----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Koester" <kkoester at email.ers.usda.gov> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 1:42 PM Subject: Re: High Tech vs. the Orb WAS Re: the honing of Vlad > Jeff G. wrote: > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Ken Koester" <kkoester at email.ers.usda.gov> > > > > > >>Sure. But high tech hasn't *ever* fought sorcery, so far as we know. > >>Learning curve for new battle experiences is ferocious. > >> > >>Snarkhunter > >> > >> > >> > >Sure it has. Look at the campaigns against Africa and India. The locals > >thought that their swords/spears and bows were high tech. > > > > > > > > Neither side was high tech or sorcery in those set-to's. And the Brits > got their lunches handed to them in Afghanistan, even so. > But to the locals, those rifles and cannon were magic. > >- wonders what effect the haze over the empire would have on laser > >designators. > > > > > > Little to none, if used below haze level. > > Snarkhunter > > But thats how I would prefer to use them. Have a couple of attack aircraft orbit at 20k or so, and have several teams of Tac P's designating targets. Alternate between cluster and fuel/air munitions, that should make life interesting for anyone trying sorcerous defense. Jeff - Is not particularly worried about teleporting hit squads