----- Original Message -----
From: "Travis Smart" <Hikaru_at_...>
To: <netepic_at_egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 3:24 AM
Subject: [NetEpic ML] Re: The Great Holofield Debate. Vote Now!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Warprat <warprat_at_...>
> To: <netepic_at_egroups.com>
> 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)
> !! plasma instead of frag
> B-a missile with a penetrating head (delayed detonator,shaped charge, APDS
> round,etc)
> !!harpoon version ?
> 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)
> !!! aaahh veitnam is alive had a missile we could fire off helocpter would
blow up just before the ground filled with murcery whitch in turn made
1000's of BB to clear out areas.
> D- Create "shrapnel" that burns at an extremely high tempurature:
> Napalm,phosphorous,and God only knows what else in the 41st millenium .
> !! AAHH Koreian war with the Phosphis war head, was said to burn through
like tanks.
> 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
>
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