[Epic] Epic] Imperial Tech & Bolters

From: J Andrew Evans <J_Andrew_Evans_at_...>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:10:38 -0400

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>Bolters a actually like mini grenade launchers. Quite a bit more
advanced then machineguns, and it does kinda explain their terrible range.<

I do disagree with this. The introduction of explosive shells to what is
fundamentally an automatic weapon which we have in the twentieth century is
hardly a mind-blowing advancement of technology we might have expected from
40 more millenia of technical development. Look how weapons technology has
developed in just the last hundred years! Clearly if the Imperium has only
developed what it has - plasma weapons, bolt-guns, lasers etc - they have
either lost or never developed because of other extenuating circumstances
what technologic advancement we might have expected from 40 millennia.

Still as you say, let us remember:

>But this is a GAME. A FANTASY FUTURE game. It does not have to make
sense in any way, shape, or form as to WHY things are like the way they
are.<

The range thing has more to do with what is reasonable on a 4' by 4' gaming
table rather than any logic based on technology.

But I was actually reacting to an argument about Artillery fire being
directed "from above" by the tremendously advanced technology of the 40K
world. I was just saying, as I do above, that maybe the 40K technology
isn't as amazing as one might think - or expect it to be. Therefore
bringing in "future tech" when we want to justify some rule or other is
not, **necessarily**, a valid argument.

Andrew
Received on Fri Sep 04 1998 - 19:10:38 UTC