Re: [HOE] Headbangers & doomsayer's EMP

[Madnes6841@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/1/01 9:22:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu writes:

> Q) Buffy the Doomsayer wants to use EMP on some black hats. The Black Hats
>  have chipped brain bombs, chipped assault rifles, and are riding around in 
a
>  chipped HMV. Will EMP work on them, what's the TN, and do their brains
>  automatically explode? - darrin
>  
>  A) EMP does work on Combine equipment. If a Combine chip is shorted out by
>  EMP, the attached charge detonates immediately. Throckmorton has taken 
steps
>  to prevent this, of course, so the chips have some degree of hardening
>  against this. The chips in individual soliders and small arms are 
considered
>  military computers (TN 11). Combine vehicles and large, crew-served weapons
>  have more shielding, requiring a TN of 13 to short. [John Hopler, HoE
>  listserv, 6/14/99]
>  

thankyou very much, Kind sir. Bot now, how about this one- For Rad Wriath- If 
a doomie were to make a rad wraith, and give it the Ground Zero(self 
destruct) power, would the damage incurred on the caster count as a "negative 
effect" for the purposes of affecting the original caster?

Uriah