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Darth Fanboy wrote:Hapan Gun of Command, it's like having a Jedi Mind Trick in the palm of your hand! Influence your friends even with a low midichlorian count!
I seem to recall some X-wing book (Wedge's Gamble, probably) using E-webs as short-range anti-air weapons.Eleventh Century Remnant wrote:If a crew served weapon counts as a smallarm, then fine, it's feasible. I wish we'd seen it actually fire; we know they expected it to be useful against the Falcon, but it's pegged largely through RPG material and the books which use that as source as an anti- infantry weapon.
I personally rationalise this by assuming that it's anti armour use consists of sustained fire of reliably man-killing but not individually antivehicle bolts against a specific point on the target, burning through by repeated impact. This is largely a guess though.
The rebel medium MGs from the trenches at Hoth look a lot less clumsy, possibly only a two man crew, gun and tripod together. Probably not as zappy.
It worked on Leia . . . though admittedly she was not much of a Jedi at that point.Isolder74 wrote:Darth Fanboy wrote:Hapan Gun of Command, it's like having a Jedi Mind Trick in the palm of your hand! Influence your friends even with a low midichlorian count!
I'm afraid that it doesn't seem to work on Jedi.
)I don't need it to work on Jedi. I need it to work on bank managers, local law enforcement officials, and my girlfriend on those nights when I don't feel like doing my share of the houseworkIsolder74 wrote:Darth Fanboy wrote:Hapan Gun of Command, it's like having a Jedi Mind Trick in the palm of your hand! Influence your friends even with a low midichlorian count!
I'm afraid that it doesn't seem to work on Jedi.
..50cal HMGs are considered capable of AA work even today for a given value of AA where anti equald "put tracers in air"Darth Hoth wrote:I seem to recall some X-wing book (Wedge's Gamble, probably) using E-webs as short-range anti-air weapons.Eleventh Century Remnant wrote:If a crew served weapon counts as a smallarm, then fine, it's feasible. I wish we'd seen it actually fire; we know they expected it to be useful against the Falcon, but it's pegged largely through RPG material and the books which use that as source as an anti- infantry weapon.
I personally rationalise this by assuming that it's anti armour use consists of sustained fire of reliably man-killing but not individually antivehicle bolts against a specific point on the target, burning through by repeated impact. This is largely a guess though.
The rebel medium MGs from the trenches at Hoth look a lot less clumsy, possibly only a two man crew, gun and tripod together. Probably not as zappy.