Was playing radcorp today and it made me wonder,
If you shoot gamma radiations on an enemy what effect would it have on their fighting ability?

>>63943805 (OP)
>X-rays and gamma rays can cause a number of other problems besides cancer. What problems occur depends on factors such as the radiation dose, the timing of the exposure, and what areas of the body are exposed.

>Exposure to high doses of radiation over a short period of time can cause radiation sickness (sometimes called radiation poisoning or acute radiation syndrome) and even death. Some of the symptoms of radiation sickness include fainting, confusion, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, hair loss, skin and mouth sores, and bleeding. The atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki led to many cases of radiation sickness. Some cases have also resulted from nuclear power plant accidents, such as the one in Chernobyl. - Cancer.org


Death

>>63943984
Yeah but it would take a while.
>>63943805 (OP)
Nothing immediate. They'd be able to return fire and keep moving.
In a few hours they'd start feeling sick. Then they'd slowly die. Mercy kills might be good ideas at that point.

>>63946607
Post him.

>>63946652
The poor lad.
There's a whole video about it:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TxLrfdMKWY

>>63943805 (OP)
Depends how many gamma rays you shoot at him.

>>63943805 (OP)
Depending on the dose, you can do anything from causing undetectable changes to their bloodwork to killing them instantly, with everything in between.

>>63946607
>it would take a while
At a high enough dose, it wouldn't take long at all. The unfortunate man in picrel took an estimated 800 R in neutrons and 3-4000 R in gammas. He was incapacitated in less than a minute and was unresponsive in less than five, although it took 35 hours for him to actually die. Double those doses and I'd expect him to be unconscious more or less instantly. Multiply those doses by 100 and he'd turn into a puddle of activated goo.

Dose matters.

>>63943805 (OP)
the cool thing about x-ray and gamma ray lasers is that they go through armor

>>63950150
In the case of Skitarii vanguards, theirs and the enemies.

>>63950146
Not really practical to deliver such doses, though, is it?

>>63952815
OP was asking about effects, not practicality. You want practical, shoot them with a gun. Don't even fuck around with radiation. It's not practical.

>>63943805 (OP)
At a high enough intensity, wouldn't it be no different from hitting them with a laser?

>>63954171
I mean is it physically feasible to deliver such doses out of a portable system?

>>63956784
Not with modern tech but it could be feasible with tech a few centuries in the future. A fusion reactor is actually quite simple if you don't care about generating electricity and only want to generate radiation.

>>63946607
>Yeah but it would take a while.
depends on signal strength

>>63956784
No.
>>63956859
Still no. Fission requires a minimum amount of fissible material to hit criticality and that amount makes portability difficult if not impossible. Fusion is a meme unless we're talking about something the size of a star.

>>63956784
>is it physically feasible to deliver such doses out of a portable system?
Nuclear bombs are portable, so yes.

Shielding is essential and difficult, and it's unlikely to change even for portable devices.