RE: DS II: Rambling as usual, this time about infantry and walkers and stuff

My point was  that even THAT is smaller than the description of mechs in

Battletech, so there's a problem with just dividing by twenty and saying
a 
Locust or a Wasp or such is a class 1 vehicle - sure, a class 1 walker's

big, but not big enough to be a mech in the classic sense.

Brian Bilderback

----Original Message Follows----
From: Michael Brown <mwbrown@veriomail.com>
Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
To: "'gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU'" <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: RE: DS II: Rambling as usual, this time about infantry and
walkers 
and stuff
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 21:05:41 -0700

3-4 meters is as tall a one story house.  About the same size as the
walker 
in
Aliens.  Just how big do you want it?

Michael Brown

-----Original Message-----
From:	Brian Bilderback
Sent:	Saturday, April 08, 2000 10:19 AM
To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject:	RE: DS II: Rambling as usual, this time about infantry
and walkers 
and
stuff

If you read the rules, on page 14 it states that Infantry Walkers are
class
1, while Combat Walkers and Transport Walkers are class 4-5 (or, it
states,
class 4-7 if you're allowing oversized vehicles).  I just wanted to know
what happened to class 2 & 3 in the rules, and propose that class 2 fit
in
the Infantry Walker Category while Class 3 would be small Combat
Walkers.

I tried the Battletech Tonnage/20 route. The problem is, this ends up
with
20 ton mechs being class 1.  Even the smallest mecha are supposed to be
huge, while a class 1 equates in DS II rules to a 3-4 meter high walker.
 I
think a better way of doing it is to generalize the Battletech Wieght
classes. Class 3 = Light, CLass 4 = Medium, Class 5=Heavy, Classes 6-7 =
Assault.

Brian Bilderback

----Original Message Follows----
From: Michael Brown <mwbrown@veriomail.com>
Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
To: "'gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU'" <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: RE: DS II: Rambling as usual, this time about infantry and
walkers
and stuff
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 22:24:23 -0700

I always read it that infantry walkers were size 1 and transport walkers
could
be up to size 7.  I used BT tons/20 to get size.

Michael Brown

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