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Geronimo wrote:I'd rather have a TW zeppelin. You could mount bigger and badder weapons on the platform.

yeah but one dragon or CS sky cycle runs up on you and it's OH THE HUMANITY!!!
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RoadWarriorFWaNK wrote:
Geronimo wrote:I'd rather have a TW zeppelin. You could mount bigger and badder weapons on the platform.

yeah but one dragon or CS sky cycle runs up on you and it's OH THE HUMANITY!!!


Not necessarily...you could ensorcel it so that the hydrogen could not combust, or simply use a massive levitation effect. :D
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Borast wrote:yeah but one dragon or CS sky cycle runs up on you and it's OH THE HUMANITY!!!


Not necessarily...you could ensorcel it so that the hydrogen could not combust, or simply use a massive levitation effect. :D[/quote]

You mean, they don't have helium, in the future?

And besides, I'ld use levitate or something instead of gas... then, you'ld really only need the platform... a biiig platform... yeees.... :bandit:

Oh, and before I forget, there were some TW planes mentioned in one of the Rifters, though I forget where.
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MattBaby: Infidel wrote:A TW Battle Barge isn't good enough for you? :p


Who me? Nevaaar! Well... OK... with lots of really big guns, and Gregory peck watching the action from the bridge with a stern face and binoculars.

Anyways, hydrogen isn't really explosive. If it burns, it burns with a clear blue flame, not the roaring orange ones we see spouting out of the Hindenberg. The problem was that they lined the gas chambers with a substance that is now used for solid rocket fuel.


I remember that now... I was aghast when I saw that, like "How could the be so stupid?" but then, I guess they didn't know.
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i was just joking. :-?
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you know zeplines wernt a bad idea, from what ive heard there
cheaper to refuel with a littel update in tech I think they could be a feasable way to get around.
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Janissary wrote:Anyone ever see the batman epsisode where Rash al Gul used a doubled hulled metal zepplin? He had mounted battle ship cannons to it. It was a rather good episode.


That one took place in the Old West right? With that one-eyed gunslinger as a kind of....semi-Batman who stopped Al Gul. Yeah, that was indeed a cool episode.
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1. Any internal combustion engine can be converted to run off of PPE as per the rules in the main book under Techno-Wizards.
2. A zepplin would probably work well... have it run like a wingboard when on a ley line to conserve fuel and toss in a decent Armor of Ithan spell to keep it from taking direct damage and combusting.
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RoadWarriorFWaNK wrote:i was just joking. :-?


I guess we shouldn't mention the TW Titanic...
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DarkBrandon wrote:
RoadWarriorFWaNK wrote:i was just joking. :-?


I guess we shouldn't mention the TW Titanic...

Only if it involves an intense battle with a giant praying mantis named Celine Dion. cuz that wuld rawk
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Krytykyll Hytt wrote:Could someone make a magic World War I aircraft? Like a Sopwith Camel or a SPAD XIII? Could it have its own PPE source rather than work off of the pilot's?


Shouldn't be a problem. Simply modify the gasoline engine into a TW PPE engine ala RMB.

For added fun use the Ironwood spell on your wooden struts to make them MDC, use MDC alloy for the wires, and use MDC fabric ala Urban Warrior armor to make your TW Sopwith a viable weapon for Rifts.

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RoadWarriorFWaNK wrote:
DarkBrandon wrote:
RoadWarriorFWaNK wrote:i was just joking. :-?


I guess we shouldn't mention the TW Titanic...

Only if it involves an intense battle with a giant praying mantis named Celine Dion. cuz that wuld rawk


A giant praying mantis vs a giant mecha-strisand. Winner take all (titanic). Awesome.
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