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HeatDeath · 06-26-2012, 10:12 AM

Awesome. I lol'd. :D

As a Battletech fan, I have to quibble, but only a little. Battlemechs are 10-12 meters tall, and a Mark V, as far asI remember, is only about 15 meters tall at the mast. So the Ogre wouldn't be THAT big relative to the mechs.

But yeah, the central point is entirely correct. Since Battlemechs lack BPC armor, a 4 minute shelling from a single Ogre's secondary gun would auto kill any Battletech-universe units in the hex.

If I had to represent Battlemechs as Ogre units, they'd be 0 or 1 defense, 1/1 units, but with decent mobility. Basically high speed infantry, at only 10-100x the cost :)

Now a Battlemech with BPC armor, slinging Alamos (Btech-universe tacnukes) around, that would start to look like a more-mobile Heavy Tank or Missile Tank. The mobility gain vs. Ogre-verse armor is very expensive though. Would you pay 10x the cost for a Heavy Tank to give it an extra movement point or two?

06-26-2012, 10:12 AM	#2
HeatDeath Join Date: May 2012	Re: Ogre 6th Edition vs. bi-pedal battle mecha... Awesome. I lol'd. :D As a Battletech fan, I have to quibble, but only a little. Battlemechs are 10-12 meters tall, and a Mark V, as far asI remember, is only about 15 meters tall at the mast. So the Ogre wouldn't be THAT big relative to the mechs. But yeah, the central point is entirely correct. Since Battlemechs lack BPC armor, a 4 minute shelling from a single Ogre's secondary gun would auto kill any Battletech-universe units in the hex. If I had to represent Battlemechs as Ogre units, they'd be 0 or 1 defense, 1/1 units, but with decent mobility. Basically high speed infantry, at only 10-100x the cost :) Now a Battlemech with BPC armor, slinging Alamos (Btech-universe tacnukes) around, that would start to look like a more-mobile Heavy Tank or Missile Tank. The mobility gain vs. Ogre-verse armor is very expensive though. Would you pay 10x the cost for a Heavy Tank to give it an extra movement point or two?