Travis replied to me: > Sounds like a good reason you would not want to face a tank on a > featureless plane, but battle-suits would presumably be able to use cover > and terrain more effectively than a larger tank(assuming you are moving and > not just in a 'hull down' position).
Good point. > Also I expect battle-suits could > quite easily make things like fox-holes and only expose their sensor > apparatus intermittently to scan for tanks. (assuming they do not have the > leisure to set up a full bunker with superior scanning apparatus or some > other sort of command post) That works only in the defensive. > Question: why would battle-suits in a squad or platoon not be networked > together so as to allow improved scanning, at least until some sort of > threat has been detected? * No good rules for that, and it would be a bit late to try and rewrite 3E. * If suits can do that, so can tanks. The gap remains. I've managed to get a 15-mile PESA by cutting active sensors (AESA and multiscanner). Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
