Re: [Epic] First Epic 40k battle

From: E. Sund <esund_at_...>
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 22:22:25 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 24 May 1997, A. Allen McCarley wrote:

> > Well, yes. You test your nukes to build bigger/better ones.
>
> NO! You test your nukes to build smaller/better ones. You also test them
> to see how storage affects them. (Since that is how nearly all nukes spend
> their lifetimes.) You also test them to get more of what you want out
> of them and less of what you don't want. I've spent a good amount of
> time calculating nuclear effects and can tell you that the science is still
> in its infancy.
>
> -Allen
>

But what is there to figure out? "Clean" bombs are nicer than dirty, I
suppose. But still not nice enough. Storage may be an issue, that I'll
grant you. In my state they want to re-open a reactor to build more nukes
since they fear the tritium (or something) is breaking down (half-life too
short). They don't have much sympathy from me.

Nuclear effects: we die.

I could try to turn this into an Epic thread (Nuclear Missiles and the
Scouring of Isstvan V or something) , but it's probaby best to let this
rest. I don't want to have an argument over the group occur. The
warhammer newsgroup got a couple ugly threads a while back and that just
wasn't any good. Besides anyone can tell I am one of those greenie pinko
internationalist commie-types, and sometimes I get outnumbered. Ouch.
If you do want to yell at me, you can go ahead and do it but please not on
the list. This isn't to say that you sound snappy or anything, but simply
a precaution. Thanks.

By the way, I wasn't on the warhammer list long and it was for Rogue
Trader-era stuff anyway. No, I don't like herohammer.

E. Sund
Received on Sun May 25 1997 - 05:22:25 UTC