Re: Crossover from GZGPedia List

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 DracSpy@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 99-02-17 00:32:01 EST, you write:
> 
> << No artillery at all, except for units (like your armored brigade)
which
>  are intended to fight on the surface of larger bodies.  And those
would
>  be nothing but guided rocket artillery, since ballistic artillery
would
>  be worthless.  
>  Seems to me that most of the Alarishi forces would be nothing but
>  straight power armor teams, with a handful of Powered Engineer teams
for
>  support.
>  John M. Atkinson
>   >>
> I *think* that in DS2 they talk about the some of the arty being MDC.

? MDC= Mass Driver Cannon. Artillery built on this principle would use a
different launching mechanism on it's shells, but they'd fly the same
way
as conventional chemical (gunpowder etc) artillery. Neither would be any
good in a microgravity area...the shells would just go into independant
solar orbits, or just enormous orbits around the body they're fired
from.

Full Thrust (or rather More Thrust) style missles, or direct-fire beam
ortillery, would be the way to go in a microgravity enviroment for fire
support. Maybe call MT missles DS2 heavy arty rockets w/ nuke warheads?

PA rocks anyway - who needs lots of fire support? :) Plus cool camo
schemes - lots of black/grey/white vacumn camo patterns.

Brian (burger00@camosun.bc.ca)
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