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

On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Christopher Weuve wrote:

> 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_.

Hmmm... I guess I must have missed that one. It's been some time since I

read the books.

> 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...

I think they do that in Rolling Hot. But even small caliber powerguns 
have theoretical LOS range -- though for game purposes it's quite 
acceptable to assign a max range for small arms.

How useful LOS range is, is another thing. It depends very much on 
terrain. We chuckled at the Gulf reports of 4+ km hits on Iraqi tanks --

in Finland, you're hard pressed to find 1km unobstructed LOS in rural 
terrain. 

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