On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 8:41 AM CST Onno Meyer wrote:
>> 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. Starting at TL8, battlesuit troopers will probably be considered "elite" and be above average. As TL goes up and the relative costs of battlesuits go down, this will gradually change, as you point out, where a large percentage of a force will wear powered armor (although there there will probably be elite units within them). > 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. It's not a matter of lowering infantry requirements, but not having to settle for the leftovers after armor, artillery, engineers,nintelligence, etc. gets to pick first. >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. That seems like a high number of support for so few combat troops. A nine suit platoon sounds like you are organizing them like tanks, not infantry. >For TL12, 144 out of 180 Space Marines in the drop company are >battlesuit troopers and most of the others are grav vehicle >pilots. Every Marine a rifleman? ;) >> 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". I'm not sure why the BTR-60 did it. The M4's did because there wasn't an engine powerful enough at the time, outside of radial aircaft engines (which some American tanks did use). The A57 used tried and tested commercial truck engines to attain the required power. In any case, 2+ engines linked to one drivetrain can work. >> > 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. Doesn't it also include passive radar? Brandon _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
