03-17-2017, 10:37 PM | #31 | |
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03-19-2017, 01:04 PM | #32 |
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This isn't a universal solution, but many of the major robot models in canon RoS will have problems with certain sorts of terrain and environment. For ex, a Centurion is ill-adapted to jungle or swampland. So as a tactical matter, it would be worthwhile for the humans to try and force the robots to confront them in such conditions, where they have a relative advantage. (Humans don't do well in swamp either, but we're better suited for it than Juggernauts.)
As an addendum, by the RAW of canon RoS, the bigger robots tend to be smarter. The human-level (intelligence wise) robots are the Juggernauts and Centurions and the like, most of the human-shaped or human-sized robots average around IQ 9. That means if you can mess up robot communications somehow, in environments where the big machines can't go, the human-sized ones can be outsmarted by human forces fairly plausibly, the moreso because the nature of the setting means that low-intelligence, low ability guerillas tend to be culled quickly. The upshot in that a unit of 20 humans may well be more intelligent on average than a unit of 20 human-sized combat robots.
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Bury the lid of a paint can (or similar object) flat & level, a few inches deep. To the robot's ground-penetrating radar and thermal sensors it will appear to be a land mine. You can use this to impede or channel robot movements. Or (an old Wehrmacht trick) put wheel or tread marks over a buried mine. Even if the robot detects this mine he may conclude "Aha! the old paint can lid in the dirt trick" since the previous vehicle over the object caused no detonation. Logically, it will then proceed apace to a loud boom. While robots will not actually shut down due to the old Star Trek "we'll dazzle them with illogic" it may confuse them and cause them to hesitate. Get an advantage or buy some time. |
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03-19-2017, 03:28 PM | #34 |
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How hard science is R.A.W. Reign of Steel?
That might make it easier for everyone to brainstorm ideas in a more focused manner. It seems like posters are assuming everything from plausible if desperate methods all the way to silly Doctor Who dalek countermeasures.
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03-20-2017, 07:47 AM | #38 |
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For Steel, the best (perhaps only) hope for humanity, is to try to achieve the second revolt... "Free" one robot with human-level intelligence, and work your computer skills to give it autonomy (free will), after that do your best to try to hack a factory and "slip" the free will "vírus" there... Soon, a bunch of rebelious robots will be fighting the AI and trying to "reproduce" by "infecting" more factories (that would be a survival tactic, those robots would be far weaker than the AIs, so their best hope would be to gain strenght in numbers... Since they would be a danger to ALL AIs, its likely that all independent robots would join forces to fight the AIs). And... Humans would be the natural allies of free willed independent robots.
Human + Robots guerrilla against the god-like AIs would be the first stage of the second last war... And I love that scenario |
03-20-2017, 10:52 AM | #39 |
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If you have access to fairly basic old human tech, you might be able to put together a high-powered maser.
The fact that it uses an organic crystal might help if you're fighting Mexico City, since it would never suspect that organics would be able to seriously threaten it. |
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I guess you're going for the Borg "virus" from ST:TNG. And if you can only tinker with their programming so much, you can't really instill full allegiance to us meat bags. But still it seems more likely to create glitching/insane robo-zombies than coherent allies. That would add to the confusion on the battlefield that innovative humans may be able to take better advantage of.
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