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doulos05

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(Answered) Fuel Range of a Combat Vehicle
« on: 31 January 2013, 07:11:21 »
We've not yet been given a driving range for combat vehicles. We're told in TM that a support vehicle with an ICE gets 100km on 1% of engine weight. Can we assume the same is true for Combat vehicles, thus giving all Combat vehicles an operational range of 1,000 KM?
« Last Edit: 06 February 2015, 02:15:53 by Xotl »
I mean, it's not like once you having something in low Earth orbit you can stick a gassy astronaut on the outside after Chili Night and fart it anywhere in the solar system.

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Re: Fuel Range of a Combat Vehicle
« Reply #1 on: 06 February 2015, 02:15:45 »
Other than StratOps p. 35, there's this piece of errata in the new TechManual pdf:

* Install Engine (p. 101)
Above “Hovercraft” insert the following new subsection:

Fuel Capacity and Range: Fuel consumption is not tracked in Total Warfare standard rules play, and fuel-using Combat Vehicles have their fuel automatically included in the mass of their engine, rather than needing to allocate weight for it. However, if you wish to calculate the range for Combat Vehicles with ICE and Fuel Cell engines, assume a fuel mass equal to 10% of the engine’s mass, as found on the Master Engine Table. Range is then calculated by using the Support Vehicle fuel rules (see p. 129), referencing the appropriate engine type (see p. 127).
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