On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 19:17 -0500, Troy Guffey wrote: > David Scheidt wrote: > > On 9/11/07, DataPacRat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> Hadn't realized MetalStorm was so close to actual deployability. > > > > That's because it's not. > > And they'll definitely never be infantry weapons. The reload mass/bullet > ratio SUCKS.... You basically put on another barell to reload. John Ringo > used it to nice effect in his Posleen books. Mount it on a TANK and it > works better.
Yeah, and he screwed it up. :) Someone on the Baen John Ringo forum did the calculation and found that Ringo must be using hyper-dimensional tank barrels to fit in the number of rounds he described. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
