Re: [GZG] Subject: Re: What are the pitfalls of standardised forces?

emu2020@comcast.net wrote:
> Oerjan,
>  
> You make some good points all around.
>  
> I think one thing to keep in mind with modular vehicles is that future

> technology might balance out the weight issues. I also do not think 
> that modular can mean many different things. There are varying degrees

> of modularity. In the realm if sci-fi, this could mean a lot of things

> and still be mostly hard science fiction.
>  
> You comment on weight and transport is one of the most compelling 
> points. In a sci-fi setting where we are transporting vehicles across 
> the stars, ever ounce is going to count unless your universe has 
> reduced space travel to its most casual level, but mosto f the GZG 
> settings I see talked about, do not. In these settings, lighter, more 
> compact vehicles would be the norm in colonial forces. Something along

> the lines of the Stryker make much more sense as a colonial weapons 
> platform.
I know little if anything about mechanics but aren't hovercraft/GEVs 
less complicated than wheeled tracked vehicles.   WIth no need to 
replace wheels/tracks or broken suspension, etc.

>  
> A vehicle like this uses a wheeled chassis making it easier to 
> maintain on backwater worlds. I can potentially pack big guns in a 
> small package. The common components between it and the other vehicles

> in its family aid in maintenance and supply.
>  
> Even taking into account futuristic materials, MBTs are likely going 
> to be used sparingly in a colonial space setting and likely reserved 
> for homeworld and major colony forces where they can be produced on 
> site. You may have them available for trans-stellar transport, but 
> this would be used sparingly as effective MBTs are likely to still 
> pose a supply issue even if they are fuelled by amazing fusion bottles

> with operational lives of a thousand years or whatever.
>  
> -Eli
>  

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