IST in GURPS 4e—Tech Levels

[Mark Skarr]

So, if we base the U.N. Powered Armor off of the Powered Combat Armor (pp 183, 186) in UltraTech . . . we could have:

U.N. Powered Armor (TL9^)Treat as Powered Combat Armor, but

• Replace Super Jump 1 with Flight (Limited Use, 4/day, slow reload)
• Add Super Flight 1 (move 20)
• Decrease DR from 70/50 to 50/40.
• Built-in Sonic Stun Pistol (TL10; pg 125)
• Heavy Blaster Pistol (TL11, pg 123) mounted on each wrist

This gives the suit 4 minutes of flight at 40 mph, which can be recharged.  And brings the DR down to where SAWs aren’t going to be a problem, but anti-materiel weapons will be.  And it doesn’t step on the toes of Supers.  I went with Heavy Blaster Pistols instead of rifles because they do slightly less damage than the 3rd edition Rifles (4d burn vs 4d+4 imp) and they have an armor divisor of (5).  So, though they're not getting the injury doubling for penetrating damage, they're more likley to get some penetrating damage.

A lot of the technology has changed in GURPS, so we may have to totally look at revamping all of the Suit’s systems.