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General Details
Name:  Chassis Modification, Dune Buggy
Type (Category):  Equipment (Other)
Reference:  Tactical Operations: Advanced Units & Equipment (p. 115)

Description:
Evolved for the battlefields of the Succession Wars, many conventional vehicles and fighters drew increasingly generalized toward a certain set of standard conditions, which ultimately served to limit their options in terms of environmental functionality. Amphibious capabilities, dune buggy modifications and environmental sealing against vacuum all became optional features, available to a multitude of units, but not commonly seen on the majority.

The dune buggy modification enhances a combat vehicle’s standard motive systems with larger wheels and a higher suspension able to cope with the shifting, sandy terrain of most beaches and deserts. Rare on combat vehicles because it overspecializes the unit and can impair performance in other areas, dune buggy-modified combat vehicles nonetheless have found a home in many combat zones.

Game Rules:
Dune buggy-modified Combat Vehicles disregard the extra MP cost for sand applied to wheeled Combat Vehicles and instead move through sand terrain at a cost of 1 MP per hex. However, the modifications to said vehicles costs 1 Cruising MP in overall performance (with Flanking MP recalculated as normal).
Unit Type Availability
Combat Vehicles
Inner Sphere Data (Combat Vehicles)
Prototype Date:  2470
Production Date:  2471
Extinction Date:  
Recovery Date:  

Combat Vehicle Specific Construction Rules
May be mounted on Inner Sphere units in accordance with the following construction rules:
 Not allowed if Hover, Naval (Displacement Hull), Naval (Hydrofoil), Naval (Submarine), Tracked, VTOL, or WiGE is selected for the unit's Motive Type

WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT COMBAT AND CONSTRUCTION TABLE
Heat
Damage
Range
Rating
Availability
Cost (C-bills)
Weight (Tons)
Criticals
Battle Value
Direct-Fire
Explosive
B
B-B-B-B
10xTTxTT
0
+0.1
TT = Total Unit Tonnage

RULES LEVEL PROGRESSION TABLE
Start Year
End Year
Rules Level
2470
2470
Experimental
2471
Advanced

ALPHA STRIKE WEAPON CONVERSION TABLE
Heat
Short
Medium
Long
Extreme
Special Abilities
Dune Buggy

Special Unit Abilities
The special unit abilities described here are intended for use with the Alpha Strike rule system:
 Dune Buggy (DUN)
A unit with this special ability can move more easily over Sand.

MegaMek Output → Critical Slot:  ISCVDuneBuggyChassis
Record Sheet Output → Critical Slot:  Dune Buggy
Clan Data (Combat Vehicles)
Prototype Date:  2470
Production Date:  2471
Extinction Date:  
Recovery Date:  

Combat Vehicle Specific Construction Rules
May be mounted on Clan units in accordance with the following construction rules:
 Not allowed if Hover, Naval (Displacement Hull), Naval (Hydrofoil), Naval (Submarine), Tracked, VTOL, or WiGE is selected for the unit's Motive Type

WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT COMBAT AND CONSTRUCTION TABLE
Heat
Damage
Range
Rating
Availability
Cost (C-bills)
Weight (Tons)
Criticals
Battle Value
Direct-Fire
Explosive
B
B-B-B-B
10xTTxTT
0
+0.1
TT = Total Unit Tonnage

RULES LEVEL PROGRESSION TABLE
Start Year
End Year
Rules Level
2470
2470
Experimental
2471
Advanced

ALPHA STRIKE WEAPON CONVERSION TABLE
Heat
Short
Medium
Long
Extreme
Special Abilities
Dune Buggy

Special Unit Abilities
The special unit abilities described here are intended for use with the Alpha Strike rule system:
 Dune Buggy (DUN)
A unit with this special ability can move more easily over Sand.

MegaMek Output → Critical Slot:  ClanCVDuneBuggyChassis
Record Sheet Output → Critical Slot:  Dune Buggy