----- Original Message ----- > From: Onno Meyer <[email protected]> > > Brandon wrote: >> If you don't care about target identification, why not saturate >> the area with small nukes and then send in battlesuits to clean up? > > I think that Heinlein called battlesuits the arm of restraint -- and > his suits carried micronukes at times. One side in the conflict might > be ready to spray everybody in the enemy bunker, or even everybody in > an unarmed crowd, but still stop at gross damage to the city or the > ecosystem.
IIRC, a SATNUC round has similar effects to a conventional artillery barrage and, with fusion warheads at TL10, not much lingering radiation. Brandon _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
