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Sheet, Simon blacks out all of the Turret circles (including
those in the gray-shaded internal structure and the
unshaded armor area), and all but 1 internal structure
point in the gray-shaded areas of the vehicle’s Front, Left,
Right and Rear sides.
Todd’s Swiftran—a Medium-sized
VTOL Support Vehicle—has a Minimum
Tech Rating of C and a 0.25 Base
Chassis Value. Like Simon, Todd decides
to use more advanced technology and
gives the vehicle a Structural Tech Rating of E (Rating
Multiplier 0.85). Because the Swiftran is to be a battlefield
medivac unit, he chooses the Armored Chassis
Modifi cation, and so computes a chassis weight of 8
tons (0.25 Base Chassis Value x 0.85 Structural Tech
Rating E x 1.5 Armored Chassis Modifi er x 25 tons =
7.969, rounded up to the nearest half-ton at 8).
Todd’s Swiftran may not carry a turret as it is a VTOL
Support Vehicle. With the Swiftran’s 25-ton weight, he fi nds
that it will have 3 points of Internal Structure per location
(25 tons ÷ 10 = 2.5 points per location, rounded up to 3).
Using the VTOL Record Sheet, Todd blacks out all but 3
internal structure points in the gray-shaded areas of the
vehicle’s Rotor location, as well as its Front, Left, Right and
Rear sides.
Because it is a Medium 7-ton
wheeled Support Vehicle, Aaron’s
Hesiod has a Minimum Tech Rating
of A and a Base Chassis Value of 0.15.
Aaron wants to give the unit off -road
capability, along with the fl exibility of
OmniVehicle design, and so adds the
chassis modifi cations for Off -Road (Chassis Multiplier
1.5) and Omni (Chassis Multiplier 1). As the higher of
these two modifi cations—the Omni capability—has
a Minimum Tech Rating of E, Aaron’s Hesiod upgrades
its Minimum Tech Rating to E, and so he selects that as
his Structural Tech Rating (Rating Multiplier 0.85).
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Aaron computes that his Hesiod will have a chassis
weight of 1.5 tons (0.15 Base Chassis Value x 0.85 Structural
Tech Rating E x 1.5 Off -Road Multiplier x 1.0 Omni Multiplier
x 7 tons = 1.34 tons, rounded up to 1.5). The Hesiod has 5.5
unspent tons remaining (7 tons – 1.5 tons = 5.5 tons).
Like Simon, Aaron also decides to place no turret on his
wheeled Support Vehicle, deciding that any of its confi gurations
will fi nd better uses for the half-ton (minimum) he’d
need to assign to turret weight. With the Hesiod’s 7-ton
weight, he fi nds that it will have only 1 point of internal
structure per location (7 tons ÷ 10 = 0.7 points per location,
rounded up to 1). Using the Ground Vehicle Record Sheet,
Aaron blacks out all but 1 internal structure point in the
gray-shaded areas of the vehicle’s Front, Left, Right and
Rear sides, and blacks out all Turret location circles.
Brian’s Jetta Coruna—a 35-ton,
Medium-sized, Fixed-Wing Support
Vehicle—receives a Minimum Tech
Rating of B from the Master Chassis
Table, with a Base Chassis Value of
0.10. For a chassis modifi cation, Brian
decides on Environmental Sealing (Chassis Modifi er 2),
just in case the aircraft is to be taken any place where
the atmosphere is hostile. Enviro-sealing raises the
Minimum Tech Rating for the Coruna’s chassis to C, but
Brian decides to take it one step further and chooses a
Structural Tech Rating of D instead.
These factors combine to give the Jetta Coruna a chassis
weight of 7 tons (0.10 Base Chassis Value x 1.0 Structural
Tech Rating D x 2.0 Enviro-Sealing Multiplier x 35 tons = 7
tons). The Coruna has 28 unspent tons remaining (35 tons
– 7 tons = 28 tons).
Because Brian’s Coruna is a Fixed-Wing Support Vehicle,
it does not have internal structures to black out at this time.
Instead, Brian must fi rst determine the vehicle’s Thrust ratings
in the next step before determining how many
Structural Integrity circles he will need to black out.
Christine’s Dixon is a Medium 300ton
Airship, and so it has a Minimum
Tech Rating of B and a Base Chassis
Value of 0.25. Though she expects the
craft might see combat in its role as a
police vehicle, she cannot choose an armored chassis
modifi cation because the Dixon is an Airship. She
decides that no other chassis modifi cations are necessary
as well, but does choose a Structural Tech Rating
of D (Rating Multiplier 1) for the design.
Christine fi nds the Dixon’s chassis weight to be 75 tons
(0.25 Base Chassis Value x 1.0 Structural Tech Rating D
x 300 tons = 75 tons). The Dixon has 225 tons of unspent
weight remaining (300 tons – 75 tons = 225 tons).
Like Brian’s Coruna, Christine’s Dixon does not have
internal structures to black out at this time. Instead, she
must determine the craft’s Thrust ratings in the next step
before determining how many Structural Integrity circles
she will need to black out.
INTRODUCTION
CONSTRUCTION
BASICS
BATTLEMECH
CONSTRUCTION
INDUSTRIALMECH
CONSTRUCTION
PROTOMECH
CONSTRUCTION
COMBAT VEHICLE
CONSTRUCTION
SUPPORT VEHICLE
CONSTRUCTION
CONV. INFANTRY
CONSTRUCTION
BATTLE ARMOR
CONSTRUCTION
AEROSPACE UNIT
CONSTRUCTION
WEAPONS AND
HEAVY EQUIPMENT
INFANTRY WEAPONS
AND EQUIPMENT
COSTS AND
AVAILABILITY
BATTLE VALUE
INDEX
RECORD SHEETS
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