Re: Hammer's Slammers [VERY LONG POST!]

On Aug 15, 1997 at 2:32:43 AM, Mikko Kurki-Suonio <maxxon@swob.dna.fi>
wrote:

> Defences: Because of their nature, powerguns can be stopped by
ablative 
> armor particularly well. It is used in Crossfire for makeshift
bunkers. 
> Slammers infantry wear clamshell armor, but its effectiveness against 
> powerguns isn't shown in the books. 

IIRC, Don Slade's clamshell armor (or, more correctly, Danny Pritchard's

clamshell armor, worn by Don Slade at the time <grin>) stops a 1 cm
powergun 
shot at point-blank range in _Cross the Stars_.

> Weapon ranges: All powerguns have LOS range -- it's just up to the 
> shooter to hit something. In the "last" Slammers story, Steuben 
> assasinates a man with a pistol shot from 500+ yards. In At Any Price 
> (IIRC, it's the one with the teleporting aliens), someone picks off a 
> sniper with a pistol or subgun from 1.5 klicks or so. The Slammers
helmet 
> has *extensive* commo and sensor equipment, and it can be tied to 
> targeting. 

I can't remember if I made the comment on this list (I have had first 
_Starship Troopers_ then _Hammer's Slammer's conversations on three
different 
lists in as many months), but my favorite HS scene is in one of the
later 
books, when the tanks take out the orbitting spy satellites as they come
above 
the horizon...

-- Chris Weuve	 [My opinions, not my employer's.]
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