> > I like the armor, but it makes me wonder about the bugs. DR 200 means > > that those bugs would have to have a 3e strength of at least 50 with a > > rather generous armor divisor of 5 on specialized swinging marine opener > > appendages. Those are going to be some nasty bugs. > > > > Clint
That is mixing the book and the movie. When unarmed bugs in the book are mowed down in close combat, they're non-combattant worker bugs. But what else can you expect from people who consider pocket nukes the arm of restraint? > For a bug to lift all that natural armor it would need to be 99% muscle > anyway. Exoskeleton is heavy which is why no bug like that can naturally > exist on Earth. They would have to have come from a world with a much > lower gravity. Who said those bugs were bugs in the terran, biological sense? The other aliens are the skinnies. Seems the propaganda value beats accuracy. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
