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- From: thantos@runic.via.mind.org (Paul Williams [SysOp])
- Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
- Subject: Re: Mekton MTS Roadstrikers
- Message-ID: <BZ7DwB1w165w@runic.via.mind.org>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 08:50:46 EST
- References: <1hbgojINN310@leela.CS.ORST.EDU>
- Organization: Runic Writings / Lawrenceville, GA
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- kstclair@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Kelly St.Clair) writes:
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- > Well... *blush* To be honest, I didn't. I looked at the costs for the
- > new forms (Cycle and Auto) and, noting that they included bonuses to
- > Movement Allowance, assumed that wheels came with the form.
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- Ah ha! A rationalization! I wish I'd bloody well come up with that,
- that's elegant...
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- > Plus, they look keen. *grin* One of the more interesting quotes from the
- > Techbook. And, it's as likely a reason as any.
-
- Well, its shorter than my PGP key. :)
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- > I have this strange fantasy of seeing, someday, a story in which invaders
- > using mecha attack Earth, and destroy the conventional defenses. When
- > asked to explain how vehicles which are more efficient, better armored,
- > and in general more soundly designed are so easily defeated by the
- > aliens, the human scientists can only offer that something about the
- > inherent 'coolness' of the mecha concept allows them to win, despite all
- > common sense to the contrary.
- > It's part of the genre.
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- Hmmmmmm... That gives me a jolly good fanfic idea. }:)
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- Mecha: It is said that these metal giants were shaped like men, so the
- alien servents of evil would know it was Man who defeated them.
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