RE: Kinetic Shields

No more so than Beams are against screens. Or screen-skipping weapons
against armor.

You would just have to make sure that the mass/cost of the Shields would
be
appropriately greater, are less effective against screen effecting
weapons,
and/or have other factors that degrade the value (work both ways,
limited in
number of damage it absorbs, etc.).

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Brian Bell
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oerjan Ohlson [SMTP:oerjan.ohlson@telia.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:39 PM
> To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject:	Re: Kinetic Shields
> 
[snip]

> The various screen-skippers were all balanced around the fact that
they 
> aren't degraded by screens, so if your "shield" degrades them by the
same 
> percentage at the same cost as it does beams you effectively make all 
> screen-skipping weapons useless :-(
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Oerjan
> oerjan.ohlson@telia.com
> 
> "Life is like a sewer.
>   What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> -Hen3ry