Well the Electro-hull would fry all the curcits in the Termies Power Armor
and thus leave him trapped inside, not being able to move, Ever think bout
that.
----- Original Message -----
From: Luca Lettieri <magnus_at_...>
To: <netepic_at_egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:00 AM
Subject: Re: [NetEpic ML] Warprat's CC
> --- In netepic_at_egroups.com, "Peter Ramos" <pramos2_at_u...> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > My head hurts <grin>.
> >
> > Okay, for my sake lay this out one more time please with the
> suggestions you
> > gave below and a math example, to see if I got it right.
> >
> > One question people is this really as complex as it sounds?
> >
> > Is this what we want? Heck Warprat you got Luca on your side so
> you're doing
> > something right.
>
> Hey I'm not *THAT* bad <grin>
>
> But seriously, I think that Warprat's idea assesses every aspect of
> the question. Assault a titan with cheap troops and they're going to
> DIE DIE DIE. Assault it with good troops, and they've a chance but
> will take heavy casualties. Assault it with a massive attack of
> elite,
> the-best-you-can-find-in-the-galaxy troops and the titan will go down
> in flames.
>
> A short note about the elite infantry vs knights debate: I agree with
> Warprat (obviously :-) ), exarchs, termies and the like are the top
> you can find. If they are not able to take a titan down, then no
> infantry has any chance.
> As far as having the right tools, well... fluff-wise, Termies are
> mini-titans by themselves, having a powered exo-scheleton. I would
> argue than, given an immobile titan and plenty of time, a Terminator
> would rip it to shreds using his "bare servo-powered gloves", so to
> speak.
> Of course a battle situation is different, but think about this: a
> terminator is basically immune to low-powered weapons. And yet, those
> are exactly the weapons which a Titan defense system would employ.
> The
> titan crew fires on the termies? So what? The bullets would just
> bounce. Electro-hull?? Uh uh.. the discharge would be neutralized by
> the armour. A titan would have to kill termies by actually stomping
> them or using its "real" weapons, but of course, when there are
> dozens
> of them swarming at it, well.. it's dead. That's my main gripe with
> the other systems: the various titan defense systems would be
> pretty ineffective against super-elite infantry types, and the
> systems
> don't reflect this. Warprat's system nicely addresses this, so... :-)
>
>
> Luca Lettieri
>
>
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