[gurps] Heinlein Battlesuits

[Gabe Johanns]

I just wanted to relay some of the info on the battlesuit. Although Heinlein says, "It isn't a tank — but a single M. I. private could take on a squadron of those 
things and knock them off unassisted if anybody was silly enough to put tanks 
against M. I." I believe he is still referring to TL7 tanks. It was said somewhere in the thread that the suits look like clothing. Here is the relevant passage:

"Suited up, you look like a big steel gorilla, armed with gorilla-sized weapons." And another, "Two thousand pounds of it, maybe, in full kit..." Lastly, "There are three main types of M. I. armor: marauder, command, and scout. Scout 
suits are very fast and very long-range, but lightly armed. Command suits are 
heavy on go juice and jump juice, are fast and can jump high; they have three 
times as much comm & radar gear as other suits, and a dead-reckoning 
tracker, inertial. Marauders are for those guys in ranks with the sleepy look — 
the executioners."

>From the first quote it leads me to believe they are reflective silver in color... When I picture a "steel gorilla" I think of a primate made of shiny metal, but it could just as easily be painted. 

-Gabe 

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