Rosebud Battle Armor Transport

[Black_Knyght]

A  3075 era fast hover transport for thoughts, opinions, and constructive input.

(Designed by Kane Industries, the Rosebud was developed from the company's fast transport hover sled to get Battle Armor to a designated point and get out of harms way as fast as possible. Although fitted with vehicular stealth armor and an ECM system the Rosebud is little more than a fast, lightly armored hover truck with a refitted flatbed equipped to carry Battle Armor. It has one job - Get Battle Armor onto the field quickly!)



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Rosebud Battle Armor Transport

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Rosebud Battle Armor Transport
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Base Tech Level: Experimental (IS)
Level: 4  Era: Succession Wars
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Experimental     3075 
Advanced      3075-3144
Standard        3145+ 
Tech Rating: E/X-X-F-E

Weight: 25 tons
BV: 381
Cost: 1,007,500 C-bills

Movement: 8/12 (Hover)
Engine: 70 Fuel Cell

Internal: 12
Armor: 96 (Vehicular Stealth)
       Internal  Armor   
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Front         3     30   
Right         3     25   
Left          3     25   
Rear          3     16   


Equipment             Loc 
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Vehicular Stealth      BD 
ECM Suite (Guardian)   BD 

Carrying Capacity
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Troops - 6.0 tons

[Wereling]

Is it bad I feel like this is way over-armored? 6 tons seems like a lot for a 25-ton vee, especially with stealth and speed already. Can you get this to 20 tons or less with half that?

[Sabelkatten]

More importantly vehicular stealth armor is treated as an energy weapon, so you need 10 SHS for it (i.e. a fusion engine...).

[Wereling]

It seems to work at 20 tons with 3 tons of armor, a speed bump to 9/14, and a fusion engine. Also ends up cheaper, somehow, at least according to SAW.

[Black_Knyght]

Didn't know the details about the Vehicular Stealth Armor, since I hadn't used it before. Good to know now. I just imagined this as a flatbed hover truck with welded on handrails, stealth armor, and an ECM jammer that comes skidding in at high speed, drops of it's payload, and bolts for safer regions ASAP...

On a side note, it's kind of funny to hear comments about REDUCING armor since it's usually the other way around and obsessive optimizers are usually griping that I hadn't maxed everything out to the fullest extent of the rules LOL :thumbsup:

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Rosebud Mk.II Battle Armor Transport

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Rosebud Mk.II Battle Armor Transport
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Base Tech Level: Experimental (IS)
Level: 4  Era: Succession Wars
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Experimental     3075 
Advanced      3075-3144
Standard        3145+ 
Tech Rating: E/X-X-F-E

Weight: 20 tons
BV: 257
Cost: 763,000 C-bills

Movement: 8/12 (Hover)
Engine: 75 (Fusion)

Internal: 8
Armor: 56 (Vehicular Stealth)
       Internal  Armor   
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Front         2     17   
Right         2     15   
Left          2     15   
Rear          2      9   


Equipment             Loc 
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Vehicular Stealth      BD 
ECM Suite (Guardian)   BD 

Carrying Capacity
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Troops - 6.0 tons

[Wereling]

On a side note, it's kind of funny to hear comments about REDUCING armor since it's usually the other way around and obsessive optimizers are usually griping that I hadn't maxed everything out to the fullest extent of the rules LOL :thumbsup:

With Vehicles it's a little different because a lot of armor isn't necessarily going to protect you. Vehicles are so prone to critical that in my experience loading up on armor has a limited value.

[Leon Shirow]

Unless you have some Battle Armor in mind that cannot ride an Omni.

Rosebud Battle Armor Transport Lite Tank
Base Tech Level: Experimental (IS)
Level          Era 
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Experimental    -  
Advanced        -  
Standard      3145+
Tech Rating: E/X-X-X-E

Weight: 10 tons
BV: 243
Cost: 675,000 C-bills

Movement: 10/15 (Hover)
Engine: 60

Internal: 4
Armor: 56 (Vehicular Stealth)
       Internal  Armor    
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Front         1     15    
Right         1     15    
Left          1     15    
Rear          1     11    


Equipment             Loc  Omni 
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Vehicular Stealth      BD  Fixed
ECM Suite (Guardian)   BD  Fixed

Carrying Capacity
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One battle armor squad

[Simon Landmine]

developed from the company's fast transport hover sled

I see what you did there.  8)

[Black_Knyght]

I see what you did there.  8)

ROFLMAO, and here I thought I cleverly slipped that one by... ;) :D :thumbsup:

[Black_Knyght]

Unless you have some Battle Armor in mind that cannot ride an Omni.

In our current 3075 campaign, not everyone has easy access to an Omnimech to transport Battle Armor. A fast hover sled designed to carry a few could be a cheap and handy alternative.

[Retry]

In our current 3075 campaign, not everyone has easy access to an Omnimech to transport Battle Armor. A fast hover sled designed to carry a few could be a cheap and handy alternative.

Omnimech not required: An omni-vehicle can do the same BA-carrying ability and works for that just fine, and way cheaper and presumably easier to manufacture than other 'mechs or even conventional transports since they don't have to dedicate so much space for anything.  If you're developing a new machine with the sole purpose of getting BA on the field, very light omni-vehicles is a valid way to fulfill that.

For example, here's a super light, super cheap BA "jeep" transport:

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Roadrunner BA Taxi (Standard)
Base Tech Level: Standard (IS)

Weight: 3 tons
BV: 60
Cost: 24,423 C-bills

Movement: 15/23 (Wheeled)
Engine: 25 ICE

Internal: 4
Armor: 16
Internal Armor
Front 1 5
Right 1 4
Left 1 4
Rear 1 3



Carrying Capacity
One battle armor squad

[KaiserDunk]

The one major advantage of using a vehicle to transport Battle Armor using a vehicle vs an Omni is that a vehicle (especially a hover) is going to the  SIAC* to the battlefield much faster.

*SIAC = Spam In A Can

[Tyler Jorgensson]

Short of the technical error, I appreciate the first versions Armor rating and I'm sure the Battle Armor troops would as well.

That being said: my personal preference is always for at least one weapon on everything, but everyone loves a good fast APC.

[Hellraiser]

6 Tons seems an odd size for transport capacity.....  What are you looking to move?

[Wereling]

At a guess a Level I of battlearmor.

[Andras]

4 heavies is 6 tons.
8 lights are 6 tons.