Re: [GZG] [OFFICIAL] Question: troop-carrying VTOLs....?

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ny how I read "this is SF" and interpreted this as "this is a Special
Forces vehicle"...

The crew might now want the grunts to have such free access. The crew
might have a separate armored compartment, increased crew protection
since they fly in and out, are potentially under fire both ways.

Plus it probably costs more to train a aircrew than a bunch of grunts,
so the government might want to armor the crew compartment.

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--- On Tue, 11/25/08, Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com> wrote:
From: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
Subject: [GZG] [OFFICIAL] Question:  troop-carrying VTOLs....?
To: gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 2:54 AM

Quick question to the list hive-mind......

I'm going to be doing a troop-carrying version of the Mantis VTOL (in 
15mm), in response to many requests, but I'm torn between two basic 
design ideas"

1) keep the Mantis cockpit off the Gunship, and have a troop "pod" 
behind it (a box that is either a fixed part of the main fuselage or 
could be demountable/deployable?)  so that there is no direct access 
between troop bay and cockpit, or...

2) sculpt a complete new cockpit as an integral part of a much wider 
troop-carrying fuselage, in the style of most modern helis, so that 
the grunts in the back have direct access to the crew in the front.

Especially for those of you who have real-world military experience, 
if you're (say) a squad leader riding in the back of a helo, is it 
advantageous to be able to move "up front" to see what's going on
and 
talk to the pilot, for morale if not tactical reasons? I know that 
this is SF and we can just say that the guys in the back can have 
complete VR views relayed from the cockpit, and of course anyone can 
talk to each other via commlink at any time, but does it make a 
difference on any level? Is the pilot considered part of the unit (by 
the grunts themselves, not necessarily on the TO&E chart), or do they 
just look on him as a taxi driver....?

Jon (GZG)

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