Re: Crossover from GZGPedia List

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, John M. Atkinson wrote:

> Brian Burger wrote:
> 
> > PA rocks anyway - who needs lots of fire support? :) Plus cool camo
> > schemes - lots of black/grey/white vacumn camo patterns.
> 
> Right, in those habitats which are tunneled out.  No room for it
> anyway.  But on a Ganymede-sized moon, then it might be nice.

For sure. but even on a Ganymede-sized object, (which is what? 1/10g?)
you're going to have some problems with standard ballistic artillery.
The
best fire support is going to come either from cruise-missle equivilents
or from direct-fire starship weapons in orbit nearby.

On the other hand, using light mortars as long-range artillery would be
entertaining.

Gripping hand is that anything heavier has a chance of actually putting
it's shells into low orbit instead of dropping them on the
target...smacking orbiting starships with standard arty shells would be
entertaining, if impractical...

(Motie grammar constructs come in handy!)

Brian (burger00@camosun.bc.ca)
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