Re: bayonettes are too a useful device

Y'know, I always assumed that SG incorporated bayonets into the
close-combat
rules - they will probably be standard issue forever (presuming somebody
still
makes a useful one).  Their representation reflects their combat utility
- not
much.  If you're really close enough to stick somebody, you're going to
try to
put them down with whatever you have (rifle butt, bayonet, whatever). 
They
bayonet seems to be less important than the charge into close combat
itself.

Anyway, bayonets will always serve at least one useful purpose - a focus
of
dramatic tension in war movies.  They cry of "Fix bayonets!" will always
be
stirring, whether in  the American Civil War or the Third Rio Plata War
(points for source & combatants!)

Noah V. Doyle