Re: The X-Com Body armour is now available. :-)

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From: Tim Skirvin
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:24

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Solbu <solbu@ugyldig.start.no> writes:

> The X-Com games have always had some form of body armour available
> or the soldiers in the game.

> Now someone has actually made such a personal armour.
> When I viewed the image in the article, I thought of X-Com. :-)=

        And it cost $15,000 to build?  That's 33% under-budget!  Of 
course, it took him two years to build, which I guess isn't that bad if
he's working 10 hours a week and not all the time (that's 80 weeks).

        Now, of course, we have to add bears to the game.

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