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Onno Meyer, 2014-05-12
Support Battlesuit Mk.IIIa v1.0 (TL10)
Copyright 2014 by Onno Meyer
The Battlesuit Mk.IIIa carries a particle beam and a large power cell
for supporting fire. Most platoons on interstellar deployments get only
two of these heavy suits, while those on industrialized planets might
have up to a dozen.
With the gatling particle beam in the right arm and only a little 5mm
electromag gun in the left arm, the suit looks unbalanced. The internal
systems are arranged to compensate, and the powerful arm and leg motors
do the rest to keep the Mk.IIIa as agile as a standard Mk.III.
A full load of ammunition is $120. The suit has power for 12 hours of
operation plus 655 particle beam shots. Each additional shot reduces the
endurance by 15 minutes.
Subassemblies: Body +0, two Legs -1, limited-rotation Turret -2, left
Arm -1; right Arm +0.
Powertrain: 6-kW leg drivetrain; 7,200,000-kWs rechargeable power cell.
Occ: Battlesuit crew station rated for 180 lbs. pilot weight.
Cargo: 0.3 cf (Body), 0.24 cf (each Leg), 0.06 cf (each Arm).
Armor F RL B T U
All: 4/450 4/450 4/450 4/450 4/450
Weaponry
5mm Medium Gauss MG [ArL:F] (480 rounds) +2.
5.12-MJ Gatling Particle Beam [ArR:F] (655 shots) +2.
Equipment:
Body: Two medium-range radios with scramblers; two short-range laser
communicators with scramblers; 5-mile multiscanner; IFF; inertial
navigation system; military GPS; two C4 hardened, neural-net small
computers; 12 man-hour limited life system. Turret: 5-mile AESA; 5-mile
PESA; surveillance sound detector, level 15; socket interface. Arms: ST
360 arm motors. External: Radical emission cloaking; radical sound
baffling; radical stealth; instant chameleon; radiation shielding.
Statistics
Size: 4'x4'x9' Payload: 200 lbs. Lwt.: 3,000 lbs.
Volume: 21.8 cf Maint.: 22 hours Price: $854,537.5
HT: 12. HPs: 180 Body, 78 each Leg, 36 Turret, 108 left Arm,
168 right Arm
gSpeed: 18 gAccel: 8 gDecel: 20 gMR: 3 gSR: 2
Low Ground Pressure. Off-Road Speed 4/5.
Design Notes
Body is 9.6 cf. Legs are 3 cf each. Turret is 1 cf. Right arm is 3.4
cf. Left arm is 1.8 cf. Structure is extra-heavy, advanced. Improved
suspension. Armor is advanced laminate. Sealed. Computerized controls.
480 5mm APS rounds are carried in the Body. 0.415 cf of empty space in
the Body. Empty weight is 2,800 lbs.
Weapon Weight Volume Cost Power WPS VPS
CPS TL
5mm Medium Gauss MG 15 0.3 $4,500 378 0.0042
0.000042 $0.25[1] 10
5.12-MJ Gatling Particle Beam 80 1.6 $48,000 122,880 - -
- 10
Ammo: [1] APS.
Weapon Ammo Malf. Type Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max RoF
5mm Medium Gauss MG APS ver. cr. 6d*3(2) 17 14 1,650 7,650 20*
5.12-MJ Gatling Particle Beam - ver. imp. 6d*25 20 17 1,200 3,600 12*
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: An indirect fire suit.
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