RE: GEVs/Grav

Hey, at the risk of defending Drake, he takes great pains in many of teh
Slammers books to emphasise the problems with the momentum and inertia
of
150 tonnes of steel slewing around teh battlefield.

I think you need to take some of his descriptions in context (you know,
he
plays up the 'hero's skill in the blower) as well as well as give a
little
writer's license.

For Grav you get a good feel from the Renegade Legion books. But they
give
rise to a completely different style of conflict than that to which
Drake is
trying to portray in his Vietnam inspired novels. 

They're both good fun reading and give plenty of insipration for
scenarios!

Owen G

> -----Original Message-----
> From: agoodall@interlog.com [mailto:agoodall@interlog.com]
> Sent: Friday, 3 December 1999 12:33 PM
> To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject: Re: GEVs/Grav
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 08:43:21 -0000, "Tim Jones" 
> <Tim.Jones@Smallworld.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> >In 'The Warrior' Slick attacks from a 
> >hill top fire base and the tank gets driven into 
> >several gullies but still keeps going, though I 
> >think the driver is constrained by the terrain 
> >in the story. The thought of a 150 tonne hockey
> >puck running down a 1:6 slope doesn't sound 
> >that controllable even with fusion powered fans.
> 
> Well, someone mentioned that Gibson wasn't much of a 
> technologist. Neither is
> Drake. *L* The books are fun, but he should have used 
> anti-grav instead of
> ground effect. 
> 
> 
> Allan Goodall 		 agoodall@interlog.com
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