QUOTE (MikeKozar @ Oct 11 2009, 03:42 AM)

The best weapon for taking out a medium armored vehicle seems like an assault cannon - it will threaten armor 16 or less on a basic hit, and could easily spike to 20 on a great roll. Best of all, it ignores recoil. Hell, with the bike's Body of 6 I could mod it to Burst Fire twice a round and still not have an issue with it.
I gotta wonder, though, does this seem kosher to you guys? It's a squirrelly little racing bike mounting a light tank weapon with no penalties whatsoever. I want it to work, don't get me wrong, but it sounds too good to be true.
Personally, I would find this squrrelly for a number of RLish reasons, and would suggest the following compromise:
1. Use the rules from Arsenal for 'strong characters negating recoil', and use the vehicle's body as its strength. It's nifty, avoids the ridiculousness of body 3 drones having no problems with an LMG that would kick a body 3 person's ass, and keeps the rules the same for vehicles and peeps.
2. I think it's silly that single shot weapons can be fired with any reasonable accuracy from a vehicle with a fixed mount. You would need a flexible mount to give the vehicle some way to aim the weapon. I mean, you can't really point the gun up if its welded to the frame of a motorcycle, unless you have conveniently spaced bumps in the road. Consider a lighter weapon with a flexible mount.
3. For something as a combination pursuit/escape vehicle, let me suggest the Armtech MGL-12 modified with an additional clip. You still have some performance against vehicles with HE grenades, the recoil is not ridiculous (an M203 is a lot like a 12 guage shotgun shell from a breach-loader), and the other clip can be loaded with nifty stuff like thermal smoke.
4. I would not allow any means of concealing a heavy weapon attached to a bike.
5. The gun on the medium armored vehicle will be far more of a threat to you than you are to it. With that in mind, you better take it out in one shot, regardless of the expense of that shot. Consider a rocket launcher, with a long tube out the back so the backblast doesn't blow your leg or rear tire off.
6. On a side note, I consider an assault cannon something like a large antimateriel rifle or small antitank recoilless rifle. As such, it's not THAT big.