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Ahh, that's it! I looked up vehicle stats in the Brikwars 2000 tome (I'm
slowly making the conversion from version '98), and it all makes sense to
me. Under the 2000 guidelines, the halftrack is actually a "huge" treaded
vehicle, with base stats of Power 14, Move 8". Towing a Mark II Mass Driver
would incur a movement penalty of 10" (due to the power rating of 10 for the
Mark II), which the Power 14 of the halftrack could absorb, with enough left
over to account for the Ballistik machine gun mounted on the roof and an
additional 5 troop payload. Thus, the halftrack can putter along at its
maximum speed of 8" towing the Mass Driver/Howitzer, which seems reasonable.
Not too fast, not too slow, etc. I can live with that.
Thanks Jeff!
shaun
Jeff Christner wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 22:25:06 GMT, Shaun Sullivan <sullis3@mit.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Which is all well and good until I hook it up to the back of the
> > halftrack and note that it instills a -12" movement penalty, which drops
> > the swanky halftrack down to a robust 4" of movement each turn.
> > Grrrrrrrrr. That doesn't seem right a'tall. Granted, some penalty for
> > towing a howitzer is appropriate, but this is a little hard to stomach.
>
> Well it does say that you can tow other, smaller vehicles, with a
> movement penalty equal to that vehicles power rating. (2000 rules
> 4.1.3 - third from last paragraph) If you treat the Mass Driver MkII
> as a vehicle in and of itself, you'd only have a -10" movement penalty
> as its power rating is 10.
>
> The 2000 rules show a MkII Mass Driver movement penalty as -16", while
> the MkI has a -12" penalty.
>
> Jeff Christner
>
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