Re: (SG2] Orbital Insertion (an alternative approach to calculat

Oerjan spake thusly upon matters weighty: 

> Thomas Barclay wrote:
> 
> > Oerjan spake thusly upon matters weighty: 
> 
> > > If the troop drops from orbit (ie, outside the atmosphere), I'd be
> pretty
> > > impressed if they managed to stay within 200 meters from one
another
> :-/
> > 
> > Using Drop caps? Why? 
> 
> But the rules you're talking of doesn't use drop capsules! A drop
capsule
> is a vehicle, albeit small and unpowered, and is therefore IMO covered
by
> the rules for landing vehicles on the previous page (50) - use them
> instead, if you want drop capsules rather than individual jumps!

In this instance, I was talking about the break-away individual drop 
cap - launch in the cap, decelerate through two or three stages with 
ECM, chaff, etc. then the capsule blows out and you're dropping like 
a standard entry. 

I think accuracy is feasible. I'll bet no one really foresaw the 
ability to guide a bomb down a smokestack back in 1797. Can we really 
forsee the tech advancements in 200 years? I know we can't and aren't 
trying to, I'm just figuring that the way that an airdropped unit 
arrives on board seems to be a recipe for getting it killed before it 
can re-org. This might be intentional, but I'd like to think that in 
2185 it may well be possible to enter a little bit tighter (so it 
might only take one a single turn to regroup). 

Tom. 
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