Proposed - Battlesuits should be treated as Vehicles

weby · 12-10-2016, 07:10 PM

If you are using unloaded weight as the base and adding pilot weight, you should then note that that all the power to weight rations, thrusts, delta-v and more are based on using the loaded mass of the vehicle and as a proportion of the loaded mass.

Thus if you want to add a rocket to your SM 0 power armor, you are only getting about half the normal so about 1.7g for a 150lb person and no further load for a single chemical rocket module. If you try to use the number of legs for the acceleration, top speed and such from SS4, you should use about halved values as in effect you have about half the mass in legs compared to the default and so on.

12-10-2016, 07:10 PM	#11
weby Join Date: Oct 2008	Re: Proposed - Battlesuits should be treated as Vehicles If you are using unloaded weight as the base and adding pilot weight, you should then note that that all the power to weight rations, thrusts, delta-v and more are based on using the loaded mass of the vehicle and as a proportion of the loaded mass. Thus if you want to add a rocket to your SM 0 power armor, you are only getting about half the normal so about 1.7g for a 150lb person and no further load for a single chemical rocket module. If you try to use the number of legs for the acceleration, top speed and such from SS4, you should use about halved values as in effect you have about half the mass in legs compared to the default and so on. __________________ -- GURPS spaceship unofficial errata and thoughts: https://gsuc.roto.nu/