Re: (TFT) Marauder Power Suit.

["rmorger" <rmorger@mail.ev1.net>]

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: pvk@oz.net
Reply-To: tft@brainiac.com
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 13:52:42 -0700 (MST)

>
>Here is a quote I just pulled off
>http://www.underbase.org/dept/fiction/starship_troopers.htm
>
>"Powered armor is one-half the reason we call ourselves "mobile 
infantry" instead of just "infantry" (The other half are the 
spaceships that drop us and the capsules we drop in.) [...] A suit 
isn't a space suit -- although it can serve as one. It is not 
primarily armor -- although the Knights of the Round Table were 
not armored as well as we are. It isn't a tank -- but a single MI 
private could take on a squadron of those things and knock them 
off unassisted [...] A suit is not a ship but it can fly, a 
little --on the other hand neither spaceships nor atmosphere craft 
can fight against a man in a suit except by saturation bombing of 
the area he is in [...] Contrariwise we can do many things that no 
ship -- air, submersible, or space -- can do [...] We make war as 
personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying 
precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point 
at a designated time [...] [We] dig the enemy out of their holes, 
force them then and there to surrender or die. [p.99]"
>
>Note the references to offensive and defensive power compared to 
tanks and space or air craft.
>
>Not that you can't define your own thing, or interpret this as 
you will, of course.
>
>PvK
>=====

I stand corrected :) but I interpret all that as offensive power 
not defensive. It never said that a single tank or other weapon 
for that matter couldn't take a MI Trooper, it just states that a 
single trooper could take on a squadron of tanks and destroy them.
I believe that one of my Marauder suits with correct weapon load 
out, not counting nukes, could do the job as is.  (Just how many 
tanks in a Squadron anyway?) 
And the only way to deal with them from aircraft is through 
saturation bombing. In other words they arent an easy target to 
hit.

The only reference to defensive power is the Knights of the Round 
Table reference and my pwer suits are better armored than full 
platemail. Although I am doing play testing to see how well 
balanced the new stuff is.


Robert 

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