[gurps] Starship Troopers, one more time

[Onno Meyer]

Jonathan wrote: 
> Sci-fi vehicles that can manage short-term flight but not sustained
> flight sometimes refer to fuel restrictions; but more often, they
> refer to jets that run hot and need a cooling off period.  Since
> overheating is one of those issues that GURPS Vehicles glosses over, I
> can see where the difficulty lies.

A way covered by GURPS: lift engines rather than vectored engines. 
They provide only lift, not forward propulsion. GURPS Mecha covers
jumps with these lift engines.

hal wrote:
> Maruader & Command suits with basic stealth
> Scout with advanced...

Done. 

> Doesn't seem to cause any real problems as yet.  I'm trying to remember. 
> During the Skinny raid, wasn't there a passage about punching through a
> wall with the suit and Rico finding himself in a "skinny congregation" or
> something? 

ST 200 and DR 200 on the arms should do a lot.

Barbarian wrote:
> There may be problems inherent to the technology when using anything 
> much smaller than the 40mm grenade rounds, flamers may have 
> advantages over EM arms in other ways, or just plain simple military 
> preferences that have very little basis in the real world.  (Not that 
> that ever happens, of course!)

480-kJ flamer, TL10, compact, pistol grip, D cell (counts as "extended
magazine" due to weight)

Malf Type  Damage SS Acc 1/2D Max   Wt AWt RoF Shots ST Rcl Cost   TL
ver. spcl. 6d*6   12 15  430  1,300 15 5   1   30/D  11 0   $6,000 10

Missile with 50mm normal warhead, 1 kt, TL10, OH guidance, fired from 
a breech-loading launcher with a pistol grip. Each missile is 10 lbs. 
and $19,000.

Malf  Type Damage       Max   Spd End Skill Wt AWt RoF Shots Cost TL
crit. exp. 12*2,000,000 8,700 300 29  17    25 10  1/2 1     $281 10

(Smaller than planned, so there is more payload left for grenades.)

Jeff wrote:
> 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.

15 mph are about 7.5 yards per second. Not quite olympic, but good
enough for government work.