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Watch the pretty light go all over... BANG!

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Fritz_Brown

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I don't know if this has been pointed out before, but here's something to put in your ship's locker... maybe in your anti-hijack kit.

http://www.brigadeqm.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=BST10

You roll it into a room, it wobbles around throwing its light everywhere, then ends up light-beam-up, back-lighting the folks in the room. It even says it's for law enforcement officers with no Tactical Balls skill level.

There's an IR version for bad guys wearing goggles, I guess.

I wonder if you should make a laser pointer version for dealing with Aslan?
 
Fritz_Brown said:
I don't know if this has been pointed out before, but here's something to put in your ship's locker... maybe in your anti-hijack kit.
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Or for use when performing the hijack... :devil:

Wouldn't any respectable, higher-tech suit have anti-flash ability built into the visor/helmet? I'd think this would take care of most of the issue (for either the attacker or defender), assuming anyone thought about it, or had experience with them. And if you were performing the hijack, then the attackers had better have a suit on (unless they like vacuum, of course...) It could still be highly distracting, of course, as it could resemble a grenade...

This tactic may work on non-professionals, but it wouldn't work on Marines one bit, I'd say (unless they were green). This would probably be (or have been) a standard boarding tactic at some point, so I doubt anyone but pirates and police would use it (in boarding situations anyway), and of course the local police.

Just the 0.02Cr ramblings of a non-professional... :)
 
These are like training wheels on a flashbang!

When I learned it, it was a cooked-off frag': that'll really distract 'em...;) It worked great for the potential Cold War battlefields of Europe. The 82nd tried it on some shanties in Grenada. Ouch! :eek:

Now, in the age of discretionary warfare, we have to operate on the assumption that there may be people in the room who don't hate us yet. Bring on the wobbly ball lights....
 
Yeah, there's no actual KABLOOIE, though. The description makes it sound like a cat toy, but with a flashlight attached. The disorientation comes from the crazy light display as it rolls all over with the flashlight swinging around. (OK, I probably shouldn't have put "BANG!" in the title. ;) )
 
Are your balls as tactical as the rest of you?

The one thing of import here is that if you have tactical balls apparently you need 3 balls instead of the requisite 2...
 
Magnus von Thornwood said:
Nothing beats the 30 Second Bomb!
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I'm quite fond of the mobile bomb I gave my Paranoia players to test. It could be instructed to roll down a given route and explode when it reached a given point. Unlike many R&D devices, this one worked perfectly. Only thing was, what they were testing was the software, so when the bomb reached the designated location, it shouted "BOOM!", squirted paint in all directions, and loudly proclaimed that anyone hit by the paint should consider themself hit.

No, I can't for the life of me remember what color the paint was.


Hans
 
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