Re: SG2: rule book example vehicle armor

>Anyone have a good idea as to why the example vehicles
>in the rule aren't fully armored?  Most all of them
>are Size 3 but have Armor 2.  According to the rules
>they could have Armor 3.
>

Maybe, as in the FT books, they are not "rules optimized" designs.  They
*could* be enormously better - with Superior FC systems, EW, Decoys on
every one, etc.  But that would be boring.  And besides, if you look at
RL
armoured vehicles, say the LAV for example, it *could* have a lot more
armour, but the designers chose not to for a bunch of reasons...  It has
enough for the mission it was designed for, at the time it was designed,
within the budget limits of the customers buying it.  

The Rulebook examples include the NAC Phalanx which is big, but wheeled.
Look at a modern "big but wheeled" armoured vehicle, like the Italian
Centauro B1 (which is a "Tank Destroyer" that carries a 105mm tank gun
on
an 8 wheel chassis).  It has a weight in the 24,000kg class - half that
of
the tanks carrying the same gun - but you can carry it in much smaller
aircraft.  Maybe the wheeled NAC designs follow a similar design
philosophy
- they do have to be lugged around rather large areas of space,
afterall...
 The NSL and FSE vehicles are GEVs, so you can imagine the designers not
producing them with maxed out armour (and weight).

Anyway, my $0.02

Adrian Johnson
ajohnson@idirect.com