10-20-2021, 06:12 PM | #11 |
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Location: Winnipeg, Canada
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Re: Design Preferences
I'll have to remember that acronym! One of my more infamous designs was a luxury called The Wombat. It sported a ramplate and 19 armour-piercing bumper-triggered mini rockets* and was quite literally a one-shot design.
As for the topic at hand, in our heyday our arena cars were Div. 30, where I tended to favour luxury cars heavily. These would usually have solid tires, turrets, a no-paint windshield, and whichever offensive weapons I was enamoured with at the time. I rarely used dropped weapons or wheel guards/hubs. I also tended to lose most of our duels. In more recent times, I tend to favour compacts or mid-sized cars, usually with one heavy weapon up front, a dropped solid or liquid out back, and make heavy use of dischargers. I also favour armor over speed, and now equip wheelguards and/or hubs in most of my designs. *6.33333etc spaces, 1/3 the spaces of a luxury, and a GM who allowed an illegal design because he thought it was insane. Last edited by sparcipx; 10-20-2021 at 06:16 PM. Reason: spelling and clarificaton |
10-20-2021, 10:25 PM | #12 | |
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: London, UK
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Re: Design Preferences
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One Grenade tossed into Pickup bed , & bang goes your firepower ... Unless you take a 1-Space Extended Cab Pickup instead ? After using this once , you'd be facing my Div 20 , twin HD VMG Armed , side shooting Pickup , studded with Smoke Dischargers ... 16 Points of Metal on exposed side useful for absorbing even APFSDS ATG Shots . Not suitable for all Arenas & can run into trouble if stuck in field of TDX mines ...
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10-21-2021, 08:02 AM | #13 |
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Re: Design Preferences
How about this...
Bronco by Swordtart: Compact; Extra Heavy chassis; Heavy suspension; Medium PP w/PCs, SCs, HTMs; 4 PR tires w/HD Shocks.. Driver w/Hi-Res Single Weapon Computer; Anti-Tank Gun, Spinal Mounted w/10xHEAT. Armour: 5 pts. Metal and 195 pts. Plastic (F: 5/30 R: 0/45 L: 0/45 B: 0/45 T: 0/20 U: 0/10); 2x2 pt. Plastic Hubs F; 2x2 pt. Plastic Hubs, 2x2 pt. Plastic Guards B. Cost: $14,968, Wgt: 4,438, HC: 3, Top Speed: 95 (70), Accel: 5 (10). Never did get to try it out, but unusually for me it is an arena design (though I don't doubt that it would be a nasty surprise in a stern chase out in the wild). It is probably the polar opposite of my usual design philosophy (which might make it more effective as no-one would expect it of me). |
10-21-2021, 08:08 AM | #14 | |
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Discuss ;) |
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10-21-2021, 01:05 PM | #15 |
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: London, UK
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Re: Design Preferences
As it says in Pyramid ADQ&A "Don't be cheap & get the battery." (paraphrasing) .
The gadgets & items list from Things I felt should exist thread had a Micro/Mini Electronics Battery if I recall ? 20lbs , 0DP , 0 Spaces , 20 Power Units (based on the Auto Batteries from Towing the Line article in ADQ 3/3 I think ?) . This gives smaller Gas Engined & Jet Powered Aircraft the ability to power electronics without comprising needed internal volume . (again this where I think I saw it ? Having a near eidetic memory , I can recall the stats but unsure where I saw them . It's possible it was on NOVA pages or elsewhere on net ... I'll check thoroughly later .)
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10-21-2021, 01:37 PM | #16 |
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Re: Design Preferences
ICE vehicles, for an arena, were so blatantly OP that I lost interest with designing new cars.
Regardless, my group had stopped meeting regularly and had shifted to GURPS Autoduel with its campaign aspects. By that time, my brother had moved to Poughkeepsie, and the titular adventure in AADA Road Atlas (Vol. 1, East Coast) was enough to get us together for a few last sessions. |
10-21-2021, 03:33 PM | #17 | |
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For D30, my go-to was the "DMN-8R": Sloped/streamlined Lux; 150cid-turbo; 3x RR F[1]; SDs B, and either L or R for the "checkerboard of doom"; boatload of armor. Never defeated in combat. I also had a D40 Pickup ("MVR-2K") with a 150-turbo and linked twin BCs F; also never defeated in combat (and part of why NOVA eventually threw me out). [1: Ignoring the Official Ruling re Sloping and Streamlining vs. 1/3-spaces, for reason I won't go into here.]
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10-21-2021, 03:52 PM | #18 | |
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For balance ADQ&A 6-2 says "Q. How do IC engines and lasers work? Unlimited shots? Or by laser battery only? A. Unlimited shots." More argued you needed a battery. Personally I am not sure a laser pointer that can't penetrate more than 1/2 " of smoke needs to be 50lb, let alone require a massive battery to power it's feeble output. You can mount a conventional laser scope on a tripod launcher and don't need an extra battery. This was one of the dafter rulings. |
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10-22-2021, 04:28 AM | #19 |
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Re: Design Preferences
I had a long post about 1990's laser tech , size power & power requirements needed to use them . UNFORTUNATELY either a bug on the Forum or problem with my phone system deleted rather than posted it ... :-(
For example my old workplace had old push button tills until 1995 , due to the 1960s wiring & fuseboxes needing replacing . Until they were ripped out , the conversation of 240 volts to 450 volts the laser scanners needed was not possible . Took over three days .
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10-22-2021, 11:42 AM | #20 |
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Re: Design Preferences
As an aside question about metal wheel guards/hubs, am I correct in thinking they have a max of 2 points? If so, are they worth it?
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