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Vehicle Design Guide

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Rafe watched the shell from his tank’s 120mm main gun hit the enemy grav tank on the rear quarter facing, punching through the thin armour and sending it spiraling into the side of the closest hill where it exploded into a large fireball. He fancied he heard the tiny shattered pieces patter off the front glacis of his turret.

“Next position Jessika, before they pick on us”

“Aye Skipper”

As his tank swung out of its hide and disappeared into the piled up rubble of the small town, Rafe smiled at the stupidity of an enemy thinking they could mount a big energy gun onto an armoured vehicle and still not provide sufficient armour to protect it. High tech fools.

So you need a vehicle and cannot find the right one? Does the vehicle you have lack for speed or a big gun?

With the Vehicle Design Guide you can simply design your own with your specifications to suit your setting and campaign.

The VDG allows you to design pretty much any vehicle type for any role you can think of. From massive sea going battleships to fast grav vehicles perfect for fast jaunts around the new world your player’s battered trader has arrived to explore.

Included in the VDG are multiple chassis types, weapon types, armour rules and all manner of internal and external options for any design. Further, a new streamlined vehicle combat system is provided. Finally there are over fifty completed vehicles to use in any adventure and for any setting.

Including with this product are a number of form fillable PDF forms, that you can use for your own creations. They cover all the chassis in the book. 

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Martin F November 13, 2021 5:09 pm UTC
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Vehicle Design Guide has a serious flaw with ranges in Page 19, Vehicle Mounted Weapon Ranges, Table: Weapon range bands, Very Long is missing, Very Distant and Extreme are the same and Continental is to short, I came to this conclusion my Looking up the ranges in Cepheus Engine Science Fiction Role Playing Game Core Rules and Looked up the correct ranges for the weapons in page 167 Table: Personal Combat Range Bands to get the correct Ranges for this Guide...

Also in this Vehicle Design Guide: Page 47, Heavy Jet Table performance, TL 9-11 Lists speed as 100 km/hr, while the rest of the table is higher in speed than this TL, To get the right speed: GO to Page45 and look upLight Jet, Table: Performance and see TL 9-11 the Light Jet lists 1000 km/hr

All in all I like your book and keep up the fine work!!

MartyWF
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Ernest R September 10, 2021 4:42 pm UTC
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Question on the PDF download: 2 files that look like they are probably the same content, but vastly different sizes - is there any reason to keep the larger one? They both have bookmarks, and are searchable, and appear to have the same art.
VDG27Upload.pdf = 36MB
VDG27Uploadv3.pdf = 13MB
Thanks!
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Ian S May 14, 2019 8:16 am UTC
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Included designs.

TL3 Windrider Hydrogen Balloon
TL1 Quinquereme Rowing Galley
TL1 Trireme Rowing Galley
TL 3 38 Sailing Frigate
TL 8 Deep Diving Sub
TL 5 Armoured Cruiser
TL 8 Guided Missile Destroyer
TL 7 Rigid Hull Boat
TL 12 Medium Combat Walker
TL10 Exoskeletong Powerlifter
TL 10 Rock Crawler
TL 7 10 Tonne Truck
TL 10 All Terrain Excavator
TL 12 ATV
TL 8 Automated Ore Train
TL 12 Global Explorer Hovercraft
TL 10 Long Duration Survey Rover
TL 10 Regional Maglev Train
TL 10 Micro Car
TL 7 Off Road Utility Vehicle
TL 9 Smart Car
TL 6 Tracked Motor Sled
TL 8 All Terrain Armoured Recon Vehicle
TL 12 Conway Main Battle Tank
TL 6 Air Cusion Patrol Craft
TL5 MK IV Heavy Tank (Male)
TL8 Infantry Fighting Vehicle
TL10 Grav Transport
TL11 Police Patrol Grav Bike
TL 11 Police Patrol Flyer
TL 10 Air/Raft
TL12 Air Taxi
TL11...See more
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May 13, 2019 12:03 am UTC
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Well, if you like design guides, you might like this one. I cannot say that I got my money's worth, but there are no refunds for downloads. They use an indefinite volume called "space" for all of their calculations, which means that you are never sure how large something is unless converted to dTons. However, since they have a Greek Trireme taking up more dTons than a 38-gun frigate, something is clearly wrong with what they are doing. I would not say much for any of their historical vehicles, nor for their historical weapons effects. I found myself asking whether or not they bothered to do any research at all for their historical stuff? The answer that I kept getting was no, no research.
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Warren E March 09, 2020 11:31 pm UTC
Since dTons is volume, not mass (though 1 dTon=5 metric tons), could it be that a Greek trireme may take up more volume than a 38-gun frigate in some way?
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May 14, 2020 6:42 am UTC
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Have you ever looked up the dimensions of a Greek Trireme compared to a 36 gun Frigate? The Trireme is shorter, has much less draft, and has much less above water volume than a trireme. It also has less beam. The only way you can increase the volume of the trireme is to include the oars being out, but if you do that you have to include the rigging of the Frigate. Go take a look at a good book on the hisotry of warships.
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James S April 28, 2019 5:11 pm UTC
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Any chance of a preview?
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Ian S April 28, 2019 8:24 pm UTC
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Fixed, I forget they have changed the preview system.
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James S April 29, 2019 12:33 am UTC
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Thanks looks good buying it shortly
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