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Warhammer: 3025
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 Posted: 28-Mar-2005 04:34 Post subject: Double-Strength Jump Jets |
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The idea was inspired by Double Heat-Sinks, in that, while they operated at double-capacity, and weighed the same, they took up more critical space.
General overview
If a 'mech can be equipped with standard Jump Jets, it can carry Double-Strength Jump Jets (hereafter condensed to DSJJs). DSJJs allow a 'mech to jump two times further than with a standard jump jet. They generate the same amount of heat, and weigh the same, but they occupy two critical slots instead of one. Standard Jump Jets and DSJJs are incompatable: if a 'mech carries DSJJs, it cannot carry standard Jump Jets.
Restrictions
Unlike standard Jump Jets, DSJJs cannot support non-even walking speeds (I know that sentence is confusing, but I'll try to elaborate).
EXAMPLE: A SHD-2H Shadow Hawk has a walking speed of 5. It has a jump rating of 3, thanks to its three Jump Jets. However, convert the Jump Jets to DSJJs, and you have a jump rating of 6. The rules don't allow that, so it has to remove one DSJJ, giving it a legal jump rating of 4.
Benefit
Take the SHD-2H Shadow Hawk in the example above: it has lost a half-ton of weight, which it can use to shore up the armor, and has gained an additional Jump MP.
Downside
Crit-deficient designs, like most 3050+ 'mechs (with their XL Engines, Double Heat-Sinks, Ferro-Fibrous armor, and Endo-Steel structure), Generally don't have the luxury of throwing away crits on non-essential systems like Jump Jets. Their problem generally isn't weight, but a lack of critical slots to allocate items to.
[ This Message was edited by: Warhammer: 3025 on 2005-03-28 04:57 ]
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StarRaven
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| Posted: 28-Mar-2005 05:15 Post subject: RE: Double-Strength Jump Jets |
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An interesting idea.
Sounds sort of like the improved jump jets, which let you jump at your run speed, instead of walk.
Not sure if I like the even jump limitation, but it makes sense enough.
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| Posted: 28-Mar-2005 14:40 Post subject: RE: Double-Strength Jump Jets |
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In the vast majority of cases there is so little gained by this that it makes them almost worthless.
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Delta
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| Posted: 28-Mar-2005 16:40 Post subject: RE: Double-Strength Jump Jets |
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Interesting...very interesting...
Like the DHS but for Jump Jets?
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| Posted: 28-Mar-2005 21:48 Post subject: RE: Double-Strength Jump Jets |
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On 2005-03-28 16:40, Delta wrote:
Interesting...very interesting...
Like the DHS but for Jump Jets?
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You got it exactly. 
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On 2005-03-28 14:40, chihawk wrote:
In the vast majority of cases there is so little gained by this that it makes them almost worthless.
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I can think of many light designs that could benifit from have an extra ton or two.
The WSP-3M Wasp, for example. Replace the 6 standard Jump Jets with three DSJJs, and you can increase the armor from a barely-adequate 2.5 tons, to a maximum load of 4 tons.
The SDR-8M gains 2 tons of space when switching from regular Jump Jets to DSJJs. That's another Medium Pulse Laser, or twin ER Lasers, or another two tons of armor.
So 
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| Posted: 29-Mar-2005 19:08 Post subject: RE: Double-Strength Jump Jets |
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On 2005-03-28 21:48, Warhammer: 3025 wrote:
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On 2005-03-28 14:40, chihawk wrote:
In the vast majority of cases there is so little gained by this that it makes them almost worthless.
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I can think of many light designs that could benifit from have an extra ton or two.
The WSP-3M Wasp, for example. Replace the 6 standard Jump Jets with three DSJJs, and you can increase the armor from a barely-adequate 2.5 tons, to a maximum load of 4 tons.
The SDR-8M gains 2 tons of space when switching from regular Jump Jets to DSJJs. That's another Medium Pulse Laser, or twin ER Lasers, or another two tons of armor.
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Gee, two mechs out of how many thousands of designs?
Like I said, in the vast majority of cases there is so little gained by this that it makes them almost worthless.
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| Posted: 29-Mar-2005 19:12 Post subject: RE: Double-Strength Jump Jets |
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Kinda like the mechanical jump boosters from THB? 
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| Posted: 05-Apr-2005 01:36 Post subject: RE: Double-Strength Jump Jets |
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On 2005-03-29 19:12, Seraph wrote:
Kinda like the mechanical jump boosters from THB?
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They're actually more akin to Improved Jump Jets from Max-Tech.
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