or tactical gloves, only when rope handling (you won’t be able to undertake delicate tasks in them). They have heat resistant pads in the palms and a loop for you to attach them to your karabiner once you’re on the deck.
Black Talon Ultimate Nitrile Trauma Gloves
These black nitrile gloves are ultra-thin like latex gloves (but without the allergens) and intended principally for medical use.
They have however found their way into various other uses:
they are useful for handling heat-sensitive explosives and also for wearing when fingerprints cannot be left (but perhaps the wearer does not wish to be seen to be wearing gloves). They are also available in standard cream colour.
Chemical Protective Integrated Gloves
These stretchable and washable gloves aren’t suitable for fine detail tasks, but they do provide excellent aerosol, vapour and fire protection when combined with a HazMat suit (such as the Geomet DTAPS Level A Suit on page 53). They are available in plain and camouflage colours.
Damascus D22 Dash-Pro Gloves
The Damascus D22 Dash Pro are premium quality, unlined cowhide driving gloves. They have ventilation holes and open backs.
Hatch APG30 Arctic Patrol Gloves
Designed for cold weather military use, Hatch Arctic Patrol Gloves are waterproof and breathable, with an insulated lining for warmth and comfort. The palms are rubberised for good grip and the index fingers have thinner insulation to allow you to fire your weapon without removing your gloves.
Black Diamond Guide Gloves
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Hatch BFR10 Fast Rope / SWAT Gloves
Hatch Fast Rope Gloves are hard-wearing gloves made from cowhide. The palms have two additional layers of leather to provide good grip and protection when rappelling or fast roping.
Hatch BNG190 Aviator Gloves
These Hatch Aviator Gloves have a soft cowhide palm and fire-retardant Nomex backs. They are available in a range of standard military colours.
Hatch CRT100 Disturbance Control Gloves
Hatch Riot Gloves are made from Kevlar and have additional padding along the backs of the hand, protecting your knuckles.
The palms have a tacky synthetic material to improve grip when handling a shield or baton.
Hatch EM007 Elite Marksman Gloves
Made of Kevlar and leather with fabric backs, these shooting gloves give you excellent grip on your weapon whilst still without significantly reducing your sense of touch. There is
non-slip material between the thumb and forefinger to improve your grip.
Hatch Kevlar Shooter Flight Gloves
Hatch Shooter gloves are lightweight gloves with Kevlar backs, designed for police and military use. They protect the backs of your hands from cuts and heat (but not sufficient to be classed as armour), give good grip and are good for using weapons.
They also protect your palms, which can be important when rappelling or abseiling.
Hatch Operator HK Gloves
Hatch Operator Gloves are tactical gloves for SWAT use. The palms are made from soft leather and Kevlar, whilst the backs are made of fire-retardant Nomex. The knuckles are hard, made from high-density foam. The materials they are made from means that they reduce moisture on your hands and keep them cool, even in a hot environment (they also don’t show on infra-red). The index finger can be removed to improve your feel on the trigger.
Hatch APG30 Arctic Patrol Gloves
Photo courtesy of and © Hatch Corporation Hatch BFR10 Fast Rope / SWAT Gloves
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Hatch CRT100 Disturbance Control Gloves
Photo courtesy of and © Hatch Corporation Hatch SGX11 Street Guard Gloves
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SURVIVAL AND OUTDOOR GEAR
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Hatch SMX80 Searchmaster Gloves
Hatch SMX80 gloves are unlined leather duty gloves. Made from the finest quality leather, they fit like a second skin, allowing you to perform the most dextrous tasks (firing a weapon or even searching a person) while still protecting your hands. They have an elasticated cuff.
Hatch SGX11 Street Guard Gloves
Hatch Street Guard Gloves have a cut-resistant liner to provide protection from knives and sharp objects. They have leather palms and neoprene and spandex backs, with additional grip between thumb and forefinger. They are available in standard military colours.
Hatch SP100 Defender II Gloves
Designed for correctional, riot or disturbance control operations, these sap gloves have 225 grams / ½lb of steel shot cushioned in the back of the hand, providing a comfortable way of dealing with aggressors.
BASIC ROLEPLAYING Game Information:
Gloves
Gloves provide practical hand protection in a range of situations. The following examples illustrate how Gamemasters may bring this into play:
When rappelling or rope handling, if the character doesn’t have sufficient protection, the character may suffer 1D3 damage per metre of rope passed through the hands.
Such injuries will also result in a consequent -20%
Circumstantial Action Modifier impairment to all tasks involving gripping / use of the palms..
Other situations where characters are working with their hands, they can take minor scrapes if they have inadequate hand protection. Although too minor to involve actual damage, this may be important in that such scratches could leave traces of the character’s blood and DNA at a scene, or the scratches themselves could mean that the character has something to explain later.
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Hatch CRT100 Disturbance Control Gloves or Hatch SP100 Defender II Gloves are the equivalent to Cestii in combat (see page 253 of the rulebook).
Hatch SGX11 Street Guard Gloves provide a degree of armour protection against cutting or puncturing type wounds (+1 Armour Point - see the Armour table on page 37).
Most of the gloves listed here gloves are relatively thick and mean that your character will incur a -10% modifier for tasks requiring fine manipulation and dexterity. The ones that don’t incur such a modifier are:
- Black Talon Ultimate Nitrile Trauma Gloves;
- Damascus D22 Dash Pro Gloves;
- Hatch EM007 Elite Marksman Gloves;
- Hatch Kevlar Shooter Flight Gloves;
- Hatch Operator HK Gloves (when used for shooting with the trigger finger removed);
- Hatch SMX80 Searchmaster Gloves.
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Gloves Price SIZ / ENC
Black Diamond Guide Gloves $155 0.3
Black Talon Ultimate Nitrile Trauma Gloves $20 0.0 BlackHawk Hellstorm StrikeForce Fastrope
Gloves
$55 0.1
Chemical Protective Integrated Gloves $80 0.5
Damascus D22 Dash-Pro Gloves $23 0.1
Hatch APG30 Arctic Patrol Gloves $22 0.2 Hatch BFR10 Fast Rope / SWAT Gloves $21 0.2
Hatch BNG190 Aviator Gloves $28 0.2
Hatch CRT100 Disturbance Control Gloves $82 0.4 Hatch EM007 Elite Marksman Gloves $25 0.1 Hatch Kevlar Shooter Flight Gloves $20 0.1
Hatch Operator HK Gloves $53 0.3
Hatch SGX11 Street Guard Gloves $29 0.1 Hatch SMX80 Searchmaster Gloves $35 0.1
Hatch SP100 Defender II Gloves $32 0.3
Hatch SP100 Defender II Gloves
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