----- Original Message ----- > From: Onno Meyer <[email protected]> > > Eddie replied to me: > > And if I imagine a 2,000-lb. suit in my flat, it would do
> damage whatever the fire control -- it might not break > through the floor (I wouldn't bet on that, however) but > it would damage the door frames. Even at TL 8, you can build a light suit that comes in at 600-700 lbs loaded, although it would be a specialist military weapon. SWAT forces would find it useful, though. >> > The commander of a Bradley or Abrams would be a sergeant, right? So is >> > a battlesuit operator comparable to an AFV driver or an AFV commander? I would go with a corporal with a minimum of one tour of duty in the infantry, unless battlesuits are especially common or rare. > So, how about this for a suit-only unit: > > * Four battlesuit troopers are a fire team. > * Two fire teams and the squad leader are a squad. They all have > the same type of suit and the same weapons -- a rifle-equivalent > and a couple of anti-vehicle missiles. I'd want one trooper with a HMG or light AC and another with a automatic grenade launcher -- basically equivalents of the SAW gunner and grenadier in many other fire teams. These heavy weapons would go in shoulder pods so the suits would all be otherwise similar. > * Two battlesuit troopers are a weapons team. One has a weapon > like a larger missile launcher or something equivalent to a > machine gun, the other carries ammo. I'd have to think if they > can use the same type of suit or a specialized model. Fewer > than the three-man teams used today because of the carrying > capability of the suits. Put the missiles in a shoulder pod ;) > * Three weapons teams and a squad leader are a weapons squad. > The teams are usually farmed out to the normal squads, and the > spare squad leader can control a couple of UAVs. He'd be the > forward observer, too, so that fits. Standard suit, drones > instead of extra ammo. I'd rather go with two engineers an a two-man SAM team. > * The platoon leader, platoon sergeant, a medic, three normal > squads and one weapons squad are a platoon, total 37 suits. I wouldn't mix suited and unsuited troops in the same platoon or even company. I might attach a battlesuit unit to an infantry battalion or larger, though. > * Does the platoon need a radio operator? Not to haul the gear, > the suit does that, but to answer the phone. All the suits should have short range radios. The platoon commander and NCOs should have medium range radios and at least one laser comm. > * The medic needs a different type of suit. That would mean > three types in the platoon. I'd go with a mechanic before a medic. Brandon _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
