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[Pine Tree]

One huge advantage in the federation's favor is that when transported down Fed troops can appear ANYWHERE with transporters. They also could replicate a really cool sniper rifle from DS9, it had a transporter attachted to the end and could send a bullet through walls and across miles before rematerirializing 10 cm in front of target, if you want to kill the leaders quickly and sieze key positions (admin centers, armories, planetary shields, etc.) Star Trek troops delivered by cloaked ships with transport rifles to kill enemy command and control is the way to go. :D

[Ghost Rider]

Thank you for vast proof of this.

Because transporters go through everything.

[Sarevok]

One huge advantage in the federation's favor is that when transported down Fed troops can appear ANYWHERE with transporters.

Transporters are jammed by mineral ore, dense materials, radiation and even magnetic fields. Fed troops can hardly appear anywhere they choose.

[Haze Gray]

They also could replicate a really cool sniper rifle from DS9, it had a transporter attachted to the end and could send a bullet through walls and across miles before rematerirializing 10 cm in front of target

As Mr. Wong has stated on his webpage, that episode in DS9 did not give us enough information about the rifle to tell how useful it would be in a military environment. Do you need to know exactly where the target will be at a given point? Does it track the target? How does it find the target? What is its range? Etc.

.) Star Trek troops delivered by cloaked ships with transport rifles to kill enemy command and control is the way to go.

And we know how effective Star Trek cloaking devices are ... sigh

[Haze Gray]

Well, that url failed miserably, I reversed the text and the URL. And I gave the wrong URL at that. Bah, whatever.



The point is Mr. Wong addressed the cloaking devices on his webpage.

Thus fixed ~GR

[Darth Servo]

Star Trek troops delivered by cloaked ships with transport rifles to kill enemy command and control is the way to go.

Assuming the target isn't shielded in any way.

[sarcasm]And of course any sci-fi civilization with shields will be stupid enough to NOT shield anything really important.[/sarcasm]