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Post by RustiSwordz on Jan 30, 2005 1:38:27 GMT
people talk about the fact that tanks could be a match for fighting machines.
Well today i finished replaying Mechwarrior vengance. The enemy tanks in the game were just playthings compared to my 100 foot tall Atlas.
if my cannons didnt kill them i just stomped on them... BOOM!
The tanks were only a threat when there were masses of them, but the threat was only for a few seconds my missiles cannons and lasers soon put paid to all of that.
I can appreciate how the tanks will fair in the new SS film... BADLY!
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Post by lanceradvanced on Jan 30, 2005 3:33:13 GMT
Yeah, but does it work out the same way when you're playing with white metal or clickytech?
I tend to swear by my Sprit Cat Tank Stars...
Besides, I'd tend to put a Fighing Machine in the 30-40 ton range, armed with Arrow-IV and Heavy Large Laser Equivalents..
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Post by Baron of SG-12 on Jan 30, 2005 20:55:00 GMT
I don't belive that armor, tank or otherwise can stand up to a MFM, no way. I was a driver on a M3 Bradley and a spark could set one on fire.
Baron
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Post by lanceradvanced on Jan 31, 2005 0:12:29 GMT
I don't belive that armor, tank or otherwise can stand up to a MFM, no way. I was a driver on a M3 Bradley and a spark could set one on fire. Yeah, but was your tank, fusion powered and armed with laser weaponry and railguns? I can't speak for the video games, but as far as the tabletop versions of Battletech/Mechwarrior, go Armor and Infantry are potent tools.. (Of course, now that I've opened my mouth, I guess I'm gonna have to come up with BT stats for a FM... |
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Post by Baron of SG-12 on Jan 31, 2005 3:10:46 GMT
No it didn't wish it did though. I feel that a Atlas Mech could make a MFM run at the sight of it.
Baron
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Post by Buccaneer on Jan 31, 2005 13:07:33 GMT
No it didn't wish it did though. I feel that a Atlas Mech could make a MFM run at the sight of it. Baron Depends if it was the Swordsworn version in blue with the horns! ;-) |
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Post by Bayne on Feb 3, 2005 22:25:44 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]I always thought that battletech (the original, I haven't played the new clicky version) would be a great rules system to re-create Wotw or better yet to fight out WotWII
Tripods Vs inferior human mecha in superior numbers (presumably the humans, using cavorite for space travel rather than cylinders could send a massive sized force to Mars)
The tricky thing would be to show the massive destructive force of the heat ray... battletech lasers won't cut it. I was thinking maybe a gauss rifle that strikes 3 hexes in a row at a time?
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Post by lanceradvanced on Feb 4, 2005 1:47:12 GMT
I don't know... a heavy large laser, does 16 points of damage, out to 180m , doubling that against infantry in open terrain, (32 people dead/a ton of armor vaporized) with a slightly better than 50/50 chance of setting a 12m hex on fire...
And that's in 10 seconds...
Arrow IV, loaded with inferno rounds (if availble) , would do the trick for black smoke... several mapsheets, range, and a 1 hex radius...
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