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

on my to-do list


Michael Brown
mwsaber6@msn

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From: "Mark Kinsey" <Kinseym@ptd.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:05 PM
To: <gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [GZG] QUESTION: are SAWs becoming less significant...?

> Yeah, I've seen that site. It is pretty depressing. I'd rather just 
> think about the "Bacon Explosion" 
> http://www.bbqaddicts.com/bacon-explosion.html
> 
> Allan Goodall wrote:
>> 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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