the shape of things to come

Because these minimum crew needs are met by
the Dixon’s design automatically, Christine need not
install any added seating to her Airship. However, for
the benefi t of any additional personnel who may be
required as light security or to support the vehicles
and equipment that may be carried in the Dixon’s
bays, Christine takes the simple approach of adding
2 foot infantry compartments—at 3 tons and 1 item
slot apiece—to the Dixon’s Body location. Noting
that each compartment provides basic seating (and
little else) for 28 men, Christine reasons that these
compartments will represent a minimalist amount of
“cot space” for off -duty police and Airship crewmen to
catch a few winks between shifts.
Added to the weight and space allocated to
weapons, Christine fi nds that the vehicle bays, arresting
hoist, communications gear, searchlights and
infantry compartments combine to bring the weight
of all items to 185.56 tons, with 21 slots spent. Christine
allocates the remaining 8.94 tons of her Dixon’s
weight to general cargo in the Body location, at a cost
of 1 more slot.
STEP 6: COMPLETE THE
RECORD SHEET
By the time the designer has chosen all structure, engine
and controls for the Support Vehicle, and added armor, weapons
and equipment, all items must be allocated to their proper
places on the appropriate blank Record Sheet. For a completed
record sheet, the designer must make sure to have selected
the appropriate sheet for the Support Vehicle’s motive type.
The sheet must have all data fi lled in for the Vehicle/Fighter/
DropShip Data block (including name, tonnage, engine and
movement types, and MP/Thrust). All equipment slots must be
allocated on the Weapons and Equipment Inventory (including
ammunition and number of shots per bin). All extraneous
armor and internal structure points must be blacked out on
the Armor Diagram.
Once all of the above is completed, the Support Vehicle is
ready for Total Warfare game play.
SUPPORT OMNIVEHICLES
When completing the record sheet for a Support Vehicle
built as an OmniVehicle, it is highly recommended that the
designer create one sheet specifi cally for the base confi guration,
with none of the weapons or equipment installed that
may appear on the Primary and Alternate confi gurations. Copies
of this Base Confi guration Record Sheet (noting all unused
tonnage as pod space for the body and the turret separately)
can then be used to quickly generate record sheets for the
other confi gurations.
Simon verifi es that all of the valid data
blocks are completed for his Simca,
including noting the vehicle’s full name,
“Simca Ambulance,” on the Vehicle Type
line, checking off that it uses an Inner
Sphere Tech Base, noting its Cruising MP as 7 and its
Flank MP as 11, and noting what engine type it uses. As
the vehicle lacks weapons, he chooses to list the vehicle’s
critical items—the fuel range, paramedic
equipment, stretchers and cargo—in the block labeled
“Notes”, leaving the Weapons Inventory empty. He then
makes sure all the appropriate armor and internal
structure circles have been blacked out and that the
vehicle’s BAR is noted, before going on to compute its
Battle Value and Cost.
Todd performs the same steps as
Simon for his Swiftran.
Because Aaron built his Hesiod as a
Support OmniVehicle, he completes
his record sheet first for his uncompleted
base chassis design, noting
only the number of tons and slots of
pod space available in the Notes block.
He then makes a copy of that record
sheet to use for completing the Primary (Hesiod-1)
confi guration. Once that confi guration is completed,
he is ready to compute its Battle Value and Cost and
bring it to play.
Brian’s Jetta Coruna and Christine’s
Dixon Airship both follow the same
process as the others in completing
their record sheets, assuring that the
appropriate values are entered for
Safe Thrust and Max Thrust, noting
any special features in the Notes block (such as the
Jetta’s Enviro-Sealing and the Dixon’s basic firecontrol
system.
Christine even manages to place
items on her Weapons Inventory to
provide data on her Dixon’s machine
guns, medium lasers and sprayers.
Because the Dixon is an aerospace unit
(like Brian’s Coruna), she draws the statistics from the
Aerospace Equipment Tables, noting aerospace damage
values at each range bracket instead of ranges in
hexes, but disregarding heat data because Support
Vehicles do not track heat as aerospace fi ghters do.
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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