Re: DS construction questions

As to class size and leftover cap points I think a simpler fix would be
to allow those unused cap points to be used for     ***non-DF weapons#
and/or non-weapon items*** (increase armor, add a PDS or LADS on a AFV
***that lacks one currently***, etc., with the latter optionally costing
1+the usual capacity cost of the system - although I like it unchanged). 

I haven't worked out the additional armor but I am sure someone else has
ideas. <grin>

Except for a class 5 AFV armed with 5 GMS/H's - leaving 5 unused cap
points, I remember all my early paper tests of the game only had 1 or 2
unused cap points /as a rule./	Besides it gives that size one recon
with
a turreted Hel/1 (or weapon of choice at class-1) a chance to add a
LAD/PDS (basic) but (not in my mind) a GMS/L since that is (essentially)
a DF weapon.  GMS/H armed systems (2+ GMS/H's) always seemed to have
left
over cap points....

For 3 unused cap points? an enhanced PDS or a basic PDS and an LAD...

For 4 unused cap points? Besides cargo? <GRIN>
	a basic PDS and a LAD  
	OR a Superior PDS  
	OR an enhanced PDS and (an additional APSW OR an APFC.)

For 1 unused cap point?  a APFC or another APSW (yes it gives a size-1
vehicle "3" weapons but 2 are APSW so it doesn't, IMO, overly power the
vehicle in AFV-AFV action.)

Should there be a limit on additional APSW?  Maybe but I cannot see the 
advantage except in a particularly specific "Infantry Killer" AFV - and
Arty is so much more useful IMO.

This still keeps the main DF weapons to one for a class-1, etc.  

I won't extrapolate for size 2 and above but I think it would allow some
quirky personalization of AFV designs (I do these always in a 'national'
or 'race' specific setting.) 

My dos centavos.

Glenn/Triphibious
This is my Science Fiction Alter Ego E-mail address.

# defined as RFAC, HVC, HKP, MDC, HEL and GMS for this purpose...

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