TA6 Vehicle Weights

[justacaveman]

The rules for determining the weight of vehicles in the THB and TA6 appear to completely divorced from reality.

The rules treat unarmored and armored vehicles of equal volume exactly the same.

A TL15 Intrepid Heavy Fusion Tank in TA6 is 29,250vl. This translates to 29.25 metric tons (1kg per vl). At 29,250vl an Intrepid would have a volume of 146.25 cubic meters. Water weighs 1 metric ton per cubic meter, and steel weighs about 7 metric tons per cubic meter. This heavily armored tank will float in the water like a boat. An M1 Abrams tank is much smaller, weighs more than twice as much, and definitly doesn't float.

In order to address this apparent defect, I would suggest adding armor weight seperately. Armor should weigh about 25kg per vl. This should be added to the normally computed vehicle weight. An Intrepid would weigh only 146.25 metric tons with this formula (Neutral Bouyancy), and would be quite light for it's size.

Could anyone explain where I am wrong in this post?

 

[Anthony]

Well, bonded superdense is more like 150kg/vl, and even iron is 76kg/vl.

 

[tjoneslo]

You are not wrong. The vehicle weights are wacked out. So are the volumes for some craft. It comes down to the T20 vehicle design system using one statistic (vls) for both weight and volume. So don't expect vehicles designed with the T20 system to pass any kind of reality check.

 

[justacaveman]

I was being generous with the weights, since I didn't have the actual armor weight data on hand.

Heck, a little old M113 APC weighs about 11 tons, has aluminum armor, and barely floats as it is. Fill it up with a full load, and you're in for an underwater recovery operation (This is from personal experience, luckily I was watching from the shore).