> > 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.
When battlesuits become general issue rather than specialized equipment, you are effectively bringing their entry requirement down to that of the infantry. > >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. The idea was that a battalion with three leg infantry companies and one heavy weapons company would have one battlesuit platoon for special purposes, just as they have one scout platoon. > A nine suit platoon sounds like you are organizing them like > tanks, not infantry. Halfway in between. A tank platoon has four vehicles, a leg infantry platoon has four squads, and the battlesuit platoon has four two-suit fire teams. > >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? ;) Everybody who drops needs a suit, rifleman or not, unless they ride in a vehicle. > >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? I thought GURPS passive radar was microwave. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
