Striker came out, and we all bought it. Then we discovered a flaw in the ointment...weight. A typical Striker TL 13/14/15 APC weighs 400+ tons, the same or more than a Type R Fat Trader. And with less effective weapons, and not as much armor (since ships armor 0=40 Striker armor factor).
Now with High Guard, you design a 20 ton ships boat like vehicle w/ a 1g drive, a ships laser, automatically gets 40 armor, and can carry more troops.
Why the disconnect? We ended up going back to High Guard to build Imperial and other class vessels.
Plus looking at the economies of it, with the Striker system, there is no way any government can afford to invade another system at all with anything other than light grav sleds, leg infantry, and hovercraft. The sheer magnitude of the lift requirements was unbelievable for a mechanized regiment, much less divisions and corps of troops. No way that even the 3rd Imperium could devote that much space/lift capacity/hull tonnage to moving troops.
So how is this reconciled with the notion of the 5th Frontier war's masssive troop movements?
Now with High Guard, you design a 20 ton ships boat like vehicle w/ a 1g drive, a ships laser, automatically gets 40 armor, and can carry more troops.
Why the disconnect? We ended up going back to High Guard to build Imperial and other class vessels.
Plus looking at the economies of it, with the Striker system, there is no way any government can afford to invade another system at all with anything other than light grav sleds, leg infantry, and hovercraft. The sheer magnitude of the lift requirements was unbelievable for a mechanized regiment, much less divisions and corps of troops. No way that even the 3rd Imperium could devote that much space/lift capacity/hull tonnage to moving troops.
So how is this reconciled with the notion of the 5th Frontier war's masssive troop movements?