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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5723108" data-attributes="member: 463">Rain of Colourless Fire would be a one-off like the Tsar Bomba.&nbsp; Nukes per se are much more common.&nbsp;&nbsp; Anyway you can destroy cities with incendiaries, no need for nukes - look at the firebombing of eg Dresden in WW2.&nbsp; AIR a fire-bombing raid on Tokyo killed a lot more people than Hiroshima + Nagasaki combined.IMO it's the relatively cheap, plentiful modern tech like artillery and armoured fighting vehicles that would give the tech side a huge edge.&nbsp; No need for multi-million-dollar M1 Abrams tanks when a $50,000 T-54 (or even WW2 T-34) will be just as effective &amp; invulnerable vs medieval fantasy forces.&nbsp; Likewise with planes, assault rifles, and heavy machine guns.&nbsp; That's the big advantage tech has over D&amp;D magic - easy reproducibility, ease of use, and at the low end, inexpensiveness.For that reason, if I was the tech general and I had a fixed budget, I'd buy almost all Russian kit.&nbsp; There would be no advantage to getting super-high-tech, super-expensive American &amp; Western stuff.&nbsp;&nbsp; No need for Chobham armour when rolled steel is just as invulnerable to arrows, spears and fireballs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 5723108, member: 463"] Rain of Colourless Fire would be a one-off like the Tsar Bomba. Nukes per se are much more common. Anyway you can destroy cities with incendiaries, no need for nukes - look at the firebombing of eg Dresden in WW2. AIR a fire-bombing raid on Tokyo killed a lot more people than Hiroshima + Nagasaki combined. IMO it's the relatively cheap, plentiful modern tech like artillery and armoured fighting vehicles that would give the tech side a huge edge. No need for multi-million-dollar M1 Abrams tanks when a $50,000 T-54 (or even WW2 T-34) will be just as effective & invulnerable vs medieval fantasy forces. Likewise with planes, assault rifles, and heavy machine guns. That's the big advantage tech has over D&D magic - easy reproducibility, ease of use, and at the low end, inexpensiveness. For that reason, if I was the tech general and I had a fixed budget, I'd buy almost all Russian kit. There would be no advantage to getting super-high-tech, super-expensive American & Western stuff. No need for Chobham armour when rolled steel is just as invulnerable to arrows, spears and fireballs. [/QUOTE]

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