Way back in an earlier posting (not me) was a brief mention of something called "DREAD" which was a cetnrifuge used to accelerate its projectiles. Someone...
I saw that too. The inherent problems with the weapon are several-fold: 1) Spherical projectiles 2) The projectiles have a spin on them from rolling around the...
Hi New to the group, and noticed this post from nearly two years ago, after finding the teaser TOC in the Files section. Any further news available on the...
good question. also, i did some (quite a bit, actually) playtest work on that, but my Pyramid subscription has lapsed and i've changed my address anyway. is...
CORPS as a system is probably not going to have any more expansions. There was a bestiary being worked on by a third party, but that sort of withered and died....
so the expansion that was being playtested through the SJG site is a terminated project? oh well, at least i still have printouts of the playtest copy. i know...
For the historical note is an article of an short-range defense laser: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htada/articles/20070111.aspx It uses a guidance system...
... One of my personal goals in life is to be the first person to take a medium-large game animal (whitetail deer) with an energy weapon. I think I can do it...
OK, I'll make you a deal: You use a laser and I'll use a magnetic accellerator (rail gun or coil gun, doesn't matter to me). Of course, I'll have to win the...
An article about an 8 MJ railgun test. http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/012007/01172007/251373/index_html? page=1 The one annoying thing about...
In Warpworld and CORPS there are some religions that are backed up with the power of magic. Here are some further thoughts about it. One question to consider...
... Aside from making up a table of values based on certain point ranges and rolling randomly, no. However...Bruce Kvam has a windows program called...
... There are no "Official" ones that I've seen, however, as with all point based systems, one can do some base templates To do so, you do a few "stat+skill"...
Some more items occured recently in the news. One article is about Northrop Grumman Corporation has apparently going to be in solid- state laser making...
I was watching another flare-up of debates/flames on rifle and even pistol bore size, and saw an interesting link. Here is a link to a site that has...
Here is a video on cars powered by compressed air: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmqpGZv0YT4&mode=related&search= Note that in VDS compressed air in the power...
... Anything that causes it to dump all its energy in the target is likely to work. In a perfect world (if you like killing), you need some sort of bullet...
... One additional. Whatever the material is, it should be transparent to X rays and, if possible, visually transparent as well ... not only is it a bugger...
... damage. It seems ... Anything that causes it to dump all its energy in the target is likely to work. In a perfect world (if you like killing), you need...
... Actually, I would imagine the "rules of war" (such as they are) prohibit things like that which are deliberately hard to detect/extract. Fragments are one...
... "Fully" Jacketed "Target Cutters" in .45 do a pretty good job... into water, they mushroom like mad; into wood, they cut a plug .4" in diameter, leaving a...
... Hague IV (1907) prohibits ... "To employ arms, projectiles, or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering" Which is about as vague as you can get. ...
... After thinking about it, I am going to suggest that simply expanding or disintegrating is not necessarily optimal. It kind of goes back to how DV is...
For those who might be looking for inspiration for a location idea for a science fiction setting, here are two videos on the idea of a "solar tower": ...
Another competitor idea is more along the lines of a tornado idea. http://pesn.com/2005/12/14/9600210_Atmosphere_Vortex_Engine/ There have been comments by...
Here is another thought idea for an extension of the idea that could lead to possible scenarios. One possibility that might make it possible to generate power...
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