basic hitler posted:

I think lasguns were expensive to make and deploy, making them cost prohibitive except for someone like house corinno and harkonnen, maybe?

It's been a couple of weeks now, but i seem to recall that the lasgun-shield reaction engulfs both parties and is nuclear in nature.

It seems like if you were waging interplanetary warfare, you could create las-bombs that would react with shielded palaces and cities to wipe out entire strategic assets and all, but for troop to troop ground warfare, the risk of a blast hitting a shield and killing both defender and attacker meant that under most circumstances an army would not have access to lasguns when their opponent was known to deploy shields