striker, meson guns, etc...

Adrian Hurt:

>But because of the nature of a meson gun, direct fire-control is not
>possible, therefore not available.  So I think that vehicle-mounted
>meson guns would be TL15 self-propelled artillery, not tanks.  Thus
>they would be lightly armoured, as self-propelled artillery often is,
>and as someone else said they would be in another message.  But there
>would still be TL15 tanks, heavily armoured and equipped with energy
>weapons (fusion guns and/or lasers), point defense and perhaps meson
>screens.

It's not??? In Striker, any weapon that fires in a straight line has a
direct
fire control.  Just buy the one for the TL in question, and mount your
meson
gun in a turret of at least 20Kl.

>> My problem with a tank-sized meson screen is that a meson screen
>> generator has minimum size of 215Kl at TL15- (or 108Kl at TL16), which
>> is rather large for a tank.
>
>Then again, perhaps not.

Mighty big tank, eh?  16 tons for the meson screen, 1+ for the gun, 2+ for
the power plant, more for crew, armour, drives, sensors.  Probably 25+
tons.  The
M1 Abrams is rather less than 6 tons displacement.

As to the question of a smaller meson screen generator, the MT rules set
the
smallest one at about 2.5 tons (at TL21).  Since MT provides us a look at
the
technolgical improvement in meson screen technology for the next 6000
years, it
is probably safe to say a smaller one can't be built at TL15.

Later...

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