On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, Onno Meyer wrote:
Johannes replied to me:
And mobile anti tank weapon concepts, that i can come up with on top of my
head will share many features with tanks.
Maybe not. Consider the British "Cruiser" and "Infantry" tanks
which assumed that tanks don't fight tanks, they break through
the frontline and wreak havoc in the rear areas.
What would the corresponding anti tank weapon be? Infantry carried anti
tank weapons (equivalent of bazookas or stingers) have the advantage of
being cheap and stealthy (at least until you fire them) but they are not
very mobile.
And if they are effective, breaking through the front line becomes a less
good tactic, since the enemy infantry propably has them too.
Or you mount your anti tank gun on a vehicle. If that vehicle is armoured
too, you basically have a tank. And while i did not actually calculate
anything, i would be suprised if not at least moderate armour would be
sensible.
So the anti tank vehicle is different to a tank propably in the main
weapon and it propably has a different size. If tanks are useless against
thoose anti tank vehicles, they either need anti anti tank vehicles
(likely the same design as anti tanks) as escorts or they are restricted
to hit and run attacks.
The first option means you need way more vehicles for a tank operation,
which seems expensive. The second means that the concept feels a lot more
like a bomber then a tank.
BTW would be artificial gravity for just the crew station(s) be very
expensive? If you ahve that you can point the tank any way you want in all
3 dimensions.
In Vehicles, artificial gravity is the artificial gravity unit,
which is one ton per 27,000 cf or fraction thereof.
Historically speaking, the grav unit comes from the Space ship
design rules, which were using the ton (the short ton, not the
500-cf Traveller displacement ton), the MW, and the cubic yard
(27 cf) as units. Vehicles 2nd edition just added them, and
the FTL drives, wholesale.
At TL11+ you need 27 cf to have artificial gravity for the whole tank.
Seems cheaper then using a turret for the same effect. Even if you have a
much too large artificial gravity unit.
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