RE: Vehicle Questions for SG

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thwaak [SMTP:thwaak@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 8:56 PM
> To:	GZG Mailing List
> Subject:	Vehicle Questions for SG
> 
> (First, I'd like to thank everyone that weighed in on the multiple
> support weapon question. It's all been very helpful. Thanks!)
> 
> OK, next question that has come up.
> 
> Under designing a vehicle:
> 
> 1) GMS systems have a capacity point of 2 for GMS/L and 4 for GMS/H.
Are
> these numbers then multiplied by 2 for fixed mounts, or 3 for turret
> mounts? Are they used as is, regardless of how they are mounted?
> 
> 2) What if anything does 'Command/Communications Systems' do for you
at
> 8 cap points? It is apparently 'essential for any Command Vehicle',
but
> I can find no rules on it.
> 
> Thanks as always,
> Brent Wolke  - who, as a Californian, CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE a future
where
> California and Texas would ally. Talk about science fiction! 8)
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1) The listed capacity points are total. 

2) Unwritten, but I would suggest it fills the same role as a
communications
specialist and an EW specialist (same capacity points, anyway). Looking
to
movies for PSB, I think of Patton with a trailer with charts and
communications. In Aliens, I think of the APC and Lt. Goreman viewing
what
the squad sees, monitors vital statistics, identifies location of squad
on a
scrolling map. Since this is scifi, the Aliens example is probably
closer.
Vital statistics would probably not be displayed, but monitored and
Medic or
Medvac called when someone is hit (or location marked for retrieval if
killed). If weapons are plugged in, then ammo levels could be tracked
and
supplies readied. It probably serves as a network server collecting data
and
updating it on each soldier's interface (enemy positions, friendly
positions, etc.).

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Brian Bell
bbell1@insight.rr.com
http://www.ftsr.org
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