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(...) Now this is completly subjective and open to debate. I personally build what most people consider "cute" and/or "little" fighters. To me they are able to kill almost any other fighter or mech(a) with one shot. Hey my "Empire" the Galactic (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) You know? I really like that...kinda' covers all the bases no matter which side of the name argument one favors. Matt (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) :-) Thats why I wrote it that way. Seriously though I hope no one took my "Real World Viability" rant to mean I did not like all the cool mech(a)s models that get shown here. (Then again I like all the trains and castles too.) -Mike Petrucelli (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Now that I think of it, you have a good point there. In my pure space days there was nothing in the world that could have convinced me that a Gundam could take down a Star Destroyer for example, and there is nothing now that can convince me (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Well, you can't say that is 100% true. How about countermeasures which a tank can employ to block the targeting mechanism of the missile? For example, the Russian T-90 has a whole bunch of things that allow it to survive. First off, and this (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) in (...) than (...) shot. (...) Well my underlying point was that a Tank is part of a well rounded military. If one relys only on Tanks, one lose rather quickly. Same with Mech(a)s. (...) No Tanks are definately not obsolete. (...) Over (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) See to me that sounds like, well this tank can take out that battleship/aircraft carrier. Granted there are a handful of extremely unlikely situations where that could happen. But certainly not in normal combat situations. I wonder, in your (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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