[gurps] [Vehicle] TL8 "Pigeon"

[Zan Lynx]

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 19:17 -0500, Troy Guffey wrote:
> David Scheidt wrote:
> > On 9/11/07, DataPacRat <datapacrat at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hadn't realized MetalStorm was so close to actual deployability.
> >
> > That's because it's not.
> 
> And they'll definitely never be infantry weapons.  The reload mass/bullet 
> ratio SUCKS....  You basically put on another barell to reload.  John Ringo 
> used it to nice effect in his Posleen books.  Mount it on a TANK and it 
> works better.

Yeah, and he screwed it up. :)

Someone on the Baen John Ringo forum did the calculation and found that
Ringo must be using hyper-dimensional tank barrels to fit in the number
of rounds he described.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>