Re: Machinetools (introduction) (fwd)

In your letter dated Mon, 19 Aug 91 13:45:19 MET DST, you wrote:
>
>   Well, here it is. Greg Porter mentioned that each average DV (ie DV/5.5)
> corresponds to 4/17 mm of armor quality steel, and I computed the table below
> from that.

> > ARMOR	DV		ARMOR	DV
> > 1	14		61	11197
> > 2	27		62	12225
> > 3	41		63	13360
> > 4	54		64	14550

I just checked BTRC's TimeLords game to see what kind of values they assign
to personal armor.  The best currently available personal armor runs about
AV40--which means that our basic 'cloth' armor ought to be a 2, military
cloth a 3, and a flak jacket a 1...using numbers like that would make things
a little more reasonable for the machine gunners, don't you think?

At those sorts of numbers, a TL10 combat environment suit might be worth
a 3 or a 4, a set of early combat armor worth a 5, and a set of TL15
battledress worth maybe 7 or 8.

Rob Dean