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Re: [GZG] [OT] Books (Weber/White/Meier)

From: Oerjan Ariander <orjan.ariander1@c...>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:10:48 +0200
Subject: Re: [GZG] [OT] Books (Weber/White/Meier)

Ryan Gill wrote:

> >...where most space battles are attempts to batter your way
> >through such a channel against enemy opposition. By sending enough
ships
> >through you can, eventually, batter through just about any defence -
but
> >the cost of doing so can be *extremely* high.
>
>Which when you think about it, is turning what
>amounts to High Tech Space combat into a battle
>of Thermopylae.

Pretty much. Though quite often a Thermopylae fought with machineguns...

/Oerjan
orjan.ariander1@comhem.se

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry

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