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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
David Weber moved away from the Napoleonic template in his HH series many books ago, and now he is both starting the complete upheaval of the established order in his Universe and introducing both new weapon systems that are making the wall of battle less relevant, and new ftl travel that we have no clue for now what's going to do - the missile pods and Apollo on the good guys side and the new Spider Drive on the *real* bad guys side
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I'm aware. But he
did start with that template, and manipulated his physics in support of it.
The wall of battle started becoming irrelevant with the introduction of missile pods, Ghost Rider technology, and carrier-borne LACs.
I once asked Weber whether treecat communication was relativistic, and what the maximum range of two cats paired with humans (like, say, Nimitz and Samantha) might be. The answer to both was Weber's "I know but I'm not telling because I plan to address that down the road"
Tum-te-tum-te-tum, which told me what I wanted to know.
The fundamental issue underlying most of the problems in the Honorverse is communications lag over interstellar distances, and if you can address
that...
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Dennis