Mike replied to me: > Hover bike/atv and weapons. > Grand entrance! But how realistic is it? Between the world wars, people experimented with armed motorcycles and sidecars. That faded away soon. Or Little Nellie from You Only Live Twice. We don't see those in the Air Force.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallis_WA-116_Agile > Load extended due to a vehicle. But how much of that extra load is taken by tools and spares for the vehicle? Will a man on an ATV have a longer range than a man on foot with plenty of MREs in the backpack? Or is the ATV just faster? > Hover load carrier? Not for riding but for towing your load? Contragrav without a thruster would work that way. But right now I'm thinking of TL11, and that means reactionless lift thrusters. Hard to explain why it uses thrusters for lift but not for propulsion. > Better than pulling your ahkhio sled behind you. Ahkhio sled is much like a > basket sled. The German name is Akia. Is there an English name? They were used in WWII at the eastern front, often to tow crew-served weapons. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
