RT-3 scout walker

RT-3 scout walker

After a pair of very light recce walkers in the late 1930's failed to prove satisfactory (inspired by German designs from earlier in the decade and Japanese designs captured in skirmishes near Manchuria), the more capable RT-3 debuted with Russian forces in late 1941. The RT-3 is reasonably fast (on and off road) and has a good range (410 miles at 18 mph). It suffers from thin armor and the general Soviet lack of radios.

(Nothing in this design is exclusively Russian; it could be used by most nations without any chnage to stats)

The RT-3 uses 2.7 gallons of gasoline per hour at routine usage.

Subassemblies: Medium Walker chassis +2, 2¥Heavy Walker legs +2.
Powertrain: 60-kW gasoline engine with 60-kW legged transmission and 69-gallon self-sealing fuel tank; 8,000-kWs batteries
Occupancy: 1 CS body Cargo: 2.5 Body.

Armor
Body: F 4/80, RL 4/60, B 4/40, TU 4/20
Legs: 4/15

Weaponry
Ground LMG [Body:F] (2,000).
20mm Long Ground AC [Body:F] (225).

Equipment
Body: 2xsmoke dischargers.

Statistics

Size: 6'x6'x9' Payload : 0.42 tons Lwt: 4.6 tons

Volume: 38.5
Maint.: 85 hours Price: $5,500

HT: 9.
HP: 160 Body, 47 each Leg.

gSpeed: 29
aAccel: 12
aDecel: 20 aMR: 2
aSR: 1

Very Low Ground Pressure. Full Off-Road Speed.

Design Notes
All the mecha rules from W:WW were used, except for the “cheap” transmission cost from the core book (see Variants for an “expensive” transmission). An exception is gAccel, which uses the “kick start” rule from VE2. The design gAccel, which was used for gSpeed determination was 3 (for mecha with a top speed under 30mph, the “kick start” acceleration is: 4 x top speed / speed factor (p.W146)).

To reduce weight to keep the ground pressure Very Low, the leg's cost, weight, base DR and HPs were divided by two.

There is sufficient top deck space for up to three riflemen or scouts to ride on the RT-3. Carrying even one soldier externally reduced ground pressure to Low (4/5 OR speed).

Variants
A command version adds a medium range radio transmitter and reciever.

Most variants have slightly different armaments, replacing the 20mm Long Ground AC. Some mount a faster firing 20mm Long Aircraft AC with 270 rounds while othershave a harder hitting 23mm Long Aircraft AC with 125 rounds. All of these retain the coaxial LMG. One rare version mounts 8 (!) Ground LMGs with 500 rounds per gun.

Some have top-mounted launch rails for six 82mm rockets or two 132mm rockets (treat as hardpoints). Untul the rockets are fired, ground pressure is Low (4/5 OR speed)

Size: 6'x6'x9'	Payload : 0.42 tons	Lwt: 4.6 tons
Volume: 38.5	Maint.: 85 hours	Price: $5,500