Re: [OT]: Trailers, John A, and Barbarians

----------
> Från: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com>
> Till: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Ämne: Re: [OT]: Trailers, John A, and Barbarians
> Datum:  den 20 mars 2001 05:15
> 
> 
> --- Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> wrote:
> 
> > In which case those vehicles are the very
> > purpose-built trailer-towers
> > I mentioned as the exception to the general rule
> > above. Your suggested
> 
>So make it a rule that Grav vehicles towing a grav
>trailer should not carry any HEL, artillery (since
>larger artillery is mass driver anyway) or MDC
>armament?

Still doesn't get around the order-of-magnitudes difference in
continous power requirement between a big HEL/MDC and a grav vehicle.
You have to allow small HMT- and possibly CFE-powered grav drives as
well to make the design rule consistent.
 
>>rule makes it just as easy for an MBT or an SPG to tow a trailer as
it
>>is for a purpose-built tractor, however... and the SPGs at least have
a
>>*very* good reason to do so.
> 
>It never ocoured to me that anyone would NOT buy a
>real ammo vehicle for their artillery pieces of medium
>and larger caliber.

With the rule you originally suggested, there'd be no real reason to
buy real ammo vehicles. A trailer would do just as well... better, if
you're looking at a Size-3 or Size-4 SPG.

Regards,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

"Life is like a sewer.
What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."