Neat design Onno. A few questions/comments.
64ft^3 for the crew and powersupply and power train? Thats like 6' x 6' x 2'. Even on an exposed crewstation that would be tight quarters for 4, without the powertrain/connecting articulation. How much would you loose adding a few cubic feet? The users would be way more comfortable. And that brings me to my real problem with the design: No Roll Over Protection. A cloth top off road vehicle will roll over sometimes in operation - and 800 pounds landing on top of you would be real unpleasant. Even small dune buggies have ROPS. And during a roll over some occupant restraints would be nice too - not necessary but a 50kph accident or roll over would be messy for unrestrained passengers. Also how much would you loose going to power slugs instead of power cells? Clint "Onno Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/2006 11:43 AM Please respond to The GURPSnet mailing list <[email protected]> To To [email protected] cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject [gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 585 - TL8 All-Terrain Walker Caterpillar: Confidential Green Retain Until: 02/08/2006 Retention Category: G90 - General Matters/Administration 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. With a slight delay, old vehicles appear at http://omeyer.gmxhome.de/GURPSnet_files/summary.html Onno Meyer, 2006-01-09 All-Terrain Walker v1.0 (TL8) Copyright 2006 by Onno Meyer In the 22nd century, the All-Terrain Walker is employed where building roads is not practical. The eight-legged mechanical spider can carry two to four persons. The two front seats are relatively comfortable. The two rear seats are usually folded away to create cargo space. The ATW can reach 50 kph on roads, dirt tracks and even broken ground and swim at a more modest 5 kph. It is powered by a superconductor storage loop which lasts for ten hours at top speed. Subassemblies: Body +2, eight Legs +0. Powertrain: 5-kW leg drivetrain [Legs]; 180,000-kWs rechargeable E cell. Occ: 1 XRCS, 1 XRS, 2 folding XCS. Armor F RL B T U Body: 2/4 2/4 2/4 2/4 2/4 Legs: 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 Equipment Body: Medium-range cellular phone; two 1x LLTVs; C2 small computer with terminal. External: Convertible ragtop. Statistics Size: 8'x10'x4' Payload: 800 lbs. Lwt.: 1,600 lbs. Volume: 112 cf Maint.: 111 hours Price: $32,260 HT: 10. HPs: 38 Body, 8 each Leg gSpeed: 30 gAccel: 10 gDecel: 20 gMR: 1.25 gSR: 3 Ground Pressure Extremely Low. Full Off-Road Speed. wSpeed: 3 wAccel: 0.1 wDecel: 10 wMR: 0.75 wSR: 4 Draft 0.8'. Flotation 2 tons. Design Notes Body is 64 cf. Legs are 6 cf each. Structure is extra-light and expensive. Body armor is expensive composite, leg armor is expensive, open-frame metal. Waterproofed. Computerized controls. There are 1.4 cf of empty space in the body. Empty weight is 800 lbs. The TL8 vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, 3rd printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXi and VXii (the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: A little TL9 patrol boat. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
