Hello everybody, some of you mentioned mobile standoff mines for a 3e TL13 force. Any suggestions how much damage such a system could do?
My estimate is that battlesuits are DR 750 while AFVs are DR 4,000 or more, and vehicles carry point defense. The point defense means you need many missiles, while the armor means you need big missiles. So networked standoff mines are not the ultimate weapon -- merely one tool in the kit. As mentioned, I'm thinking about vehicles one might find left behind in an abandoned Space Marine base, because bringing them home was too much of a bother, not those first-line AFVs mentioned above. The 'soft' variants of my draft vehicles are DR 125 to 160 armor under a DR 500 force screen. How much DR do I need for 'semi-hardened' vehicles like a contragrav successor to the M9 ACE? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M9_Armored_Combat_Earthmover How does the ACE (or the British CET) compare to an armored D9? The D9 is roughly three times the weight, but how does the armor compare to a real tank? The civilian D9 is almost as heavy as the armored variant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_D9 Right now I'm thinking of a relatively lightweight unit, And how do I split it between the front, the belly, and all other facings? I could probably afford DR 4,000 in front, at the expense of the rest. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
