Re: [Epic] New Rules ADA Missiles

From: Oki Purwanto <oki_at_...>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 14:16:08 +0800

At 08:13 AM 7/6/97 +1300, you wrote:
>On Sun 06 Jul, J. Michael Looney wrote:
>
>I also have to question the realism of such weapon. You haven't taken
>into account the counter measures that modern aircraft have, such as
>chaff and flares. You also haven't included the affects of radar
>jamming.

Not to mention Orks throwing Gretchins with Plasma grenades (up their butts)
off their Fighter-Bommerz as their low-tech counter measures :)

>In addition I suspect that armies in E40K wouldn't worry
>about exploding nuclear bombs high in the atmosphere to let off
>electro-magnetic pulses, which would really stuff up radio frequencies
>over long periods of time.
>
>I suggest, rather than inventing counter measures for flyers, which
>would slow the game down, downgrade the ability of the HIMAD system
>on the assumption that all the adove counter measures would be
>automatically used to counter it.
>
Sounds good. Lets keep it simple.

Regards
Oki
Received on Mon Jul 07 1997 - 06:16:08 UTC