Why isn´t there a CT Vehicle design sequence based on Book 8?`

[Able Baker]

Clearly, someone else must have had that idea before me. I tried it yesterday, and it worked quite nicely.

before I engage further I´d like to make sure nobody has done it already. Or has shown the wrongness of that thought.

Are there problems with that?

 

[aramis]

Clearly, someone else must have had that idea before me.

No, not really, since you have put the cart before the horse.

Bk 8 is derived from Striker, which is the CT Miniatures system.

Are there problems with that?

Mostly that Bk8 is essentially a subset of striker.

Take a look at striker, or at MegaTraveller (specifically the Ref's manual).

Once you get past a decent tank, it's a bit too fiddly, it gets rather slow, and you'd just be reinventing either MT or Striker.

 

[Perseus]

Forgive me for asking the obvious, but isn't book 8 Robots? having read that and being fairly familiar with it, wouldn't you be hard pressed to build a tank with the robot books? I've built Robots like tanks, (more like fridges and washing machines actually, but that is beside the point), but an actual tank?

I must be missing something here.

 

[Able Baker]

I´ll elaborate:

Robots is a Book 2 like design sequence. It has values for propulsion, power weight and the likes for vehicles scale stuff.

CT vehicles are pretty basic in regards of their stats/specs.

@Aramis: Thanks for the heads up! I always thought Striker was "Chadwickian" whereas Book 8 and MT were "DGPian". So all is based on "Chadwickian" Striker?

 

[Perseus]

Hmmm... I've got to admit I'm not that much of a gearhead, or ever wanted a vehicle that much that I would have used robot rules.

I don't really think I ever had time to do that much, I was either too busy trading, or trying to avoid being shot at.

 

[aramis]

MT's design system is a variant of Striker.