Timeline for Orbital Drop Pods: Useful?
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| Nov 28, 2017 at 0:57 | vote | accept | WorldCraftTrainee | ||
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| Nov 27, 2017 at 15:53 | comment | added | TomTom | "The goal was to arrive as hard and fast as possible" - also because of anti aircraft fire. This is not "move troops", this is "Normandy Landing" in a space environment. it is about trying to avoid losses as much as possible / feasible - and there is no good solution unless you can do a full stealth landing, which has serious physics issues (orbital velocity, hiding in space) and requires a very high near magic tech level. So, arrive, start dropping kinetic strikes, start dropping chaff and dummies and drop pods and hope most get through. What are the alternatives? | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 15:05 | comment | added | bubbajake00 | I'd also like to mention that in Section 8, you are dropped from a high-altitude ship, but each soldier is dropped individually to land in their combat suits. They are able to fall and change their course like sky divers (if desired), but without having to worry about deploying a chute and with a person sized radar blip. The other option is to sacrifice movement for higher speeds and just crash into the ground at terminal velocity (though they do flip over at the last seconds to land on their feet). I'd also say that nothing is more Shock and Awe than landing on the enemy also. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 13:29 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 27, 2017 at 13:28 | history | answered | Ruadhan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |