Your rounding may be slightly off. A 7 vs BAR 6 would become a 6 v. BAR 7; 4 v. BAR 8-9; and 3 v. BAR 10; and a 4 vs BAR 6, would drop to 3 for BARs 7-8, and 2 vs BARs 9-10. But as I think about it, I see where the numbers can slip, as rounding for each step along the way, versus only rounding at the final step, can produce different results.
So the damage drops 20% for every BAR above 5? And some damage might be the same do to rounding?
As I found in many of my old 1945 conversions, sometimes, you'll just *be* underweight no matter what you do (unless you're willing to REALLY go off-plan). In such cases, I just say "cargo!" and leave it at that...even if there's no slot space for it. The spare weight simply becomes an amount of external mass allowance the unit can take without losing any performance whatsoever. (In the case of BA, for instance, falling short just lets the suit carry even bigger guns in its hands before noticing any speed loss.)
- Herb
Cargo and bigger guns work. :)
Here's Randancer. Hope I did it right.
Raindancer is another example of an early remote drone used by Sounder class AutoMechs. Whereas the last one was a tracked vehicle, this on is a fixed wing aircraft. The Raindancer uses a recon camera and a pair of man-portable TAGs to scout and spot enemy targets for missile and artillery attacks. Although armed with a pair of heavy SRM Launchers these weapons are mostly defensive in nature but have been used to mark locations. While effective, the drone's, limited fuel and light armor limit's this drone's effectiveness.
A variant swaps the 2 light TAG systems and reduces the fuel carried for a pair of support lasers. This version typically acts as either an escort for the TAG Variant or as a hunter of other light flying remote drones. The increase in firepower is dubious however as it doesn't have the armor to survive more than a single light hit.
Type: Raindancer
Chassis Type: Fixed Wing (Small)
Mass: 2 tons
Technology Base: Syberian
Battle Value:
Equipment Mass
Chassis/Controls: 320
Engine/Trans: Fusion 200
Safe Thrust: 4
Max Thrust: 6
Structural Integrity: 4
Heat Sinks:
Fuel:
Spotter Variant 50 (Petrochemical) 750
Hunter Variant 43 (Petrochemical) 645
Armor Factor (BAR 2): 65
Armor
Value
Front 2
R/L Side 1/1
Rear 1
Weapons and Ammo Location Mass
Weapons and Ammo Location Mass
Spotter Variant
Recon Camera Nose 500
TAG, (Man-Portable) Nose 20
TAG, (Man-Portable) Nose 20
Ammo (40) - 4
Ammo (40) - 4
SRM Launcher (Heavy)R Wing 20
SRM Launcher (Heavy)L Wing 20
Ammo (HSRM) 2 - 36
Ammo (HSRM) 2 - 36
Hunter Variant
Recon Camera Nose 500
Support Laser Nose 72
Support Laser Nose 72
SRM Launcher (Heavy)R Wing 20
SRM Launcher (Heavy)L Wing 20
Ammo (HSRM) 2 - 36
Ammo (HSRM) 2 - 36
Note:
Has the VSTOL chassis mod
Funniest part is it’s got a chrome Autobot logo on the hood and a big red Autobot logo on the roof. It is, in fact, Bumblebee.
Meanwhile, my wife has dubbed my ‘82 AMC Concord wagon “Groundwave”.
Cool! I hope you keep Groundwave running. Concords are great cars. I miss my '83 4 door sedan "George". :'(
edit
Forgot to include the chassis mod. Oops!
