Odd armour developments

Ryan,

Adeptus Mechanicus should have been 
renaimed Ineptus Mechanicus. Anyone who 
couldn't build a Storm Bolter that didn't jam 
every few shots ought not to be considered 
worthwhile in any technical way. 

John A also made an excellent point about hair 
plus sand. Sand is bad. It's most annoying 
property is its ability to find its way inside 
clothing and into places it should not be. Or 
into seemingly closed mechanical systems 
(perhaps via osmosis or teleportation). And it 
proceeds to be either uncomfortable or 
destructive by degrees. And having it in the hair 
is no joy. Nor mind you is having a huge mass 
of hair on  your head in 35C plus humidex and 
having to hump 10 miles with a heavy rucksack 
and a full combat loadout including ammo for 
the support weapons. Not like you're going to 
be happy in any event, but if you've got more 
hair than required, you're going to be even less 
happy. 

Ah the joys of being an infanteer (I noticed the 
armoured recce types always seemed to drive if 
the distance was more than about 10 yards.... 
lazy bunch of buggers....and the fact they liked 
to keep beer in the APCs wasn't lost on us 
gropos either....)! 

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Thomas Barclay
Co-Creator of http://www.stargrunt.ca 
Stargrunt II and Dirtside II game site

No Battle Plan Survives Contact With Dice.
-- Mark 'Indy' Kochte
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