[DS, SG] O RATS!

One of my recent purchases was Transhuman Space - Deep Beyond (SJ
Games), this includes a detailed order of battle for a Parachute Infantry
Company of the 82nd (Spaceborne) Division of the US Army c 2100 AD.

This runs as follows

Company HQ
        HQ Section
2 Troopers in Power Armour each with Sapient AI assistants Infowar Section 2
Troopers in Power Armour with recon drones Security Section 4 M82 Ridgeway
Robotic Autonomous Tactical Systems (RATS) 3 Infantry Platoons of 3 Infantry
Sections of 4 M82 Ridgeway Robotic Autonomous Tactical Systems (RATS) 1 Flight
Section 9 Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV)

A RATS is a 6 legged robot armed with a 60mm recoilless rifle and 2 assault
rifles of the same type as used by the human troops, basically and ACR with a
30mm grenade launcher.

A UCAV is a small (football sized) drone helicopter armed with a couple
of hard points for light rockets (IAVR or GMS/L)

So how to represent this in Dirtside or Stargrunt?

First the vehicles:

M82 Ridgeway RATS Size 1 infantry walker, HMT Engine, Superior fire control,
Superior ECM,
1 Armour, HVC/2 in turret, APSW, immune to morale checks.

Comments: HVC/2 is not legal but an HVC/3 would be too big.

UCAV Size 1 aerospace, Superior Fire control, Superior ECM, IAVR, 0 armour

Now the rest:

Dirtside I've assumed that the recon drones abilities are what gives you your
god's eye view of the battle and that they don't need to be separately
modelled.

Coy HQ
        1 PA Stand
4 M82 Ridgeway RATS 3 Platoons of 12 M82 Ridgeway RATS 1 Platoon of
        9 UCAV

Stargrunt Coy HQ
        HQ Section
2 Power Armour troops with FP3 weapons Infowar Section 2 Power Armour troops
with FP3 weapons, 3 EW chits and 6 drones Security Section 4 M82 Ridgeway RATS
3 Platoons of 3 Sections of 4 M82 Ridgeway RATS 1 Platoon of
        9 UCAV

Comments, brickbats? Suggestions for figure sources for RATS and UCAVS?

> Christopher Downes-Ward wrote:

Don't walkers get a 180 front arc for class*2 instead of class*3?

> Comments, brickbats? Suggestions for figure sources for RATS and

For the RATS in Dirtside, the little bug things that came with the old
Starsiege Skulker tank are pretty good:

http://www.wombatzone.com/images/SkulkerDrones.jpg

Some of Germy's bugs might work also:

http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/NoFrames/SF300/Items/BUG300-031.html

On Fri, 02 May 2003 20:23:03 -0400 Ray Forsythe <erf2@wombatzone.com>
writes:
> Christopher Downes-Ward wrote:

Size 1 - 5 capacity.

HVC/3 *2 = 6 capacity.

6 > 5

RFAC/2 would work.

Gracias,

> Glenn M Wilson wrote:

Doh!

I was thinking "oh, wait, it's a class two, that's legal." That it's a class
two *HVC* sorta breezed on past.

Nope, to ogranic, really after a 1/300 version of SF25-64 Gunspider/A
(recon version) - six-legged Weapons Platform.

Chris

> http://www.wombatzone.com/images/SkulkerDrones.jpg

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Lads and lasses, I can't find a piccie of the recon Gunspider, but Nic has
this for the anti-personnel /B variant:
http://www.eurekamin.com.au/media/SF25-65.jpg

I'm glad I didn't pop-up with the CAV Scorpion as a suggestion.

Sorry, Chris.

The_Beast

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