Mike wrote: > A TL 14 person might not realize that some things exist and not plan for it? > Or if they have a force shield, but do they have good mine detection as the > evil over lord passes over the mine/IED that the TL 10 person put in place? > TL is ok, but also Knowledge levels and areas of knowledge..
Professionals have an institutional memory; they document what worked in the past and teach it to the next generation. Knowledge may be lost if the old stuff is inferior to the new, that leads to stories like "we don't know how to make these old blades any more" -- yes, but we make even better ones. Even if the Evil Overlords use contragrav, they will still have to worry about mined landing zones, so there will be a countermine doctrine. A better comparison is assault river crossing. For a contragrav force, a river is no worse than a cleared runway. They don't need bridges and pontoons, so they don't teach using them any more. What could happen is that people don't see all the implications of their new tech. Consider WWII with the Japanese A6M Zero and Ki-27 or the Italian Cr.42 -- agility at all cost, where firepower and toughness would have been a better idea. (As it happens, some of my vehicles for the Evil Overlords are going for speed at all costs. More ordnance would be smarter.) Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
