> I'd think a battlesuit trooper would be above average in IQ and > DX _before_ he joined the military and was assigned to battlesuit > infantry.
Historically, the infantry got below-average recruits. As long as the battlesuit force is a small part of the infantry, they can be selective about their troopers. If battlesuits are general issue, they have to lower their entry requirements. Of course there are many untested assumptions about the percentage of the workforce in the armed forces -- how many people does it take to built the battlesuits, and how smart do they have to be? Are you planning to fight on another planet, and how expensive is spacelift? For TL8, I'm thinking about a platoon with 9 battlesuits and 15 headquarters and support troopers as a battalion-level asset or police SWAT team. That would make about 1% of the people in an infantry battalion battlesuit troopers. For TL12, 144 out of 180 Space Marines in the drop company are battlesuit troopers and most of the others are grav vehicle pilots. > Several thousand M4 Shermans used the A57 Multibank engine (five > truck engines driving one crankshaft) and it proved reliable in > service. I think two engines should work fine. The BTR-60 was always troublesome, by anecdotal "evidence". > > For the suit I'm assuming PESAs and emission cloaking to defend > > against it. > > > I always considered the PESA a bit too "magical" at TL8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspectral_imaging#Surveillance And as written in Vehicles, PESA simply means visible, infrared, microwave and perhaps ultraviolet imagers with a way to toggle between the modes. Emission cloaking might be optimistic at TL8, but countermeasures lagging a little behind is hardly uncommon. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
