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Pagan
Jun 4, 2003

Esroc posted:

That's...that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. No wonder that show didn't take off.

It's not a movie, but the old tabletop Battletech game had rules like this. The 155mm artillery cannon mounted on your mech had a range of only a few hundred yards (maybe 1k?) The answer was, countermeasures were so effective that they prevented anyone from shooting at something "so far away." The real reason is the designers wants a game that could be played at a certain scale, but what a bullshit reason. Even in 7th grade I found it baffling. I remember asking a GM if I could use a marker to draw a crosshairs onto my windshield, and use that as a sight instead of the computers.

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