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Blue Ghost · 12-22-2018, 07:39 PM

As per my other thread on TOW missiles, I guess one has to keep the "game ability" of the game itself. A javelin can take out a contemporary AFV that ostensibly has metal armor on top of both turret and chassis. Meaning that a CW vehicle with standard ablative top armor wouldn't stand a chance.

There's a few things I'm tinkering with that I want to build with the rules, so I'm trying to get some opinions here on the forum.

Having said that, and I guess it's best that the equivocation question be best left to the imagination and chalking up the game to being a game and not a pure simulation, it does make one think about things like the recoilless rifle, micro missile launcher and the like. But, you can't take it too seriously as the game does have lasers, X-ray lasers and Gauss Guns in its arsenal.

In the end it's supposed to be about fun, so I'll continue in that vein.

12-22-2018, 07:39 PM	#9
Blue Ghost Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Spinward Marches	Re: Difference question about weapons. As per my other thread on TOW missiles, I guess one has to keep the "game ability" of the game itself. A javelin can take out a contemporary AFV that ostensibly has metal armor on top of both turret and chassis. Meaning that a CW vehicle with standard ablative top armor wouldn't stand a chance. There's a few things I'm tinkering with that I want to build with the rules, so I'm trying to get some opinions here on the forum. Having said that, and I guess it's best that the equivocation question be best left to the imagination and chalking up the game to being a game and not a pure simulation, it does make one think about things like the recoilless rifle, micro missile launcher and the like. But, you can't take it too seriously as the game does have lasers, X-ray lasers and Gauss Guns in its arsenal. In the end it's supposed to be about fun, so I'll continue in that vein.