On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:09:48AM -0600, Clinton N. Fell wrote: >A cloth top off road vehicle will roll over sometimes in >operation - and 800 pounds landing on top of you would be real unpleasant.
Open-frame armour explicitly does act as a roll cage, though by a strict reading the XCS probably isn't protected. (However, it is implied that open-frame armour cannot be used on waterborne vehicles.) > 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. Seat belts are free IIRC. >Also how much would you loose going to power slugs instead of power cells? Power slugs are 6x the weight per joule of standard power cells, or 3x rechargeable power cells, so you'd lose 2/3 of the operating duration. Incidentally, for a slightly more heavyweight approach to TL8 walker design, see my M-5 tank for the Dark Conspiracy setting: http://firedrake.org/roger/rpg/vehicles/ . Roger _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
