Gerwalks generally are capable of Very Short takeoffs, basically they take a running step or two and jump, while most battroids can't take off or maintain level flight but can descend slowly enough to land safely from any altitude. The Lightning has mini-jets at the knees (where the oil coolers are OTL) and can actually extend its wings in B and get its engine pods up to high angles, so it can maintain a slow and awkward sort of flight at low altitudes even in B, and the Gerwalk's configuration makes it well suited for taking off with a heavy ordnance load, an intentional part of the design as a long-range "interceptor"/heavy fighter-bomber. Any of them should be able to land on their feet with zero rollout (runout?) in B or G unless they're too damaged to stay intact while trying. The alien mecha, even mook Kloggs, and the UMe-262 are fully VTOL capable in G and can hover or fly slowly in B due to their leg mounted jet engines.
I hadn't actually considered reciprocating fusion-pulse engines... that could work very well for the simpler stuff like heavy trucks and support equipment, but I doubt it would have a cycle time suitable for something high-revving like aircraft engines even if most of the mecha (well, half of them so far modeled) use pop-out propellers intended to have a gang of mini-turboshaft engines positioned around the cylindrical space they retract into. I'd forgotten that little wrinkle myself when we were discussing possible designs for the Navy mecha - it makes for a convenient way to get rid of propeller-chest since Battroids really don't have any business doing things in the air aside from pouncing on a large enemy or suddenly turning around to shoot at that guy who was hard on their tail. Mostly they're for dealing with other battroids, or the larger sort of bioengineered alien critters that escaped into the wild during the original ship's final orbit and crash - bodies designed to maintain and repair starship frames and hull plating can be quite dangerous when separated from their intended work zones and trained cues, and most were in fact designed to be territorial and hostile to intruders to double as an anti-boarding defense. The original ship was a fleet supply vessel so it had quite a few of them aboard, and fertile "alpha" or "queen" types at that.
I'm glad to see that the example makes things understandable - I hope you don't mind having been coopted for it, but since Razor is the only character who's been posted I wasn't exactly spoilt for choices.
For reference, Average Guy On The Street has straight 2Mp stats, while "normal human maximum" (where a powerlifter who can clean and jerk 800lb is a "normal human") is 5Mp, and I'm looking at 4-6Mp as the most likely range for starting PCs thanks to psychic space magic bullshit reinforcing them. A trained professional like a policeman or grunt soldier might have two or even three at 3Mp in their areas of expertise.
Stats are not quite nailed down, but current thinking is thus:
Physical:
Agility, Strength, Endurance
Mental:
Knowledge(? Education? ??), Reason, Willpower
Mystical(? Spiritual? Emotional? Not sure about the group name):
Intuition, Empathy(? Charisma? Qi? Zen? Heart? ???), Psyche - I actually lean towards Heart the most, of the listed options.
Or, organized by their use:
Skill:
Agility, Education(??), Intuition - most common AV scores, the sum of all three is base Initiative.
Power:
Strength, Reason, Empathy(???) - TK works off Reason, Empathy from the stat that I don't want to have doubling up the name. Strength is for face-punching, as usual.
Resistance:
Endurance, Willpower, Psyche - these double as your hit points in each category, as shown in the example above with END.
Minmay/Basara style HRT/PSY attacks, buffs and debuffs are an important factor since a) pilots are so rare that everybody would rather have prisoners than dead enemies, and b) the Bluo and other low-caste types in the Zzard Imperium typically have little exposure/resistance to such things due to their highly-regimented and forcibly ascetic, austere lifestyles. Yes, my Macross is showing again. I am unashamed.
Cinematic Points would be the other entry on your basic stat-block, able to be spent 1 to 1 to raise your Mp for one action. For PCs I'm currently thinking 5 to start that refill between "issues" (to put it in comics terms, since I'm basing it on a mashup of superhero systems) and/or get passed out as rewards for doing something cool. I don't even know about character advancement yet, I have to poke and tweak lots more things before I can even start to figure out how to handle it.
Edit: One more thing - for an analysis of the probabilities of rolling what on 2d10 DARA, look here:
http://www.writeups.org/fiche.php?id=4724
Edit: One more thing: Resources and maybe Reputation would also be standard items for a character stat block, though either one has limited utility for active duty military personnel, whose equipment is supplied by and needs seen to by the service, at least up through the invasion and bombardment.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
I hadn't actually considered reciprocating fusion-pulse engines... that could work very well for the simpler stuff like heavy trucks and support equipment, but I doubt it would have a cycle time suitable for something high-revving like aircraft engines even if most of the mecha (well, half of them so far modeled) use pop-out propellers intended to have a gang of mini-turboshaft engines positioned around the cylindrical space they retract into. I'd forgotten that little wrinkle myself when we were discussing possible designs for the Navy mecha - it makes for a convenient way to get rid of propeller-chest since Battroids really don't have any business doing things in the air aside from pouncing on a large enemy or suddenly turning around to shoot at that guy who was hard on their tail. Mostly they're for dealing with other battroids, or the larger sort of bioengineered alien critters that escaped into the wild during the original ship's final orbit and crash - bodies designed to maintain and repair starship frames and hull plating can be quite dangerous when separated from their intended work zones and trained cues, and most were in fact designed to be territorial and hostile to intruders to double as an anti-boarding defense. The original ship was a fleet supply vessel so it had quite a few of them aboard, and fertile "alpha" or "queen" types at that.
I'm glad to see that the example makes things understandable - I hope you don't mind having been coopted for it, but since Razor is the only character who's been posted I wasn't exactly spoilt for choices.
For reference, Average Guy On The Street has straight 2Mp stats, while "normal human maximum" (where a powerlifter who can clean and jerk 800lb is a "normal human") is 5Mp, and I'm looking at 4-6Mp as the most likely range for starting PCs thanks to psychic space magic bullshit reinforcing them. A trained professional like a policeman or grunt soldier might have two or even three at 3Mp in their areas of expertise.
Stats are not quite nailed down, but current thinking is thus:
Physical:
Agility, Strength, Endurance
Mental:
Knowledge(? Education? ??), Reason, Willpower
Mystical(? Spiritual? Emotional? Not sure about the group name):
Intuition, Empathy(? Charisma? Qi? Zen? Heart? ???), Psyche - I actually lean towards Heart the most, of the listed options.
Or, organized by their use:
Skill:
Agility, Education(??), Intuition - most common AV scores, the sum of all three is base Initiative.
Power:
Strength, Reason, Empathy(???) - TK works off Reason, Empathy from the stat that I don't want to have doubling up the name. Strength is for face-punching, as usual.
Resistance:
Endurance, Willpower, Psyche - these double as your hit points in each category, as shown in the example above with END.
Minmay/Basara style HRT/PSY attacks, buffs and debuffs are an important factor since a) pilots are so rare that everybody would rather have prisoners than dead enemies, and b) the Bluo and other low-caste types in the Zzard Imperium typically have little exposure/resistance to such things due to their highly-regimented and forcibly ascetic, austere lifestyles. Yes, my Macross is showing again. I am unashamed.
Cinematic Points would be the other entry on your basic stat-block, able to be spent 1 to 1 to raise your Mp for one action. For PCs I'm currently thinking 5 to start that refill between "issues" (to put it in comics terms, since I'm basing it on a mashup of superhero systems) and/or get passed out as rewards for doing something cool. I don't even know about character advancement yet, I have to poke and tweak lots more things before I can even start to figure out how to handle it.
Edit: One more thing - for an analysis of the probabilities of rolling what on 2d10 DARA, look here:
http://www.writeups.org/fiche.php?id=4724
Edit: One more thing: Resources and maybe Reputation would also be standard items for a character stat block, though either one has limited utility for active duty military personnel, whose equipment is supplied by and needs seen to by the service, at least up through the invasion and bombardment.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows