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Dunia

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Hoover vehicles
« on: 27 March 2018, 23:51:41 »
How high can you fly with a hoover/speeder vehicle? Is it nap of ground or could you go up say 100 meters or higher.
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Re: Hoover vehicles
« Reply #1 on: 28 March 2018, 00:41:34 »
Hover vehicles travel just off the ground I would say ~1-5ft as maximum altitude

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Re: Hoover vehicles
« Reply #2 on: 28 March 2018, 08:53:21 »
Yeah, they're pretty much identical to real-world hovercraft. You do see a few without skirts that presumably compensate with increased power, but even then they don't look like they could go high enough to clear a standing human. There's fluff about Gabriels being able to hop over low fences, but that's an extremely overpowered hover by mass, and it's described as an incredibly dangerous maneuver.
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Re: Hoover vehicles
« Reply #3 on: 28 March 2018, 10:35:40 »
How high can you fly with a hoover/speeder vehicle? Is it nap of ground or could you go up say 100 meters or higher.

You might want to look into WiGEs for the "hovers" that can ascend notably up off the ground.

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Re: Hoover vehicles
« Reply #4 on: 29 March 2018, 10:47:55 »
Thank you.
I was just interested because in my little campaign, we have one mechwarrior, one scout/comm specialist and a Comstar journalist. And the scout owns a hover racing bike.
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