Re: Dirigible
Jason Dorje Short <[email protected]>
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Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:11:27AM +1000, nicholas.g.lawrence-q/[email protected] wrote: > >>Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War >>by Frederick A. Talbot >> >>The first use of Dirigibles (actually balloons) was for observation. >>The balloon in this case was tethered and could not move at all >>(The tether was essential because it was also a communication >>link so the observer could relay information to the commander >>on the ground). >> >>So the first balloon unit was vision 2 movement 0 > > Actually, not necessarily true. They were tethered, but they could still > be moved by bringing them back down and carting them off somewhere else. > It's not like they were all stuck at the factory ;P. According to the description they were basically ground units. Any ground unit could destroy them just by taking the tether. However they'd be extremely vulnerable to fighters as well. jason