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Post by TOMAHAWK on Mar 11, 2005 23:30:07 GMT
or the gun could be on top of the hood of the tripod above the martian, with maybe a mech to raise the gun itself i dunno ..to fire over obsticles (trees/hills)...but that doesn't really work cos I get the feeling the martians were really line of sight merchants ..what they could see they killed ( mind you the heatray could only travel in a stright line). the only indirect weapon they used was the black smoke
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Post by Lensman on Mar 24, 2005 6:58:10 GMT
In the book isn't there a scene where the narrator see's a tripod running after some people and tossing them into it's basket ...if it didn't have the strength then why have a basket attached. Certainly the tripods' tentacles have the strength to pick up people and toss them into the basket. I don't think anyone's disputing that. We don't know how large the heat ray projector was. It may have been considerably heavier than a person. And if you're gonna be using it when other tripods are around, you want to be very sure it's not wobbling around on the end of a long tentacle, sending the heat ray waving around in random directions. Putting it on the end of a relatively short, sturdy arm is much safer, and less likely to get it damaged by accident.
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Post by MartianAmbassador on Mar 28, 2005 2:55:22 GMT
I think its like the heat ray in the SS movie with it bieng on the side like a battle mechs would be!
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Post by JonT on Apr 6, 2005 21:18:41 GMT
i always thought that they carried both the heat ray and the black smoke in the tentacles. but on jeff waynes tripod the heatray is built into the hood and so is the canister launcher that fires the black smoke, you cant see it so i presume its retractable?
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Post by Lensman on Apr 7, 2005 22:45:33 GMT
i always thought that they carried both the heat ray and the black smoke in the tentacles. but on jeff waynes tripod the heatray is built into the hood and so is the canister launcher that fires the black smoke, you cant see it so i presume its retractable? The novel clearly describes one tripod bringing the black smoke bazookas and distributing them to the others. So they're not built in. And the description of a tripod holding the bazooka up high for discharge-- like one of the Correa drawings, someone here is using that for an avatar-- indicates the bazookas weren't attached to the tripods after distribution, either.
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Post by JonT on Apr 7, 2005 23:04:24 GMT
yeah i no but like i said its different on the jeff wayne FM.
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Post by Lensman on Apr 8, 2005 5:10:17 GMT
yeah i no but like i said its different on the jeff wayne FM. Sure. Didn't mean to sound like I was correcting you.
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Apr 8, 2005 14:24:46 GMT
That reminds me. On the 1978 JJWotW poster mag, there are some blueprints of both the Jeff Wayne FM and the HM (which have been posted on these very boards). The FM has a vertically swiveling heat ray tube yet the HM's is fixed. I've always wondered why that was.. Any ideas?
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Post by HTT on Apr 8, 2005 15:08:08 GMT
[glow=purple,2,300]At a guess, I'd say it because of the height.
A 100ft tripod needs a wider arc of fire for near and far targets. Whereas the Handling machine is at ground level, and only needs to fire directly in front. Also, the HM isn't a war machine - it has a very different purpose, so the heat ray was probably just added as a precautionary measure.
Always puzzled me why there was no horizontal movement though - you can easily escape death by just a jump to the left...(then a step to the righ-hi-hi-hi-hi-height).
If it was me designing it, I'd've had both heat rays on some form of trackball, to give a maximum area of devastation without having to line the whole tripod up with the target. [/glow]
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Apr 8, 2005 15:56:38 GMT
I actually got a part of it wrong in my post. The heat ray tube of the FM swivels on a 70 degree *horizontal* axis.. not a vertical one. But I think you picked up on that HTT. On the Thunderchild painting from the Album, the machine attacking the ships heat ray tube apeture looks even odder. It appears to be on a vertical axis rather than the horizontal.. That's how it looks to me anyway. A track ball movement would make more sense to me too.
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Post by JonT on Apr 8, 2005 17:35:47 GMT
no probs lensman sorry if i was abrupt.
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