Death Head Transport

[Phaze]

Is there good floor plan or design of the transport somewhere?

I want to have a party start their adventures in one while being transported for "processing" after being captured and arrested for aiding a Debee.

[Grell]

As best I can tell it's a crew compartment and a troop compartment, not much else there aside from a possible bulkhead separating the two. If you've ever been inside a C-5 at an air show or something, I imagine it's a lot like that. But to your question, I don't know of any actual floor plans for the Death's Head.

[Zer0 Kay]

As best I can tell it's a crew compartment and a troop compartment, not much else there aside from a possible bulkhead separating the two. If you've ever been inside a C-5 at an air show or something, I imagine it's a lot like that. But to your question, I don't know of any actual floor plans for the Death's Head.

uh a c-5 has a crew compartment, a cargo deck, a troop deck and a galley.

[Grell]

Yes, hence the point of reference.

[Zer0 Kay]

Yes, hence the point of reference.

Hence, hence? How does saying it has 2 areas equal a reference to an aircraft with 4? It would be more correct to equate it to the C-130 or C-17 for just two areas.

[Grell]

A Death's Head could have more than two areas, in which case the C-5 layout would be a good example to draw upon for floor plans. My assumption is that it only consists of a crew compartment and a cargo hold and wouldn't require any floor plans in order to have a scene inside of it.

[Alrik Vas]

Are the guns on a deaths head controlled from the mount our by the pilot or copilot? And why the crap isn't it equipped with flares?

[Zer0 Kay]

Are the guns on a deaths head controlled from the mount our by the pilot or copilot? And why the crap isn't it equipped with flares?

because your assuming that missiles are only heat seaking. What if they're multi sensorsd and combine radar, heat signature and visual/video recognition? A flare, or chaff or cammoflauge won't work by itself.

[kaid]

I don't think there have ever been floor plans for a deaths head but assume given its cargo lifting capability one very large open cargo hold for the big iron/vehicles/power armor storage. Probably a second smaller troop assembly area bare minimum seats packed pretty close together. The big question would be how much crew space is needed. Obviously there is a cockpit area probably with bunks/sleeper areas. The turrets may or may not be manned if they are then there would be walkways/cooridors rooms for that although it is possible that they are operated from gunenr stations in the cockpit. Frankly the later would probably be the safer having the gunners in the most armored spot possible instead of being in the turret blisters.

Something along the lines of the C130 or that huge russian transport are likely form follows function to a large extant when dealing with mass cargo haulers.

[Phaze]

Alright... Good info to know. I might crack open my Campain Cartagrapher and try a hand at making a map for the fun of it.

Does it have stats such as height, length , and width?

[kaid]

Yes the description has the basic stats of lenght/height/width and also some information on how much of certain big items it can contain for things like deaths head transports and the size information of those gives at least a bit of an idea how big the cargo bays are.

[taalismn]

Possibly an upper troop deck and side walkways to access the lateral point defense gun turrets.

Then again, I'm using car ferries as a conceptual image to wrap my mind around the size of the DHTs.

[Alrik Vas]

Are the guns on a deaths head controlled from the mount our by the pilot or copilot? And why the crap isn't it equipped with flares?

because your assuming that missiles are only heat seaking. What if they're multi sensorsd and combine radar, heat signature and visual/video recognition? A flare, or chaff or cammoflauge won't work by itself.

Then pretend I said "dedicated missile defense"

[Jerell]

I'm with you, of course it should have dedicated missile defense. Flares, chaffs, and video blinding lasers, or whatever it needs to have a chance to defeat whatever rifts tech missiles use to track.

[Zer0 Kay]

Are the guns on a deaths head controlled from the mount our by the pilot or copilot? And why the crap isn't it equipped with flares?

because your assuming that missiles are only heat seaking. What if they're multi sensorsd and combine radar, heat signature and visual/video recognition? A flare, or chaff or cammoflauge won't work by itself.

Then pretend I said "dedicated missile defense"

Alright pretending engaged... Yeah no kidding they should have dedicated anti missile fragmentation minimissile launchers with a rapid fire long range lasers that do a few MD on all CS vehicles. That way, it has unlimited ammo to try to destroy volleys and if it gets too close an increased chance to do the same with mini missiles.

[Zer0 Kay]

I'm with you, of course it should have dedicated missile defense. Flares, chaffs, and video blinding lasers, or whatever it needs to have a chance to defeat whatever rifts tech missiles use to track.

What if it uses innertial guidance that is updated by encrypted burst transmission from the launching mechs sensor system? What if... Meh, just blow them up.

[Alrik Vas]

but only because shooting down missiles is totally a thing. And yeah, shooting them down with automated turrets and mini-missile launchers is g2g for me. And i agree, the majority of their hardware should have these systems.

[Zer0 Kay]

but only because shooting down missiles is totally a thing. And yeah, shooting them down with automated turrets and mini-missile launchers is g2g for me. And i agree, the majority of their hardware should have these systems.

I figure all the land vehicles can have four clear domes. One on each flank and front and back all at a 45 degree angle on the edge. Each one is a scatter array, cuz it is a lot simpler than they (PB) are trying to make it out to be with NG stealing Wilks design and not being in ble to figure out how to split a laser.:facepalm: all four are powered or rather fed by the same laser that has its beam directed where ever its needed.