[gurps] Starship Troopers, open questions

[Jeff Wilson]

> From: "Onno Meyer" <Onno.Meyer at gmx.de>
> Hal replied to me:
>> > I should dig up my copy of STARSHIP TROOPERS and sleuth as well, so as to
>> > try and spot things to add or suggest.  If you want, I'll dig up my copy
>> > of Avalon Hill's version of the game - because I think it gives a speed
>> > for those suits for land travel.
> 
> Ground movement would be 15 to 17 mph. Anything over 20 mph becomes
> prohibitive.

Ground movement has to be at least as fast as normal sprinting or the 
"you just wear it" aspect is lost, and the suit actually holds the 
wearer back, deviating from the text.

> From: Rupert Boleyn <rboleyn at ihug.co.nz>
> Onno Meyer wrote:
>> > Unless there is a typo in my spreadsheet, I think I have the bones
>> > of a suit. I'll try to turn it into a basic marauder unit.
>> >
>> > Is there any evidence for stealth or IR cloaking? I don't recall any,
>> > and Heinlein makes a point how the suits track each other by radar.
>> >   
> The book dates from a time when there was no such thing as anti-radar 
> stealth, of course. Also, they'd be tracking IFF transponders, not 
> necessarily the suits themselves (they'd have to in heavily build up areas).

This is correct, and described on p.104. (Cheating and locating a 
squaddy visually instead of by radar beacon on an exercise is what gets 
Johnny flogged.)

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