Re: [GZG] More advanced screens

Richard Bell wrote:

>Langston fields were very peculiar pieces of kit.  The tuffleyverse 
>analog would be ships with a phantom first row of damage.  While the 
>field is operating, the ship takes no damage, but a first level 
>threshold check is made whenever the phantom row is filled (to model 
>burn through).

There's a short story by Don Hawthorne (IIRC) in one of the
'War World' collections set in the Mote universe that has a
lot of descriptions of space combat. Langston fields can be
burnt through in a small area by a temporary overload, either
from a beam or missile warhead, that causes damage to the
ship without collapsing the field.

	cheers,
	Hugh

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