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    WHULorigan reacted to rinku's post in the thread Electronic Warfare in Space, a Helpful Tip with Like Like.
    Swords. They're pretty much all just swords in local languages until the Victorians got stuck into over classifying the subject.
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    WHULorigan replied to the thread Electronic Warfare in Space, a Helpful Tip.
    I'll give it a shot. Broadsword. A one-handed weapon of the late 16th-18th Century, usually with a basket or full hand-guard, with a...
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    WHULorigan reacted to MasterGwydion's post in the thread 5FW: Why? with Like Like.
    I guess the problem with that would be that both Fighters and Battleships can be M-9 at TL-15, so fighters are not faster than Capital...
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    WHULorigan reacted to GabrielGABFonseca's post in the thread 5FW: Why? with Like Like.
    I've been quietly observing this thread for a while now (not an easy thing to do, keeping up with it), and there's a few comments I...
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    WHULorigan reacted to MasterGwydion's post in the thread 5FW: Why? with Like Like.
    That could be fixed by requiring docking clamps to use hardpoints. It makes sense. The spot where docking clamps are installed in the...
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    WHULorigan reacted to actionman's post in the thread 5FW: Why? with Like Like.
    This is a dangerous path. It's the path of creating an arbitrary rule for a particular metagame effect, like making fighters viable so...
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    WHULorigan reacted to Sigtrygg's post in the thread 5FW: Why? with Like Like.
    Please, take my idea for a gravitic heat sink and use it, get it put into canon, I don't want royalties or even credit, I just want a...
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    WHULorigan reacted to MongooseMatt's post in the thread 5FW: Why? with Like Like.
    It really is :) When it comes to fighters, I think (caveat - this is what we do unless a better idea comes along...) the approach we...
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    WHULorigan replied to the thread 5FW: Why?.
    Even if it is only the Escort Class that they can really meaningfully harass and keep preoccupied so as to keep them from doing their...
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    WHULorigan replied to the thread 5FW: Why?.
    The Charted Space/Imperial Universe has always been a Battleship/Dreadnought Universe. Ergo, "Fighters" or "Smallcraft/Boats", etc...
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    WHULorigan replied to the thread 5FW: Why?.
    Perhaps we could come up with a TL Scale Range of initial introduction of all of the ones mentioned so far, since the Higher TL Vessels...
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    WHULorigan reacted to Sigtrygg's post in the thread 5FW: Why? with Like Like.
    A meson warhead - basically a battlefield meson accelerator built into the missile. Maybe a detonation version at lower TLs and a...
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    WHULorigan reacted to Geir's post in the thread 5FW: Why? with Like Like.
    Not the tethered ones. And if they come loose, they're unguided hazards...
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    WHULorigan replied to the thread 5FW: Why?.
    Aren't mines just really slow torpedoes . . .?
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    WHULorigan reacted to Geir's post in the thread 5FW: Why? with Like Like.
    (them damn torpedoes were mines... terminology evolved) I just want any defensive weapon that can hit a missile to be able to hit a...
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