Rock Beats Laser/Quotes

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"...the best gun in the galaxy won't help if your opponent is bashing your brains out with a rock!"
Warhammer 40000 Rulebook, 3rd Edition, "Fighting a Close Combat"
"The more sophisticated the technology, the more vulnerable it is to primitive attack. People often overlook the obvious."
The Doctor, Doctor Who
"That's not fair! They've got rocks, all we've got are these machine guns!"
Snidley Whiplash, Dudley Do-Right
"Basically, it comes down to morale," [Cordelia Ransom] said. "I'm not going to suggest that morale can overcome enormous material odds. All the courage and determination in the universe won't mystically enable a mob armed with rocks to overcome trained infantry in battle armor, and you wouldn't believe me if I told you it could, now would you?"

Codex Astartes addendum:
3. High-tech sucks.
Warlock: Guardian, why do you wield that archaic, crude mon-keigh weapon?
Guardian: 'Cause it has twice the range of my shiny, high-tech shuriken catapult.
Warlock: Er... maybe, but at short range you can shoot your catapult and charge the...
Guardian: Wait, you seriously expect me to charge the enemy?