RE: 25mm Grav Bikes and Rules

At 10:53 PM 18/11/98 -0500, Thomas Barclay  wrote:

>> Both valid but a courier wouldn't be a really useful role on a SG2
>> battlefield.  Unless it was a special senario game of course.
>
>Well, they had radios in WW2, but they still used motorcycles to 
>courier some orders around. Some stuff is just so sensitive you can't 
>trust crypto to do the job - you need a guy to deliver it. And on low 
>tech worlds, this may be more common. And on some worlds, comms may 
>not work due to ionization... then orders must be distributed by 
>runners - imagine a modern force operation with runners, motorcycle 
>couriers, and some sealed orders.... could be interesting.....

That is all very well and good and would be a funny situation, but in a
SG2
game, not the background, the scale of it would make a courier just an
intersting senario element.