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On Thu, 5/5/16, xxxxxx@gmail.com <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Hulls aren't *that* fragile, was Re: Gaussbow? was Re: [TML] The Anachronistic Future
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Thursday, May 5, 2016, 5:02 PM

 On 5 May 2016 at 13:24,
 Craig Berry wrote:

 > On
 Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml
 list)
 > <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
 >     Sure there are
 FGMP's & PGMP's but no sane sophont is going
 to
 >     fire up one of them
 inside a starship travelling thru space.
 >
 > Or while sitting on
 the ground, for that matter. Firing one of those
 > in an enclosed space is a recipe for
 extreme unhappiness all around.
 >
 Literally.

 Which is one
 reason why the party is over when the Imperial MArines show
 up with
 their FGMPs and their battledress.
 They can take the blast and reflected flash on their
 armour, while you (most likely) can't.
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In CT battledress/combat armor isn't that good.

BD/CA appear in LBB Book1 & ar actually surprisingly vulnerable to some of the weapons, like  AutoRifles at short range, included there.

When LBB4 came out with even more lethal weapons things go even hairier.

Even when the HB Traveller Book came out & included a specific DM for hard cover such as stone walls, etc., it was still very lethal.

Which is as it should be, I finally concluded, althou I did allow a favorable (defensive) DM for TL's above TL11 which is the base TL for CA.

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