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

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would be correct, Jon. I think it had to do with the amount of
disturbance exerting that much weight in a small space caused on the
water. Basicly, they got swamped.

-Eli

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From: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com> 

> >Adrian1 wrote: 
> > 
> >>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. 
> > 
> >If you're talking about hovercraft: As long as you only move across
very 
> >smooth terrain that doesn't tear at the plenum chamber walls, maybe. 
> >Hovercraft also drink far more fuel than similarly-protected wheeled
or 
> >tracked vehicles capable of carrying the same payload. 
> > 
> >If you're talking about GEVs: While large parts of the SF community
use the 
> >term "GEV" to mean "hovercraft", "Ground Effect Vehicle" is actually
an 
> >abbreviation of "Wing In Ground Effect vehicle" (WIGE) - ie.
something more 
> >like an aircraft than a ground vehicle. I'd be very surprised if
WIGEs 
> >required less maintenance than wheeled or tracked vehicles :-/ 
> > 
> >Eli: *Light* hovercraft are less likely to trigger pressure mines
than 
> >other types of ground vehicles are, but they are just as vulnerable
to 
> >mines with tilt-rod, magnetic etc fuses. However, if you put armour
on a 
> >hovercraft its ground pressure rises quite rapidly, so by the time
you've 
> >put MBT-level armour on it it'll be about as likely to trigger a
pressure 
> >mine as a light APC is. (And it won't be able to move over water or
other 
> >soft surfaces either - a heavy hovercraft will sink...) 
> 
> 
> IIRC the Slammers' Combat Cars could cross open water, but the tanks 
> would sink. 
> 
> Jon (GZG) 
> 
> > 
> >Regards, 
> > 
> >Oerjan 
> >orjan.ariander1@comhem.se 
> > 
> >"Life is like a sewer. 
> > What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it." 
> >-Hen3ry 
> > 
> > 
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