From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 02:19:10 -0400
Subject: Odd armour developments
Ryan, Adeptus Mechanicus should have been renaimed Ineptus Mechanicus. Anyone who couldn't build a Storm Bolter that didn't jam every few shots ought not to be considered worthwhile in any technical way. John A also made an excellent point about hair plus sand. Sand is bad. It's most annoying property is its ability to find its way inside clothing and into places it should not be. Or into seemingly closed mechanical systems (perhaps via osmosis or teleportation). And it proceeds to be either uncomfortable or destructive by degrees. And having it in the hair is no joy. Nor mind you is having a huge mass of hair on your head in 35C plus humidex and having to hump 10 miles with a heavy rucksack and a full combat loadout including ammo for the support weapons. Not like you're going to be happy in any event, but if you've got more hair than required, you're going to be even less happy. Ah the joys of being an infanteer (I noticed the armoured recce types always seemed to drive if the distance was more than about 10 yards.... lazy bunch of buggers....and the fact they liked to keep beer in the APCs wasn't lost on us gropos either....)!