RE: Vehicle Design Philosophy

Just as an aside: I thought one useful aspect of "Phantom Menace" was
the
depiction of shields in ground combat. They have quite a profound
effect. In
StarWars you need fighters to penetrate the shields, bodily, and do
damage
on the other side, in Phantom Menace you need disposable close-combat
troops
for the same reason. Storm-troopers make sense; they aren't just generic
bad-guys. Looks like there is some technological consistency and decent
military thinking behind there somewhere. Perhaps better than "Let's put
torpedoes in, they're cool!..."

Andrew 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Bilderback [mailto:bbilderback@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 6 April 2000 14:50
To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: Vehicle Design Philosophy

Brian wrote, referring to the KV

Option 1:  Shields: We'll just have to wait and see how those will
change 
the face of ground warfare in  the Tuffleyverse.