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"No. Any idea where an item an ankh would want it?"

You're the Baron.

My necromancer? He has three, count them three, hit points. How is he less vulnerable to assassination than your 5-HP clerics and 7-HP berserkers?

Quote from: Jbg97 on January 03, 2013, 01:17:01 pm

Bullets don't dissipate with distance.

My brain just imploded from the absolute, indescribable idiocy of this sentence. I cannot even begin to imagine in which horrendously twisted world it may even remotely approach being right. It's stupid, that's what I'm trying to say here.

Let it go.

Quote from: Dariush on January 03, 2013, 01:27:32 pm

Quote from: Jbg97 on January 03, 2013, 01:17:01 pm

Bullets don't dissipate with distance.

My brain just imploded from the absolute, indescribable idiocy of this sentence. I cannot even begin to imagine in which horrendously twisted world it may even remotely approach being right. It's stupid, that's what I'm trying to say here.

Soooo, bullets disintegrate after you fire them? I'm no weapons expert but that doesn't seem right.

No, they just drift. And eventually fall.

Anyways, lasers can cause grevious damage to a body with a single shot. In an antimaterial role, it could presumably melt the armor of a vehicle. Obviously, it's not too energy-efficient, but by the time you get FTL you're throwing lots of controlled energy around anyways.

Alternatively, add immortality.

By the way, my question about the Eladrin's lifecycle wasn't answered. What's their estimated average lifespan, and can they reproduce?

Well, obviously if you don't have weapons-grade lasers firearms are superior, and if you don't have those blades are superior.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 03, 2013, 01:14:59 pm

Quote from: Jbg97 on January 03, 2013, 01:04:51 pm

Quote from: Dariush on January 03, 2013, 12:54:36 pm

We don't have any contact with other races. We don't have any bullets or blades because why the hell should we. Finally, crows this size cannot fly.

Why would any race not have bullets or blades? That is goddamn stupid, if you're gonna colonize other worlds you gotta have weapons to kill all the wildlife that looks at you funny.

Why use blades when you have guns, why use firearms when you have lasers?

Blades dont need reloading when the enemy overruns your lines. Bullets don't dissipate with distance.

Lasers don't need reloading, just recharging, a weapons-grade laser should be able to keep its beam sufficiently concentrated to be useful at its intended distance, and neither of those situations apply to the specific situation of "wildlife poking around a new colony."