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Message no. 1
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Ballista missiles
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:31:28 +0200
According to kawaii, at 14:38 on 12 Apr 00, the word on the street was...

> Well, that is understandable, but then what's the point of a Mk III? ;)

It could have been an attempt at an improvement, with so much publicity
around it that they _had_ to build it even when it turned out to be a
piece of crap :)

Anyway, here's the way it breaks down:

Mk. I: direct & indirect fire, no guidance
Mk. II: direct fire only, no guidance
Mk. III: direct & indirect fire, guided (strangely, it has _three_
guidance systems: one for laser, one for microwave, and one for radar...)

> I don't have the book in front of me right now, but I remember as I was
> reading from it that aside from the avail # being higher for the Mk
> III, there was no difference, as far as the charts can tell me.

You have to look in the text on page 28 :)

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Message no. 2
From: kawaii trunks@********.org
Subject: Ballista missiles
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:12:30 -0400
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
> Anyway, here's the way it breaks down:
>
> Mk. I: direct & indirect fire, no guidance
> Mk. II: direct fire only, no guidance
> Mk. III: direct & indirect fire, guided (strangely, it has _three_
> guidance systems: one for laser, one for microwave, and one for radar...)
>
> > I don't have the book in front of me right now, but I remember as I was
> > reading from it that aside from the avail # being higher for the Mk
> > III, there was no difference, as far as the charts can tell me.
>
> You have to look in the text on page 28 :)
>

*gasp* I have to actually *read* that text? I thought it was just flavor for
the charts. Now you tell me... ;) =P

Ever lovable and always scrappy,
kawaii
Message no. 3
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Ballista missiles
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:12:45 +0200
According to kawaii, at 9:12 on 13 Apr 00, the word on the street was...

> > You have to look in the text on page 28 :)
>
> *gasp* I have to actually *read* that text? I thought it was just flavor for
> the charts. Now you tell me... ;) =P

Let me guess... you started RPing with Rolemaster or one of its spin-offs,
right? ;)

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Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
"There are millions of people who've got nothing to say to each other,
and who do it on mobile phones" --Ian Hislop, on Have I Got News For You
-> NAGEE Editor * ShadowRN GridSec * Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
->The Plastic Warriors Page: http://shadowrun.html.com/plasticwarriors/<-

GC3.1: GAT/! d-(dpu) s:- !a>? C+(++)@ UL P L+ E? W(++) N o? K- w+ O V? PS+
PE Y PGP- t(+) 5++ X++ R+++>$ tv+(++) b++@ DI? D+ G(++) e h! !r(---) y?
Incubated into the First Church of the Sqooshy Ball, 21-05-1998

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