From:	Jani Fikouras <feanor@**********.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
Subject:	Re: vehicle combat question
Date:	Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:16:27 +0200

>
> On Fri, 15 Sep 1995, Jani Fikouras wrote:
>
> [concerning direct rigger control of a turret-fired weapon]
>
> > Well he still needs to pay pne action per remote turret to keep the
> > turret going. The rest of the riggers actions can be expended to shoot
> > with the turret.
>
> Aaaaaarrrrgh! No, he doesn't. A turret is *not* a vehicle. A
> turret is *not* a drone. It is treated as such *only* for purposes of how
> many a rigger can control.
> Think of it this way: the turret isn't going anywhere, right?
> It's just swivelling and elevating to bring the target into the weapon's
> line-of-fire. It's directly analogous to a person shooting a firearm.
> You just point and shoot. You don't need to spend an action controlling
> your arm, you just do it. It's the same with a turret.
> The reason a *moving vehicle* requires an action spent on control
> is that FASA (rightly) assumes that you need to pay at least a modicum of
> attention to where you are going so you don't crash into stuff. You can
> even go without spending the action to control the vehicle, but at the
> end of your last action, you need to make a crash test. If you pass it,
> you're golden. You just scammed yourself an extra action. If you fail,
> you wipe.

This is a totally different way of looking at it. I suppose you are right
I just never thought of it that way.

> Now apply this to a turret. If you don't spend an action to
> control your turret, it would just have to make a crash test. But what
> is a turret going to crash into? Hence, the rigger does *not* spend an
> action to control a turret.

Anyway my problem (our problem) is the sentence under "Remote Turrets"
that sez that a remote turret counts as another drone as far as the
"control limit" of the rigger is concerned. I figure that the control
limit is the number of ports the remote control deck has, but isnt
wiring a turret on your own car through a remote control deck stupid ?

> > I have a question of my own now. What is the quickness rating of
> > a drone ? I mean how much distance can a drone cover in a combat
> > round/complex action.
>
> Drones are exactly like vehicles in that they have a listed
> speed. The numbers given are for cruise/maximum speed respectively and
> they are given in meters per combat turn. As far as how much a drone can
> cover in a single complex action, I would merely divide the speed of the
> drone by the number of actions the drone got. This is really only
> important when dealing with environments where the drone needs to get to
> a certain destination (say a doorway) before someone else's next action
> (say before the goon closes the door). Otherwise, it usually doesn't matter.

What speed would you take then, cruising or top speed ? On the contrary
I think that its very important.

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