RE: Star Trek Weapon

>	Well, my two cents is that it sounds jazzy, but it makes for
>	a boring game. Both sides take turns announcing which enemy
>	unit they automatically kill til they run out of units.
>
>	Star Trek is famous for not examining the consequences of
>	the powerful gadgets they introduce.
>

If this is like the TOS tantalus field then I agree, its a story
device and not appropriate in a competitive game.

>	In Larry Niven's "The Theory and Practice of Teleportation"
>	he points out that a transporter teleportation device
>	which does not need a transmitter/receptor pair
>	will destroy the civilizations that make them.

Ah the SFB T-bomb rules NOT.

-= tim jones =-