| From: | Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Those darn Azzies |
| Date: | Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:25:39 -0400 |
>In message <3.0.3.16.19980805104537.22d71c02@****.fbiz.com>, Erik
>Jameson <erikj@****.COM> writes
>>As a side note, it's been stated by FASA that the CAS actually got more of
>>the US military in the split from the UCAS. And most of that is pointed at
>>the Azzies. And further, that the Stonewall LAV is, per Mike Mulvihill and
>>Jon Setzo, is nothing more than a sham perpetrated by the CAS intelligence
>>agencies.
>
>Sorry. Sore point :) I had a bit of a barney on r.g.f.c. some time ago
>about "flying tanks", and I suggested that the Stonewall in RBB was a
>disinformation effort, not a real flying MBT... the person I was arguing
>with insisted that because it was in RBB it had to exist and be exactly
>as described in the book.
Apparently Mike Mulvihill doesn't like it for his own reasons. Jon Setzo
doesn't like the entire LAV tank concept. Seeing as how both tanks and jet
planes have a lot of downtime and require significant support, it just
wan't practicle at that standpoint. I seem to have lost his exact e-mail,
but he shot it down for probably all the same reasons Paul did.
Mike M. apparently stated that the whole Stonewall bit was a ruse by the
CAS to essentially buy time to purchase their way to military SOTA. This
pissed off some southerners, but that's what the DLOH said.
Jeff, yes, on RN we (actually I prodded, others tinkered) worked and
figured that by R2 you could design a flying tank. Wouldn't be that bad
either.
And remember no hard stats were given at all. I assumed it did exist, but
stats weren't given so no yahoo munchkin would try to drive around in one.
Problem is that it was horribly expensive and couldn't do the job of either
the A-10 or a MBT quite as well. It sort of fit into a weird gray area
between the two. And it was agreed by some that it would be far more
effective to buy three or four A-10s and an equal amount of MBTs for the
price of one MBT LAV.
So it can be done, but it would just not be terribly smart to do so.
And of course, in your own house games, feel free to have the Stonewall be
as real as the Banshee, it's your own game. But it would appear that in
FASA's world of Shadowrun, it was no more than a ruse.
Erik J.
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