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Re: brikwars...
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lugnet.gaming
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Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:27:00 GMT
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regult@aol.^spamless^com
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On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 02:53:36 GMT, "Matthew Wilkins"
<mwilkins@nospam.nai.com> wrote:
> Have you read "Starship Troopers"? Not the craptacular Paul Verhoeven movie,
> but the Heinlein novel? RAH goes into quite a bit of detail on how his cap
> troops are in communication with each other; basically the grunts have radios
> with one channel (it's a 'party-line' type setup, where they all talk
> together, and over each other), whereas the command suits have 2 (3?)
> channels, where they can talk to the grunts, or talk amongst the command staff
> without the grunts listening in. I don't remember all the details off the top
> of me noggin, but I'd recommend reading the book, if only for the armored-suit
> info contained therein.
>
> -Cheese
I read it, but it was many, many years ago. About all I remember is
how the power armor worked, movement wise, and the dropships. I think
I still have a copy somewhere, but its probably still packed up after
moving two years ago.
Jeff Christner
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