[gurps] Warhead Boom question

[Brandon Cope]

Troy Guffey wrote:

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> From: "Onno Meyer" <Onno.Meyer at gmx.de>
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> >> If your idea was to have fluid drops instead of splinters from a
> >> hard material, I think the effect will depend from the size of the
> >> drops, their mass and the structure of the target. But to be
> >> honest, I doubt that it will have any positive effect at all -
> >> otherwise, you would find such a grenade or warhead in the
> >> arsenals of the armies of the world. Ok, I confess that this kind
> >> of logic is not always compelling, but related to military issues
> >> it worked most of the time.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Thomas Thrien
> >
> > The stuff also makes quite an environmental mess. While that didn't
> > stop armies from building dirty and very effective weapons (cf DU),
> > I believe that such considerations enter the balance. Is the slurry
> > warhead good  enough to justify the spills?
> >
> > OTOH, would the slurry have to be an uncommon/toxic material, and
> > could  this thing make a 'forensically deniable' KE weapon?
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> My mage/combat-engineer character is contemplating using maintainable
> Create Object to 'build' the warhead.

Unless he can build the warhead with mundane methods, he can't use magic
to create it.
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