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Re: Designation conflict
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:54:14 GMT
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True, Battletech uses the assault classification. However, to me, assault
implies something that is bulky, relatively slow, and generally loaded with
weapons.
Look at the Stormbringer on my site to see what prompted my question about
sizes.
Travis Dickinson
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Jupiter/7021
Jorge Rodriguez wrote:
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> aren't they called assault mechs? Isn't that the name battletech gives
> to really huge mecha?
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> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:57:16 GMT, Travis Dickinson <travis@pdn.net>
> wrote:
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> > What's the designation for a mecha that is going to be twice the height of a
> > heavy mecha? Should the previous mecha be down graded in class?
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> > Travis Dickinson
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> Jorge Rodríguez
> rodriguez.136@osu.edu
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| (...) ...Ive always thought of the word assault as a charge or initial attack, so by that term, an assault mecha would be fairly fast, preferably lightly armed in preference to heavily armoured with the idea being to get to the enemy intact as fast (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| aren't they called assault mechs? Isn't that the name battletech gives to really huge mecha? (...) Jorge Rodríguez rodriguez.136@osu.edu (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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