Posted by: AtomikKrab
« on: February 13, 2010, 12:10:00 PM »Quote from: "Shinanygnz"
Yuck! No thanks to the pointless, nasty Weberism from me. A nuclear explosion in space is not going to shut down your sensors (especially our uber-TN ones). Even if you do create a small area of local disruption for a short while (and remember this is an expanding sphere of "disruption" getting weaker by the second), you're just going to move your ship a few thousand kms in any of the many directions available to you and look around it or wait until it gets so diffuse you can see through it. Even if you fire lots of missiles and create a bigger shield/wall, again, I just move a bit and "hey, look, there they are". If you can fire enough missiles to create a large and disruptive enough area to block sensors that requires any significant amount of time to move to see around it (and is so intense it won't be transparent for long enough), then stop messing about and shoot them at the ships instead and blow them up.
Stephen
I wasn't talking about blinding the ships, I was speaking of blinding the missiles, which is what it was used for in the books