[NetEpic ML] Re: The Great Holofield Debate. Vote Now!

From: Travis Smart <Hikaru_at_...>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 03:24:49 -0500

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From: Warprat <warprat_at_...>
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Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 2:58 AM
Subject: [NetEpic ML] Re: The Great Holofield Debate. Vote Now!


> Not to rain on your parade Travis, ;)
>
>

No prob,i love a good debate....


> But consider the following:
>
> If you researched on the Internet, on how to build bombs, and built one.
> You might represent this blast, with a barrage template, and rate it
> with a -1 save mod. It hurts people pretty good.
>
> Now you decide you want to really hurt people, so you stick some nails
> in the bomb. You would represent this blast, with the same barrage
> template. After all, the explosive force is still the same, as your
> first bomb. The nails, however, make the save mod. a -2. It hurts
> people real good, AND puts holes in them.
>
> Note that BOTH the bombs, exploded with the same force. The same exact
> barrage radius. But, ONE, hurt more than the other. Yes, If you stood
> right next to the bomb, it would hurt you more, than if you were 10
> meters away. But this is true with BOTH bombs.
>
> A higher penetration, does not equal a greater chance to hit.
>
>
> Warprat ;)
>
>

But consider what the to save modifier (TSM) means: it means the explosion
is of such a naure that armour does not protect as well as it normally
would.There are a couple of ways an explosive may do this:

A-Higher initial yield (bigger boom)

B-a missile with a penetrating head (delayed detonator,shaped charge, APDS
round,etc)

C-create massive amount of shrapnel (the shrapnel hits so many parts of the
target that by simple law of averages something is bound to get through)

D- Create "shrapnel" that burns at an extremely high tempurature:
Napalm,phosphorous,and God only knows what else in the 41st millenium .

whie "B" would not effect a holofield, A ,C , and D would all work over a
holofieild - protected titan.

add this to the fact that it is an elegantly simple method of equalising all
forces involved,and I think you must agree that "Option 6" is the logical
choice in this matter.

Comments welcome as always....

Trav
hikaru_at_...
 "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence;it is force! Like fire,it is
a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
 George Washington



Trav
hikaru_at_...
 "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence;it is force! Like fire,it is
a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
 George Washington
Received on Fri Mar 17 2000 - 08:24:49 UTC