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I love those books
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At this point, I'm just going to gleefully mix "boring and practical" and "soviet superscience" for the Neo-Sovs and see what I come up with.

In general, their approach to shipboard weapons and their place can be summed up as:

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[i]"Is that an MP5? It is! (Evil Laugh) Now I can solve up to 800 problems a minute!"
— Gordon Freeman, Freeman's Mind[/i]

Why yes. Those warheads are more primitive then those fielded by the Federation and the Universal Union. Perhaps even inferior to them in most aspects.

That fact is off remarkably little comfort to the folks on the other end of a barrage. And with Sovs, it's [i]always[/i] a barrage.