Author Topic: (Answered) Environmental Sealing weight for Pompier GM-3CD  (Read 2363 times)

wheelofthelaw

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I am trying to recreate the Pompier GM-3CD variant using the TechManual rules.  Based on the official record sheet from "Record Sheets: Vehicle Annex, IndustrialMechs & Exoskeletons", p. 40, it looks like the environmental sealing only weighs 1.5 tons.  This matches with the rule that the sealing should weigh 10% of the mech's weight, but the manual says on p.216 that "IndustrialMechs must spend 10 percent of their total mass (rounded up as appropriate to the
unit’s core construction rules) to add environmental sealing".

Wouldn't that mean that the weight should be 2 tons?
« Last Edit: 12 November 2018, 01:02:44 by Xotl »

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Re: Environmental Sealing weight for Pompier GM-3CD
« Reply #1 on: 29 March 2018, 11:18:00 »
Nothing? :)

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Re: Environmental Sealing weight for Pompier GM-3CD
« Reply #2 on: 29 March 2018, 12:49:15 »
Please wait 1 month before bumping a thread.
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Re: Environmental Sealing weight for Pompier GM-3CD
« Reply #3 on: 29 March 2018, 13:31:57 »
Did not know that, thanks.  Will do.

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Re: Environmental Sealing weight for Pompier GM-3CD
« Reply #4 on: 29 March 2018, 14:04:12 »
Thanks. It improves our sanity (such as it is)


We do hope to have a response soon.
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Re: Environmental Sealing weight for Pompier GM-3CD
« Reply #5 on: 12 November 2018, 01:02:38 »
A core element of construction rules in BattleTech is that, for vehicles made using a tonnage scale, you round up to the nearest half ton.  So in this case, 1.5 is a valid value.

See also p.22 "When rounding weight values for units using
the tonnage standard, a designer should round up all weight
values to the nearest half-ton unless the unit’s construction rules
specifically state otherwise."

You may also be interested in the Fractional Accounting rules in TO, which specifically ignores that 0.5 ton concept. (Although in the case of the Pompier, it'd change nothing with regards to environmental sealing).
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