Re: [HOE] Unity question.

[PEGShane@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/11/2002 7:11:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kaitave@harborside.com writes:


> Why weren't these used against the Combine during the siege of Denver?  As I
> recall, that's more or less what they were being set aside for, yet in the
> Unity adventure, the Iron Alliance seems content to simply use more
> conventional forces.  It seems like a bit of a waste to me.  The most likely
> possibility I came up with was that Ike didn't want to risk destroying the
> Denver Resistance along with the Combine.  The second most-likely was that
> the Denver facility had some sort of shielding device similar to the one
> that protected Junkyard (how else could the factory have survived the Last
> War in the first place?).
>
> But, regardless of whether or not the facility was shielded against the
> blast effects of a g-rock bomb, couldn't the Iron Alliance airburst the
> nukes above Denver and let the EMP's wreak havoc?  The main factory itself
> and some of the super-heavy war machines might be EMP-hardened, but the
> majority of the tech should be affected, and that includes automatons and
> raptors, black hat headbangers, cyborgs, and the like.
>
> Thoughts?  Comments?
>
> --Kai Tave


Remember that Hellstromme created the Denver shield (and yes, it does exist), LONG after the one he made for Salt Lake City. Meaning it's much improved. ;)

Shane