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[frostgiant]

"Boarder" Hardlight Parkour gear Light assault gear
Consisting of a pair of Gauntlets and a pair of boots, The Boarder system is designed with a Small hardlight generator inside of each piece of apparel.
From the outside, when not in use the Gauntlets and boots look rather standard, with the Gauntlets being rather streamlined, clutching closely to the Wearers skin with the exception of the Mechanisms hidden within, Creating a bulge over the forearm.
The boots are similar, When not in use they take on an appearance similar to a pair of well armoured light assault boots except for the Buldge located near the heels of both boots.
The bulges of the gauntlets and boots house A set of illium batteries and hard light generators along with the gauntlets housing a spool of high strengh metal wire, which are what make the Boarders work as well as they do.

The boarders are used to create a series of pre-designed headlight equipment, With the gauntlets creating such items as Large hooks, Ice axes, grappling hooks, and any other form of gear that our Engineers could imagine that are formed unto the end of the roap by a small Receiver, ensuring the hardlight generator is capable of forming an Attached hard light construct 10/10. While the hardlight hooks can serve a rather vicious purpose in gouging enemies in close combat, The true use of the Boarder is to allow a light assault to turn the momentum created by the jet pack into an uninterrupted stream of movement,  using the Gauntlets constructs and high Tensile strength rope to Swing, Grapple and fly through the air during the charging period of the jetpack.

The boots are capable of forming Spike soles, Long toe blades, and such in order to allow the user to anchor themselves into sheer surfaces or slippery footing, Create a form of Hive-esque Boot around the normal Boot that is designed to crumple to better take impacts and a hard light sled in order to increase the sheer speed of the user. Due to the lack of friction, the hard light board is capable of sliding on many a surface, turning almost every surface known to man into an opportunity to go even faster.

Many VS Light assaults will be required to undertake both parkour lessons and Various forms of boarding lessons in order to use the Boarder at peak efficiency, But the prospect of the sheer speed and momentum that is considered possible as many of the speed junkies that are willing to strap a jetpack to themselves with nothing but a shotgun quite literally vibrating in their seats.

[Man of Paper]

Turn 4 Design Phase

Proposal: 'Hardcase' Integrated Combat Suit
Difficulty: Hard
Result: (2+1)-1=2, Utter Failure

When people think Victory Services, they tend to think discrete, precise, lightweight, mobile, so it comes to no surprise that the company would attempt a massive push of the 'Hardcase' Integrated Combat Suit, something that was firmly outside of the realm of typical VS products. The product did not only fail to meet consumer expectations of VS equipment, but it also failed to meet the VS' desires at every turn.

The Hardcase lives up to it's name at least, being an armored suit with rigid protection over vital areas, as well as some extra protection on the limbs and around the collar. While the suit can certainly mitigate a hit or two, the armor fails to hold up to repeated punishment. The armor plates and stiff underlay also limit range of motion, forcing wearers to adopt almost robot-like mannerisms in order to move and fight.

The helmet covers the entire head save for the mouth and lower jaw, with an internal display projecting a wireframe layout of the surroundings to the user. These painfully green lines can often be hard to decipher, as the program does not effectively simulate depth perception, and nearby objects can sometimes "blob" together to create a very poor and very wrong image.

Finally, a large Illuin battery pack and antenna are attached to the back to provide power to the suit and it's systems, as stunted as they may be.

Think Robocop for very rough coverage and, yes, maybe a little bit of style influence. Overall, nobody really wants to use this, but there are a few VS soldiers looking into using the Hardcase to "nerf themselves" or "for the achieves", and thanks to our expansive promotional campaign there are people at least aware of the product. Somehow, barely, this shoddy product will still be seen deployed at an (EXPENSIVE) level, equippable by All Classes while taking up Two Auxiliary Slots.


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IT IS NOW THE REVISION PHASE! You have TWO revisions, and both will be affected by a Resource Credit!

Spoiler: VS Armory (click to show/hide)

Weaponry

"Razer" ShotPistol: A very short-range "shotpistol" that fires a sparse of highly concentrated hardlight fragments. Capable of overloading hardlight shields, doing significant damage to flesh, and moderate damage to armored infantry. Requires a moment to charge when taken out of SAFE Mode. A little bulky, and hums constantly when active.  Usable by: All Classes (CHEAP)
-Immolator Shattergun: The ShotPistol's bigger, angrier brother. Fires a devastating cloud of hardlight filament out to 30m. Blocky appearance, but more comfortable than it looks. Has a foldable stock, pistol grip, and a pump action/forward grip that produces the sound of a traditional shell racking. Usable by: All Classes (CHEAP)

Spark Electrocarbine: An unreliable, quirky firearm capable of arcing bolts of electricity in the general direction of intended targets. There's practically a problem with every part of the Electrocarbine, and it's only really usable within Melee Range. Usable by: Light Assaults (VERY EXPENSIVE)

Monolith Laser Rifle: A light, powerful laser rifle roughly equivalent to a 10mm rifle. Internal energy stores allow it to fire around ten shots in succession before needing to cool for a suggested five seconds. When not being fired the rifle will passively recharge, making it very hard for opponents to figure out when it's safe to pop out of cover. While it's length makes it unsuited for CQB, it is very effective during Medium and Long range engagements. Usable by: All Classes (CHEAP)

Phantom Anti-Opposition Rifle: The Phantom is a devastating long range energy weapon which fires shots equivalent to a 15mm round. It fires a single, completely draining shot before immediately venting heat and requiring five seconds before passing the charge threshold required to fire again. The Phantom can devastate infantry and potentially cause significant damage to lightly armored vehicles. It has an adjustable digital scope capable of providing any level of zoom from 0x to 10x, and is effective at Long and Extreme ranges. Usable by: Infiltrators (VERY EXPENSIVE)

Scourge Rapidfire Energy System: The Scourge is the VS' answer to more standard LMGs. It utilizes a very large energy bank which allows a fire rate of 100 RPM with beams equivalent to 8mm rounds before requiring recharging, however overheating is a significant factor. It's also fairly heavy and lacks it's own methods of support. That said, it's still quite effective at Medium AND Long engagement ranges, something most other weapons of the same class cannot boast. Usable by: Heavy Assaults (VERY EXPENSIVE)

Bane Heavy Autolaser: A 12.8mm automatic laser capable of a fire rate of 100RPM, with a personal power supply containing energy for 100 shots with a 15 second recharge, an inability to stay on target, and negligible overheating issues. Cumbersome, but deployable on an infantry level, requiring usage of both the Primary and Secondary loadout slots. Usable by: Heavy Assaults (VERY EXPENSIVE)

Class-Defining Equipment

Basic VS Nanite Cloaking System: A small module that uses Nanites to divert light around the wearer. It provides invisibility to the naked eye for twelve seconds before requiring a full minute to recharge, and, unlike standard cloaking systems, movement does not affect power drain. Firing a weapon will disrupt and discharge the cloak though, requiring a full recharge regardless of how long the cloak was used for. Infiltrator Class Item (VERY EXPENSIVE)

Basic Jump Pack: A backpack utilizing jet boosters to provide upward thrust in order to reach high ground or reduce speed when descending. The boost can be sustained for five seconds before needing to recharge for twenty seconds. Light Assault Class Item (VERY EXPENSIVE)

Basic Medical Applicator: A small handgun-shaped healing tool that uses Nanites to mend wound slowly (for active battlefield standards) and is unable to Revivify fallen comrades before the Nanite Revivication Process respawns them at a secured base. Combat Medic Class Item (VERY EXPENSIVE) [OBSOLETE]

Caduceus Medical Applicator: A Nanite Medical System housed in the bracers of Combat Medic combat armor. Can revive fatally wounded soldiers at a fairly solid speed, with nanites prioritizing more critical injuries. They house and produce nanites fast enough to rarely have an issue with supply vs demand. Can also apply a nanite cloud for automatic wound healing without Medic intervention, though nanite cohesion lasts only for a few minutes. Combat Medic Class Item (CHEAP)

Basic Repair Tool: A device that uses Nanites to mend constructions and vehicles at a snail's pace. They are prone to overheating during extended usage, often requiring multiple breaks to fully repair even mild combat damage. Engineer Class Item (VERY EXPENSIVE) [OBSOLETE]

Hephaestian Repair Tool: A repair nanite dispenser system installed in the bracers of an Engineer's armor. Works slightly faster than the Basic Repair Tool, doesn't overheat nearly as much, and can repair significant damage to constructed objects (vehicles, doors, boots, etc.). Engineer Class Item  (EXPENSIVE)

Basic Overshield Generator: A module that, when activated, projects a mesh of Hard Light against it's user. This shielding can deflect or absorb some incoming fire but will fail under a significant or sustained attack. The barrier can be held for thirty seconds and requires two minutes without use to fully recharge. Heavy Assault Class Item (VERY EXPENSIVE)

Advanced Siren Comms Unit: A comms headset that can sniff out and decrypt enemy communications and various signals within 200 meters. A terminal on the forearm allows the user to attempt to manipulate or hack into enemy systems. A hardware upgrade in the second bracer comes with the ability to calculate the accuracy of incoming information, and displays the three most likely sets of data based on prior information sniffed from enemy wireless signals. Operator Class Item (EXPENSIVE)

Auxiliary Equipment

Self-Deleting Tube: A metal cylinder that, when activated, disintegrates. Usable by: All Classes (VERY EXPENSIVE) (OBSOLETE)

Nanite Deconstruction System: A metal cylinder able to attach to soft or metal surfaces with the ability to disperse nanites throughout material in a max. diameter of 150cm and depth of 10cm. Materials become weakened or fall apart after nanite exposure. Weakened materials can be battered through, and show no visible signs of being weakened. Usable by: All Classes (VERY EXPENSIVE)

Spotlight Anti-Armor Laser Turret: A turret requiring laser designation to fire a continuous 8cm beam with a maximum uptime of 90 seconds. A human controller remotely designates a target that the turret's internal tracking and computations then tracks, allowing highly accurate fire concentrated on a precise area. The beam is capable of melting a hole in most armor. The Illuin System turns it into a short-range Booster. Best used a Medium and Long ranges. Usable by: Engineers (CHEAP)

Basic Overshield Generator - Secondary Power Core: An extra attachment to the Heavy Assault's Overshield device that grants a second shield to be activated at will. Both shields working at the same time greatly increase durability at the cost of draining both cores. Usable by: Heavy Assaults (EXPENSIVE)

Illuin Signal Booster: A tripod and antenna that acts as a centralized communications node for connected Illuin battery packs (the standard VS power supply) with a radius of 250m. Usable by: All Classes, requires Two Auxiliary Slots (EXPENSIVE)

'Hardcase' Integrated Combat Suit: A cumbersome, inelegant suit of body armor that barely performs it's job. The helmet provides near-full head coverage and uses a very poorly coded VR program to display wireframe images of the surroundings into the helmet for the user. A large antenna also protrudes upward from the back. In general does almost nothing it was meant to besides "be something dudes wear". Usable by: All Classes, requires Two Auxiliary Slots (EXPENSIVE)

Vehicles

Tormentor Light Attack Buggy: A light, unarmored, lightning-fast attack buggy with room for three people - one driver, one forward-facing passenger, one passenger in a back section with a Phantom mount capable of 360 degrees of rotation, though the Phantom and passenger can be replaced by a Spotlight or 4-missile Huscarl ASRAAM. It is capable of hitting speeds of 120km/h on favorable terrain and is affected only slightly by rougher ground. (EXPENSIVE)

Desert Rat Ruggedized Buggy: A lengthened Tormentor with a passenger gun mount, a large weapon mount moved to the top of the vehicle, and extra seating for a total of 7 passengers (+1 Driver). The four seats (two small two-man benches) in the back can be removed for bringing supplies along for extended operations. The larger, reinforced vehicle still hits 120km/h and handles better over a wider variety of terrain. (EXPENSIVE)

Desert Shrew Logistics and Support Buggy: A rather shoddy modification of the Desert Rat. Has passenger space replaced with a poorly-installed Illuin system and battery array. The gun mount is equipped with the Vulcan Repair Megatool, which runs entirely too hot. It can still repair vehicles, but the operator needs to be cautious. Also has a plow bolted onto the front almost as an afterthought. (VERY EXPENSIVE)

Rampage Main Battle Tank: An MBT with a very low profile armed with a 15cm Illuminator and protected by ablative layered armor with a reflective outer layer as well as a protective skirt. The Illuminator fires at Thaw (a weaker beam with longer uptime meant for infantry targets), Bake (standard laser uptime), and Bonfire (a single draining, devastating pulse), and can usually stay on target. A remote-controlled Scourge is housed atop the turret, though it can be replaced by a 4-missile Huscarl ASRAAM box launcher. Uses an Emergency Shield as a safety net should it take a few solid hits. Can reach 100km/h on wide treads. (VERY EXPENSIVE)

Peregrine-T3 Air Superiority Fighter: A small, fast, nimble, unarmored VTOL fighter with a 20mm gimballed nose cannon connected to the aircraft's unified computer system, which aid in targeting as well as coordinating each part of the aircraft for maximum responsiveness and control. Reaches 1200kmh, and has weapons bay that can house extra fuel or a number of Huscarl ASRAAMs. The hull is designed and painted to reduce radar and UV signatures, while in-set engines reduce the thermal signature. Also has flares and chaff. (CHEAP)

Einherjar Rapid Attack Gunship: A lightly armored gunship using VTOL thrusters containing a pilot, gunner, and four passengers. Meant more for delivering and supporting infantry than contesting the skies, it mounts a single 20mm cannon in a nose turret. It can reach speeds of 375km/h and is extremely maneuverable, capable of flying through buildings and trees to deliver it's soldiers precisely where they need to be. (VERY EXPENSIVE)

Other:

Illuin Battery Packs: The new standard power supply for VS ground-based weaponry, capable of sharing power between one another in order to improve both rate of fire as well as the ability to sustain it. Charge for connected packs can double, and the pool of energy weapons can pull from is limited only by the amount of Sending systems connected. No sacrifices were made in regard to a single pack's capacity or recharge rates.

Huscarl ASRAAM: The Advanced Short Range Anti-Air/Anti-Armor Multipurpose Missile Munitions System uses a hardlight warhead that can pierce and detonate within hard targets or blast a cone of hardlight against soft targets. Utilizes infra-red tracking and IR-laser designation. Extremely fast and extremely agile, with limited but not too-limited range. Can be mounted on aircraft hardpoints as well as used in a 4-missile Box launcher. (CHEAP)

Spoiler: Class Loadouts (click to show/hide)

Primary: "Immolator" Shattergun(Cheap)
Secondary: Empty
Class Defining Equipment: Basic Jump Pack (Very Expensive)
Auxiliary:
Empty x3

Primary: "Scourge" Rapidfire Energy System (Very Expensive)
Secondary: "Razer" ShotPistol (Cheap)
Class Defining Equipment: Basic Overshield Generator (Very Expensive)
Auxiliary:
Basic Overshield Generator - Secondary Power Core (Expensive)
Basic Overshield Generator - Secondary Power Core (Expensive)
Empty

Primary: "Phantom" Anti-Opposition Rifle (Very Expensive)
Secondary: "Razer" ShotPistol (Cheap)
Class Defining Equipment: Basic VS Nanite Cloaking System (Very Expensive)
Auxiliary:
Nanite Deconstruction System (Very Expensive)
Empty x2

Primary: "Immolator" Shattergun(Cheap)
Secondary: Empty
Class Defining Equipment: Caduceus Medical Applicator (Cheap)
Auxiliary:
Empty x3

Primary: "Monolith" Laser Rifle (Cheap)
Secondary: "Razer" ShotPistol (Cheap)
Class Defining Equipment: Hephaestian Repair Tool (Expensive)
Auxiliary:
"Spotlight" Anti-Armor Turret (Cheap)
Empty x2

Primary: "Monolith" Laser Rifle (Cheap)
Secondary: "Razer" ShotPistol (Cheap)
Class Defining Equipment: Advanced Siren Comms. Unit (Expensive)
Auxiliary:
"Illuin" Signal Booster (2 Slots) (Expensive+1)
Empty

Spoiler: Outfit (click to show/hide)

1-4-1 Vanguard

Equipment: Tanks, Spotlights, and heavy equipment in general. Additional engineer classifications as compared to standard units.
Methods of Engagement: Preferring substantially heavier vehicles, going so far as to outfit their Rampage tanks and various buggies and VTOL aircraft with applique armor or heavier shielding at the cost of speed, they prefer the frontal approach instead of our standard mobile tactics. When we need to break enemy lines, the 1-4-1 Vanguard comes to the fore. They are responsible for taking weakened positions and shattering them with a final assault, surprising our enemies with the sudden change in tactics. Our standard light units follow up and rip apart the surviving enemies with more fast attacks.

Fluff: Formed from the more aggressive members of standard units, 1-4-1 Vanguard is provided with an unusually large contingent of engineers that are capable of keeping their heavier-than-normal vehicles in good repair. Vanguard Elements always have the highest proportion of engineers in their brigades as well as the most armor, but 1-4-1 Vanguard developed a reputation for being the most aggressive, heaviest, and least willing to hit-and-run in the entire army, and has an actually absurd ratio of armor to speed for our military, as well as more engineers than even a normal Vanguard Element.

Spoiler: Control Map (click to show/hide)

UNKNOWN

Spoiler: Terrain Map (click to show/hide)

UNKNOWN

Spoiler: Credits (click to show/hide)

Espionage Credit x1

[Light forger]

Dragonfly Flight Harness
An all round improvement to our light assault jump pack. The dragonfly is made up of two sets of thrusters, a single large back mount and four smaller waist mounts. The harness comes with a simple stabilization system which is linked to the waist mounted thrusters and adjusts their power to stabilize the user. Compared to our current jump pack the dragonfly has a large Illuim enabled power source integrated into the back thruster. This lets our light assaults reach far higher areas with the main thruster or hover for a moderate period using the secondary ones. The harness can also help power weapons when not in use.

[frostgiant]

Hades nanite cloaking system.

The VS nanite cloaking system is quite the product, being better than almost all of its competitors on the market, despite the lack of resources devoted towards it. The hades were proposed as the next generation, devoting time to improve the system and incorporate new developments in VS technology to the old Cloak. These simple, almost basic change at this point is expected to greatly increase either the Cloak time or the recharge time, Or possibly even both.
The first of these changes are, of course, the incorporation of an Illium Battery pack, Enabling a greatly increased battery life due to its ability to Tap into the Illuim relay system, Granting increased electric power from Unused generators on the system, further increased for every currently unsued piece of equipment not only on the infiltrator but within relay range.

Secondly, Due to the Nanite cloaking fields Reliance on, Well, Nanites a simple implementation of technology from another field-leading work of art by the VS engineers would have quite the effect. By incorporating the Caduceus Medical Applicator Nanite housing and Production unit, Which itself is capable of Producing Nanites at quite the pace, capable of keeping up with the demand of even the more beleaguered Vs Medic.
By incorporating this unit into the cloak, it is the hope of the design board that the cloak, When combined with the increased power generation of the Illium AND the increased nanite count from the Medical applicator Nanite unit,  will Hopefully see both an Increased cloak time and downtime with the rather simple addition of two already existing and widely implement pieces of technology.


Ouji Phantom Subsystem.

The Phantom possesses devastating range and power, Held back by its limited firing rate. The Ouiji is designed to mitigate this issue, Consisting of a doubled-up Battery storage located on the rifle itself and a piar of electric sub generators that is attached to the infiltrator's gear. All four of these batteries are illium, allowing them to share power with both each other and surrounding allies.

This quadupaling of its inherent electric stores should drastically increase the Phantoms rate of fire, Allowing Either a much more constent rate of fire, Firing every battery in sequence and giving the unboard generator to refill the others, or at the cost of Overheating and strain on the battery system, The wielder is capable of firing a phantom with the ouiji system in burst, all four shots within moments of each other.

needless to say, 4 phantom shots with very close impact zones, Needlessly to say, can wreak havoc on many light vehicles and may serve a chance at even penetrating heavier armour.

[frostgiant]

Hades (1): Frostgiant
Ouiji (1):Frostgiant

[Madman198237]

'HOTAS' Light Assault Jump Pack
Obviously, the Light Assaults are excellent soldiers. Or, at least competent enough trigger-pullers for our excellent shotguns. We're going to make them even better, by improving their class equipment. Specifically, we're going to use an Illuin power system integrated into the suit to allow the user to have a set of small jets stuck in their bracers (totally like the real-life jetpack that uses jet engines strapped to the forearms of the user, though probably lighter-weight because I think our jetpack tech is just better) for control. These small, less-power-hungry thrusters allow the user much better control and some additional thrust when necessary. The use of an Illuin system allows the user's other equipment to assist the jetpack, giving it some additional flight time in certain conditions. Most importantly, the present of the forearm thrusters allows the user to exercise great control over a descent without needing the large power draw of the main thruster, while the Illuin batteries allow the user to fall under the control of the small thrusters before switching to a suicide burn to touch down on the ground.

In other words, we're going to let Light Assaults jump out of aircraft and land without a parachute. They probably won't even need the medics that won't be jumping with them!

'Breathing Room' Overshield Generator
The Heavy Assault doesn't really fit with the VS' modus operandi of "being fast". This is unfortunate, but they are still necessary for those times when somebody needs to get hit really, really hard and keep walking after it's done. This revision to the Heavy Assault's Overshield generator builds on prior developments in shielding for various vehicles and the Heavy Assaults themselves, and optimizes the Heavy Assault's shield for durability and duration, while leveraging Illuin connections to make the recharge take a more-reasonable amount of time instead of a less-reasonable amount of time. Your definition of "reasonable" may vary, please see your Medic if you have problems with your overshield in combat. In short, the new system makes no attempt to improve the recharge rate, but improves the shield's ability to not get overwhelmed with incoming fire and makes it last longer once deployed.

Hades (1): Frostgiant
Ouiji (1):Frostgiant
'HOTAS' Light Assault Jump Pack: (1) Madman
'Breathing Room' Overshield Generator: (1) Madman

[Happerry]

Hades (1): Frostgiant
Ouiji (1):Frostgiant
'HOTAS' Light Assault Jump Pack: (2) Madman, Happerry
'Breathing Room' Overshield Generator: (2) Madman, Happerry

[Light forger]

Dragonfly Flight Harness(Revised)
An all round improvement to our light assault jump pack. The dragonfly is made up of two sets of thrusters, a single large back mount and four smaller waist mounts. The harness comes with a simple stabilization system which is linked to the waist mounted thrusters and adjusts their power to stabilize the user. These thrusters have a pair of modes; hover allows the use to hover at roughly static height and maneuver by kinesthetic control. The other mode is "slowfall" which tries to keep the user falling at a steady fairly safe rate; allowing them to "take the express route" out of high buildings or low flying aircraft. Do to waist mounted nature of the thrusters the user can still operate other devices or fire at targets while using the dragonfly. Compared to our current jump pack the dragonfly has a large Illuim enabled power source integrated into the back thruster. This lets our light assaults reach far higher areas with the main thruster or hover for a moderate period using the secondary ones. The harness can also help power weapons when not in use.

I prefer the dragonfly over the HOLA because the waist mount thrusters means the use can still do other things will floating around. However I will borrow ability to hoop out our aircraft as that's a good idea. With that said I dislike the idea of a suicide burn feature as that requires a fair bit of data which in turn means stuffing the gadgets needed to get that data into the jump-pack.

Spire Precision Rifle
Based off our monolith rifle the spire is a slight more compacted and slight heavier rifle. The spire offers increased firepower boosting the power of the lasers from rough 10mm to 13mm. It also comes with a 0x-6x digital scope which is a smaller weaker version of what's used on the phantom. Solely using it's own power-source the spire can fire 6 rounds back to back at a modest ROF before it needs reduce it's ROF to slow or back off to recharge. With an Illuim power-source backing it it can keep it's modest ROF going per-much non-stop. Thanks to it's firepower increase the spire is not only much more effective against armor but, it's also able to disable or crew-kill thin0skinned vehicles. The spire is expected to be usable by everyone.

Alright here is my argument for this over a cloaking upgrade. At the moment our light assaults are 4 cost so reducing the cost of their jump packs by 2 will half that greatly increasing our number of them; so that's a no brainer. For both infi and our HAs they are at 10 and 11 cost respectively so reducing the price of their gear will help a lot less. So the idea of the spire is to not only make our infiltrators cheaper with a side-grade to their rifle but, also improve our engineers, operators and non-certs at the same time. Of course this does lead to less powerful infiltrators but, I think improving the rest of our forces counter balances that. The credit isn't wasted as I believe that a higher power-scoped certless rifle would likely be E anyway. As for improving our HAs well our lack of armor means that when we do get rocketed pretty much everyone other then them will die. One or two HAs aren't going to pose that much of a challenge to kill, also their weapons still suck.

Hades (1): Frostgiant
Ouiji (1):Frostgiant
'HOTAS' Light Assault Jump Pack: (2) Madman, Happerry
'Breathing Room' Overshield Generator: (2) Madman, Happerry
Dragonfly Flight Harness(Revised): (1) Lightforger
Spire Precision Rifle: (1) Lightforger

[Madman198237]

The Flight Harness's problem is that a Light Assault will never realistically be both flying delicately/quickly (requiring the hand thrusters for control or additional thrust) AND using a weapon. Or, y'know, flying and using weapons period. To paraphrase Schlock Mercenary, "flying soldiers on the battlefield...are skeet". If you're stable enough to use a weapon and flying, you have zero cover, and this is a Bad Thing^tm when enemies are trying to shoot you. The "suicide burn" is not controlled by a computer, it's controlled by the user, and doesn't technically meet the definition of one since you aren't aiming for a pinpoint perfect deceleration straight to landing...this jetpack is capable of letting the user just hover in place and so it's technically not a suicide burn.

The "Spire" should, theoretically, be Cheap all on its own, and therefore is not a good use of a revision this turn where the resource credit exists. Remember that ONLY nanites OR a bad result can actually force something to be not-Cheap. Furthermore, the Spire is not a good option for Infiltrators whatsoever, they are absolutely keeping the proper sniper capability, it kind of defines their role.

I'm really sorry but the argument that because nobody else is as durable as HA's, they shouldn't be improved, is nonsense. Not as nonsensical as "well their other equipment sucks so therefore we shouldn't upgrade this piece of their equipment either", but close.

[Light forger]

The Flight Harness's problem is that a Light Assault will never realistically be both flying delicately/quickly (requiring the hand thrusters for control or additional thrust) AND using a weapon. Or, y'know, flying and using weapons period. To paraphrase Schlock Mercenary, "flying soldiers on the battlefield...are skeet". If you're stable enough to use a weapon and flying, you have zero cover, and this is a Bad Thing^tm when enemies are trying to shoot you. The "suicide burn" is not controlled by a computer, it's controlled by the user, and doesn't technically meet the definition of one since you aren't aiming for a pinpoint perfect deceleration straight to landing...this jetpack is capable of letting the user just hover in place and so it's technically not a suicide burn.

So why use the phase suicide burn in the first other then to tempt MoP? Further more with the thruster argument why use hand mounted thrusters then? Your just adding bulky objects to our CQC soldiers arms for a bit of extra maneuverability out of combat where it doesn't matter much. The dragonfly not only gives the users the option to panic fire if need be. It also opens up the ability to do things like plant C4 NDS on the sides of support columns and other sabotage options down the road. For the HA sure why not vote swapped.

Hades (1): Frostgiant
Ouiji (1):Frostgiant
'HOTAS' Light Assault Jump Pack: (2) Madman, Happerry
'Breathing Room' Overshield Generator: (3) Madman, Happerry, Lightforger
Dragonfly Flight Harness(Revised): (1) Lightforger

[Madman198237]

'Spectre' Sniper Rifle
Built from the Phantom, the Spectre is designed to be a more multirole weapon. The fundamental flaw of the Phantom at present is that it's very, very slow to fire again. This is largely due to the battery needing to recharge for every shot. We've replaced the stock with a stock-shaped Illuin battery optimized for recharge rate to offset this. However, we also don't need to hit every target with an anti-armor weapon. To this end, we have installed a switch on the side of the rifle, to toggle between a high-power rifle shot somewhat more powerful than the Monolith's own shots and the Phantom's typical high-power battery-draining shot style. The low-power shot allows for more light targets to be engaged, while retaining the ability to engage anything with overwhelming firepower when desired.
Of course, this is still usable only by Infiltrators.

'Snipe Hunt' VS Nanite Cloaking Device
Our specialty is, of course, mobile warfare. And how better to move on the battlefield than while literally invisible? So our basic cloaking device line does, of course, allow the user to move while using it. We can, of course, do better. So we did! The new Snipe Hunt model is capable of repeated "bursts" of cloaked time, draining the battery and supply of nanites partially each time, but allowing the user to repeatedly duck from cover to cover without needing to wait for the full recharge of the system. Of course, once you drain the system fully it does need to completely restock. But with Illuin batteries and improved nanite systems derived from the Caduceus and Hephaestian Repair Tool we are confident that recharge times can be better.

Well, there you go. I was reminded (and confirmed) that Heavy Assaults don't actually see action during the scouting phase; I had thought all three infantry types did. So, here's an Infiltrator revision (well, two, but I'm only voting for the rifle ).

Hades (1): Frostgiant
Ouiji (1):Frostgiant
'HOTAS' Light Assault Jump Pack: (2) Madman, Happerry
'Breathing Room' Overshield Generator: (2) Happerry, Lightforger
Dragonfly Flight Harness(Revised): (1) Lightforger
'Spectre' Sniper Rifle: (1) Madman

[Light forger]

Hades (2): Frostgiant, Lightforger
Ouiji (1):Frostgiant
'HOTAS' Light Assault Jump Pack: (2) Madman, Happerry
'Breathing Room' Overshield Generator: (1) Happerry
Dragonfly Flight Harness(Revised): (1) Lightforger
'Spectre' Sniper Rifle: (1) Madman

I don't really care for the spectre as I would prefer making a powerful non-cert DMR and giving it to our infiltrators or just giving them a full on anti-armor rifle. The Hades works as a strait forward upgrade to our cloaking. Keeping my vote on the dragonfly as I think the thruster placement is better and I prefer the pseudo-titanfall design over the pseudo-iron man design.

[Madman198237]

A DMR is NEVER going to be an acceptable replacement for our infiltrators, who can presently kill light armored vehicles with their rifles and who need the substantially increased range and damage output provided by their sniper rifles. Also, if you haven't realized, our basic rifle IS a DMR, more or less. 10mm caliber equivalent, high energy delivered per shot but slow to fire and semiautomatic only.

As for the hands-versus-waist argument; hands definitely give substantially better control over the flight but waist mounts do free up the hands. I contend that that is not super useful in flight (And that you can turn off the wrist rockets and go back to the backpack-only flight method if you need your hands free) and so I want the one that has been flight-proven IRL and gives you better flight characteristics.

[Light forger]

As for the hands-versus-waist argument; hands definitely give substantially better control over the flight but waist mounts do free up the hands. I contend that that is not super useful in flight (And that you can turn off the wrist rockets and go back to the backpack-only flight method if you need your hands free) and so I want the one that has been flight-proven IRL and gives you better flight characteristics.

Adding weigh to our light assaults arms is going to make their CQC job harder even if it's fairly minor at the end of the day. Kinesthetic control(aka leaning in the direction you want to go) is is a proven way of control something in flight as noted by the Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee line of aircraft. Now of course the pawnee wasn't a useful aircraft as lugging around a motorcycles worth of weight for the ability to hover slight off the ground for a while or move at a sprint for a bit is a bad idea. Trying to fix these issue cause it to weigh even more at which point kinesthetic control became useless and people realized a two-seater helicopter was just a better idea(Unsurprising for 1955). Nonetheless kinesthetic control itself proved to be quite usable.

[Madman198237]

It certainly works but it's much less powerful as a control system (meaning it can't produce equivalent changes in direction and acceleration) because the thrusters have less of a lever arm and also they can't be completely repositioned by the user.

It's probably also more or less the same system we use now with the single-thruster setup.