Shrieking Banshee wrote:Eh, I think its about Troll sized. Its mentioned to describe that the Hatchiman is supposed to be super "Dangerous despite being old" and that never made sense too me until I realized that its higher body means more armor and power for a smaller package which can fit in a corridor.
I mean the Mistuhama Otamo is designed to be metahumanish despite being Body 6, which says there is not a super exact body-size correlation.
There's no super exact Body-size correlation and even the imprecise correlation they use scales differently for vehicle Body than metahuman Body.
Vehicular Body 6 means the vehicle may, with the approval of a freshly fellated GM, be large enough to mount an Aztechnology Itzcoatl Railgun. But that Body applies to trucks as well as things that are about troll size.
As far as weapons for vehicles smaller than a Tata Hotspur go, you're best off with either a Barret or an Ares Thunderstruck (if you use the unofficial errata that all railguns have AP/half on top of AP reduction) against hard targets - or a minigun for supression capability and laying down the hurt on soft targets. Combine with an area-effect weapon if you have a mount left over. Missiles are fuckexpensive, so you'll usually go for a grenade launcher. Get the one with the ammo drum and mod it with an ammo skip system to choose between a couple dozen different grenades.
This means that building a T-1 works pretty well, you just have to modify the Hachiman for Walker mode. It's a "centaur" drone, humanoid upper body on top of a wheeled platform. The armor looks like samurai armor, but you could easily apply the pimped ride modification to make it look
exactly like a larger version of the T-1. This, btw, rightfully gives you a bonus to your Intimidation (Terminator) skill.
For smaller drones, just go for any SMG. No recoil + the option to add an external ammo feed mean they're all interchangeable. So you can get a bunch of throwaway drones, slap Sandler TMPs for, what, threefiddy nuyen a piece on them and you're done.