----- Original Message ----- > From: Onno Meyer <[email protected]> > > Brandon replied to me: >> Sure, but TOW platoons have been around for 40 years. How were they >> handled early on? > > No idea, but anti-tank platoons in infantry units date back to > to WWII. First small cannon, then recoilless rifles, then > guided missiles. GURPS WWII has some figures who had what.
Remember that the US had independent tank destroyer battalions in WWII and commanders of the units they were attached to tended to badly misused them. >> If you are going to have a one-suit vehicle, why not a very heavy >> motorcycle that *only* carries the battlesuit? Support could be >> carried in a HMMWV or two. > > The motorcycles could only be driven by suits. Yes, that's my intention. > The logistics could not follow a > deployed suit unit, the suits would have to return to their > starting point. This is no more a problem than with other units. > The suit would have to be designed for those supercycles Rather, the motorcycle would have to be designed for the battlesuit. > Suit troopers would have to > be trained as motorcyclists. It's a P/E skill. Also, since the Trooper can use Battlesuit for internal weapons, he doesn't need to put many points in Guns or Gunner. > Better use quad scooters, they're > more stable, like the M274. You can add more wheels if you want. My point was that the battlesuit trooper didn't need a limo and chauffaur. Brandon _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
