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01-07-2013, 04:36 PM | #1 |
Join Date: May 2012
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The PanEuropeans have invented the Laser Turret..,
If the Combine doesn't move fast we'll have a Laser Turret gap!
Their next step will undoubtedly be mounting it in a tower. http://singularityhub.com/2013/01/07...over-1km-away/ http://entertainment.slashdot.org/st...-than-1km-away |
01-07-2013, 05:02 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Austin, TX
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Re: The PanEuropeans have invented the Laser Turret..,
Not to worry. The Navy is on it. And the Combine version will be on a vehicle - admittedly a ship, but a ship is a vehicle. :)
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01-09-2013, 08:18 AM | #3 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Buffalo NY
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Re: The PanEuropeans have invented the Laser Turret..,
If you think about it, a "beach defense" would be nearly impossible in the OGRE universe. You have to presume that naval mounted lasers are standard issue there. You mount lasers on top of submarines; surface a number of them near the area you want to attack; and pound the defenses from well out of their range. The obvious defense would be Laser towers and turrets, but you force their hand with several waves of cruise missiles so your lasers are killing his lasers while he's killing cruise missiles. Naval forces and mobile inland reserves are really the only practical defenses. The beaches are just too exposed once you have line of sight weaponry.
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01-09-2013, 08:59 AM | #4 | |
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Location: The North American Combine
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Re: The PanEuropeans have invented the Laser Turret..,
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01-09-2013, 12:50 PM | #5 |
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Kansas
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Re: The PanEuropeans have invented the Laser Turret..,
That alone gives equal armament potential. The mass advantage of a beach over any ship then returns their advantage. The ships, of course, still have their key advantage, mobility. In the absence of some offensive or defensive system one can mount that the other can't, it seems like beach defense would be roughly as hard with Ogre technology as our own.
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01-09-2013, 01:32 PM | #6 | |
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Re: The PanEuropeans have invented the Laser Turret..,
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