... Because they make for a very boring simulation game. As soon as both combatants get into particle beam range, they open fire, both ships die, and the game...
OK, first off, by 'super' tanks, I am referring to those creations of Keith Laumer, the Bolo. For those who haven't read any of the Laumer stories, or the...
... Isn't it more like: "Your crew will all be dead in 2 weeks!" "Well, your crew will all be dead in 8 hours!" "Shall we continue the battle?" "Sure, why...
... [...] ... The big issue, I think is the issue of scale. What can a large monster tank do which a bunch of smaller tanks can't, and vice versa? General...
... Why? There's nothing about particle beam weapons which make them inherently more deadly than laser beam weapons. To the contrary, particle beam weapons...
... even ... Right. Which is why I insisted that the mid-future electronics and receiver would cost at most on the order of a modern day cell phone. The...
... In the mid-future scenario you're envisioning, there's pervasive outer space travel and space military forces. There will be off-the-shelf unmanned...
... If the laser holes a fuel tank, then there's only going to be one significant piece of wreckage. And how hard will it be to make it miss? Well, suppose...
... I'm not so much skeptical about designing a missile that can survive 1000 gees, but rather how to smooth out a nuke's blast so it provides 1000 gees. Isaac...
... The T-35, and other similar multi-turret tanks (the T-35 was based on the Vickers Independent) suffered from several problems. First, however, keep in mind...
... Good point, and I'm hang'd by my own petard. This is pretty much my argument for kinetics vs nukes in tactical space combat. Still not much reason to shove...
... Exactamundo. If you are an insurgent group or a small country with more brainpower than foreign exchange, you deploy the bench test version because it...
... large ... issue. ... But, in the case of the Bolo, the tank may not have a crewat all. Or, perhaps, a commander, but no-one else. admittedly, the type of...
... Yep. The key idea behind a BOLO or OGRE is that somewhere out there, the bigger = heavier = less maneuverable equation ceases to hold for land vehicles....
... I'd imagine that highway mobility is also an issue, for mobility behind the lines. Do you really want a tank that collapses every bridge it crosses, even...
... Not really, charged particle beams allow you to use electro-magnetic shielding to deflect or reduce the damage from the beams, and neutral particle beams...
... Well, I had out of date information. From http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/sfconsim-l/message/54010 One other weapon system you may need to consider is...
... Actually, neutral particle beams (in the form of atom beams) are just as interactive as beams of charged ions, bare nuclei, or protons. For one thing, as...
Are how they are on earh cause of intenral pressure and external need dor protection from dropping and like. But i n space, do tanks have to be hard tanks, or...
... Yep. AKA "Why the Maus was stupid". :) But even if you're resolved to try to avoid roads & ford every river, you sill have to deal with soil. -- James...
... I've often noticed that SF writers who postulated technomagic artificial gravity were totally oblivious to the implications. It is a means to producing...
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