Brandon replied to me: > > If the suits were secret, and not paraded on newsreels, > > then > > Germany might have reserved them for Eben Emael. > > I'll admit that the alternate history presented in the color text is not > the one I'm using for my own campaign. I decided to go with something more > generic than my background than with a lurking cold war between Atlantis and > Mars, using the Allies and Axis as proxies, to some extent.
Hello Brandon, what kind of Martians and Atlanteans? Inscrutable aliens or just humanoids with bumps on their nose? Who backed whom, and what did the pawns know? > > The payload of bombers depended on range. Airborne attacks > > would be > > much closer than strategic bombing. > > I was also thinking of the internal volume a battlesuit would occupy; a 1 > ton battlesuit is a lot lower density than a 1 ton bomb. Although, in > theory, an airborne battlesuit could be carried externally on an underwing > hardpoint. If you look at pictures of bomb bays, they were much less densely packed than GURPS suggests. http://www.air-and-space.com/20050510%20Collings%20Bombers.htm (search for "bomb bay") http://www.airmuseumsuk.org/museum/IWMDuxford/Hangar1/800/pages/081%20Avro%20Lancaster%20Bomb%20Bay.htm http://www.airmanonline.af.mil/photos/mediagallery.asp?galleryID=7972&page=2 > Anti-tank units would > just mount a different weapon pod on the shoulder. I should note an > alternative HEAT warhead for the 4.5" rocket. But HEAT came a bit later, or did that change, too? > > something like a Boys AT rifle. > > The pod with a .5-cal MG using API ammo would be more effective ;) But less stylish. > > Are the batteries necessary? > > Yes. They allow fully sealed operation (I should have added a 1.1 kW > electric motor, which makes that more obvious. The electric motors were a break in the original Vehicles system, anyway. > > Little kids or women? Rosie the Ranger might be hard > > enough > > for Americans, but how about the Germans? > > The Germans were even more sexist the Americans. I know, that's why I asked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder,_K%C3%BCche,_Kirche#Third_Reich > A Soviet suit could > certainly use female pilots and 150 lbs is fine for japanese solders. It will > be > a bit on the small size for American and German soldiers but, of course, > most tankers are not giants either ;) Maybe American characters are in for a surprise, too ... > > > Weaponry > > > 2xSMGs/modified M-1928 Thompson [RArm:F, LArm:F] (200 > > each). > > > > Is it effective to mount two SMGs? How about a Panzerfaust > > > > clone instead? > > Rocket pod. But the pod was an extra. I was suggesting something with more punch than a SMG as built-in weapon. > > * What sensor/targeting system interacts with the IFF? You > > > > could have it on command suits only, to coordinate > > with > > tactical air. > > The IFF description on p.W138-139 says the package includes it's own > trasnmitting and receiving gear. What I was trying to say that the suit has no sensors (or weapons) which require technical means of IFF. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
