RE: [Epic] Nukes in Epic universe

From: Brett Hollindale <agro_at_...>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 07:17:46 GMT

At 07:57 AM 17/1/97 +0800, you wrote:
>
>Has it ever occurred to people that perhaps EPIC battles occur when one
>side failed to nuke the other?
>
>In some of the background, Games Workshop describe how many planets are
>purged with Virus bombing (ie, massed chemical or biological weapons
>attacks). The troops are only sent in to pick off the survivors of these
>strikes.
>
>Such a plan has been used on Earth, in the First and Second World Wars,
>and in the Gulf War. Bomb the enemy into oblivion, and then it is a much
>easier task to destroy the remnants of the enemy force.


Or it could be that no one retains the tech to build nuclear weapons.
(They no longer have the tech to put fly screens in titans - a cloud of
flies will reduce a titans CAF - so no amount of lost tech could surprise me!)

Agro
Received on Fri Jan 17 1997 - 07:17:46 UTC