Secret Weapon of Whatchamacalistan

 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, 40cm)

4

Tracked Drivetrain !

Major Battery (EM gun Turret 20cm) !

Tracked Drivetrain !

5

Habitat
(Strategy and Tactics ops centers (2))

Tertiary Battery (Lasers, RF, 3MJ, 30) !

Power Plant, Fuel Cell
(1 PP)

6

Control Room (6 control station, C8 computer, com/sensor array level 7)

Tertiary Battery (Lasers, RF, 3MJ, 30) !

ECM, Area jammer (-1 to hit it and anything nearby)

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Power Plant, Fission Reactor
(compact) (2 PP)

Power Plant, Fission Reactor
(Compact) (2 PP)


Missile Launcher has space for 30 2.5 megaton nuclear warheads, but the tank probably carries much less.
The bridge crew consists of Commander, Chief Strategist, Chief Technician, Chief Gunner, Comms Officer and Driver/Navigator

Ground Move is 2/20

The tank commonly travels with an escort, equal to a small army. In Mass Combat terms that would be around 20-30 units of Riflemen, APCs to hold them and probably buggies for reconnaissance + all the logistics force needed to support these troops.

In battle, it acts as an artillery piece first and foremost. Its huge railgun cannons can destroy any big vehicle that approaches it. In close combat, and against aerial enemies Revenger resorts to it's batteries of laser guns (at TL9, these are probably chemical infrared lasers, spewing toxic fumes as they work) - same goes for rockets.


As you can see, Revenger is made with TL9 tech, and is pretty rad as a center of  it's small army. Its main weakness would be how power-hungry it is, making its reactors unstable - basically turning the tank itself into a moving nuke. 
In a narrative sense, Revenger is designed to be either a kind of McGuffin or a superweapon, being slightly inspired by Metal Gear series. The one that's too dangerous to destroy outright, and that has to be taken down by a mobile group of flexible Infiltrators (a.k.a The PCs)

with DR 250, it's actually not that armored, and we will try to fix this in future posts, but for now - this a small quick post, about a big, slow tank that can unleash nuclear death upon anything... provided it can see it.


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