Re: Vehicular Flamethrowers for SG2

At 02:54 PM 8/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Thomas Barclay wrote:
>> 
>> ...
>>
>> Treat the vehicular flamethrower  as a vehicular heavy
>> weapons (12" range band, but has only close range).	
>> ...
>
>While I like all of your other ideas for such a weapon, this is a bit
>hard to swallow.  In SG, the ground scale is 1" = 10m.  A 120m jet of
>napalm would be quite impressive!
>
>Now, there are a lot of ways you could rationalize this (maybe it
>launches big napalm paintballs or something) but I wouldn't let a
>regular flamethrower have this kind of range.

I would think that something closer to 20-40m would be appropriate.

>Tom
>
>--
>Thomas Pope
>Human Computer Interaction Institute
>Carnegie Mellon University
>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope
>
>
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