Favorite Rifts vehicle

[cyberdon]

For purposes of this thread, refer to this definition:

Vehicle: any means in or by which someone travels or something is carried or conveyed...

Ie. SAMAS is a vehicle.

[cyberdon]

I've quite a few, but the Coalition Spider Walker really stands out for me.

Also, the Thunderbird Assault Robot is a close second. At first I was like 'meh', then, after GMing it, I was dazzled by its sheer POWERRRR!!!!

The downside is that the Thunderbird Assault Robot requires two to operate.

[Akashic Soldier]

Good question. I will need to think on this.

[taalismn]

CS Death Bringer Hover APC...it hovers...making it effectively all-terrain, it's got good arrmor, all-around coverage weaponry, a big honking turret, and lots of space for my crew/friends and gear. Downside is it's a CS vehicle and requires massive amounts of renovation to hide it from both CS death squads and trigger-happy Tolkeenite retribution teams. Other downside is I require a well-trained crew to properly use all its strengths.

[Bill]

The megadamage roach-coach from my own adventures.

[Icefalcon]

The Leopard APC from Triax. It is the coolest looking ground conveyance in the game. It is also pretty well armed and armored. The only downside is the amount of crew it takes to pilot.

For single person vehicles, I like the Rolling Thunder from Juicer Uprising. I use it for a lot of my wilderness scouts as long range vehicle.

[Comrade Corsarius]

TW sky ship, followed by Glittermount.

[Subjugator]

Mark V APC...basic, fundamental, fun.

/Sub

[Akashic Soldier]

I've always loved the Rolling Thunder from Juicer Uprising. It's so sleek and sexeh!

The Roadhog (is that what it is called? I am foggy) is one of my favorite vehicles in the game. I've always wanted one but none of my characters have ever really suited having one.

[ffranceschi]

Violator SAMAS or V-SAM (Free Quebec) and Classic PA-06A SAMAS (CS).

[DhAkael]

The Naruni HRV...or as I like to call it "The Winnebago of DOOM!"

[flatline]

Grav-pack. Better than a jet pack and you can wear it concealed under clothing.

--flatline

[Pepsi Jedi]

Years and years ago I made up stats for an APC seen in a popular series of Movies featuring insectoid bipedal xenomorphs. Many of our groups have used it since then. But I don't think that's really what the OP Was aiming for. I think they wanted official stuff.

For "Official" Stuff, I actually like the --Northern Gun-- version of the CS Command 'car'. (Page 164/165 CS war campaign.)

A MD Hovorjeep, half as much MDC as a Mark 5, sits 6 people, roughly the number of people in a PC group. And can squeeze another in if needed.
200mph, which is pretty fast. It's alot faster when you realize it's not limited to a few feet off the ground but 500 feet. Not very many natural things in the world out side of mountains are over 500 feet tall. And even mountains you don't just hop over but fly up and down.

It comes equipped with a light rail gun, but it can fold down and away or even be detached. So while it's a tough, fast, hovor platform that can go over or through any hard terrain, it's also something you can take into town with out everyone and their mother going 'OMG!! MERC WITH MD WEAPONS!!! WATCH OUT!!" or "GET HIM!!!" Wich is really nice.

Don't let the 'CS COMMAND CAR" Fool you, in the write up it says directly that Northern Gun sells it's own version and they have good avability. So they don't stand out as being super unique either. I.E. they don't make you an -instant- target and don't -instantly- scream "military" or 'Merc".

[dragonfett]

As far as PA's go, I love the Flying Titan. It is among the fastest power armors around that can carry 6 SRM's.

As for Tank's/APC's, I love the Naruni Juggernaut Heavy Hover Tank.

For a more low key APC without the whole bullseye painted all over it, then I try to get the hover APC from Triax/NGR, the MZ-10 Wilderness Crusader. It's fairly cheap (when compared to other APC's), and it has decent speed.

[Pepsi Jedi]

I will say, I can't wait to see the stats on the wicked looking APC of Chuck's in the new NG preview.

[Icefalcon]

I will say, I can't wait to see the stats on the wicked looking APC of Chuck's in the new NG preview.

Agreed and seconded.

[drewkitty ~..~]

For most of my chars this means a good pair of shoes.

[Pepsi Jedi]

You can get custom MD boots from Northern Gun. They'll even make you custom tred patterns. Back of one of the two Dino swamp books talks about them.

[nilgravity]

I don't have any of the books for the vehicles my characters had so I couldn't tell you. I did like my power armor that could transform into a shuttle. I don't remember what else it did though.

[wyrmraker]

I prefer taking modern vehicles and adapting them to Rifts.
The Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck, currently in use by the US Military, is an 8-wheeled, diesel-powered workhorse whose bed can be fitted with a massive variety of items, such as a crane, large truck bed, or even a full-sized shipping container or train boxcar. Take the precise design, make it out of MD materials, and go for it. This is the vehicle that my brand-new Techno-Wizard will be starting off play with.

Kitsune has one of these on her website, called the Longhorn, and a version produced by Golden Age Weaponsmiths.

[FatherMorpheus]

EX-L6 Behemoth Explorer! Or the original EX-5. I just like the idea behind these mobile exploration vehicles.

Give a TW team a few months with one and they would be just crazy cool.

[taalismn]

I prefer taking modern vehicles and adapting them to Rifts.
The Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck, currently in use by the US Military, is an 8-wheeled, diesel-powered workhorse whose bed can be fitted with a massive variety of items, such as a crane, large truck bed, or even a full-sized shipping container or train boxcar. Take the precise design, make it out of MD materials, and go for it. This is the vehicle that my brand-new Techno-Wizard will be starting off play with.

Kitsune has one of these on her website, called the Longhorn, and a version produced by Golden Age Weaponsmiths.

HEMTTs are awesome vehicles....road-legal heavy haulers. Want bigger? You have to start looking at strip mine trucks, but start looking at nuclear or TW power conversions, because gas mileage on the big boys stinks.

Then there are these bastards if they ever get built:
http://www.etftrucks.eu/

[wyrmraker]

I prefer taking modern vehicles and adapting them to Rifts.
The Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck, currently in use by the US Military, is an 8-wheeled, diesel-powered workhorse whose bed can be fitted with a massive variety of items, such as a crane, large truck bed, or even a full-sized shipping container or train boxcar. Take the precise design, make it out of MD materials, and go for it. This is the vehicle that my brand-new Techno-Wizard will be starting off play with.

Kitsune has one of these on her website, called the Longhorn, and a version produced by Golden Age Weaponsmiths.

HEMTTs are awesome vehicles....road-legal heavy haulers. Want bigger? You have to start looking at strip mine trucks, but start looking at nuclear or TW power conversions, because gas mileage on the big boys stinks.

Then there are these bastards if they ever get built:
http://www.etftrucks.eu/

Oooo! Make one of the strip-mining massive haulers into a proper exploration vehicle by swapping out the bed. Nifty idea!

[taalismn]

[http://www.etftrucks.eu/

Oooo! Make one of the strip-mining massive haulers into a proper exploration vehicle by swapping out the bed. Nifty idea!

I'm calling dibs on a Paladin Steel version, but it's a German company, so if it survived into the Golden Age, Triax likely either bought them up pre-Rifts or salvaged the company post-Rifts.

[wyrmraker]

[http://www.etftrucks.eu/

Oooo! Make one of the strip-mining massive haulers into a proper exploration vehicle by swapping out the bed. Nifty idea!

I'm calling dibs on a Paladin Steel version, but it's a German company, so if it survived into the Golden Age, Triax likely either bought them up pre-Rifts or salvaged the company post-Rifts.

Imagine one of the Warlords of Russia using one of the massive strip-mine haulers as a converted War Chariot. Or something like that coming out of Stormspire or the Colorado Baronies.

[Greyaxe]

The Behemoth Explorer. By far my all time favorite.

[Killer Cyborg]

The Behemoth Explorer. By far my all time favorite.

Good call.

[glitterboy2098]

[http://www.etftrucks.eu/

Oooo! Make one of the strip-mining massive haulers into a proper exploration vehicle by swapping out the bed. Nifty idea!

I'm calling dibs on a Paladin Steel version, but it's a German company, so if it survived into the Golden Age, Triax likely either bought them up pre-Rifts or salvaged the company post-Rifts.

Imagine one of the Warlords of Russia using one of the massive strip-mine haulers as a converted War Chariot. Or something like that coming out of Stormspire or the Colorado Baronies.

concept art from Mad Max 4

[Galroth]

The Behemoth Explorer. By far my all time favorite.

Good call.

My favorite too. Great vehicle/house for an Operator or Techno-Wizard.

[Comrade Corsarius]

I prefer taking modern vehicles and adapting them to Rifts.
The Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck, currently in use by the US Military, is an 8-wheeled, diesel-powered workhorse whose bed can be fitted with a massive variety of items, such as a crane, large truck bed, or even a full-sized shipping container or train boxcar. Take the precise design, make it out of MD materials, and go for it. This is the vehicle that my brand-new Techno-Wizard will be starting off play with.

Kitsune has one of these on her website, called the Longhorn, and a version produced by Golden Age Weaponsmiths.

HEMTTs are awesome vehicles....road-legal heavy haulers. Want bigger? You have to start looking at strip mine trucks, but start looking at nuclear or TW power conversions, because gas mileage on the big boys stinks.

Then there are these bastards if they ever get built:
http://www.etftrucks.eu/

Bah. You kids think too small. HERE is something that was actually BUILT (and very very rift-y)

[keir451]

Coalition Mark V APC, I love to strip it of some of it's weapons (leaving only one laser cupola mount) and drive it arouind as either a mobile garage for an operator or Psi-Tech or as a Medical vehicle for a Body Fixer or Cyber Doc doing humaintatian runs out in the hinterands.

[wyrmraker]

I prefer taking modern vehicles and adapting them to Rifts.
The Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck, currently in use by the US Military, is an 8-wheeled, diesel-powered workhorse whose bed can be fitted with a massive variety of items, such as a crane, large truck bed, or even a full-sized shipping container or train boxcar. Take the precise design, make it out of MD materials, and go for it. This is the vehicle that my brand-new Techno-Wizard will be starting off play with.

Kitsune has one of these on her website, called the Longhorn, and a version produced by Golden Age Weaponsmiths.

HEMTTs are awesome vehicles....road-legal heavy haulers. Want bigger? You have to start looking at strip mine trucks, but start looking at nuclear or TW power conversions, because gas mileage on the big boys stinks.

Then there are these bastards if they ever get built:
http://www.etftrucks.eu/

Bah. You kids think too small. HERE is something that was actually BUILT (and very very rift-y)

That is something I can see techno-wizards would assemble for caravans away from ley lines. Run cargo to location with the Ley Line Trains, then transfer them to that land train for travel through areas without connected ley lines.
Or as a massive traveling fortress roaming through the Pecos Empire.

[Gamer]

I prefer taking modern vehicles and adapting them to Rifts.
The Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck, currently in use by the US Military, is an 8-wheeled, diesel-powered workhorse whose bed can be fitted with a massive variety of items, such as a crane, large truck bed, or even a full-sized shipping container or train boxcar. Take the precise design, make it out of MD materials, and go for it. This is the vehicle that my brand-new Techno-Wizard will be starting off play with.

Kitsune has one of these on her website, called the Longhorn, and a version produced by Golden Age Weaponsmiths.

HEMTTs are awesome vehicles....road-legal heavy haulers. Want bigger? You have to start looking at strip mine trucks, but start looking at nuclear or TW power conversions, because gas mileage on the big boys stinks.

Then there are these bastards if they ever get built:
http://www.etftrucks.eu/

I took that and modified them with this:
http://www.coroflot.com/jonpope/Terex-Titan-560
and another version was using this:
http://www.coroflot.com/jonpope/560-ton ... k-concept-

But I have been creating engineering vehicles in Rifts -created a independent engineer company using mercenary rules with the vehicles built by Titan industries based off some of Jon Popes designs.
Cutting roads through the wilderness with this thing:
http://www.coroflot.com/jonpope/210-Ton-Dozer
Give it's blade a vibro capacity and you have no problems.

I don't have a favorite right out of the books.
I have had to alter too many of the wheeled and tracked vehicles so they are capable of actually going off road, I guess most of the artists think that all of rifts earth is as flat as the Bonneville salt flats.
For example the MKVII Slayer apc and the skysweeper tank both have an Airdam on the front for chryst sakes, the MKv is off road capable as a city bus
That thing in the NG preview on pg. 24 what ever it is it doesn't matter, it's never leaving the paved road, ever. I'll have to redo the front end and raise it a couple feet to really be worth anything.
It's also thing I have after being seriously injured by an IED against such badly designed vehicles in such settings and they are also far more vulnerable to IED/mine damage and would get the crap blown out of them, the losses from IEDs/mines would be incredible.
At least the Road Hammer and the Rumble Wagon look like they could handle off road for more than 10 feet before getting stuck.
I get the art isn't done to vehicle specifications but couldn't the artists at least draw the vehicles so they look like they could handle off road travel instead of looking like contestants in Lowrider car shows.

[dragonfett]

I prefer taking modern vehicles and adapting them to Rifts.
The Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck, currently in use by the US Military, is an 8-wheeled, diesel-powered workhorse whose bed can be fitted with a massive variety of items, such as a crane, large truck bed, or even a full-sized shipping container or train boxcar. Take the precise design, make it out of MD materials, and go for it. This is the vehicle that my brand-new Techno-Wizard will be starting off play with.

Kitsune has one of these on her website, called the Longhorn, and a version produced by Golden Age Weaponsmiths.

HEMTTs are awesome vehicles....road-legal heavy haulers. Want bigger? You have to start looking at strip mine trucks, but start looking at nuclear or TW power conversions, because gas mileage on the big boys stinks.

Then there are these bastards if they ever get built:
http://www.etftrucks.eu/

Bah. You kids think too small. HERE is something that was actually BUILT (and very very rift-y)

That is something I can see techno-wizards would assemble for caravans away from ley lines. Run cargo to location with the Ley Line Trains, then transfer them to that land train for travel through areas without connected ley lines.
Or as a massive traveling fortress roaming through the Pecos Empire.

What about substituting the land trains for hover trains like the Big Bertha (I think that's what it's called, it's made by Northern Gun) from Sourcebook 1: Revised and Expanded

[taalismn]

Coalition Mark V APC, I love to strip it of some of it's weapons (leaving only one laser cupola mount) and drive it arouind as either a mobile garage for an operator or Psi-Tech or as a Medical vehicle for a Body Fixer or Cyber Doc doing humaintatian runs out in the hinterands.

I always thought that with that forward hatch and rear ramp, that the Mark V could be linked together in a 'land train' with passage possible between the linked cars via those hatches, but I guess not. The 'forward hatch' just seems an anomaly of the design(and a possible weakness to the integrity of the forward galcis armor).

[Daeglan]

I have to say the Glitterboy reloader hover vehicle. It is a great party vehicle.

[dragonfett]

party vehicle......you want jaba's sand skiff......og wait, wrong genra....

Did you mean to type genre? At first I thought you were meaning generation, but then I sounded it out and I think that this is what you meant.

[DhAkael]

Coalition Mark V APC, I love to strip it of some of it's weapons (leaving only one laser cupola mount) and drive it arouind as either a mobile garage for an operator or Psi-Tech or as a Medical vehicle for a Body Fixer or Cyber Doc doing humaintatian runs out in the hinterands.

I always thought that with that forward hatch and rear ramp, that the Mark V could be linked together in a 'land train' with passage possible between the linked cars via those hatches, but I guess not. The 'forward hatch' just seems an anomaly of the design(and a possible weakness to the integrity of the forward galcis armor).

LOL... if they had done something like the 40K Land-Raider, it might have worked.
Ah well *shrug*

Another fave vehicle? Heh; the Dessert-Fox hoverbike. I dunno why, but it speaks to me.

[taalismn]

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Another fave vehicle? Heh; the Dessert-Fox hoverbike. I dunno why, but it speaks to me.

Minimalist vehicle, with that big jet engine between your legs....Yeah, short of riding a cannonball, it doesn't get much more daring.

[Gamer]

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Another fave vehicle? Heh; the Dessert-Fox hoverbike. I dunno why, but it speaks to me.

Minimalist vehicle, with that big jet engine between your legs....Yeah, short of riding a cannonball, it doesn't get much more daring.

How?
It's one of if not the slowest hover bikes in the setting.

[taalismn]

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Another fave vehicle? Heh; the Dessert-Fox hoverbike. I dunno why, but it speaks to me.

Minimalist vehicle, with that big jet engine between your legs....Yeah, short of riding a cannonball, it doesn't get much more daring.

How?
It's one of if not the slowest hover bikes in the setting.

Still, a spill from that thing going at speed can still kill yah...

Of course, now we have the Overdrive Hovercycle from Black Market....

[abtex]

Ok. It's not Palladium, but looks like something they would do.

Mercedes-Benz Ener-G-Force Concept

Mercedes-Benz Ener-G-Force Concept
Inspired by futuristic vision of law enforcement circa the year 2025, the Mercedes-Benz Ener-G-Force concept looms over the crowd here at the LA Auto Show with a, enormous footprint and imposing presence. In the flesh, this larger-than-life design exercise suggests the triple-pointed star isn't afraid of embracing bold, fearsome forms. Pie-in-the-sky tech features—such as a "hydro-tech converter" that feeds water from roof-mounted tanks to a fuel cell powerplant—suggest that out-of-the-box engineering ideas are still alive and kicking at Mercedes-Benz.

(from: Hot New Cars from LA Auto Show 2012 - Popular Mechanics )

[Razzinold]

I like to hover ambulance from Triax/NGR - slightly modify it to suit my particular needs. For example we retrofitted the "hospital" part to be more of a cyber doc shop (we were all full conversion borgs so any squsihies who got hurt were out of luck). Same vehicle but added a scientific laboratory to it, one time a mechanic/TW's wet dream work shop.

I also like the Road Boss (I believe that's the name) the motorcycle with the shoulder mounted gun, the tarantula jump bike, robotic horse can be useful. A disguised Mark 5 APC.

[Gamer]

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[Jay05]

The Rolling Thunder is an old fave.Personally there's always been something about the Road Boss bike from J U that I love, and for group transport, I've always loved the IWO-JIMA MIFV from Underseas. Only requires 3 to operate can transport up to 10 troops, has decent speed and weapons. A little light on MDC but that could be modified after-market and it's land/water capable. Sounds like $$$ to me.

[popscythe]

Only one?

I'd say the original SAMAS.

If I get a top 3, I'd go SAMAS, USA G10, Spider-Skull Walker in no particular order.

[SAMASzero]

For purposes of this thread, refer to this definition:

Vehicle: any means in or by which someone travels or something is carried or conveyed...

Ie. SAMAS is a vehicle.

I am not!

[Akashic Soldier]

For purposes of this thread, refer to this definition:

Vehicle: any means in or by which someone travels or something is carried or conveyed...

Ie. SAMAS is a vehicle.

I am not!

*climbs up onto SAMASzero's shoulders and whips him with a riding crop*

[Comrade Corsarius]

I cant believe im the first one to choose deathshead transport. Come on people, its a giant flying skull with firepower!

Flying square-rigged sailing ship is still significantly cooler.

[Icefalcon]

I cant believe im the first one to choose deathshead transport. Come on people, its a giant flying skull with firepower!

To me it always looked like a flying submarine.