On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 04:35:14AM -0400, Richard Aiken wrote:
> The amount of relative movement over a microsecond - even at
> Traveller combat ranges, must less Savage Worlds combat ranges -
> would be very small.

That wouldn't seem to justify calling one of them a "pulse" laser and
the other one not.  They'd be both pulse lasers.

> And I'm assuming both of the weapons are firing a shot of the same
> overall (extremely short) length. My weapon capacitors/barrel
> materials simply can't support a long-duration beam.

I wouldn't expect there to be a huge difference if the average power
is similar.  If anything, packing the same energy into a shorter pulse
is likely to induce greater peak mechanical and electromagnetic stresses.

- Tim