On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Brandon Cope <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- On Sun, 1/17/10, David Scheidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > An arm is a crane ... > > > > > > > > > ... and the fallen mech has two. > > > > > > > > > > And a vehicle that's stuck in sticky mud can be *firmly* > > stuck. I got my > > SWB Land-Rover stuck in a stream ford, in mud up to the > > chassis. A large > > bulldozer wasn't able to pull me out. > > If a human gets stuck in the mud, could he pull himself out if there was > something secure to grab on to? If the answr is "yes", then a humanoid mecha > can also pull himself out. > > Not always. And in some cases, only because humans float. I doubt anyone thinks mecha will. > > [1] which suggests a number of mech trapping techniques: > > put a thin layer of > > stablized surface on top a mud pits. lighter vehicles > > will have no problem, > > a mech breaks the stable layer, and is into the bottomless > > mud. > > I think you'd catch tanks with this as well ... > > Depends on what you chose as the breaking point of the stablized surface. tanks designed for low ground pressure have ground pressure less than a soldier. normal tanks have a ground pressure of about 15 psi, which is quite a bit less than an automobile, and about twice a typical (not carrying combat gear) human. Mecha are going to be much, much higher. (It occurs to me I've seen this happen in real life: a dog was chasing a squirrel across a snowy field. the snow wasn't fresh, and had a crust. The squirrel had no problems moving on top of it. The dog made it ten feet, and fell through. I'm pretty sure the squirrel laughed at it.) -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
