RE: [SG] Smoke

Perhaps there need to be tech levels for smoke:

Tech 1 - basic smoke (white phosphorous, diesel on a hot manifold...)
Tech 2 - Basic smoke, chemical additives to block IR lasers
Tech 3 - BS + IR blocking + IR decoys
Tech 4 - Tech 3 + metallic particle smoke to block millimeter radar
Tech 5 - Tech 4 + active electronic jammers 

So infantry with tech 5 sensors and targeting systems are unaffected by
lesser smoke - i.e. they have equipment that effectively allows them to
"see" the target.  Whereas infantry with tech 3 sensors would be
effectively neutralized by tech 4 or 5 smoke and suffer a modified die
type when dealing with tech 3 smoke but able to ignore tech 1 or 2
smoke.

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan M Gill [mailto:rmgill@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:23 AM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: [SG] Smoke
> 
> 
> At 4:39 PM +0000 10/30/02, Richard Kirke wrote:
> >
> >That sounds like a pretty sensible interpretation. What's wrong, not 
> >getting enough space?
> >
> >How would 22nd century infantry deploy smoke? Does the platoon have 
> >an equivalent of the 2" mortar? Or would everyone just throw 
> >grenades? Maybe from their rifle's GL?
> 
> I dunno, a small ball that one can chuck seems likely.
> 
> 
> >How effective a smoke screen could they deploy? Would it simply stop 
> >anyone firing at them? Or would suppresions still be possible?
> 
> Theoretically the effect on the suppression should be how much it 
> impacts the firing unit's fire effectiveness. If they have some kind 
> of mechanism of seeing through the smoke, then they probably won't 
> falter in their fire accuracy. But if they can't see crap, they might 
> have a harder time putting fire where people are near and thus not be 
> able to maintain the suppression come next turn.
> 
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