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Re: New mechs for your approval
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lugnet.build.mecha
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Mon, 19 Nov 2001 06:58:05 GMT
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> > > Titan at a http://members.home.net/ravenswolfmk/titan.htm
> > I have never seen this done on a chicken type mech so I have to ask, why
> > don't you have any weapons on the legs, like the Heavy Arms Custom (Kai)?
> > Having this mech with an additional 10 or so cannons and a few dozen missiles
> > attached to the leg will really be something :)
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> You know I have thought of this and I think it would look cool, but I have a
> "reality" issue with it.
:) To be honest I think you are way past the reality problem. If the Titan
existed and it fired even a few of its cannons at the same time it will fly
back in to the air.
> If the legs are moving all over the place,
> bouncing off of terrain, kicking boulders, destroying buildings, jostiling
> with the shock of 200+ tons of mech falling on it, whould anything mounted
> to the legs do any good? Maybe, I can see it but nahhhhh. The Mech'd have
> to stop to shoot. If you know armor then you know that stopping in the
> middle of a fire fight is a sure way to die. Now I might put things on
> there reminicant of weapons but are more mechanical in nature. Like twenty
> rocket packs (for propultion, not arament) or gas canisters, or feul cells,
> or antennaes, or whatever.
Well its a thought. I have never seen it done and I will never try to do it
myself...
> Now there is a type of design out there that I am thinking of emulating and
> that is where the shoulder and hip do double duty. In this design, the body
> rides very low, it is the hip in essence, and the arms come out of the other
> side of the leg. So in a row horozontially it is arm, thigh joint,
> hip/torso, thigh joint, arm. This design looks a little funny because it is
> so squat and wide.
Do you have a pictures of such an "animal"?
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| (...) Not at all, think recoiless rifles and energy weapons (lasers). Neither of which produce recoil. On Titan only the chain guns and missles produce recoil, all the rest are energy weapons. (In fact who says a chain gun couldn't become (...) (23 years ago, 20-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Thank you. I shoot for that. (...) Yeppers, that's why I like em' (...) You know I have thought of this and I think it would look cool, but I have a "reality" issue with it. If the legs are moving all over the place, bouncing off of terrain, (...) (23 years ago, 19-Nov-01, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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