Hello Kelly St. Clair,

My apologies for not adding more details I had a four year old that asked to play games that cut short my reply.

Another detail not mentioned was that the Marines began discovering that the planet's environment was finding bits and pieces of their equipment succumbing to molds and defective components that caused catastrophic failures like having a weapon blow up.

Tom Rux

> On April 2, 2020 at 2:16 PM "Kelly St. Clair" <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 4/2/2020 6:49 AM, Thomas RUX wrote:
> > Hi Timothy,
> >
> > Your Captain's use of multiple fire arms inflicting friendly fire damage
> > reminds of the David Weber/John Ringo series about Prince Roger Ramius
> > Sergei Alexander Chiang MacClintock's  use of a grenade launcher to
> > break-up an attack. The slight difference was that his attack took out
> > the enemy too. I think most of his Marine body was on one hand ticked
> > off by the attack and on the other glad of his intervention.
> >
> > Tom Rux
>
> Important, IMO, detail left out of this account:  the Marines in
> question were all wearing power armor (battle dress), so they weren't in
> /direct/ danger (much).  It was still a reckless, but effective, thing
> to do, and this was near the start of Roger proving that he wasn't just
> a useless fop (having never really gotten the chance to live up to the
> family name until then, only his jerk of a father's).
>
> ... they're fun books, I like 'em.  A series of grand adventures and
> remarkable journeys, Roger's personal development possibly first among
> them.  (But Rastar, gunslinging last prince of lost Therdan, is still my
> personal favorite for "coolest character". :)
>
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