We can’t have lasgun/shield interactions causing atomic explosions whenever a player decides to attack a shielded base
Cowardice!
(This was a silly idea in the books too, IMO. No one would shield their base with a technology that lets any suicidal fanatic with a lasgun destroy the whole area single-handedly.)
I haven’t read the book in 20 years, maybe there weren’t any on Arrakis. But people for sure used them; this Dune wiki says:
However, shields for ships and planetary installations could and often did have extremely low penetration velocities, as artificial life support technologies could be utilized while the shield was active.
So shielded installations must have existed.
It also says that Duncan Idaho sometimes used the threat of the laser-shield interaction to intimidate his enemies; I don’t remember that, it must have been in a book I didn’t get to.
Cowardice!
(This was a silly idea in the books too, IMO. No one would shield their base with a technology that lets any suicidal fanatic with a lasgun destroy the whole area single-handedly.)
What shielded bases were there in the books?
I mean, there was the “shield wall”, but that was just mountains that protected Arrakeen from the desert.
I haven’t read the book in 20 years, maybe there weren’t any on Arrakis. But people for sure used them; this Dune wiki says:
So shielded installations must have existed.
It also says that Duncan Idaho sometimes used the threat of the laser-shield interaction to intimidate his enemies; I don’t remember that, it must have been in a book I didn’t get to.