Re: Sandcasters [My version]

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Sean Bayan Schoonmaker wrote:

> I'dsay that if you're going to use the templates, keep them round: 3"
dia.

The original idea was for a smoke screen. 

> I have some difficulty with the idea that a ship mounted weapon could
> generate sufficient particle density to do this.

Anything that is big and wide would be hell for a ship to run into at 
velocity. Perhaps a higher number is needed. Some of the star wars 
concepts was to use bb's fired from a rocket into the path of missiles. 
Enough of those hit and no more guidance package or war head. 

> I like the idea of blocking terrain, but I think that a ship mounted
weapon
> that generates it would have to be priced and massed outside the realm
of
> escorts.

its not meant as terrain, but hard smoke. It dissipates after 3+ turns. 
It is exactly akin to the use of smoke by escorts (you should see the 
kind of smokescreens they laid down) and the chaff dropped by bombers 
during WWII. 

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