Definitely...
Although I was thinking of something called 'Moonlight Butterfly' that disables all nearby manatech while operating by specifically disrupting the links between it and the manafield, forcing everyone to fight off scratch once more. It's effect on Mages.... not sure. Then you have an arms race beginning between MCM and MCCM and the like. It'd ruin things for a lot of mages who'd have to learn conventional tactics.
OTOH, manafield grenades and mines. A small barrier generator. An explosive device. An unfortunate victim. You get where this is going.
Frigga won't be a magic developer as such.... they'll be users, (with some 'software' development on existing devices) And most likely early adopters given that their official public business relies on providing competent and relevant combat instruction. They're going to have to develop techniques on handling and defending against the earliest manatech weaponry (Stun beams and barrier shields most likely). The most distinctive aspect of Friggan Manatech Combat instruction is that it will always be weighted towards using technomagical elements as an augmentation of conventional capabilities rather than as capabilities in their own right.
It never really goes all the way towards teaching full-on pure magic-on-magic combat, and generally assumes that you're carrying a conventional weapon and are willing to engineer an opportunity to use it. (Gun, Knife, Sword).
There won't be much in the way of advanced techniques available (What with most Mages not being old enough for combat for another 18 years or so, and not being good enough to instruct for another 5 at least), but one thing that they'll make a specific point of doing is hiring a truly capable mage at the earliest possible opportunity, and working up ways that would enable conventional forces to defend themselves against magical attack without a mage as backup.
The alternative being of course, to slide into irrelevance like steam engine builders. Or develop 'Moonlight Butterfly'
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
Although I was thinking of something called 'Moonlight Butterfly' that disables all nearby manatech while operating by specifically disrupting the links between it and the manafield, forcing everyone to fight off scratch once more. It's effect on Mages.... not sure. Then you have an arms race beginning between MCM and MCCM and the like. It'd ruin things for a lot of mages who'd have to learn conventional tactics.
OTOH, manafield grenades and mines. A small barrier generator. An explosive device. An unfortunate victim. You get where this is going.
Frigga won't be a magic developer as such.... they'll be users, (with some 'software' development on existing devices) And most likely early adopters given that their official public business relies on providing competent and relevant combat instruction. They're going to have to develop techniques on handling and defending against the earliest manatech weaponry (Stun beams and barrier shields most likely). The most distinctive aspect of Friggan Manatech Combat instruction is that it will always be weighted towards using technomagical elements as an augmentation of conventional capabilities rather than as capabilities in their own right.
It never really goes all the way towards teaching full-on pure magic-on-magic combat, and generally assumes that you're carrying a conventional weapon and are willing to engineer an opportunity to use it. (Gun, Knife, Sword).
There won't be much in the way of advanced techniques available (What with most Mages not being old enough for combat for another 18 years or so, and not being good enough to instruct for another 5 at least), but one thing that they'll make a specific point of doing is hiring a truly capable mage at the earliest possible opportunity, and working up ways that would enable conventional forces to defend themselves against magical attack without a mage as backup.
The alternative being of course, to slide into irrelevance like steam engine builders. Or develop 'Moonlight Butterfly'
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?