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- From: dv52151@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (RedSwordTarga)
- Subject: Re: Realism vs. Mechs
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:58:58 GMT
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- maxxon@swob.nullnet.fi (Mikko Kurki-Suonio) writes:
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- >> You really don't need to target the "vulnerable" areas in the armor.
- >> Modern missles can sink a frigate with one or two shots. They
- >> would easily blow through the armor by main force.
-
- >I agree, except that modern frigates don't really carry much armor. I
- >recall there was a problem with them when the Falklands incident (call
- >it war if you must) was taking place - they seem to contain so much
- >aluminium that fires are near impossible to put out.
-
- Well, it's true that modern frigates don't carry a lot of armor. However,
- what I meant to get across is that one Harpoon missle will cripple a vehicle
- whose weight is in the thousands of tons class. Against a 'Mech, this would
- probably vaporize the entire thing.
-
- Of course, that also points out that AeroTech is the more broken of the two
- systems - No airlaunched cruise missles, having to drop all the bombs on one
- hex in a bombing run when they have been doing "stick" bombing since WWII and
- the technology to do that isn't hard to build, a bombing payload system that
- says a small aircraft with a small engine can lift more bombs than a large one
- with a huge engine, etc.
-
-
- Axly
-
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- * Axly * "Is Axly tough? Yes. Talented? Yes. Brave? Oh, certainly. *
- * Red Sword * He is also erratic, irresponsible, accident-prone, and a *
- * Targa * constant threat to public safety. The trick is to keep him *
- * * pointed in the right direction. " *
- * * -Niki *
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