Description: Technology governs strategy. The tank-type vehicle, con sidered obsolete by the end of the 20th century, ruled the battlefields of the 21st. Several factors led to the reappearance of mechanized warfare. The first, of course, was the development of biphase carbide armor. Stronger than any steel, it was also so light that even an air-cushion vehicle could carry several centimeters of protection. The equivalent of a ton of TNT was needed to breach even this much BPC armor which meant that, in practice, nothing less than a tactical nuclear device was likely to be effective. Infantry, which had for a time eclipsed the tank, declined in importance. Although infantryman could carry and direct a tactical nuclear missile, he had to extensively (and expensively) protected to survive the nuclear battle field. Thus, the "powered suit" was developed. Four cm of BPC, jet-equipped, it could guard a man for about a week (in increasing discomfort) from shrapnel, background radia tion and bio-chem agents. However, the cost
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Publication Year: 1992
Language: English
Book Title: Ogre Miniatures
Author: steve jackson
Topic: Games
