Re: [HOE] Pricing...

[Abdullah Oblongota <toadpooka@juno.com>]

Well, you're right here, but not every soldier was issued a gatling gun. 
What I was getting at is that better machines will be made, but they
probably won't be suited for the purposes that the good ol' M16 is.  The
bulk of infantrymen  wouldn't recieve the laser rifles, the particle
beams, or the ghost rock nukes.  Those things would still be out there,
but most of your HoE characters probably got their weapons by prying them
from some grunt's cold, dead fingers.  Wasted West and cyborgs both have
those neat, futuristic guns, but they're not as common as a "wimpy" (by
comparison) assault rifle because not everyone had them.
And, the reason Gatling invented the Gatling gun wasn't to terrify people
into not fighting, it was to make one man able to do the work of five or
more, in the hope that armies would field less men to get killed.

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:17:20 -0400 (EDT) Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>
writes:
> Yeah, but this is a pretty flawed way of thinking.
> When Gatling invented the Gatling Gun he thought that it would end 
> war for all time because the cost in human life of waging war with such
an
> "awesome weapon of destruction" would be too high. Every generation 
> of gun makers (to some degree) think they have reached the pinnacle of
gun
> design. But there is always another step.

From Whom It May Concern,
Rich A Ranallo

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