Re: Kinetic Shields

If you had a screen that degraded screen affected weapons more than
screen skipping weapons that should balance out also.

IE, Level 1 screens that behave as normal level 2s versus screen 
affected and level 1s versus screen affected.

Roger

On  6-Jun-01 at 15:23, Bell, Brian K (Contractor)
(Brian.Bell@dscc.dla.mil)
wrote: > No more so than Beams are against screens. Or screen-skipping
weapons
> against armor.
> 
> You would just have to make sure that the mass/cost of the Shields
would be
> appropriately greater, are less effective against screen effecting
weapons,
> and/or have other factors that degrade the value (work both ways,
limited
> in number of damage it absorbs, etc.).
> 
> 
> -----
> Brian Bell
> -----
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:     Oerjan Ohlson [SMTP:oerjan.ohlson@telia.com]
> > Sent:     Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:39 PM
> > To:     gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> > Subject:	 Re: Kinetic Shields
> > 
> [snip]
> 
> > The various screen-skippers were all balanced around the fact that
they 
> > aren't degraded by screens, so if your "shield" degrades them by the
same
> >  percentage at the same cost as it does beams you effectively make
all 
> > screen-skipping weapons useless :-(
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Oerjan
> > oerjan.ohlson@telia.com
> > 
> > "Life is like a sewer.
> >   What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> > -Hen3ry