Re: Fw: Weapons for Newtonian based FTIII

On Mon, 5 May 1997, Joachim Heck - SunSoft wrote:

>   Idea the first: armor negates or reduces the effect of sand.  Hey,
> sand may be fast but it's still small and it ought to be possible to
> come up with armor that will deflect it even if that armor cannot
> deflect larger objects.

Well, a special rule like this would limit sandcasters... but it
wouldn't 
really help against the logical conclusion of such inertia-based
weapons. 
If I can throw small pebbles at you, I should be able to throw a lesser 
amount of larger pebbles... all the way up to planetoids if need be.

Just pick up a big rock, attach thrusters and AI pilot and ram away!

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