On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Onno Meyer<[email protected]> wrote: >> The M-CCM1 (Manned - Command and Control Mech 1) > > I had never even thought of dual control rooms. Two crewmen > are better than one, but even two are a small crew for a C3 > vehicle. We're talking about a 30-ton vehicle, more than > most present-day APCs ... > > > What good are those arms? Sure, a proper mecha needs arms, > but a C3 vehicle doesn't. > Onno
Makes me think of one of the mecha in William H. Keith's Warstrider series. It was one of the heavier mechs in the setting and it was designed as the unit commander's mecha. It had a crew of three: pilot/primary-gunner, secondary gunner, and the unit-commander. In normal configuration, the pilot controlled the legs, arms, and the main weapon. The gunner operated all the secondary weapons (counter-measures, missiles, anti-infantry). The unit-commander was in a direct 3D virtual-reality suite commanding all the other mecha in the field. The big thing in the setting was that all mecha were controlled via nanogrown cyberlinks and the command mecha could be changed out so that any of the 3 crewmembers could take over operation of any of the systems. --- Chris J. Whitcomb "I try to keep an open mind, but my brain keep falling out!" _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
