[gurps] Re: GurpsNet-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 19

[Jeff Wilson]

> From: "Onno Meyer" <Onno.Meyer at gmx.de>
> That is mixing the book and the movie. When unarmed bugs in the book
> are mowed down in close combat, they're non-combattant worker bugs. 

Workers are still dangerous, and but it's implied that only the warrior 
caste can move and shoot at the same time. That, and collateral damage 
to the warmaking capacity would be a good reason for a doctrine that 
says to attack workers discovered on the move. The bugs are then smart 
enough to use this against the terrans and use some waves of workers to 
keep some MI busy engaging them while they move up other forces.

> But what else can you expect from people who consider pocket nukes 
> the arm of restraint?

Against a race that uses dirty, strategic-scale ground bursts on their 
own planets, pocket nukes *are* the arm of restraint.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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