[gurps] Starship Troopers, open questions

[Onno Meyer]

Barbarian replied to Hal:
> 
> >Electromagnetic Grenade Launchers?  I think you may want to avoid using
> >that kind of technology for one reason:
> >
> >If they have it for grenade launchers, why don't they use it for side
> arms
> >and such?
> 
> There may be problems inherent to the technology when using anything 
> much smaller than the 40mm grenade rounds, flamers may have 
> advantages over EM arms in other ways, or just plain simple military 
> preferences that have very little basis in the real world.  (Not that 
> that ever happens, of course!)

Rico used some ammo-firing guns during Bughouse. Later he was 
senior enough to get nukes (instead?), with a flamer as close-in 
weapon.

Onno