Johannes replied to me: > I guess wheelbarrows and pallet jacks are for short range transport > mostly, at least today. I don't think using humans as beasts of burden in > what way ever for long range transport is still ecconimically effective > today even in the third world.
We're talking about cinematic villains. You can "show, not tell" who the bad guys are with slave galleys or workers pulling stones. Since the stones are too impractical, that leaves the galley :-) > If you have large string armoured beasts of burdens propably a howdah is > the best design for that. Is that within the scope of vehicles. There are rules for animal or human drawn vehicles and vehicles worn by the operator. That's not the same as a vehicle worn by the draft animal. > If you have dinosaurs or similiar, you will want a weapon to kill them. > One candidate would be a ballista. OK. > Some mixed TL designs, where locals use high TL components in their > vehicles. Like they take the body of a derelict grav flyer and put wheels > on it. The TL difference is just too great. The Evil Overlords would take even damaged tech back for recycling. Would the peasants even have tools to drill holes into the grav flyer? > Maybe some quisings try to imitate the vehicles of the overlords, though i > don't have an idea, how that could be more, then how it looks, and have an > effect on the stats. The TL12 vehicles in the current series come in different flavors: Some designs come from the precursors. Evil Overlords and the upstart Terrans may have salvaged them from ancient caches (Atlantis) or they build them new to ancient plans. I'm assuming that the precursors knew what they were doing. Some were built by the Evil Overlords for high-intensity operations against each other and the Earthlings. The EO have certain blinders which make these vehicles inefficient, which doesn't tell when they fight each other -- it might give the Terrans a chance. And some were built by the EO to awe their subjects. Style certainly goes over substance, but TL12 allows them to pull it off anyway. (An open-topped APC? Sure, if three quarters of the DR come from a force screen.) The latter could be copied by the quislings. The boss has a horseless grav chariot? The underlings have a horse-drawn chariot. The boss has a throne on a grav platform? Hmm, what or who could pull it instead? Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
