Re: Powered Armour

Allan spake thusly upon matters weighty: 
> I've been debating whether the commandos should be veterans or elites.
Any
> ideas?

If they are the descendants of SAS, Canadian SSF,  US SF or US SEALS 
then probably it would be fair to make them about a 50/50 mix of vets 
and elites (representing the fact that, although the unit is elite, 
even elite units have people in training or slotting in from other 
units thus affecting the overall squad). 

You'll also need rules for 'waking up' guys who are presumably 
sleeping and 'warming up' combat vehicles. My rule I'm planning to 
use in scenario is roll squad quality for each sleeping squad to beat 
ldr+2. Roll when the squad is activated. If you make it squad can act 
in that activation as it has 'got itself together'. You could give +1 
per turn elapsed to the roll if you wanted. 

Once the crew has boarded a vehicle in a deactivated state, they 
must take an 'Activate' action to attempt to get the systems powered 
up. Roll crew quality to beat ldr+1 (unit needs to start up, run at 
least minimal pre-action checks, get fusion plant and weapons online, 
etc). If this isn't done, any weapons fire is on manual firecontrol 
(D4) and even this is only allowed for cartridge firing weapons like 
SAW, RFAC, HMG. HELs, DFFGs, etc.  and guided missiles may not fire 
until power plant spooled up. 

Now, if vehicles were kept in 'hot standy', then the power plants and 
such might be running at some low level and firecons and such might 
not be totally depowered. So perhaps giving the crew a one or two die 
shift modifier to their roll (allowing them a higher probablity of 
bringing the vehicle online in the first Activate action. 

Just some basic thoughts. :) 
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