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bandit
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 Posted: 03-Apr-2004 08:08 Post subject: searchlight on vehicle. |
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Loking at some vehicle,seems they got
searchlight like mechs.
The striker in primis.
Did someone of you contemplate this fact?
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Seraph
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| Posted: 03-Apr-2004 08:51 Post subject: RE: searchlight on vehicle. |
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If you look at the 3026 TRO you'll notice that a lot of the vehicles have headlights/spotlights. The headlights are for driving in the dark of course and the spot lights would be to help infantry at night. Or for enemy unit spotting at night or in dark areas(caves, warehouses, etc..)
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Nightmare
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| Posted: 03-Apr-2004 08:58 Post subject: RE: searchlight on vehicle. |
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If the illustration has a searchlight we allow people to use them. Sometimes it's worth it, sometimes not.
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chihawk
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| Posted: 03-Apr-2004 09:12 Post subject: RE: searchlight on vehicle. |
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On 2004-04-03 08:58, Nightmare wrote:
If the illustration has a searchlight we allow people to use them. Sometimes it's worth it, sometimes not.
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Based on their rules, I can't think of anytime when a searchlight is good in combat...
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ralgith
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| Posted: 03-Apr-2004 12:15 Post subject: RE: searchlight on vehicle. |
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Really, I'd rather have night vision/low light amplification systems myself.
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Seraph
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| Posted: 03-Apr-2004 12:31 Post subject: RE: searchlight on vehicle. |
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Night vision won't work in a cavern. There's no ambient light for it work with. Sensors are only so good. They can tell where something is but not necessarily what lies around you, it or between you both.
You could use the spotlights to blind a unit relying on nightvision. To highlight infantry or other low-lying units.
Though I know the headlights on vehicles are for seeing where you are going in the dark, but what about those vehicles that go like 200+ kph? You be past or inside an obstacle before it really registered with your brain. 
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Nightmare
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| Posted: 03-Apr-2004 22:30 Post subject: RE: searchlight on vehicle. |
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On 2004-04-03 08:58, Nightmare wrote:
If the illustration has a searchlight we allow people to use them. Sometimes it's worth it, sometimes not.
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Based on their rules, I can't think of anytime when a searchlight is good in combat...
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2 easier to hit an illuminated target at night is GOOD! Especially if it's an enemy assault mech and you're using a cheap vehicle as the light source. You'll risk (and probably lose) one vehicle every round, but the enemy mech is also taking massed fire. Good deal.
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Motown Scrapper
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| Posted: 04-Apr-2004 01:37 Post subject: RE: searchlight on vehicle. |
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But these have no bussiness beingon a battlefield or public Highway for that matter.They should be used on closed courses only
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chihawk
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| Posted: 04-Apr-2004 07:58 Post subject: RE: searchlight on vehicle. |
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On 2004-04-03 22:30, Nightmare wrote:
2 easier to hit an illuminated target at night is GOOD! Especially if it's an enemy assault mech and you're using a cheap vehicle as the light source. You'll risk (and probably lose) one vehicle every round, but the enemy mech is also taking massed fire. Good deal.
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A great theory except that according to the rules only Battlemechs can carry searchlights...
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Oafman
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| Posted: 04-Apr-2004 10:08 Post subject: RE: searchlight on vehicle. |
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Not to mention only be piloted by remote or by people that are completely nuts.
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| Posted: 04-Apr-2004 10:15 Post subject: RE: searchlight on vehicle. |
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I think that one should go into the obviously flawed rule pile.
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Nightmare
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| Posted: 04-Apr-2004 10:22 Post subject: RE: searchlight on vehicle. |
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On 2004-04-04 07:58, chihawk wrote:
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On 2004-04-03 22:30, Nightmare wrote:
2 easier to hit an illuminated target at night is GOOD! Especially if it's an enemy assault mech and you're using a cheap vehicle as the light source. You'll risk (and probably lose) one vehicle every round, but the enemy mech is also taking massed fire. Good deal.
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A great theory except that according to the rules only Battlemechs can carry searchlights...
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They only talk about mechs in the paragraph on searchlights, true. That doesn't stop a vehicle from carrying one, does it?
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chihawk
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| Posted: 04-Apr-2004 10:40 Post subject: RE: searchlight on vehicle. |
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On 2004-04-04 10:22, Nightmare wrote:
They only talk about mechs in the paragraph on searchlights, true. That doesn't stop a vehicle from carrying one, does it?
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Yes, it does.
They clearly use the word "Battlemechs" in that section meaning that only Battlemechs may mount searchlights. If they intended to include vehicles in that rule they would have used the word "units".
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| Posted: 04-Apr-2004 10:46 Post subject: RE: searchlight on vehicle. |
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That's a little shady...multiply the shadiness of the language with a bit of common sense and I can see vehicles carrying searchlights.
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