06-29-2012, 01:25 AM | #21 | |
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07-01-2012, 11:50 AM | #22 |
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I would agree that many of them look a bit stupid — and more to the point, implausible — but some of them aren't so bad. For example, I've always been somewhat fond of the type with the "backwards" legs, such as the Vulture, Marauder, and Mad Cat. (If you're only putting two legs on something that heavy, then at least "backwards" legs seem marginally more believable than "forwards.")
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07-01-2012, 10:37 PM | #23 |
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Why pick on Battletech? It has long been at the low end of the sci-fi game power curve with ablative armor, hilariously low ranges for weapons, 1 ton computers, machine ammo explosions after falling down, heat, no nukes due to the big foo-foo "fight nice" treaty, etc.
Try it with other mecha stuff like Macross or VOTOMS where nukes and weapons that can gut five mile long alien battleships are bit more common. Giant tanks/land battleships really aren't any more realistic or effective. BPC is just a fancy way of saying unobtanium. Deployed Ogres can't even cross trenches. I don't see the source of "better than yours" smugness here. It's just a sci-fi background. It will presumably be 'bigger than some' and 'smaller than others' in terms of what claims it makes about its take on future warfare.
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07-01-2012, 11:07 PM | #25 |
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07-03-2012, 07:41 AM | #28 |
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yeah, but that's just design ideas. the whole "unseen/reseen" fight was because of the Harmony Gold and whatever else Battletech initally borrowed from (I know a chunk were macross, I forget where others like the shadow hawk and wolverine came from), and that whole copyright debacle.
the whole reason the Inner Sphere called it a "Mad Cat" was because it looked like a cross between a Marauder and a Catapult. Never mind the Clan designation was "Timber Wolf".
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