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So thirty years later....... You don't see a VF-1A_E1/2/3/4/5/6 (Block) with uprated engines that now can push velocities greater than Mach 6 and achieve orbit? If you can do that with a Beta fighter, and its smaller chassis, I don't see why not. There is line art that shows the VF-1s do not need to...

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In case you need some ideas on what to do with a Zentraedi "Landing Ship" which, as we can see from U.S. Navy terminology is a very broad category. Then you can use the "Craft" ideas to flesh out purpose built Horizont bunkers. Taken from........ http://www.history.navy.mil/books...

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Chris0013 wrote:Maybe it is just me...but I really can't see how you are making a human sized cockpit on any full sized Zentraedi mecha.

Regult Battle Pod Interior

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Actually the Robotech mecha improve in performance based on the RPG stats. A up armored Silverback has almost the same armor and firepower as a VF-1, and more speed then the hovertank or 1st Gen Destroids. The Beta is tougher then a VF-1 or any of the Destroids, carries far more missiles, and can a...

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You can disagree all you like, but it won't change the simple truth that Robotech does not keep faith with real-world precedents in technology or military affairs. There are plenty of in-universe acknowledgements of bad design choices too, like the Spartas hover tank's open cockpit. The steady dete...

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Right.......... but, paired weapons is your PCs two hands...... Not the mechas two hands since your operating that.

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I've always considered the 'stage four' Invid to be a free thinker. Also I consider the stage 1 Invid infants, the stage 2's toddlers, and 3's as teenagers (which frequently pilot Invid Scouts, and Troopers). So the majority of Invid troops are really stage 4's, and there are a few 'Telsa' sized st...

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Why not AI conversions of 1st RW Radair X and Spartan units.... These are primarily defensive units used as supplementary point defense on starships and and the same for bases. I dunno if that'd be viable... the one time we see a land-based AI, it seems to not be the sharpest tool in the shed. They...

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An idea......... Since AIs were so heavily discussed Why not AI conversions of 1st RW Radair X and Spartan units.... These are primarily defensive units used as supplementary point defense on starships and and the same for bases. 24/7 guard. As a constant roving patrol around a remote base, keeps ba...

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I was kinda hoping someone had so more ideas for updating 1st RW Mecha for the Sentinels or Shadow Chronicles campaign settings......

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A recording might be missing tonal qualities, and sub vocal sounds therefore, the zombies are not attracted to the recording of a moan.

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So the guided converging beam cannons of Zentraedi starships on the ground, or purpose build versions are just as dangerous going the other way. Assuming they're powered equally, yeah... I have to wonder if a surface-based non-permanent installation is going to have a sufficient power source to ope...

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So the reciprocal is that ground based energy weapon systems (example: the Grand Cannon) can reach 380,000 kilometers or more...... Therefore, to dangerous for spacecraft to appear above the planetary horizon. In theory, yeah... but while the Grand Cannon was an area-fire weapon of the last resort,...

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it's still aim adjustments being measured against targets measured in Kilometers, when the kind of tactical support we're talking about is measured against targets of meters . it's the difference between an Arclight mission by a B52 and a CAS run by an A10.. Orbit at any altitude is going to be a h...

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Looking at the picture this tank has a driver and a bow machine gun position, so a rear engine/transmission. Tank commander, gunner loader, or Tank commander/gunner, loader, or Tank commander, gunner/loader? Depends really so it can have 5 / 4/ 3 crew member if the loader and the MG bow gunner are l...

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I think a Kickstarter for Masters Saga would be appropriate. If there's no interest, it won't happen. The Masters Saga... well... it doesn't bear considering. Harmony Gold has, in the past, explicitly refused to develop new Masters Saga merchandise, and cited the saga's unpopularity (and the result...

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Bombardment. Sometimes ships can't get into low orbit. Sometimes you can't poke your head over the hill to see the target. Sometimes the other guys ECM is better than your ECCM. That calls for plain jane, rain of steel. The reentry pod is escorted down from orbit, beyond the horizon from the target....

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Beta...... If only because I can't have a VF-1 Super. The Alpha fighter is at best a short range defensive fighter that better not stray far from the heavier guns of the capital ship it is defending. The top speed is poor, the armament of SRMs in a fighter operating is space is a questionable decisi...

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I chose Glaug. It is really nice to be able to scratch your nose and have a drink.

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Big fishing trawler(we know they can float to recover Regults) with surface to space capacity to carry their haul to where it's needed. Greenpeace would be investing in SAMs after a few such 'fish raids'. How 'bout converting one into a mobile, self-contained mess hall for a UEEF ground force in th...

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You have to keep in mind the size of those things...you are going to have more that 1 company of Cyclone Riders in there....a company is about 160 or so people....and the Macross book says these hold 160 FULL SIZED Zentraedi. You would probably be looking at a fully supported battalion being put do...

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Forgot one. Command Post. A converted Re-entry Pod meant to operate as a ground based Command Post for a minimum Brigade Strength element. A lower vehicle deck for conventional vehicles and cyclones is that remains of the mecha carrying capacity. The remaining interior is given over to quarters, env...

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What can you do with one of these? Obviously use it as intended with either the control cabin re-engineered for micronians or for an AI.... Drop ship to put down Company strength units of Cyclone riders and support vehicles. Mobile repair shop to get damaged mecha units back into the fight. Mobile s...

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Speaking of Garfish variants........ This is definitely not a pod for nine Legios combos... Ah, this old misconception... You see, the term "Legioss" (yes, double "S") is the original name of what Robotech calls the "Alpha fighter". It's not, and never was, the correct...

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So you have Cloning chambers............ Doesn't mean that what went in is cloned material............ Enter a fertilized egg, stop the process when you have an infant. Give the infant to the donating parents, or into a youth creche (Friday by Heinlein, or the movie Soldier). Thus one human couple ...

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Speaking of Garfish variants........ This is definitely not a pod for nine Legios combos...

http://info.rtucn.net/epic/arm/sc-garfish.htm

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So you have Cloning chambers............ Doesn't mean that what went in is cloned material............ Enter a fertilized egg, stop the process when you have an infant. Give the infant to the donating parents, or into a youth creche (Friday by Heinlein, or the movie Soldier). Thus one human couple c...

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So humans can't at the end of the 1st Robotech War use Tirolian technology (the SDF-1, the factory satellite, and Zentraedi ships / mecha). Not "can't use". "Are inexperienced at using/adapting". This, sadly, remains true for much of the rest of the timeline. The Bioroid Interce...

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Maybe there is a Mod that can clip this interesting discussion out and place it into a thread of its own?

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So if everybody was killed in the Rain of Death, and all of humanity is aboard the SDF-1...... Who is Gloval talking to on the other end of the radio? Who are the Commanders and Leaders of the UEG he has to report to...... the ones that demand the SDF-1 leave Earth and return to space...... and who ...

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What is the status of Zentraedi stasis pods? Are they still keeping crew and pilots on ice?

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asking me to download to view file....... not doing that.

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So humans can't at the end of the 1st Robotech War use Tirolian technology (the SDF-1, the factory satellite, and Zentraedi ships / mecha). Humans are not able to build these systems from raw material. Humans have to tear down and recycle Zentraedi ships for their reflex furnaces and fold devices......

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It was a pod that was underneath the beta. It used the bomb bay as the connection point. Think of a battery to a dewalt drill. So the 'flying brick' (AKA the Beta) is even more un-aerodynamic? Pretty much. There were several pods and designs that I came up with. One was even a trailer to be pulled ...

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Correction - Chris Meadows did hte garland work, Dave Deitrich is the one who did Third Invid War. Steelfalcon.com was his site unless it has since changed hands.... His site is still there but it hasn't been touched since the mid-nineties. I'm thinking of heavily armed and armored dropships capabl...

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Correction - Chris Meadows did hte garland work, Dave Deitrich is the one who did Third Invid War. Steelfalcon.com was his site unless it has since changed hands.... His site is still there but it hasn't been touched since the mid-nineties. I'm thinking of heavily armed and armored dropships capabl...

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Personally I don't see refit Gnerls operating as traditional space superiority fighter.... More as Corvettes..... PT boats might be another example.... with a crew capsule... A pilot and electronic warfare officer station, lavatory, kitchenette (microwave, coffee pot, cooler, ration packs, and waste...

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I used a group of Alpha/Beta combo's. I had the Beta's equipped with cargo pods that are inserted into the bomb bay. I had an initial group of 8 players, each PC had one of the A/B combo and those that couldn't fly either were stuck in a single drop pod that could fit 3 people and their Cyclones. T...

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and are implied or ordered to shrink down That may be the case with any that remained behind on Earth but an assumption at best as it pertains to the UEEF. Why would you micronize them then in turn have to heavily modify the mecha they use in order for them to use them? Keeping them full sized (I t...

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Prototypes, with a few rare examples, take many, many years to get to Model 0 trial production runs [...] Well, it's certainly true that most development programs take years or even decades to produce a viable, mass production craft, this does not hold true for the Robotech universe (or its OSM pri...

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Agree the example is from a Regult, but the mere existence of a Zentreadi example for the Regult system does allow for the possibility of it being compatible with Glaugs and Gnerls OR each mecha having their own version. [...] Yeah, but that's entirely beside the point. The point being made by myse...

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Can it simply be a translation error? Fanboys see carrier and think "Air Craft Carrier" because that is sexy and awesome and cool....and and and.....

but, carrier is used as a freight description for bulk cargo......... Ore carrier, coal carrier, etc.....

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So how official or canon are the stats for ships and equipment at the Robotech.com website? Regarding the tenders and support vessels...... They say what I suspected, the landing ship (with different internal arrangements) is the support vessel... serving as tanker and tender.

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Ok besides the obvious, Quiltra Queleul landing ship, Horizont drop ship, the Re-entry pod, ...............

How do you get your players from space to the ground? What is cinematic and awesome............ While plausible it is the 4-6 players that are the heroes of the mission?

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Command Destroid question answered by the RPG tactics kickstarter........ See the Command versions of the Defender and Tomahawk. They only exist in the tabletop game, ArmySGT. , those designs are not present in the Robotech RPG, the series proper, or the OSM. Previously, now they do.... So care to ...

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Apparently each of you is blessedly unaware of military rations.... for your sake I can hope you remain ignorant of them. You shouldn't make assumptions without good evidentiary support... which is going to be a recurring theme for this post. Yes, I have experienced MREs. I didn't find them to be a...

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Command Destroid question answered by the RPG tactics kickstarter........

See the Command versions of the Defender and Tomahawk.

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Did someone decide how many Battle Pods a Re-entry pod can transport?

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The answer for that is they do not. The real world analog is our "wet" navy. Every fleet and flotilla has more supply, tanker, and repair vessels than pure combat ships. Oh, it's true enough for real-world navies... but it's demonstrably not the case for Robotech 's forces. We're shown in...

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