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- From: lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex)
- Subject: Re: Who needs light mecha?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.071012.6015@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom; Renegade User
- References: <1k2gruINN87v@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:10:12 GMT
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- In article <1k2gruINN87v@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bp652@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gil W. Lau) writes:
- >What would be the advantages of a light mech (say, a Locust for you
- >Battletech types) over something cheaper to build, say a grav
- >tank or something? Not only are you missing 3-D movement, but
- >any walking mech will have trouble compromising soft ground
- >(woe to the mech pilot suddenly caught in a flash flood!) and
- >other terrain. Being small, they can't carry a whole lot of
- >firepower.
- >
- >Coming to think about it, why a walking chasis? Who needs mech
- >at all? Why not build Ogres instead? I mean anything walking
- >is inherently instable anyways, and has a gigantic profile.
- >I know, I know...mechs look much cooler! But besides that.
-
-
- |)
- |)esides that? There is no other real justification. I've said
- it before, and I'll say it again: Mecha combat (especially BattleTech)
- is inherently unrealistic. Don't go overboard trying to justify its
- flaws or figure them out. Just play the damn game and have fun. (:
-
-
- P.S. Woe to the pilot of almost any kind of tank caught in a flash
- flood. Unless it's a grav tank or inherently designed to be amphibious,
- it's gonna have trouble. Even then, either one could still be easily
- swamped.
-
- Also, I know someone who once calculated out the lbs per square inch
- values of the feet of an Atlas on the ground. It came out to be less
- than that of your average infantryman.
-
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