Count Loonard's Flying Emporium

 The subject of this article is Revenger-class Superheavy Tank, but frankly, it is more of a moving base military center than a tank. My main goal in designing it was to test GURPS Spaceships capability of making tanks and  to make a somewhat believable Superheavy to be potentially used in one of my campaigns. Here is the base Spaceships stats of this thing.   Front Center Rear 1 Armor, Metallic Laminate (15 dDR) Armor, Metallic Laminate (15 dDR) Armor, Metallic Laminate (15 dDR) 2 Armor, Light Alloy (10 dDR) Armor, Light Alloy (10 DR) Armor, Light Alloy (10 DR) 3 Tactical Comm/sensor array (Level 9 ) Major Battery (EM gun turret, 20cm) ! Major Battery (Missile Launcher , 40 cm) 4 Tracked Drivetrain ! Major Battery (EM gun Turret 20cm) ! Tracked Drivetrain ! ...

 To begin my Spaceship ramblings, I will start from the get go, and from the situation the partially inspired me to start this blog.  Several days ago, while I was procrastinating by planning various vessels for my dream campaign about sky pirates fighting steampunk robots, and simultaneously flipping through Steampunk Conveyances, I have noticed one thing . In the entry for Majestic -class Pre-Dreadnought battleship, I noted, that it has a lot of armor - something around DR 500 in the hull and 700+ in some other vital area. Having just flipped through Spaceships 7, which contains an Ether Ironclad, that's supposed to be inspired by a similar vessel (those among you, who are of great knowledge of history of vessels marine will doubtless note to me, that Pre-Dreadnought battleships are not, in fact, ironclads, and were actually clad in some kind of steel - to which I would reply, that Spaceships armor is pretty abstract, and that Iron Armor can actually represent a TL5 steel, f...