On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Tim <tim@little-possums.net> wrote:

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 02:27:39AM -0400, Richard Aiken wrote:
> Ummm. I don't see why that would follow. If targeting mechanism are
> sufficiently accurate to keep one weapon type bang (pun!) on target,
> why not the other?

The difference between "can hit the broad side of a barn", and "which
eyelash do you want to center on?"

The amount of relative movement over a microsecond - even at Traveller combat ranges, must less Savage Worlds combat ranges - would be very small. And I'm assuming both of the weapons are firing a shot of the same overall (extremely short) length. My weapon capacitors/barrel materials simply can't support a long-duration beam.

Richard Aiken

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