Re: Posleen/HymnB4Battle Figures?

With regards to EMP, you mis-understood me.

In the 3rd book, a God-King has a "special" weapon created for him by
the
geek God-King.	He lobs it at the LRRP team and all their electronics
die.
After that happens he (the God-King) can't get his weapon to lock onto
the
target even when he's shooting back at them or running in plain site.

Also to the best of my memory there isn't an instance where the GK's
shoot
down regular artillery shells, but the sensor ones last less than a
minute.

So you have a system that a) can hit targets with functioning
electronics,
b) can't lock onto targets without functioning electronics, and c)  many
examples of this.  All of which add up to something any brain-boy should
be
able to connect the dots on.

It's a small quibble, and maybe Ringo has some twist planned to confuse
the
reader, but my gut tells me that's where he's heading.

I still recommend the books.

Bill
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At 11:12 AM -0600 1/24/03, bbrush@unlnotes.unl.edu wrote:
>>I've read the Posleen series and I've enjoyed it, but Ringo has made
the
>>"weakness" of the God Kings a little too obvious in the last book.

>The problem is that the Posleen God Kings aren't stuck in one mode.
>They do adapt. The one's that tracked the LRP team down in the hills
>of N Ga/Western N Carolina are a good example of that.

>>Point:  The auto-targeting can't hit regular artillery shells.
>
>I thought it could but only barely. Single rounds were vulnerable.
>>Point:  The auto-targeting can hit snipers using  camo and IR blocking
as
>>shown in the first book.
>
>IF their signature is discernable from the background. Its a question
>of what the background noise is.
>>
>>Point:  The auto-targeting could not hit the scout in the last book
after
>>he had been hit with an EMP device.
>
>The problem is getting the EMP device on the God King. Any single
>firing object is vulnerable to massive counter fire. Snipers work
>great when they're in a mass of troops. Snipers by themselves usually
>get shredded by the automatic counter fire from the oolts in line of
>sight.
>
>>Therefore the autotargeting is based on electrical signature.  Any
>>non-electrical fire control is going to be "invisible" and will rip up
the
>>Posleens.
>Until it unmasks and the posleen start shooting at it. A mob armed
>with rail guns, missile launchers and flechette guns pretty much
>starts shooting at anything that presents a threat. Sure your sadarm
>fires a round, then the posties shoot back at it.
>>Just my deduction based on my reading but I'm guessing that someone
will
>>pick up on it in the 4th book.
>>
>>All in all it's a very good series, but I'm a little disgusted that
the
>>auto-targetings Achilles heel is made so obvious, yet the good guys
don't
>>pick up on it.