12-06-2018, 11:54 AM | #1 |
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Infantry Power?
I had one of those oh wait a minute moments. If Ogres have BPC armor that can only be damaged by a tactical nuke what the hell are the infantry using during attacks? I looked at GURPS and it mentioned satchel nukes but is that what is happening every time? Every other weapon mentioned doesn't seem to have the necessary punch to do anything to several inches/ feet of BPC. I can see using satchels in overruns but on hex away I don't get it. So what are they using that would have any effect on Ogres?
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12-06-2018, 12:10 PM | #2 |
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Re: Infantry Power?
Rocket propelled tacnukes.
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12-06-2018, 12:28 PM | #3 |
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12-06-2018, 01:04 PM | #5 |
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Re: Infantry Power?
I've always assumed that INF used a rifle-type railgun against "soft" targets, and essentially a micronuke RPG vs. hard ones. It's not like they need to carry that many of them anyway, since once they get close enough to an Ogre they rarely get many shots before dying... :)
HWT as a squad carry a single missile tank round in addition to their normal loadout. How, I have no idea, but that's what the stats say! :P
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12-06-2018, 01:41 PM | #6 |
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12-06-2018, 01:43 PM | #7 | |
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12-06-2018, 03:30 PM | #8 |
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Re: Infantry Power?
The closest I can remember seeing actually comes from the story 'G.E.V.' by J. D. Bell in The Ogre Book. The GEV in the story uses 'hiveloc' rounds (high velocity railgun?) against armor, only switching to nukes when firing on an Ogre proper. I just extrapolated from there given how the INF are visualized with their rifles, figuring that they'd need to go bigger than that for anything stronger than a D1 or D2 unit...
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12-06-2018, 04:19 PM | #9 | |
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The closest you'd get to "official what does a battlesuit INF use?" would be the GURPS:Ogre battlesuit weapons list
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