Re: Subject: Colonial powers and battles

The export models do not have the cobot armor that our M1's have, same
electronic and gun through......Jane's source.

Matt Edens wrote:
> 
> This stuff about robot factories is interesting.  They show up alot in
H.
> Beam Piper's work - among my favorite sci-fi writers (check out Space
Viking
> or the Cosmic Computer - lousy titles, but it was the 1950's)
> 
> Even today some decidedly non-first rate economies are cranking out
some
> astonishing amounts/bits of military equipment.  I may be mistaken,
but
> aren't the Egyptians building M1A1's	(granted a lot of the components
are
> imported)?
> 
> I find the arguments about shipping capacity/costs interesting as
well.
> There's little said about any difficulty in interface transport in FT
or
> Dirtside as compared to a game like Traveller 2300 with it's pre-grav
> assortment of spaceplanes, old-fashioned rocket-ridin' shuttles and
> beanstalks (somehow I always had trouble wrapping my mind that
concept).
> Landing a tank division on a planet may be no big thing (or the 1st
Guards
> Tank Army for that matter).  Ultimately boils down to the sort of game
you
> want to play (which I recall was once the GZG mantra).  I mean I've
followed
> the Grav vs. GEV argument and the MD versus CPR threads among others
and
> somehow arguing the "technical parameters" and power weight ratios of
> something as PSB as a grav drive (or FTL for that matter) stikes me as
a bit
> like the old angels vs. head of a pin arguement.  But then I'm an
armchair
> General and historian not an armchair physicist.
> 
>					  -M
> 
> Oh, and speaking of 2300 check out:
> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/9292/UK.htm
> An exhaustively detailed site with TOE's etc. for Britain in the 2300
> universe (including some colonial forces and all nicely based on
current and
> past British practice - imagine the Coldstream Guards with power
walkers or
> the Desert Rats with hovertanks).  All very easily adaptable to the
NAC in
> the Tuffleyverse (even includes some Dirtside 2300 conversions)