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Originally Posted by Mailanka
Unless you have a stasis web, some serious range on that EMGL, or you have some means of rapidly getting away, or you have no intention of surviving, the mini-nuke and the anti-matter grenade are seriously overrated weapons. They tend to kill everything around them, including the attacker.
That's more like it.
EDIT: Also, even with epic, conformal shields that stop everything dead except very slow things: Limpet mines.
(So, IMO, my solution would be not to worry excessively much about the "realism" of your setting. I can't remember any grenades being on offer in Dune, for example, so don't offer any grenades in your game. Realistic? No. But not everyone needs diamond-hard SF)
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A cheap and brutally WMD-ish alternative is a
5 mW coherent light diode, attached in numbers of several hundred to a air-to-whatever missile that overflies the enemy formation.