Near future is as simple as "28 days later," the Z-Day event has happened and converting a big old bulldozer to a armored vehicle is the best way to get to the few remaining Sam's Club stores for supplies...
> Bira wrote: > > And now, thousands of years later, the decaying and superstitious > > Imperium of Man has to use weaponized bulldozers as the bulk of its > > tank force because it has neither the technical expertise nor the > > access to an uncorrupted database that would be required to extract > > actual tank blueprints. > > In a way, that is the standard post-apocalyptic explanation. You have > access to pre-apocalypse bulldozers and turn them into AFVs after the > apocalypse. Sure, the "pre-apocalypse bulldozers" are newly built, but > they're undistinguishable from genuine relics. > > I have trouble to believe that a civilization could be able to > build bulldozers from old blueprints, and then arm them, but > that it couldn't come up with a tank design. They should be able to do > better than this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NI_Tank > > Now, if you had pre-apocalypse warehouses with lots and lots of > mothballed bulldozers, or maybe a fully robotic factory building > bulldozers and nothing else, it makes sense to use them. > > Currently I'm leaning towards a no-gun post-apocalyptic design, > or maybe a "realistic" real world design like this: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer > > Regards, > Onno > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l ======================================================== -Coyt "The Internet, billions of electrons with nothing better to do." _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
