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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I doubt an "assault transporter" would significantly benefit from the lower cost of transporting inorganics. If one wants to beam down functioning soldiers and weapons, one probably can't use the averaged bulk product mode. Except perhaps chemical explosives or poison gas, neither of which seems a typical UFP munitions type. Beaming down assault forces in general is probably very problematic. You can knock down all the shields and jammers you spot by orbital bombardment, but the ground could be strewn full of hard-to-detect scramblers like that Romulan assassination weapon. Energy weapons fire could also scramble the signals. An infantry assault would probably have to rely on the use of orbital and close-support armed craft to clear a few secure beam-down areas, after which the forces would have to fight their way forward as if moving through a minefield in a jungle... Every now and then, they could create their own "jungle clearings" to allow for beam-up of casualties and beam-down of reinforcements. Small task forces could establish a trail of such "clearings" for larger forces to beam in. But one could never be sure if the next transporter hop would leave one in one piece, or scramble beyond recognition. So I guess a transporter assault would indeed involve beaming down some ground-combat vehicles to be used in conventional combat, and not just delivering the troops right atop the enemy. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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