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Re: Tanks or Power Armor
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lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space
Date: 
Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:06:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
   Anecdotally: Playing MechWarrior this weekend suggests that tanks may well continue forward. Could be a flaw in that rules system, of course but my tank and squad decimated the opposing force of mechs and hoverbikes...

I’d have to agree, at least based on what I’ve experienced playing BattleTech. A friend of mine always used to use tanks to go up against Mechs and Elementals (I think that’s what the power-armor was called in BattleTech. It’s been a few years.), and he almost always won quickly. The tanks were cheaper, so he could have more of them, they were quicker, and they were more difficult to wipe out.

On the other hand, a squad of Elementals, while being cheap, where somewhat slow, since they walked, and easy to wipe out since they were small and less armored.

On the other other hand (?), I once saw a game where one guy spent all his points buying tons of un-armed Elementals. He pit them against a couple lances of Mechs, and won by swarming them, tearing their armor off one piece at a time, and ripping out their inner components. It was pretty funny watching the other player try to figure out how to shoot Elementals off from his own mechs without causing any more damage.



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(...) I'd think it would have been more funny catching his reaction when he switched from smug dismissal of the unarmed opponents to realizing just how deep he'd stepped into it. It sounds about on par with the British forces who lost a fortified (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)

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(...) Those are all powerful advantages but I think that tanks are more efficient at providing an armored and enclosed area because they're closer to a spherical shape than a power suit, and because they get mass fraction advantages. Anecdotally: (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)

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