From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:32:56 -0400
Subject: [GZG] [SG] Of Vehicles and Nations
In 25mm, IMGZGU (In My GZG Universe): I find it is a good idea to come up with an army doctrine or flavour and use that to guide some of your selections. I picked the NSL to be too poor to afford grav in large numbers, so I have them use a lot of AC to get them speed and mobility. I picked ESU and NAC as mainline grav users, but big enough to have everything in their arsenals. I picked UNSC and Kravak to be advanced grav users with sleek or unusual looking vehicles, relative to the more conventional flying bricks. I pick the FSE, PAU, and other smaller power to use more wheeled and robust/simple vehicles. OUDF uses robust vehicles that have very long service life and can be repaired on remote outposts and can handle oddball climatic or atmospheric conditions, since they claim every rock not occupied by someone else. OUDF: Flavour: Generally wheeled, must be capable of operating on all sorts of planets no one else would claim, so capable of tough terrain, high winds, poor visibility operations. Galoob 25mm Aliens APC - rugged, capable of off road, heavily armed, big enough to deploy larger sections, drop ship portable Galoob Aliens Dropship - Gunship support (not to scale with the APC) ESU: Flavour: Robust. Reliable. Heavily armed and armoured. Utilizes everything from Grav to tracked. Heavy use of PA for shock troops. Grav APC - Eureka's Cockroach APC (grav APC with a turreted main gun, maybe HEL or DFFG and coax) ESU Heavy PA - Old style Heavy Gears UNSCMC: Flavour: Graceful looking, higher tech appearance than most human forces, advanced grav for propulsion and weapons systems, stealth coatings (black grav vehicles!), and extensive use of hardsuits and heavier PA. Light infantry uses beret'd GZG mercs (blueberries). Grav APC - GW Tau Devilfish Grav Tank - GW Tau Hammerhead UNSC Heavy PA - Old style Heavy Gears NSL: Flavour: Fast, mobile. Hammers Slammers or Rommel's Revenge. Air cushioned for good compromise of terrain mobility and cost (assume Grav is more expensive). Semi-powered hardshell suits. NSL Heavy PA - Old style Heavy Gears NSL Tank - GZG Goliath (or maybe Gladiator, I always get them confused) AC Tank NSL APC - GZG Wombat AC APC NSL Utility Vehicle - GZG Enclosed AC Jeep, including mods for ambulance and for anti-air (Stinger-2184 Post) NAC: Flavour: Large, has just about everything in its force somewhere. Utility Vehicle: GZG Open topped AC Jeep. Wheeled Tank Destroyer: GZG Coonhound FSV Wheeled APC: LIPPC interface portable wheeled 6x6 APC Super Heavy Tank: Diemos Grav or Hover Tank FSE: Flavour: Cheap. The Legion never gets the best kit. They make up for it by sucking it up and soldiering on. They must have robust gear that operates without much field support and can be repaired using local materials. FSE APC - SCARAB/ATAC from the old Grendel Line (6x6 wheeled APC mounting a front hull rotary SAW and a gatling cannon in a turret) FSE APC2 - GZG Phalanx 8x8 wheeled APC Kravak: Flavour: Graceful, alien, advanced grav weapon and propulsion systems. Stealth. Tank: Armourcast Tempest OOP 28mm Grav Tank Tank: Epicast grav tank (name eludes me) Infantry Support: Star Wars rolling Terminators Heavy PA: Eureka's Alien Hunters (not-Preds) Generic: GZG AC trucks GZG AC MRLs GZG AC command post Stomper's Wheeled Trucks Toy Hummers I still have a lot of unassigned vehicles: DLD's scout cars(x2), tracked recce vehicles (x3), Civet Grav tank(x3), and?? grav APC (x2 or 3), kamodo wheeled APC (x4, might be FSE), kamodo TOC (x1), kamodo FSV (x1). The wheeled ones may be FSE or maybe PAU and the grav ones will end up going to the more advanced powers like ESU, NSL or maybe some smaller forces. Grendel Raptor and Nemesis walkers. (NSL, likely) Grendel Corvus VTOL Toy V-22 Osprey (generic black ops insertion vehicle) Toy Blackhawk helos (ditto) Scratchbuild grav tank based on chassis of GZG Striker, sans transmission and wheels Patriot Missile Launcher (generic likely) Star Wars white metal snowspeeders (x6) Star Wars landspeeder in white metal Star Wars AT-ST (one model, 2 new WOTC vehicle figs) GZG Gauntlet APCs GZG Goliath tanks (assuming Gladiator is the NSL one, or maybe it is vice versa)