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garhkal
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 Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 4:28 am Post subject: T-47 converted to Snow speeders?? |
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According to Wookiepedia, the snow speeders used on Hoth, were converted from Civilian air speeders, known as the T-47. BUT how is that when the snow speeder is listed in the Rebel source book and main rule book at only 5.5 meters long, and the T-47 is 6.7 meters long? So it got up gunned, a bigger engine, heavier armor and shrunk??
Does anyone else think that is funky?
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Thx1138
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| They might be adding the length of the weapons onto the length. The T-47 didn't have any weapons on them so that might shorten the length. |
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CRMcNeill
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 1:45 am Post subject: |
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| Thx1138 wrote: | | They might be adding the length of the weapons onto the length. The T-47 didn't have any weapons on them so that might shorten the length. |
No, it's the other way around. They added weapons, but decreased the length. It should be the other way around, if anything.
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Thx1138
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 1:56 am Post subject: |
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| Well I looked in the rulebook and the T-47I air speeder is same as a Combat Snowspeeder in many respects. One difference is that the T-47I is 4.5 meters and the combat snowspeeder is 5.5 meters. If in all respects the T-47I is the close to the same as the original T-47, the length will be the added laser cannons. |
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CRMcNeill
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| Thx1138 wrote: | | Well I looked in the rulebook and the T-47I air speeder is same as a Combat Snowspeeder in many respects. One difference is that the T-47I is 4.5 meters and the combat snowspeeder is 5.5 meters. If in all respects the T-47I is the close to the same as the original T-47, the length will be the added laser cannons. |
Yeah, I just saw that, too. However, the Star Wars Sourcebook lists the lengths garhkal stated above (Stock T-47 is 6.3 meters, Modified T-47 Snowspeeder is 5.5).
Probably just a type, g.
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Thx1138
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| It is most likely a typo, I find it hard to believe that the alliance would have the ability to down size a vessel since downsizing the vessel could be dangerous size they are optimized to work with that size. Many roleplaying game books have typos that we overlook. In the core rulebook it says that the K4 security droid has 2 auto balance arms. |
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Theodrim
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It's entirely possible that as part of the conversion process, the airframe and fuselage was trimmed down, and extraneous external components ditched or cannibalized. Civilian -- commercial and personal -- vehicles are built with different purposes in mind than military counterparts.
Look, for example, at that most of the T-47's fairing -- likely for aesthetic purposes rather than functional, as aerodynamics clearly plays a minimal role in SW vehicles -- was removed during the conversion process to make room for, or provide accessibility to, blasters. |
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CRMcNeill
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| Theodrim wrote: | | It's entirely possible that as part of the conversion process, the airframe and fuselage was trimmed down, and extraneous external components ditched or cannibalized. Civilian -- commercial and personal -- vehicles are built with different purposes in mind than military counterparts. |
Possible? Maybe. Probable? Unlikely. If that were so, the difference in lengths would be consistent across the various WEG sources, rather than being found only in the Star Wars Sourcebook. When WEG can't even internally agree on something that basic, there isn't really a need to justify it apart from adding it to the lengthy list of WEG errors.
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