Muahaha. . . but actually OT [DS/SG]

--- Laserlight <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:
> 
> Our favorite engineer-and-rabble-rouser is back! 
> John Atkinson flew > into BWI airport last night.

Yup.  And signed onto the list this morning.  Up the
Romans!  Death to the French!  ;)  And with a new pet
peeve:	Any ethnic group that lives in Kosovo!
(Smelly, lazy, vicious, cowardly, and such flaming
alcoholics that they are drunk by 0900!  Like drunken
weasels.)

Anyway, I've been thinking about a couple of things,
and one of the things I've been kicking around is a
question on trailers.

As a general rule, I'd let vehicles tow trailers one
size class smaller with no effect on speed on normal
terrain, but they make difficult and worse terrain one
level worse.  Also, since trailers generally have
absolutely nothing but payload space, I'd let them be
treated as having an extra 50% (rounded down) for
cargo hauling purposes only.  So a size class 1
trailer (like a US M-105) could carry 7 capacity
points worth of cargo.

Wheeled trailers:  Box with wheels.  I'd charge for
the size of the trailer only (ie: Size 1 is only 5
points)

Tracked trailers:  OK, I'm familliar with the US Army
MICLIC trailer which is technically tracked.  The way
that works is two axles, each of which has two tires
on each side.  Then, on each side is a rubber track
over the tires.  Haha.	I'd count that as more of a
"hi-mobility wheeled" than anything else.   I'm not
sure how on Earth (or any terrestrial planet) you
could do a proper tracked trailer.  

GEV Trailers:  OK, this presents some problems as
well.  Minimum, you'd need a small auxillary power
plant, skirts, and fans to keep the thing aloft.  So
charge 50% of the normal price for the power plant and
the suspension, and they only get a 25% bonus for
cargo space (so now our size 1 trailer carries six
space points of cargo--that's still a fire mission and
a half for a single gun).

Grav Trailers:	At this point, why bother with
trailers?  You're essentially doing a straight-up
robotic vehicle.  

John 

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