This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on a website or the like. The files at omeyer.gmxhome.de are down until I fix the automatic PDF generation, which should be one of these days - see sourceforge.net/projects/gurpsml Onno Meyer, 2016-03-14
Medium Powered Armor Mk.IV v1.0 (TL11) Copyright 2016 by Onno Meyer With powered armor, spacemobile forces can operate on a wide range of planets. Medium Powered Armor combines a powerful exoskeleton, armor, a force screen, thrusters, stealth, electronics, and life support. The suit has attachment points for 120 lbs. of equipment, including a shoulder mount for sensors or a point defense laser. Two rechargeable D cells in the legs are used to power the thrusters (75 kW) or the force screen (66 kW), all other systems are powered by the NPU. The suit has 0.25 kW left to recharge the power cells. Subassemblies: Body +0, two Legs -1, two Arms -2, limited-rotation Turret -2. Powertrain: 1.5-kW leg drivetrain; four 375-lb. vectored super reactionless thrusters; 3-kW NPU; two 45,000-kWs rD power cells. Occ: 180-lb. battlesuit crew station, quick access. Armor F RL B T U All: 4/300* 4/300* 4/300* 4/300* 4/300* * Plus DR 150 force screen. Equipment: Body: 5-mile multiscanner; IFF; 1-man full life system. Arms: ST 80 arm motors. Turret: Medium-range radio with scrambler; short-range neutrino communicator with scrambler; 1-mile AESA, LPI; 7.5-mile PESA; level-15 surveillance sound detector; HUDWAC with pupil scanner; C5 hardened, neural-net, small computer; socket interface. External: Basic emission cloaking; basic stealth; intruder chameleon; radiation shielding; DR 150 force screen; 30-lb. hardpoint; three 20-lb. hardpoints; two 15-lb. hardpoints. Statistics Size: 2'x3'x7' Payload: 300 lbs. Lwt.: 1,000 lbs. Volume: 8 cf Maint.: 36 hours Price: $312,172 HT: 12. HPs: 96 Body, 42 each Leg, 48 each Arm, 36 Turret gSpeed: 16 gAccel: 5 gDecel: 20 gMR: 3 gSR: 2 Ground Pressure Very Low. Full Off-Road Speed. aSpeed: 225 aAccel: 10 aDecel: 24 aMR: 6 aSR: 3 sAccel: 1.5 G sMR: 1.5 Design Notes Body is 4 cf. Legs are 1.2 cf. Arms are 0.4 cf. Turret is 0.8 cf. Structure is extra-heavy, advanced. Improved suspension. Armor is advanced laminate. Sealed. Computerized controls. Empty weight is 700 lbs. The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [second edition, third printing, July 2010 errata], RO, and VXii (including the armor volume rule) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: A little drone. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
