[Spaceships] Actually GMing a world with Pseudovelocity drives?

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

I really don't have many candidates from other authors of the period. They tended to be fond of their energy beams and real "guided missiles" are a post WWII thing..

For whatever meta-reason, in the early Buck Rogers comics, the Mongols were armed with 'disintegrator rays', while the American guerilla resistance used 'rocket pistols' instead. The latter fired shells with integral rockets that boosted them up to speed in flight.