Mike replied to Johannes: > OGRE > > Its an attack vehicle, like a BOLO or like vehicle, but how much more do > they do?
Hello Mike, my plan is to justify a setting without big robots, using manned vehicles instead. Take the Dahak series by David Weber. It is named for a large AI starship, but other than that computers are dull -- it takes humans who risk their lives on the firing line. Or Traveller, but there the ban on robotics is artificial. > Fire missles and guns is the basie. > > They also seem to dispense or can be used to dispect Infantry, Armored > Infantry (Iron Man or like style), Armor (tanks and like) but also fighters > and drones, yes? Sea war, can an Ogre travel across water or .... I'm sorry, but those sentences don't make sense to me. > Next step is an ORGE that can be landed on a planet, fight the fight and in > the process strip the planet? Or why not just gas the planet ??? How hard > would it be to change a planets atmosphere from NO2 to something else that > may be lethal to the inhabitants? That an AI can maneuver in? Changing the atmospheric composition is a major terraforming project. Easier to add a poison, but I'm assuming that any spacemobile force can operate in a wide variety of atmospheres, or in vacuum for that matter. > UAV and UGV, and UWV (undermanned water vehicle?).. At TL13, ground and water surface vehicles don't matter. Grav flyers replace them. And UUV are likely flight-capable, too, if only for self-deployment. > UGV - unmanned ground vehicle, a OGRE prototype or just a gun carrier or > carrier of materials? Perhaps supply carriers which can be modified into weapons by inventive PCs. > Someones dream of Judge Dredd like motorcycles for combat usage!? I was assuming a triad of grav tanks, powered armor troops, and dropships/gunships to deploy the powered armor. At this TL, the powered armor can fly and drop from orbit, but it wouldn't be very survivable if it is silhouetted against the sky. Tanks can drop on their own. I could use grav bikes for the powered armor troops, but why if the suits can already fly? The dropships deploy powered troops beyond line-of-sight of the target and then turn into gunships to support them with standoff fire against targets detected by the ground forces. Tanks and powered troops supplement each other, with powered troops leading in close terrain and tanks leading in open terrain. The dropships are for the Space Marines -- the Army would have grav IFVs with less deep space capability instead. Recon drones are expendable sensor platforms, under the direct control of manned weapon platforms. I've been thinking about a company-sized "Space Marine" force. Transport and orbital fire support is provided by a starship, but the Marines have to take and hold a beachhead (planethead?). Fighting Vehicles: * Grav Tank (early draft) * Grav Recon Vehicle -- unless tanks do that job * Grav Tank Destroyer -- unless tanks do that job * Dropship * Powered Armor (draft) Frontline Support Vehicles: * Grav Dozer (ready) * Grav Excavator (ready) * Grav 'Jeep' with various payloads (ready) * Recon Drones Rear Area Support Vehicles: * Grav Crane (ready) * Grav Tunneler (ready) * Grav Dumper (ready) Regards, Onno PS -- Please don't cross-post this to other lists. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
