Re: FW: [Stargrunt-Fullthrust] DS 2 quirk

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:04:39 -0700 (PDT) stiltman@teleport.com writes:
>Glenn wrote:
>> So does anybody use DS2 with a different background then the 
>'canned'
>> one?  I like it but with I have an objective to merge it with my old
>> Starguard campaign world (Cotu) to make the battles more then
>> skirmishes/platoon (-) actions.
>
>I haven't played it yet, but I have every intention of eventually 
>using it to
>supplement my FT pseudo-campaigns.  I find myself thinking that I 
>might adapt
>it slightly for a BattleTech-like setup, where Infantry Walkers can 
>get
>dropped from orbit alongside bulkier Combat Walkers in shuttle 
>exoskeletons.

This is beginning to sound like a lead in to the FT Modular ship thread
at gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU but it has merits.  How would you dump the
exoskeleton after landing - explosive bolts idea?  Since Combat Walkers
are larger then "Very Large' vehicles this would practically be a
'disposable' ship situation.

>It might or might not involve a house rule tweak to the p.43 rules on 
>orbital
>drops, depending on how much extra metal you've got to have around a 
>Combat
>Walker for it to constitute an "Assault Lander".
>

I think it would be more along the lines of a Dropship.

Unless you went to Mega-size strap-on 'reverse JATO' packs.

>There's quite a few sci-fi setups that I wouldn't mind mixing with it,
>ultimately.  From the AT-ATs in Star Wars to the mecha in 
>BattleTech/anime
>to hovertanks... I could have some fun with this.  :)
>-- 

I am more prone to try and adapt it to the Hostile Contact rules that
brought FGU's original Space Marines into Starguard.  

Let's see that would be a DS2 adaptation of a Starguard adaptation of
Space Marines...  Talk about Mutations....

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Gracias.
Glenn/Triphibious
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