This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on a website or the like. The files at omeyer.gmxhome.de are down until I fix the automatic PDF generation, which should be one of these days - see sourceforge.net/projects/gurpsml Onno Meyer, 2010-05-24
Attack Walker v1.0 (TL9) Copyright 2010 by Onno Meyer Bipedal walking tanks have no place in a realistic future setting, but walkers might find their niche in supporting roles. The Attack Walker is a cavalry AFV for scouting and screening forces, moving quickly in urban terrain or over broken ground. The Attack Walker has a rocket launcher and an electromag gun in each arm, a 10mm gatling on the left and a 20mm autocannon on the right, and two quad ATGM launchers in the body. The body also holds the MHD fusion reactor and the seats for the pilot and co-pilot. Usually one of them controls the movement and arm weapons while the other concentrates on sensors and long-range missile fire. The Walker can operate in most atmospheres and in vacuum, but it was designed primarily for earthlike worlds. A full load of ammunition is $208,000. Subassemblies: Body +3, two Legs +3, two Arms +2. Powertrain: 1,305-kW leg drivetrain; 1,500-kW MHD fusion generator; ten 270,000-kWs rechargeable power cells. Occ: 2 NCS. Armor F RL B T U Body: 5/360 4/240 4/240 4/240 4/240 Arms: 4/240 4/240 4/240 4/240 4/240 Legs: 4/240 4/240 4/240 4/240 4/240 Weaponry 10mm EM Gatling [ArL:F] (4,000 rounds) +2. 20mm EM Cannon [ArR:F] (1,000 rounds) +2. 128mm 16-shot MRL (ArL:F] (16 rounds) +2. 128mm 16-shot MRL (ArR:F] (16 rounds) +2. Two 256mm Quad ATGMs [Bod:F] (4 rounds each). Equipment: Body: Two long-range radios with scramblers; medium-range, tight-beam radio with scrambler; four medium-range laser communicators; two 60-mile thermographs; 25-mile geophone; 60-mile radscanner; chemical sensor array; navigation instruments; two IFF; two inertial navigation systems; two military GPS; two HUDWACs with pupil scanners; two advanced radar/laser detectors; deceptive jammer, rating 6; four blackout gas dischargers; two C4 hardened minicomputers; two terminals; full fire suppression system; 2x1 man-day limited life system; two ejection seats; two crashwebs. Arms: Full stabilization for Gatling/Cannon; x16 LLTVs; 60-mile AESAs, LPI; 60-mile thermographs; ST 3,000 cheap arm motors. External: Basic emission cloaking; basic sound baffling; basic stealth; instant chameleon. Statistics Size: 12'x12'x16' Payload: 4,000 lbs. Lwt.: 40,000 lbs. Volume: 600 cf Maint.: 11 man-hours Price: $5,050,850 HT: 12. HPs: 1,500 Body, 900 each Leg, 1,200 each Arm gSpeed: 75 gAccel: 20 gDecel: 20 gMR: 2 gSR: 3 Low Ground Pressure. 4/5 Off-Road Speed. Design Notes Body is 240 cf, with 30° front slope. Legs are 120 cf each. Arms are 60 cf each. Structure is extra-heavy, expensive. Improved suspension. Armor is expensive laminate. Sealed. Computerized controls with duplicate maneuver controls. 3.66 cf of empty space. 4,000 rounds of 10mm AP, 1,000 rounds of 20mm APFSDS, and 8 256mm ATGMs are carried in the body, 32 128mm HE rockets are carried in the arms. Empty weight is 36,000 lbs. Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS TL 10mm EM Gatling 360 7.2 $110,000 25,000 0.05 0.00033 $1.2 9 20mm EM Cannon 360 7.2 $110,000 18,000 0.2 0.002 $19.2 9 256mm Quad ATGM 440 8.8 $8,000 - 200 4 $20k 9 128mm 16-Shot MRL 350 7 $6,875 - 50 1 $750 9 Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF 10mm EM Gatling AP ver. cr. 6d*7(2) 20 17 4,300 12,000 100* 20mm EM Cannon APFSDS ver. cr. 6d*20(2) 20 18 5,100 15,000 20* 128mm 16-shot MRL HE crit. exp. 6d*295[10d] 20 14 1,000 7,200 16:6 Weapon Warhead Guid. Type Damage Spd. End. Max. Skill 256mm ATGM HEAT IIRH exp. 6d*80(10) 3,600 5 18,000 22 The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, December '09 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: The transformer. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
