NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/rec/games/mecha/1530

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From: [e-mail] (Prabal Nandy)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
Subject: Re: Six limbed mechs and Centaurian Warlord
Date: 27 Jan 1993 16:33:22 -0500
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   Personally, I've never found the sidestep to be THAT effective, but then
again, I've only needed to use it once, and my quad mechs were much too fast
anyway... Yes, I think that they'd make great transport mecha (Do they have
different piloting modifiers than the standard bipedial mecha?) But their
legs, as we have them working right now, would be much to vulnerable to
mines, etc.. If I were to make a centaurian... I would let the mech's arms
and legs be legs... and construct the two upper arms by placing actuators in
the lower torsos of both sides... that way they're actually more a part of
the torsos than anything else, and the legs are much better armored than
they would be the way we have them working now...

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