Equipment (Vehicles)

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EQUIPMENT (VEHICLES)

# Vehicles

Vehicles are described by a
number of statistics, as shown on Table: Vehicles.

**Crew:** The standard number of crew. In most cases, only one
person is needed to drive the vehicle; other crew members serve as gunners or
copilots.

**Passengers:** The number of passengers (in addition to the crew) the
vehicle is designed to carry. Vehicles that carry passengers can use that space
to carry additional cargo when passengers aren’t present. Each unused passenger
slot allows the vehicle to carry an additional 100 pounds of cargo.

**Cargo Capacity:** The amount of cargo the vehicle is designed to carry.
Many vehicles can carry extra passengers instead of cargo, but doing so is
usually a cramped, uncomfortable, and often unsafe experience for those
passengers. As a rule of thumb, one additional passenger can be carried for
each 250 pounds of unused cargo capacity.

**Initiative:** The modifier added to the driver’s or pilot’s
initiative check when operating the vehicle.

**Maneuver:** The modifier added to any Drive or Pilot checks attempted
with the vehicle.

**Top Speed:** The maximum number of squares the vehicle can cover in
1 round at character scale (with the number of squares at chase scale in
parentheses). This is the fastest the vehicle can move.

**Defense:** The vehicle’s Defense.

**Hardness:** The vehicle’s hardness. Subtract this number from any
damage dealt to the vehicle.

**Hit Points:** The vehicle’s full normal hit points.

**Size:** Vehicle size categories are defined differently from
the size categories for weapons and other objects.

**Purchase DC:** This is the purchase DC for a Wealth check to acquire
the vehicle. This number reflects the base price and doesn’t include any
modifier for purchasing the vehicle on the black market.

**Restriction:** The restriction rating for the vehicle, if any, and
the appropriate black market purchase DC modifier. Remember to apply this
modifier to the purchase DC when making a Wealth check to acquire the vehicle
on the black market.

All aircraft, from
one-seaters to jumbo jets, are controlled by the use of the Pilot skill. A few
examples are provided here from the variety of airgoing vehicles that might be
available to characters.

Most new civilian cars
include such standard features as air conditioning, air bags, antilock brakes,
cruise control, keyless entry, and an AM/FM radio with CD player. Luxury
vehicles often also include extras such as heated side mirrors, power seats,
leather upholstery, and sunroofs. In general, these luxury amenities can be
added to a nonluxury car with an increase of 1 to the vehicle’s purchase DC.

Unless otherwise noted,
civilian cars provide three-quarters cover for their occupants (although
passengers who lean out of windows or sunroofs, perhaps to fire weapons, may be
reduced to one-half or even one-quarter cover).

Unlike getting into a car,
mounting a motorcycle is a free action. Motorcycles tend to perform better than
automobiles, but they provide no cover to their occupants.

Trucks include pickups, sport
utility vehicles, vans, and minivans. They generally have the same features as
civilian cars.

Like cars, trucks generally
provide three-quarters cover to their occupants. The rear bed of a pickup
truck, however, provides only one-half cover.

The military version can be
configured in a variety of ways, including a two-door pickup, a four-door
pickup with a short bed, and a completely enclosed, SUVlike body with a
hatchback and four doors. It lacks the luxury accessories of the civilian
version, but it is equipped with puncture-resistant tires.

A Hummer is two squares wide
and four squares long.

Piloting a water vehicle is
covered by the Drive skill.

A few types of vehicles don’t
fit neatly into the categories covered above. Many of these (such as the
armored truck and the limousine) are usually custom built, so the model name
isn’t specified as it is with most other vehicles in this section. The
description and stats reflect a typical model.

It provides three-quarters cover for occupants in the cab and full cover for any
in the back.

### NABI Model 40LFW

This is a typical city bus.
It has a door at the front and a second door about halfway down the right-hand
side. This vehicle is two squares wide and eight squares long. It provides
three-quarters cover for crew and passengers.

## Military Vehicles

Several military vehicles are
covered here. In addition, a number of the civilian vehicles covered above,
such as the AM General Hummer and the Bell Model 212 helicopter, are commonly
seen in military service.

### BMP-2

A Soviet-era armored
personnel carrier, the BMP is used by the Russian army and more than twenty
ex-Soviet states or clients. It is crewed by a driver, a gunner, and a
commander. It has three top hatches, one above each crew position, and a large
door in back for infantry soldiers to load or disembark. It takes a full-round
action to enter the vehicle through a top hatch and another full-round action
to start it moving. The BMP-2 is three squares wide and four squares long. It
provides full cover to its occupants.

This vehicle comes equipped
with a 30mm cannon (see Table: Vehicle Weapons) mounted in a full turret.

### M1A2 Abrams

This is the U.S. Army’s main
battle tank, probably the most advanced and powerful tank in the world. It is
crewed by a driver, a gunner, a gun loader, and a commander. It has three top
hatches, one for the driver and two on the turret. (The driver’s position
cannot be reached from the other positions, which are all in the turret.) It
takes a full-round action to enter a tank and another full-round action to
start it moving. The Abrams is three squares wide and six squares long. It
provides full cover to its occupants.

This vehicle comes equipped
with a tank cannon (see Table: Vehicle Weapons) and an M2HB heavy machine gun
(see Table: Ranged Weapons), both mounted in full turrets.

### M2A2 Bradley

This is the U.S. Army’s
principal armored personnel carrier. It is crewed by a driver, a gunner, and a
commander. It has three top hatches, one above each crew position, and a large
door in back for infantry soldiers to load or disembark. It takes a full-round
action to enter the vehicle through a top hatch, and another full-round action
to start it moving. In addition to its own armament, the Bradley’s passenger
compartment has ports that allow passengers to fire their personal weapons from
within the vehicle. The Bradley is three squares wide and four squares long. It
provides full cover to its occupants.

This vehicle comes equipped with a 25mm cannon (see
Table: Vehicle Weapons) mounted in a full turret.

### M113A1 Gavin

Introduced in 1960s and for
many years a mainstay of the U.S. Army, this tracked armored personnel carrier
is now in use by more than fifty countries. It is crewed by a driver and a
commander, and features a top hatch above each position as well as a rear door.
It takes a full-round action to enter the vehicle through a top hatch and
another full-round action to start it moving. The Gavin is three squares wide
and four squares long. It provides full cover to its occupants.

### UH-60 Black Hawk

Introduced in the 1980s to
replace the aging UH-1, the Black Hawk is the U.S. Army’s primary utility
helicopter. The UH-60 is three squares wide and twelve squares long. It
provides three-quarters cover to crew and passengers (one-quarter cover to
passengers if the cargo doors are open).