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Originally Posted by RN7
You know Legbreaker I find all of this ironic considering it is you who has been arguing for a multiple nuclear strike against the Norfolk region.
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Have you not read what I wrote? I have not claimed there absolutely were multiple warheads, just that's it's plausible!!!
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Originally Posted by RN7
There is a detailed target list with the severity of the attack on each target represented by the megaton.
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And in the accompanying notes, which I have already quoted several times, it states
not necessarily as a single weapon.
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Not quite here are the targets listed across this region...
Delaware City, DE (0.75 Mt)
Andrews AFB, MD (0.5 Mt)
Fort Meade, MD (0.5 Mt)
Camp David, MD (0.5 Mt)
Linden, NJ (1.5 Mt)
Perth Amboy, NJ (1 Mt)
Paulsboro, NJ (0.5 Mt)
Westville, NJ (0.5 Mt)
Arlington, VA (0.5 Mt) ground burst
Quantico, VA (0.5 Mt) ground burst
Norfolk, VA (1 Mt)
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Delaware city, Linden, Perth Amboy, Paulsboro, and Westville are all outside the probable area which one missile can deliver warheads. They are almost certainly a separate issue not relevant to Norfolk.
You will note that every other strike on your list is a multiple of 500KT - this fact lends weight to the
possibility of them coming from one missile.
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Also when I stated that the R-36M which carried 8 warheads was entirely replaced by the R-36UTTh from 1983, what part did you miss?
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The part where the GDW writers had access to updated information we do today?
The part where anything more modern is utterly irrelevant with respect to canon?
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So the book says Norfolk was hit by a 1.0 Mt warhead, and then clearly list other targets that were hit by 0.5 Mt warheads. But I was wrong to quote GDW and have been trying to convince the rest of us about what the book stated which was totally wrong, and we should ignore what GDW stated to fit your idea that Norfolk was hit by a multiple MIRV strike carried on an ICBM which was retired in 1983.
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And again I quote for what must be the sixth time in this thread, and certainly the second in this post alone:
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not necessarily as a single weapon
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Yes, you are correct that the listing states 1MT, but you're ignoring the above quote in order to deny the possibility of a second (or even third, etc) warhead being used on the Norfolk area.
As previously stated there is no evidence to say there was more than one, just as there is no evidence to say there wasn't! It's a personal choice for the individual GM to decide. I've stated my belief with evidence as to why that it makes sense for two, you believe otherwise yet we're still to see anything from you besides cherry-picked information from the books, and irrelevant information available only after the books were written.
Please, if you've got something relevant and meaningful which doesn't rely on post publication information, lets hear it. Otherwise, lets just let this one go shall we?