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Re: Champions movie Excuse me? What are you talking about? My cast had 2 blacks, one half black (born in Tanzania), one hispanic, one half asian, and one "part Chinese, part Spanish, part Filipino". How is that "replacing any ethnic characters with white people"?

Re: Champions movie

Re: Champions movie

Re: Champions movie Agreed. My cast would be: Marksman Chuck Norris Defender (as a fairly new superhero) Sean Murray or Nicholas Brendon Flare Lexa Doig or Rachel Luttrell Rose Jewel Staite Gargoyle Ron Perlman (as above) Icestar Forrest Whitaker Denise Dumont Khandi Alexander Dr. Destroyer Max von Sydow Menton Antonio Banderas Mentalla Tia Carrere Gigaton Adam Baldwin Rakshasa (several different actors)

Re: Xenomorphs vs Cobras

Re: I love me some xenomorphs! Well, to be honest, I've never particularly liked the xenomorphs.

Re: Xenomorphs vs Cobras You do know that the new, 4th book came out last December, don't you?

Re: So, "Shields" are back on the list of "Possible Near Future Tech"... Theoretically KE projectiles can be effected, but it takes even more power. The idea is the charge vaporizes a tiny bit of the shell, and thus destabilizes it so that it hits more obliquely, thereby reducing the penetration. This works much better against long rod penetrators than simple shot, of course.

Re: How to model Jade (from Whately) That will take a while, and I don't have time right now, but will try to later. However, you can read about her in the "Whately Academy" stories, at: http://www.crystalhall.org/ (Sorry it is not a link, you have to cut and paste.)

Re: How to model Jade (from Whately)

Re: So, "Shields" are back on the list of "Possible Near Future Tech"... This has been around for years, it is usually referred to as "electrostatic" armor. And it works by damaging the projectile as much as by deflecting it.

The Whately Academy stories have some interesting characters with strange powers. I have been trying to figure out how to model Jade (aka Generator.) Any suggestions?

Re: Defender's origin An astronaut is an obvious possibility.

Re: Xenomorphs vs Cobras Powered armor is in the first book only. After that the cobras' new colony is cut off.

Re: Xenomorphs vs Cobras The scene you are referring to is in the first book, last story. And yes, the powered armor troops would have been a match for Heinlein's MI. Movie MI? There was a movie? I refuse to believe that. My nightmare was just that, a nightmare; there was no movie!

Re: Xenomorphs vs Cobras On the blackcollars, I agree. Of course, a lot will depend on how good blackcollar armor is vs xenomorphs. Also, if the blackcollars have guns and lasers available; remember the reason they normally don't use them is that in that universe, guns etc. show up on sensors.

Re: Making nuclear weapons look like firecrackers While it is true the west coast of the US will not "drop into the sea" no matter how big the earthquake is, the area west of the San Andreas fault is moving north. Eventually it will be an island. Bombs in the fault might shorten the time of "eventually" from millions of years, but in reality I expect that it would still be (many?) tens of thousands. But in a comic book (or comic book movie) why worry about that?

Re: Xenomorphs vs Cobras The fourth book came out last December; it was the start of a second trilogy set way after Joni Moreau's death. His grand-daughter and her son are the viewpoint characters. The human forces that made the cobras have starships and nukes too; the idea is to control planets, not destroy them.

Re: Xenomorphs vs Cobras When did the xenomorphs get nukes? Or even weapons, other than their natural ones?

Re: Predators vs. COBRAs 1. Probably not. Cobra have no armor (unless they wear some, but that doesn't work well for guerillas.) But they can take much more damage than you would expect, and get back up. (In the second book, a cobra is shot (by a shotgun as I recall) at point blank range and stunned, but the enemy assumes that he is dead. He gets up in the "morgue" and breaks out.) 2. Usually very, very good, they have enhanced senses and are trained for guerilla war. 3. Cobras have 3 lasers, two low power but lethal to unarmored targets, one very powerful (an "anti-vehicle" laser); plus several sonic weapons and a short ranged but very powerful "arc-thrower" which shorts out electronics as well as hitting like a lightening bolt. Cobras are also very strong (they have their major bones reinforced to be unbreakable), so strong that if they do not lift heavy objects correctly they can injure their soft body tissues. A cobra could lift a predator one handed and throw him 10 or 15 meters easily. Cobras are also VERY fast, the viewpoint character in the first book describes when he first sees a cobra move it was a blur, his eyes couldn't see the details.

For those who may not know the reference, COBRA is an acronim for COmputerized Body Reflex Armarment. (Yes, I know I cannot spell.) It comes from a (currently) 4 book series by Timothy Zahn. Cobras are a form of cyborgs, human soldiers enhanced but stealthed so that they cannot be told from normal humans without a (very) detailed medical scan designed for guerilla warfare. So how do you think xenomorphs will do against them? My money is on the Cobras!

For those who may not know the reference, COBRA is an acronim for COmputerized Body Reflex Armarment. (Yes, I know I cannot spell.) It comes from a (currently) 4 book series by Timothy Zahn. Cobras are a form of cyborgs, human soldiers enhanced but stealthed so that they cannot be told from normal humans without a (very) detailed medical scan designed for guerilla warfare. So how do you think predators will do against them? I think the cobras have a slight edge, but that it would be close enough that it would really depend on the skill and experience of the individuals.

Re: Predators vs. You Since the required dosage for sterilization is higher than required for lethality, I've never seen a reason to worry about it.

Re: Self Defense Course I use: Martial Escape 4 pts Martial Throw 3 pts Basic Strike 3 pts: +1 OCV, +1 DCV, +1d6 damage. It may not reflect reality that well, but neither do many other things in game.

Re: First Wave, the First Review! Discuss, or risk Angering the Golden Tree! Really? The only non-white that I remember was "chop-chop", who was their mechanic, not a primary group member, even in the 50's. And what female members did they have? Please enlighten me.