From: Christopher Downes-Ward <Christopher_Downes-Ward@a...>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:21:02 +0100
Subject: [DS2]Grav Armor from Orbit
Many year ago before I discovered Dirtside I, I used to play Grav Armor (http://dwarfstar.brainiac.com/ds_gravarmor.html), there are a couple of concepts in here that are I can not remember seeing in Dirtside but I'm sure would translate OK. As well as drop infantry Grav Vehicles are allowed to use their Grav Drives to descend from Orbit, at the cost of spending a turn disrupted and being pretty vulnerable as they drop. In Dirtside terms you could do this just by allowing a Grav vehicle to descend onto the table being treated as a VTOL in High mode as their entire movement for the turn and in the following the turn they must land on the table and spend the turn stationary. In addition Grav vehicles can travel in high mode just like VTOL's. Vehicles can be equipped with active defences described as "tiny multi-barrel turrets with counter-missiles, aerosol screens, waves of charged particles, etc" these can add to the firepower of the unit at short range. This could be modelled by allowing PDS systems to act as APSW's, possibly at the cost of not being able to act as PDS's that turn.