Howdy Ethan,

> On July 15, 2019 at 4:07 PM Ethan McKinney <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: 

> Given TL10+, you can do a heck of a lot more.

I don't think that the boomers and the fast attack I served on were TL 10+ after checking the Technology section in the MT Referee's Companion pages 26-34. They were all built in the 1960s that MT Referee's Companion page 26 puts as TL 6.

> I think about the autoloaders on Soviet tanks as the simplest version. Perhaps a better model is the ammo drums on

> the AMX-13: http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2015/16/1428934488-w111.jpg

> Drum rotates to the round you want, it's pushed sideways into the loading tray, and then rammed forward.

I'm not sure when tanks began to get auto-loaders which was intended to reduce the crew requirements which is a great thing when they work. When they don't work someone still has to move the rounds from storage to gun. The latest soda vending machine delivery system is I think between TL 8 and TL 9 from MT Referee's Companion page 26.

> Well, my joke was about overall technologies, not even the specific application of anti-grav to reloaders, so you bring

> up an interesting additional point.

Actually, your joke about gravitic/anti-grav technology was what made me think about using it for more than what they designed for in Traveller.

> Now *that's* hilarious. Same crew requirement as barbettes, isn't it? Barely worth bothering.

In CT a barbette is a large turret with a crew requirement of one per turret or one per battery, while in MT a large turret is considered as a bay according to MT Referee's Guide page 71. I do consider the large MT bay crew of 50 to be a bit outlandish compared the two in CT and one in TNE.

Thank you for the reply,

Tom Rux