Hi Onno, > Unless there is a typo in my spreadsheet, I think I have the bones of a > suit. I'll try to turn it into a basic marauder unit.
I should dig up my copy of STARSHIP TROOPERS and sleuth as well, so as to try and spot things to add or suggest. If you want, I'll dig up my copy of Avalon Hill's version of the game - because I think it gives a speed for those suits for land travel. > Is there any evidence for stealth or IR cloaking? I don't recall any, > and Heinlein makes a point how the suits track each other by radar. Considering that much of the book was written before today's techological toys were developed, you may want to go with the unwritten assumption that the IFF functions that were clearly his intent with the "radar" would be operative, and that the suits would have been designed for high survivability on the battlefield. If you read the information on the drop capsules (sp?), you can see that it was designed with every trick they could come up with for survivability against the defenses of the enemy. So, to answer the question above? I'd include both versions, however... Maruader & Command suits with basic stealth Scout with advanced... > A 200-lb. trooper and 10 gallons of water as reaction mass are 285 lbs. > > I'll probably GURPSify the Y-Rack Launcher as two separate EMGLs > with a shared magazine. Electromagnetic Grenade Launchers? I think you may want to avoid using that kind of technology for one reason: If they have it for grenade launchers, why don't they use it for side arms and such? > * A 240-kJ flamer with a D cell is 15 lbs., just right for a sidearm. * > A reloadable launcher for 20-lb. missiles is 20 lbs., for a total of > 100 lbs. with four rounds. But what kind of homing? He lets it have a > look at the target, which could be literally OH. Alternatively a > bigger flamer could be carried. > * 250 40mm HE grenades for the Y-Rack are 80 lbs. > * Leave a few dozen pounds for specialty grenades. > > That brings me to about 220 lbs. of ammo and some 500 lbs. total > load. The empty suit can be 1,500 lbs. > > Does that fit? Doesn't seem to cause any real problems as yet. I'm trying to remember. During the Skinny raid, wasn't there a passage about punching through a wall with the suit and Rico finding himself in a "skinny congregation" or something? That is when he used that bomb that said "I'm a 30 second bomb, I'm a 29 second bomb, I'm a 28 second bomb" as he watched the skinnies clear out? Sounds like a psych ops weapon ;) _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
