Philip Hart wrote: >On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Ken Koester wrote: > > > >>Oh? How about random hit squads teleporting into your camps, >> >> >setting off the motion-sensor arrays, and being blasted to little >bits? > > > Along with your troops & all your gear. >or: > >inhaling the camps' tailored viruses and keeling over? > > > No virus could work that fast. And sorcery could cure anything you came up with. No one has managed to make a living at biowar yet, for some pretty basic reasons: it's pretty ineffective, slow, and very hard to control. >or: > >there are no camps to teleport into since my troops don't sleep >because of designed evolution, or are anyway machines. > > > Don't have to be asleep to be hit from the rear or from surprise. Sleepless humans are probably beyond the reach of 21st century techonology in any case, if possible at all. Of course, if you want to posit Culture-class technology, complete with knife missles, effector weapons, gridfire, & nano-assassins. . . . Snarkhunter