Brandon replied to me: > > TL12, Lwt 1 ton, ST 240, DR 800 laminate with thermal superconducting armor, > > radical stealth and emission cloaking, two 150-lb. weapon/ammo modules. > > > > That thing could almost wrestle with TL7 tanks ... > > > Interestingly, the TL12 suits in GURPS Traveller are inferior to this, > with 1/2 or less the DR and 1/3 or less the arm ST (I'm not counting > the infamous suit from Star Mercs, just those in the core rules and > Ground Forces).
The Traveller suits are half the weight, too. I don't envision much hand to hand combat, so arm ST is mostly for climbing or getting up from a prone position. In proportion to the weight, the ST is quite modest. I wonder how much ST the TL9-ish suit needs. An average 3E guy has ST 10 and 150 lbs., so a 2,000-lb. suit would need ST 133. Perhaps a bit less, because few people fight naked. ST 120? Anything less and the battlesuit would have trouble standing up or getting onto a roof. There is a fuzzy dividing line between a "very tough trooper" and a "very wimpy tank". The Traveller suits are tough troopers. I hope my design is one, too. BTW, those are first numbers. I will double-check them before they go out ... Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
