From some stuff I read not in Traveller, neutral oarticle accelerator streams are not something you stop but charged particle streams could be deflected. Same source said charged particle streams may not work because they neutralize fast. So at least PAs not being defended by a defense other than BG would be reasonable.
On 11Oct2020 0355, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml
list) wrote:
> Once I finally got ahold of the 1st ed (1979) HG CT LBB my first > reaction was; "Heck, this is better than the later one. What ever >
made MM want to change it so much?" However, it's apparent that >
dissatisfaction set in quick as it seems that work on the 2nd ed >
commenced right after the 1st ed was published.
There are some things that are probably better in the 2nd version -
pulse lasers suck a bit less, meson guns aren't insensitive to range.
Only meson guns caring about hull form is the huge combat change, and I
think I prefer the earlier version there, conceptually at least. I do
like the way the 2nd edition made particle beams unique in that they
they have no counter other than 'don't get hit' and armour.
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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
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