Re: [GZG] QUESTION: are SAWs becoming less significant...?

I have a strange image in my mind of some old Chinese guy in the middle
ages 
saying something similar to someboy about the practical application of 
gunpowder.

Not saying you're wrong, just a funny mental image that popped up.

-Eli
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allan Goodall" <agoodall@hyperbear.com>
To: <gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: [GZG] QUESTION: are SAWs becoming less significant...?

> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Mark Kinsey <Kinseym@ptd.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm imagining the defending team behind a wall or earthen berm. In
the
>> case of the attackers having plasma weapons there will not soon be
any
>> cover to hide behind.
>
> In the world of sci-fi, true.
>
> In reality? Not so much. Plasma makes for a rotten weapon. They're as
> practical as a "hot steam gun".
>
> For more information I direct you to the wonderful Atomic Rocket site
> (warning, if you like your sci-fi the way it's commonly portrayed,
> don't go to this site if you can't handle dejection):
>
> http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3x.html#plasma
>
> And this is a link from Atomic Rocket:
>
> http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/PlasmaWeapons.html
>
> I've been chuckling quietly to myself that Jon is asking about the
> realism of SAWs in the future (a discussion I've found very
> interesting), in a game that includes plasma guns.
>
> -- 
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