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- From: lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex)
- Subject: Re: Realism vs. Mechs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.085234.20935@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom; Renegade User
- References: <1h9carINNot5@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1992Dec25.020906.8791@netcom.com> <ajross.725252979@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 08:52:34 GMT
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- In article <ajross.725252979@husc.harvard.edu> ajross@husc10.harvard.edu (Andrew Ross) writes:
- >lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex) writes:
- >>
- >> |\|o, there is NO REASON behind the current level of "realism" in
- >> BattleTech rules, aside from "game balance" or "that's the way it was
- >> originally designed, so we have to live with it." We already went
- >> over this a while ago on rec.games.board: BATTLETECH IS NOT REALISTIC,
- >> AND IT NEVER WILL BE. Just consider BattleTech compared to real mecha
- >> combat to be like chess compared to real medieval combat. BattleTech's
- >> actual PROBLEM is this "pseudo-realism" that it has. Picking at the
- >> problems of realism in BTech is like doing the same thing with Star
- >> Trek.
- >
- >Um... _REAL_ mecha combat? How about "Battletech is not realistic.
- >Period." It seems to me that Btech is about as realistic a mecha combat
- >game as can be written.
-
-
- \/\/ell, "real mecha combat" as a term used for comparison.
- Lots of shows have had mecha combat that is at least realistic
- within the show. Most of the capabilities of mecha that you see
- in shows goes far beyond current technology, so they don't have
- to worry about being caught on certain things. All they need to
- do is say "well, it's the advanced technology that lets them do
- that." Whereas BattleTech is not even realistic when compared
- to today's technology.
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