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locarno24 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:06 am

Essentially a thread to use for waffle, discussions, requests for advice and insulting the GM without messing up any background or in-character threads.

Let the malarky commence.

barnest2 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:08 am

Yay!
So yeah, I think I've proved what you can do with turbines instead of nuclear fusion, what with I think tripling the speed of the grav tank. Also, It's got an extra gun. and an extra seat... and more ammunition...

Anyway, yeah, I've posted everything

locarno24 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:13 am

Bloody hell that thing's a beast!

The armour 74 glacis plate is pretty scary.
Don't have Military vehicles on me right now - is Superdense available at TL-12? I know it's not for ship armour....

barnest2 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:15 am

Yes... Yes it is :twisted:

Excuse me while I cruise around at about half the speed of sound... for the next 20 hours...

ETA: Cruise speed is 150m/s :shock:

middenface · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:14 pm

locarno24 wrote:

Don't have Military vehicles on me right now - is Superdense available at TL-12? I know it's not for ship armour....

One could assume that at that TL you can only use it on smaller things.. ships grade/size SD armour is available later.. ?

barnest2 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:15 pm

Well it's superdense rather than bonded superdense. Bonded is tl 14, superdense is tl 12

middenface · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:20 pm

barnest2 wrote:

Well it's superdense rather than bonded superdense. Bonded is tl 14, superdense is tl 12

Ah, that makes sense.

Probably pop my teams in a couple of AFV's - I've not used the military vehicle book so it'll be interesting to try.

barnest2 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:23 pm

I can help if you want

Same goes to everyone. I love building vehicles. It's one of my favourite things to do with trav.

middenface · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:32 pm

barnest2 wrote:

I can help if you want

Same goes to everyone. I love building vehicles. It's one of my favourite things to do with trav.

Shoot, well I'm in work (though at this point it GW The Nations Noodle Curry Flavour time)

Might have to go far Vargr/Human infantry 'Rough Tails' geddit like Roughnecks... ;0)

barnest2 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:34 pm

That's a terrible joke

GW?

middenface · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:39 pm

barnest2 wrote:

That's a terrible joke

GW?

Golden Wonder (instead of the Nestle Pot Noodle)

barnest2 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:43 pm

You know, sometimes I'm glad I don't work.I could do with the money though...

Anyway. I'm done with my section. I'm just waiting on all you guys

BFalcon · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:15 pm

Hi guys...

Well, just let me know if you'll need transporting or not... although I'll probably get at least 1 Grav-copter - I'm assuming I'll have non-combat staff to move around also... and it'll be useful in case one of you guys gets your vehicle blown up to go fetch the survivors - or at least bring back a few injured squaddies... it'll also double up as a runabout for the pilots.

Just one point to make - if you want transporting from orbit, you'll want the HGT, not the Carryall - the rotors would probably have a maximum altitude of only a few thousand feet... gravs can attain orbit...

I still reckon that fighters would be wise - but I'll go for the bomber if you'd prefer (I'm trying not to overlap the armour in function)... I was thinking that the fighters could be modded to swap out the Air-to-Air missiles for Air-to-Ground anti-armour missiles on a mission-by-mission basis, that's all (the G-Bomber also have ammo issues, although less than the TL12 G-Fighter...). If I can do the reverse and put Air-to-Air on the G-Bomber, that should be OK-ish... the G-Bomber is less agile, but a lot tougher...

My suggestion (and I'm guessing that the transport will be coming out of my budget):

2 G-Bombers at 1.493 MCr each (2.986 MCr)
1 G-Copter at 1.102 MCr each
1 HGT at 6.688 MCr each

Total: 10.777 MCr

Alternately,

1 Carry-All at 4.612 MCr
2 G-Bombers at 1.493 MCr
2 G-Copters at 1.102 MCr
2 Cargo-Loaders at 0.1362 MCr
(needed to help move a downed G-Tank - each can move 10t)

Total 10.07 MCr

Of course, with the latter, we'll need the ship to ground first or at least come to a low altitude...

barnest2 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:24 pm

Hey I don't mind cross over. Anything that blows stuff up is good. And you can have some of my spare cash to make up the different if you want.
I think go with the first one. Two bombers as CAS, a G copter to pick up people and the HGT for the full unit transport...

BFalcon · **Posted:** Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:33 pm

If you have any left-overs, I wouldn't mind the two Cargo-Lifters - might well need them to carry your tanks to the HGT if they're not able to lift themselves... and you can't always land where you want... (found that out all too often flying air support for a squad in Arma 2 (one reason I prefer gravs over rotors or planes))...

There's also the matter of skill spread - if we don't need rotor skills, we can concentrate more on gravs...

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