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Re: Recent Mecha Thoughts
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Wed, 9 Jan 2002 05:06:49 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Mike Petrucelli writes:
> > As I have stated before, mecha are
> > incredibely efficient and vicious machines for war, and that is so obvious in
> > any well designed military mech, that it is down rights scary.  Come on!
> > Honestly, who the hell in Binocle, Space, etc, etc, has anything that can
> > match
> > mechs?  Even the largest of capital ships are no match for a much smaller than
> > its size MS or mobile armor.
> 
> 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 Confederation does not govern 107 galaxies with
> flowers.
> 
> Now aside from the whole "mine is better than yours because I said so"
> argument. To me mech(a)s are a small part of a well rounded military.  A
> Mech(a) without fighter escort/coverage would be killed rather quickly.  The
> best real world example is Tanks(with AA) vs. Airplanes.  No matter how good
> the Tank is, an A-10 "Tank Killer" would make mince meat of it.
> 
> -Mike Petrucelli
> (who builds all mech(a) for his forces with "sliding" legs like TLC does for
> better playability)

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 that a Gundam can not take down a Star Destroyer.  Oh well.  As far
as sliding legs are concerned, I will always hold my position that investing
some time and pieces to build a more realistic frame is a good choice.

Have fun building more mocks, regardless of their type :)
Bobby



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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 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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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 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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