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This is an alternate design sequence to the one found in
Soldier's Companion. It provides a bit more granularity.
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1. Power Plant: Select a power plant size.
Each point of a tripod’s power plant is half the value of a land juggernaut’s
power plant (62.5 hp vs. 125 hp).
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Description |
Weight |
Price |
Fuel |
Consumption |
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Conventional Boiler |
3 tons |
£150 |
Coal |
½ ton |
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Draught Boiler |
1½ tons |
£300 |
Coal |
½ ton |
| Petrol
Boiler |
3 tons |
£150 |
Oil |
¼ ton |
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Combustion |
1 ton |
£300 |
Oil |
¼ ton |
| Steam
Turbine |
½ ton |
£400 |
Oil |
¼ ton |
| Gas
Turbine |
¼ ton |
£500 |
Gas |
1/8 ton |
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2. Fuel Bunker: Determine the size of the
fuel bunker by the power plant consumption listed above.
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3. Running Gear: Running gear costs £500 and
weighs 1 ton per power plant size.
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4. Armor: Armor weighs ½ ton per armor level
per engine size. Armor costs £100 per ton.
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5. Armament: Use any weapon listed on the
gun list; the price is the same but the weight is one-tenth the listed weight.
Available weapon mounts are bow, right sponson and left sponson.
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6. Exotic Weapons: A tripod may have one
tether mine and as many rocket batteries as weight will allow.
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Ratings
Movement:
Divide the power plant number by the weight of the tripod in tons and multiply
the result by 20 and round to the nearest whole number (this actually works
pretty well). (ES÷W)×20
Running Gear Hits: All tripods
can take one running gear hit for each movement number computed above.
Command Crew: Each tripod has a commander who also serves as
the driver. Note that tripods may also have separate commanders and drivers as
do other conveyances.
Engineering Crew: Tripods do not
have an engineering crew. Tripod units do have a support structure, though,
which includes one mechanic per engine size per tripod. As these units are
seldom represented on the table this is presented more for background color.
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Notes
These tripods weigh a tad bit
more than the ones in Soldier’s Companion, but the ratings remain about
the same.
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Example
The Storch-type light tripod built using
this sequence:
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Component |
Weight |
Cost |
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Draught Boiler |
1½ tons |
£300 |
| Fuel
Bunker |
½ ton |
— |
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Gear |
1 ton |
£500 |
| Armor
Level 1 |
½ ton |
£50 |
| 2-Pounder
Gun |
½ ton |
£260 |
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Total |
4 tons |
£1110 |
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