What would that means for vehicles? * There is no reason to develop vehicle-mounted weapons. All weapons in the Evil Overlord's vehicles are re-purposed tools or hunting weapons on improvised mountings. * Those tools could do serious damage, but they're not optimized to hit moving targets. The hunting weapons are accurate, but not very powerful on a vehicle scale. * No guided missiles. * No stealth or EW, and passive sensors are only used to save power or to minimize interference. Transponders rather than IFF, and being sneaky means not transmitting your location to anybody who listens. * Armor has to protect against natural hazards. That could make HP more valuable than DR.
* Once the Evil Overlords get their hands on the vehicle, they will install weapons to intimidate a population. Unfortunately the VE rules don't have vehicle-scale nerve guns. Stunners and paralysis beams to take captives? Screamers and flamers? * Those are not the weapons to fight other vehicles. Other Evil Overlords, later upstart Earthlings. * Brigs even on the smallest craft? * The Evil Overlords won't let their henchmen have all the "fun". VIP quarters on frontline vehicles? Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
