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- From: quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
- Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
- Subject: Re: Which weapon is best? (Was: Re: btech lrm)
- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:37:31 NZST
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- kabreuer@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Klaus Breuer) writes:
- >>> I nominate the disruptor as the Klingon weapon of choce....
- >> I nominate the Genessis device. It's Ecologically friednlly!
- > I nominate the Ringworld Laser from Larry Niven.
-
- *sigh*
- Why look outside the Battletech universe for mega-weapons ?
- I mean, even if you don't use nukes (and why not, I ask myself, the
- scummy Combine/Clans/Fedrats/Whoever *deserve* them 8-) ), consider the
- simple laws of physics.
- You have dropships weighing in at the kiloton range moving towards a
- planet by constant acceleration to halfway, and then constant deceleration
- until touchdown.
- So what happens if they just constantly accelerate ? (I'd figure it out
- myself if I had "Dropships and Jumpships" handy)
-
- Tony Q. (And when people comment "Bit expensive isn't it ?", I point out the
- joys of hijacking... 8-) )
-