Re: Vehicle Design Philosophy

I see. Very interesting, thanks for the input Jon.  I've never played
FT, 
but I'm guessing all that hull is factored into the design process? My 
biggest suggestion is that since there's no distinction between hull and

armor in DS II, you just allow the KV to build more heavily armored 
vehicles, to reflect the robustness of fram as well as the protection 
slapped on it.	This is a move away from the proposal I put forth in the

E-mail you replied to.

Brian Bilderback

----Original Message Follows----
From: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: Vehicle Design Philosophy
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 21:50:42 +0100

No, just lots of hull integrity. Since they use penetrator weapons
themselves, this is primarily what they build to defend against, so they
make their hulls INTERNALLY strong (lots of bulkheads etc) to limit the
damage that penetrators do rather than armour-up the outside. They work
on
the basis that you can't put enough armour on to stop the big k-guns
from
penetrating, so you have to protect the critical areas within the hull
instead by surrounding them with lots of non-critical areas to soak up
the
damage....

Jon (GZG)

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