Roger replied to me: > >One option is a hovercraft APC. A steel or laminate box, with a > >fusion reactor, air intakes on top and a skirt on the underside. > >Rear and side hatches allow the suits to step over the deflated > >skirts. > > You might think about pinching an idea from 2300AD and have a hatch > into the plenum chamber, so that the troops can drop out and find > ground cover as the APC moves over them.
With unsealed armor, that sounds like a very bad idea. There is enough air pressure to lift an APC, much of it leaking out from the plenum chamber. A trooper in a sealed battlesuit might weather that storm, but what does the skirt do when it passes over the suit? Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
