Mike replied to Stephen:
Greek Phalanx vs Roman Legion.
Greek was meant to push and hold. To anchor itself on valley walls and
push the enemy or not allow the enemy to push them, but it could
change flank and turn but enmass and not all that fast.
Roman Legion, was smaller and less tied to anchoring itself on
walls/valleys walls and like and it could wheel/turn and change facing
quickly.
... and we all know how that ended. Few battlefields allowed the phalanx
to play to their strengths.
Yet the Romans also defeated the lighter and more mobile Germanic
tribes. Mobility has to be balanced with survivability and firepower.
Right now I have
suit 700 lbs.
operator 180 lbs.
weaponry 120 lbs.
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total 1,000 lbs.
If I made no mistakes (still an early draft) the suit has ST 80, DR 300
laminate plus DR 150 force screen, flight speed 290 mph, basic stealth,
basic emission cloaking, and intruder chameleon. I decided against sound
baffling to afford more DR.
Power management may be a problem. The suit has two integral rD cells
for 20 minutes of flight or 23 minutes of force screen, or a
combination. My thought was that flight is the exception -- jumping out
of a shuttle, getting up a ravine, but not sustained air movement. The
restriction of the force screen is harder to justify, but I simply
didn't have the power plant that would be necessary. A rE cell on the
belt would help a bit, at the expense of ammo.
Regards,
Onno
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