AlHazred Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 The Paramount Group's Marauder mine-proof military vehicle was recently featured on Top Gear, where 7kg of plastic explosive detonated directly beneath failed to do more than dent the trim and blow out one tire. I thought it was interesting enough to make a conversion, especially with the various configurations on the website. HD character file is here. News article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008398/Top-Gear-finds-worlds-unstoppable-vehicle.html Home page: http://www.paramountgroup.biz/en/products/land/marauder-mine-protected-vehicle Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marauder_%28vehicle%29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper-Man Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Re: Vehicle: The Marauder nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Long Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Re: Vehicle: The Marauder Interesting find... have to remember to include a Marauder writeup in HERO System Vehicles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Re: Vehicle: The Marauder You might also want to check Shadow Hawk Vehicles. http://shadowhawkvehicles.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted June 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Re: Vehicle: The Marauder I like that it forms a middle-ground vehicle between the size of the Hummer and the size of an APC. I plan to use it for my Traveller Hero campaign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted July 4, 2011 Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 Re: Vehicle: The Marauder its an interesting design... nice work except I think the armor rating is a bit too high for a vehicle of this type, they are mostly designed to stop small arms fire and shell fragments, I would probably halve the overall rating, except vs mines and IEDs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted July 4, 2011 Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 Re: Vehicle: The Marauder heres a great site that has a fair bit of info on a lot of modern vehicles... I use it extensively myself among others http://www.army-technology.com/projects/ I have several more of this type of vehicle already written up, just havent posted them yet.. RG series of MRAPs, Aussie Bushmaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted July 4, 2011 Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 Re: Vehicle: The Marauder heres another useful site http://www.warwheels.net/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted July 5, 2011 Report Share Posted July 5, 2011 Re: Vehicle: The Marauder one more site of possible interest, although intended for the Harpoon Wargame, it makes for interesting reading, especially on weapons systems and electronics http://www.harpoondatabases.com/encyclopedia/List_AtoZ.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted July 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2011 Re: Vehicle: The Marauder its an interesting design... nice work except I think the armor rating is a bit too high for a vehicle of this type' date=' they are mostly designed to stop small arms fire and shell fragments, I would probably halve the overall rating, except vs mines and IEDs[/quote']I worked up the rating from comparison of the stats of a Hummer, and working out the damage from 7kg of plastic explosive. I may have to reexamine my numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaming Tonic Posted July 15, 2011 Report Share Posted July 15, 2011 Re: Vehicle: The Marauder I think I am going to come up with this and hit my players with this. The shadowhawk link was pretty sweet as well. I like to have at least one vehicle fight an adventure. So many ideas now. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted July 15, 2011 Report Share Posted July 15, 2011 Re: Vehicle: The Marauder Can I get a copy for the website archive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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