[gurps] Starship Troopers, open questions

[Rupert Boleyn]

Barbarian wrote:
> 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!)

The flamer as a sidearm on that raid makes all kinds of sense - it's a 
terror raid intended to cause maximum property damage, so an indairy 
weapon is indicated, and it's use on unarmoured people as a self-defense 
weapon is a handy bonus.