Hello everybody, I was thinking about a TL13 grav tank.
The classic tracked tank consists of a hull, tracks for mobility and a gun turret to get 360° fire and hull-down firing positions. Those are the main reasons for turrets on 20th century tanks, I believe. Should a grav tank have a hull and turret, or is it enough to mount the gun in a heavily armored hull? - The flyer can easily turn in the air. No need for a turret to get 360° coverage. - If the flyer uses terrain for partial cover, it can easily pop up on contragrav to unmask a hull-mounted gun. Are there other reasons? Regarding game mechanics in 3E Vehicles: - It is possible to give a turret stronger armor than the hull. There are no good game mechanics if you want to reinforce the upper half of a hull, say. - If you have a separate hull and turret, the turret volume requires rotation space in the body. No such loss if you put everything into the body. - If the grav tank is streamlined, that reduces the effective body volume, not the turret volume. - Streamlining will be pointless until it becomes very good, since even a brick will reach the 600-mph cutoff for unstreamlined vehicles. That much streamlining requires 'concealed' weapons at 20 lbs. per cf instead of standard mounts at 50 lbs. per cf. Do you have any useful brainstorms? Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
