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Re: Define Mecha Types Por Moi...
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In article <GpswMI.7yJ@lugnet.com>, "richard marchetti"
<blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote:
> Could someone please explain the differences between light and heavy mecha
> for me? Does it describe function or appearance?
I guess it depends on the person defining, but as for my mecha, I have
Light, Medium, and Heavy. They generally refer to the size and armament of
the mecha. I don't have very strict rules for this. I usually just build a
mecha and then take a look at its size and armaments and make a judgment
call :^)
Here are my loose definitions:
"Light" mecha have only a few small guns, with perhaps a missile rack of
light missiles, and are generally small and quick, with light armor.
"Medium" mecha would have more armor and perhaps both light and heavy
weapons in addition to missiles.
"Heavy" mecha would be fairly loaded-down with weapons, especially heavy
weapons, and would most likely have at least two missile racks (if it
carries missiles)
Not every mecha needs missiles, but it sure is cool to let fly with a
missile swarm of Macross proportions. :^)
> Be advised that I haven't seen much material on the subject beyond Voltron,
> Zoids, or some such thing -- all of which don't really qualify as mecha, or
> so I assume.
Sure they do. They're just not Gundam-style mecha.
Voltron is one of the first "super sentai" mecha, where there is a
super-team of heros who pilot various mecha that combine (like Power
Rangers)
Zoids are animal-shaped mecha, but they still have little pilots in the
heads, so as far as I'm concerned, they're mecha. :^)
The only things I don't consider mecha are the big ugly square-looking
things that FASA came up with for their Battletech game. They then went on
to copyright the term "mech" and were very nasty about it for a while.
This is especially ironic because some of their "mechs" were direct
ripoffs of various mecha from Macross (Robotech)
HTH
~Grand Admiral Muffin Head
--
Mark's Lego Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego/
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| (...) These are also well known as powersuits or power armor. These were a step up in size from Iran Man's armor. Iron Monger would be a good example of the smallest type of power armor. 12-14 feet tall at the highest. Chicken walkers like the AT-ST (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) All I'd add to that is battle armor (slightly larger than human, exoskeleton armor basically) and Super heavy/Assault Mech(a) (Walking fortresses). Rule of thumb; small=fast big=slow. But not always. Now that I think of it Warhammer 40,000 (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| Hey Y'all: Could someone please explain the differences between light and heavy mecha for me? Does it describe function or appearance? Be advised that I haven't seen much material on the subject beyond Voltron, Zoids, or some such thing -- all of (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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