Re: Posleen/HymnB4Battle Figures?

At 7:09 AM +0100 1/24/03, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
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>Exactly *how* good are the Posleen God-Kings in their ZAD role? (I 
>haven't had time to read the books, so I don't know.)

If an F-18 breaks the horizon, their life span is measured in 
seconds. The posties have direct line of sight KE weapons that will 
slag an Abrams from the front. As the book says, "...the God Kings, 
whose weapons are automatically targeted and frighteningly accurate. 
They;re accurate enough to act as antiaircraft fire against stealth 
fighters, for God's sake."

For something like 500 million Posleen in a force, you'll have nearly 
5000 God Kings.

>If they're comparable to or better than the THEL (currently under 
>development), then any PGM-based ways to kill them are quite 
>seriously degraded.

Additionally, anything the God Kings start firing at, their Oolts 
will start shooting at. "The Posleen three millimeter railguns go 
through Bradleys the long way and about one in ten carry a 
hypervelocity missile launcher, which will take out an Abrams with a 
frontal hit. Wheile they're 'unaimed,' what the term actually means 
is that the weapons don't have sights." "However, the Posleen seem to 
be naturals at firing from the hip."

See http://www.baen.com/library/0671318411/0671318411.htm for the 
first book in the series on line. You can get it in HTML, RTF, Palm 
Rocket Book and MS Reader formats.

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