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Onno Meyer, 2014-04-14
Battlesuit Mk.I v1.0 (TL8)
Copyright 2014 by Onno Meyer
This is a near future battlesuit, a powerful exoskeleton with integral
weapon systems and heavy armor. The first generation of battlesuits will
probably reinforce elite infantry units and SWAT teams -- they are much
too experimental for general issue. Just the adventure setting for a
small group of intrepid heroes ...
The battlesuit mounts a 7.7mm caseless minigun in the right arm and a
40mm grenade launcher in the left arm, usually with a mix of HE against
infantry and HEAT against enemy suits. In urban combat, blackout smoke
to obscure maneuvers and HESH to breach walls could be carried instead.
With a height of eight feet and a weight of a ton, the battlesuit is
not exactly stealthy, especially if it breaks through a building floor,
but the thermal signature is reduced below that of an unshielded human.
The gas turbine burns 0.22 gallons of diesel per hour of routine use.
A full load of fuel and ammunition is $3,589.2.
Subassemblies: Body +0, two Legs -1, limited-rotation Turret -2, two
Arms -1.
Powertrain: 2.5-kW leg drivetrain; 4-kW standard gas turbine; three
500-kWs advanced batteries.
Fuel: 6 gallons diesel (fire on 6).
Occ: Battlesuit crew station rated for 180 lbs. pilot weight.
Cargo: 0.25 cf.
Armor F RL B T U
Body: 4/120 4/120 4/120 4/120 4/120
Legs: 4/120 4/120 4/120 4/120 4/120
Arms: 4/108 4/108 4/108 4/108 4/108
Turret: 4/120 4/120 4/120 4/120
Weaponry
7.7mmCL Minigun [ArR:F] (3,000 rounds) +2.
40mm Compact AGL [ArL:F] (160 grenades) +2.
Equipment:
Body: Short-range laser communicator with scrambler; IFF; advanced
radar/laser detector; C2 compact, hardened, small computer; 1-man NBC
kit. Turret: Two short-range radios with scramblers; 2-mile PESA;
surveillance sound detector, level 5; military GPS; 5-mile laser
rangefinder. Arms: ST 120 arm motors. External: Basic emission cloaking.
Statistics
Size: 3'x3'x8' Payload: 500 lbs. Lwt.: 2,000 lbs.
Volume: 16.68 cf Maint.: 33 hours Price: $374,510
HT: 12. HPs: 66 Body, 33 each Leg, 18 Turret, 60 each Arm
gSpeed: 14 gAccel: 5 gDecel: 20 gMR: 3 gSR: 2
Low Ground Pressure. Off-Road Speed 4/5.
Design Notes
Body is 6.88 cf. Legs are 2.4 cf each. Turret is 1 cf. Arms are 2 cf
each. Structure is heavy, advanced. Improved suspension. Armor is
advanced laminate. Tanks are self-sealing. Sealed. Computerized
controls. 3,000 rounds of 7.7mmmCL AP are stowed in the right Arm, 120
40mm HEPF grenades and 40 HEAT grenades are stowed in the Body. Empty
weight is 1,500 lbs.
Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS CPS TL
7.7mmCL Minigun 20 0.4 $4,500 0.57 0.029 0.00019 $0.33[1] 8
40mm Compact AGL 58 1.16 $4,400 - 1.2 0.012 $18[2] 8
Ammo: [1] AP. [2] HEPF, also fires HESH (x0.8 cost), HEAT (x0.6 cost),
CHEM(Blackout) (x1.2 cost).
Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF
7.7mmCL Minigun AP v(c) cr. 7d(2) 17 13 780 4,100 100*
40mm Compact AGL HEPF crit. exp. 6d*2[4d] 20 11 320 2,500 10*
HESH crit. exp. 6d*2 20 11 320 2,500 10*
HEAT crit. exp. 8d(10) 20 11 320 2,500 10*
Blackout crit. spcl. 6 yards 20 11 320 2,500 10*
The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third
printing, July 2010 errata] and VXii (including the armor volume rule)
with the text format from Vehicles Lite.
Next Week: A transport truck.
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