[gurps] Starship Troopers

[Anthony Jackson]

Clinton N. Fell wrote:
> I like the armor, but it makes me wonder about the bugs.  DR 200 means 
> that those bugs would have to have a 3e strength of at least 50 with a 
> rather generous armor divisor of 5 on specialized swinging marine opener 
> appendages.  Those are going to be some nasty bugs.

That's a generic problem with 'bug' races in SF. For example, in 
Starcraft a marine does 6 points of damage with his 8mm gauss rifle, 
which implies something like 12d(2) in GURPS -- and from the sound 
effects, that's a 3 round burst. A Zergling, meanwhile, does 5 points of 
damage with his claws, which appears to actually represent two claw 
hits. If we call the gauss rifle pi-, we can make that work with claws 
doing about 4d(5) cut.

A zergling is the size of a large dog.