Rupert replied to me: > > * A hovertruck needs considerably less thrust than a flying truck. One idea > > is > > to have sufficient fans but not enough power for flight, with 'booster' > > power > > cells to make up the shortfall. > > Say a hovertruck for ten tons of suits is 20 tons Lwt, while a flying > > truck > > is 30 tons Lwt and twice the price. Is true flight worth that much? > > Depends on the terrain and expected mission, I think. > > > The question is how much tactical, VTOL flight is worth in a suit? As much > > as > > 50% more armor? As much as doubling RoF and ammo? > > I'd be inclined to say "some, but not as much as more survivability and > shooty", for the standard issue suit. Flying is a fairly unstealthy > thing to do, and a suit isn't going to be optimised for it if it's a > primarily ground-based armoured and powered suit, so it seems to me that > it's a good way to become a target. Leave it to the drones and fly-boys.
I'm thinking about a squad of TL10 battlesuits riding in a "hovercraft personnel carrier" with enough armor to resist artillery fragments and ICM but not against direct fire. But before I nail down the TO&E I want to finish the TL12 batch. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
