Air dropped Units

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>DS does have rules for air dropped deployment.  For vehicles this is
>limited  to size 1 & 2, IIRC.

Lately I've seen several people refer to size-2 vehicles being
air-droppable in DSII... p.43 says that "Only infantry and Very Light
(class 1) vehicles and equipment may be paradropped, ..." which clearly
disallows airdropping size-2s, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's
some other reference elsewhere which does allow dropping size-2s as
well.

Is there such a reference elsewhere, and if so where? <g>
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IMHO , this rule is one that should be ignored, if not dropped
alltogether.

1. Some Grav vehicals in scifi (Traveller especially, but also Renegade
Legion)
are able to insert orbitally under their own power.

2. The Patlabor Anime/Manga series had the Helldiver AV97 labor, which
is about
size 3-4, being deployed from huge aircraft (It solved the breaking
problem by
being lightweight, having built in aerobrakes and aslo had a disposable
rocket
engine for breaking as well. In one episode, a Helldiver lost its chute,
and was
able to survive landing by aerobraking alone, although the machine was
an
operational kill with its legs stuffed).

3. It looks cool :-)

Maybe a cost increase , not unlike amphibious vehicals, for orbital
insertion.
This could be 2 levels (fast insertion and slow insetion. Fast means it
can land
and activate imedietly for 1/2 distance, and the slow means that landing
takes
all the activation of the unit).

Darryl

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