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RVLS
Movement Rules
Ground vehicles are not created equally. Each
differing movement system offers advantages, and
disadvantages. Grav vehicles, wheeled, tracked--they
all perform differently. Each movement type has their
own terrain costs (noted on the Terrain Table) as well
as some special construction rules:
Wheeled vehicles: Wheeled Vehicles range from 4
to 8 wheels, and combat vehicles are always made
for off road combat. Add +2 Movement Points to
wheeled vehicles (above their resulting base). They
are, however, the most limited in the terrain they can
travel. If a wheeled vehicle spends a full turn travelling
along a prepared road, they gain 150% (gravel road)
to 200% (paved road) their regular movement.
Tracked vehicles: Tracked vehicles usually have
2 tracks, but sometimes 4, and are optimised for
off road combat. They only gain a bonus of 150%
movement when on a well prepared road--this,
however, seriously increases the wear on the tracks.
Hover vehicles: The step just before Grav movement,
hover vehicles behave essentially like grav vehicles,
though they have far less power behind them. Hover
vehicles must install lifting engines, which cost
1/2 the weight of a grav drive. They gain 200%
movement on ANY road (so long as they spend their
full turn travelling on it)
Grav vehicles: Lastly we have Grav vehicles, which
we all know well. Like hover vehicles, they gain
200% on any road. Level changes are handled a bit
differently as well. A Grav tank may occupy whatever
level it wishes, riding high above the terrain by
simply paying the cost of a level change as listed on
the terrain table. To change to LAF, two thrust points
must be spent, as well as a hex of forward movement,
putting the tank quite high up (and allowing high
velocities).
Travelling through terrain for all movement types
has also changed. Listed on the terrain table is the
extra cost of negotiating the terrain. For conventional
vehicles, the listed cost is in MPs. An NA means the
terrain is not traversable by that movement system. Of
course, the base cost to enter a hex, is one MP/VP.
Grav vehicles, by the nature of their movement
mechanics, opperate differently. A Grav vehicle’s VPs
are it’s ‘maneuver envelope’, which allows it to travel
over distance. When it must negotiate terrain, either
woods, or rough ground, it weaves a bit left and right,
slowing down here and there, and expending thrust
to pop up, twist left, and the like. Thus, the value
listed on the terrain table is the extra VPs expended
to traverse the terrain, but these VPs are burned off.
Subtract these VPs from the final velocity of the tank
at the end of the turn (effectively, ‘slowing’ down
the tank). Of course, thrust can be used to keep the
velocity the same.
Alternately, since thrust and VPs are quite
interchangeable in many ways, instead of the value
on the table burning VPs, it is instead the thrust cost
needed to traverse the terrain. There is no velocity
adjustment. Semantics, perhaps, but to some it may
makes more sense, and be easier to administer.
There are no changes to the maximum velocity rules.
Terrain Table
The new, expanded, terrain table is found on the
following page.
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