Vehicle Design Philosophy

Well, 

FWIW, my approach to KV vehicle design has followed the following basic
theories:
1) Powerful railgun probably use gravitic technology
2) KV railguns on ships could be put on armoured vehicles with scaled
down
versions
3) A railgun is roughly equivalent to a souped up MDC
4) KV vehicles <IMO> should utilize grav technology because it is swift
and
silent and fits with the predatory modus operandi - great raiding
vehicles

I use Eldar tanks as my KV vehicles - Armourcast Eldar Tempests and some
Epicast stuff too. They look graceful and lethal. They are large (just
goes
with the figure), pack heavy firepower, decent ECM, some stealth (again
with
the hunter motif) and are assumed to be using Fusion Power and Grav
Propulsion. Armour is heavy enough to be terrifying (like KV armour!)
and
effective against similar sized RGs (other KV!). My "KV advanced tech"
railgun for my class 5 MBT is a class 5 railgun sized as a class 4. That
gives them a size advantage. <Haven't translated these to DS2 yet>.

That's my take - they want quiet, stealthy, vehicles with enough defense
(PDS/ECM) to withstand some attacks and enough armour to take a hit or
two.
They probably don't use reactive armour. They'll want something that
runs on
fusion to power the big railguns they use. And grav mobility lets them
cross
most terrain. 

I haven't really thought about SV vehicles, but I'd be tempted to think
they'd be SST-esque bioforms like the Tanker Bug or various types of pod
creatures with nasty nasty organic weaponry. 

Phalons? I can't even imagine what a Phalon looks like - their ships
alone
are enough to make one hide and blush... their ground troops must be
moderately terrifying. 

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