[pdonis]

> They are lightspeed weapons, no leading your target or the like.

The speed of light is still finite, so a lightspeed weapon still has to lead its target by some amount.

[LorenPechtel]

Yeah, but we are talking ground combat. Lightspeed lag is not going to matter.

[pdonis]

> we are talking ground combat

I'm not familiar with the books, but I have a very hard time believing that the simple presence of lightspeed weapons would make all forms of combat other than ground combat obsolete.