RE: Mobile mines

I just finished watching a discovery station special on this.  Some of
you do show a lack of imagination, humorous though what you did think
of.  I can't get the funny image of dinner plates out of my head.

The show I watched had something like a tele-operated atv with a rocket
launcher.  They then showed a tank driving by, which was successfully
knocked out.  I thought it was really neat, especially considering the
thread.

While I agree that robotic drones is something I don't want to play, I
know it could happen.  When I said robotic mines a lot of you thought of
teller mines sprouting legs and walking around.  This, while being
funny, in a Simpsons way, is not how I see it.	I see, much like in the
show, a small robotic atv that is given orders when placed.  Something
like: sit here, engage enemy tanks with AT rocket.  Now instead of
laying 20 $100.00 indiscriminate mines, you place a $2000.00 dollar one.

In game terms, I would have to agree with John in saying it wouldn't be
much different than a normal minefield except with the ability to
determine friend from foe.

For those of you arguing that nothing will replace mines as they are
today: remember the initial resistance to smart bombs.	Smart bombs are
used to great effect along side 'normal' bombs today.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Wilkinson [SMTP:twilko@ozemail.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, May 18, 1998 9:41 AM
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	Re: Mobile mines
> 
> >Duh, but excuse me for asking, but just what are the mine clearers
> doing
> >when this dinner plate thing just digs itself out of the ground and
> >wanders across the trail and then digs itself back into the ground? 
> 
>	If they are underground burrowing in something like Brownian
> motion which
> is what I had in mind, what are the odds of being able to shoot all
> the
> moving mines?
> 
> >perfect for assaulting a fixed position. Could you imagine the fun
> you
> >would have when a mine crawled into your foxhole? No troopers, just
> the
> >attack of the dinner plates that go Boom!
> 
>	To be honest when someone first suggested the idea of mobile
> mines my
> first thought was an engineer going out, laying a minefield, going
> back to
> camp to a shower or the latrine when in walks one of his own mines and
> blows him up! Not really that much fun. 
>	Hmmmm. Attack of the killer dinner plates. Sounds like a really
> bad 50's
> movie and not at all why I play DS/SG/FT/ all the other games I have.
> Have
> to agree with John Atkinson on this. 
>	No troopers just mines huh? Sounds like Russian or Chinese
> tactics in
> reverse, all troopers and not much else, cheaper too.
> 
>	Tony.
>	twilko@ozemail.com.au