Starship Troopers Mobile Infantry

[jvankessel]

I was just wondering on how to model these. To clarify, I mean the book's Mobile Infantry, not the troops featured in that godawful movie.

My main concern is the trooper's armour, since I have no idea how the game engine deals with armoured infantry. One troopers per unit, with a 12 to 16 move radius, very high costs and true to fiction weaponry, like flame throwers and missiles.

[Listy]

easy.
Just make them helo's. I've started on a starship troopers MOB for the DosMBT game and there's just enougth helo's to do it with.

The Big problem was modeling the Pee-wee. Even a HEK, Weapon size and warhead size of 255, won't do enougth damage.

I have a question, in one segment of hte book there is hte vauge implcation that the Maurder's carry some form of assualt rilfe or other long ranged weapon. Any Ideas on your part?

[jvankessel]

I wouldn't want to go the Helo way because the MI didn't fly around; they jumped around and were air dropped to their designated battle areas. Their movement would be like that of an APC.
Attached is a MobHack screen capture of how I solved it. The weapons are pulse laser rifles and HE/AP rockets. Not completely realistic, but it fits rather nicely in my Numenorean mod that I'm making.

I'll get back to you on the Marauder rifle. Somewhere on my harddrives I have an ebook version, which should be easy to search through for keywords.

[Listy]

It's on Planet P, when Rico is 3rd LT, jsut after the bugs break out.

The resaon why I picked helicopters is because MI use NOE, but can bounce high, and terrain doesn't affect them.

[jvankessel]

I just reread from when the bugs broke out until Rico was knocked unconscious and I only found references to hand flamers and bombs. The other weapons used were 'tanglefoot' incapacitating nerve gas.

[MacGalin]

Maybe you should try making Game Starship Trooper mod. In game , you had both Power Armored troopers from book, and standard infantry from the movie... And do you plan making the bugs mod?