This is why tank > giant robot

>>14228429
That's called a surprise attack, anon.

You could also probably kill an armed soldier with a knife if you got the jump on him but it doesn't mean knives beat machine guns.

>>14228429

Gasaraki youtube comments.txt

>>14228580
>dat shockwave

>>14228429
Where's the pic of the tanks ambushing a Zaku?

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>>14228580
>dat visual distortion at the tip of the shell

>>14228429
They didn't even try and dodge.

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This is why infantry > tanks

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>>14228583

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>>14228608

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>>14228641

Hope you like having to post your infantry support 25+ meters away from your tanks.

Which, as you know, is a death sentence of that tank.

>>14228429
>the robots just float there
>they don't bother trying to move out of the way or anything

>>14228608
>it hovers just before hitting the tank
Imagine the reactions of the pilots
>OH FUCK OH FUCK WHAT DO WE DO FUCK FUCK FUCK

>>14228630
>>14228429
Now's let's look at a Mecha verses a tank where the mecha aren't just sitting ducks.

https://youtu.be/ikB8B26OUpE?t=1m16s

>>14228881
The tank would still win you fucking subhuman braindead retard.

>>14228874

In fairness, the adaptation of the material this is based on made its primary villainous organisation cripplingly stupid because portraying the Stasi as being competent at anything would apparently offend people according to the director, so there's that.

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>>14228429

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>>14228452
>it doesn't mean knives beat machine guns.

>>14228881
In reality, I don't think it would work like this. The Zakus wouldn't be able to dodge the tank rounds. The tanks would hit the zakus easily because the zakus have a huge tall frame where the tanks have a much smaller one.

It's just fiction though, so it's best to just try and enjoy it.

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>>14228881
Going to tell me how the tanks won when the video clearly showed that they were turned into a pile of wreckage after taking 1 or 2 120mm rounds?

Tanks are so worthless in UC, that I haven't even seen many models or CG of them by the Japanese in my over a decade of collecting images. That's not even taking into account air superiority trashing them in real life.

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This is why tank > giant robot

>>14228946
I am confused.
Why are you responding to yourself?
Why does anyone try to argue about whether or not mecha can beat tanks when we don't know what mecha would realistically be capable of since they haven't been built?
Wouldn't the existence of the hildolfr disprove your argument anyway?

>>14228952
>No shading
>All the girls look the same
>They actually use mundane, real-life military hardware and try to make it seem interesting
How the fuck did anyone like this shit?

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>>14228996
>mundane, real-life military hardware
Hey fuck off the Type 10 isn't mundane.

>>14229000
>Type 10
>Not the most mundane MBT
ahahahahaha

>>14229003
Actually that award goes to the Abrams anon

>>14229000
>ruined F40.
G&P a shit. A SHIT.

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>>14228996
>mundane

>>14228996
It was a great sports anime

>>14228996
>They actually use mundane, real-life military hardware
better than your gay made up shit that is loosely based on real shit

>>14228429
/k/ringelords get out

>>14228429

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp9BmKn5NKg

This is why Mecha >Tanks.

>>14228996
>No shading

People really need to stop implying that cartoons has ever managed to use shading decently or even properly.

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The Tank/Mecha debate makes no fucking sense to me.

Like, you all realize both get BTFO by air power yes?

There's a reason the Americans spend BILLIONS on developing new fighter jets and give only scraps to their tank development.

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>>14229841
This is why air power > tank + giant robot

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>>14229007
imagine if those nazi's were still around to pour their money and research into silly things with todays technology, we would totally have Wanzers by now, and be Nazi NA too.

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>>14228429
Yes OP, tell us how smart and mature you are for realising that giant robots are impractical.

Please awe us with your tales of how the tank is more practical by virtue of being an actual thing.

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>>14228608
Maybe they shouldn't use shitty Russkie tanks?
http://www.janes.com/article/59682/turkish-tank-survives-kornet-missile-strike

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>>14229911
Air power > tonks and robutts.

>>14228996
>assorted WWII era tanks
>mundane
There's a reason why WWII is the golden age of tank designs, anon.
The designs are much more different due to different tank doctrine and everything, its not like modern MBTs that samefags hard because same combat doctrine and everything.
The americans at the time didn't think of using tanks to fight tanks, the brits only used their cruiser tanks to fight other tanks, the germans loved using their tanks to fight other tanks, the russians does the same on top of zergrushing their enemy.

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>>14230071

And the Japs, well... At least they tried?

>>14230112
Why make tanks when you can fold all that metal into katana blades for the grorious Imperial officer corps of fearless tank-slicers?

>>14228881
>Any video with SUPER HLV usable for anything outside of having some chuckles

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>>14228429
>can make a gigantic fucking robot with that's as nimble as a hummingbird
>can't make tanks that are even half as fast despite being smaller and ostensibly lighter

>>14228429
Anyone got the webm of the tanks getting raped by BETA in TA?

>>14230123
Or, you know, ships.

>>14230112
Well, they don't have much incentives to use them.
They could use them for attacking, but the asian countries had shit for anything that requires a tank at the time. As for defence, it would only happen if the air and naval forces fell, so there wasn't exactly a point to fund and develop tanks as opposed to putting that time and money into ships and planes.

They apparently had some crazy designs and at one time got a Tiger from Germany but that Tiger never made it to Japan.

>>14230137

Not much investment into it if you're going to put them on a wall and set stance to attack-in-range all day.

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>>14228862
Boeing is working on active energy-based deflection "shields"
pic from patent filing.

>>14230145
And that got them pretty much assraped those times when they went up against the Soviets.

>>14228996
Beats the shit out of contemporary mecha shows.

>>14230725
>(You)

>>14229408
>Clearly shows up thread
>Everyone falls silent
Kek

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>>14229928

Reminder that the shot didn't actually strike the true armor at a proper angel and only penetrated the space armor.

Had the goat-fucker who fired the missile had aimed correctly, the tank would have been fucked.

>>14228452
So making a weapon purposefully more concealable than a fancy flying robot is a bad idea in your opinion?

>>14228996

It's better as far as action goes than almost every mecha show to come out in at least the last ten years, so clearly there are better options.

>>14229924
Not OP, but...
>Lower center of weight
>Less surface to be armored
>The weight of the whole thing is more spread out by the threads than what two legs could do, meaning that a tank could move in places where a mech would sink through the ground
>Lower profile, meaning it is harder to spot and harder to shoot at than a multi meter walking tank
>Doesn't need a new super powered power plant that is also light, nor it needs any materials that would be hard yet very light, nor does it need as much mechanisms inside itself than a robot leg or arm

And due to the second point a tank would end up lighter/faster than a mech with similar amount of armor.

>>14230895
"Giant" robots are impractical, we've been through this a lot of times.

Small scale robots(3-5 metres in height?) or powered armor is certainly possible and theoretically more practical in some cases, like urban environments.

>>14230870
>I don't know what surprise means
a nigga can stab you in the back with a sparkling rainbow colored 12 inch dragon dildo and that shit ain't concealable or stealthy

>>14230919
Bitch those tanks were in the woods.
Could a multi meter mech had been able to conceal itself like that and start a surprise attack?

What do you think war is like? Two guys facing eachother on the battlefield, crossing their swords and then running for their mechs and then beat eachother silly?

>>14230928
no anon just because X surprised Y doesn't mean X is "purposefully more concealable"
I get your point but not your wording

>>14230938
X surprised Y because X wasn't essentially a flying tank on stilts being a massive attention whore letting the whole world know of its existence.

It's easier to surprise someone by being more silent and more concealable than the other guy.
Making yourself more noticeable on purpose just makes you easier to surprise and stab in the dick.

>People arguing how mechs suck
well then riddle me this:
Why were the martian walkers fucking ridiculous to kill in War of the Worlds then?

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>>14231039

>>14231048
I don't get it

>>14231039

Early Tank tech stood no chance, also RIP Thunderchild, you glorious bastard.

>>14231039
Because they didn't have tanks yet in the original War of the Worlds.

>>14231057
Yes but they had Ironclads and field artillery. Thunderchild put up a hell of a fight.

>>14228429

>Dude tanks lmao xD

Go back to /k/ then if you don't like it, faggot.

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>>14228580

if tanks are better why don't they have their own board

checkmate tankfags

>>14230928
Yeah, it actually did, look up the Zaku vs Gundam Alex fight.

>>14231124
they do, it's called /k/

>>14231155

they are just shoehorned in there like toku here

>>14228429
sauce?

>>14231184
East German mechajets fighting ayylmaos and each other

>>14230910
Tanks are impractical in urban environments in general.
Robots, even 5 meters would be impractical as well because it just doesn't move around well and are prone to surprise attacks because of the nature of urban warfare.

The main "advantage" mechs supposedly always have is their maneuverability, because writers don't realize tanks aren't just clunk walking bulletbags. A real life mech wouldn't be that maneuverable and legs will always be horribly inefficient.

>>14228874
At the speed those shells are flying they wouldn't know they were being shot at until its too late.

>>14231335
>even 5 meters would be impractical
Which is why scaling it down to 2-3 is a possibility?

>it just doesn't move around well
With our current technology, that is. The first tanks were slow as fuck, now they are moving at 70km/h despite being several times heavier.

Remember, this is all very hypothetical, we don't even know what will be the next "meta" for modern weaponry.
Powered armor is a very likely thing, and them upscaling powered armor a little to carry bigger guns and whatnot is a possibility.

>>14231361
At that point you're shoving a whole lot of tech into a small body, it just doesn't work that well.
And at 2 meters if you want a person inside there its just going to be a power suit. Even 3 meters is too small to really do anything with other than put a person on stilts.

>doesn't move well
it just won't move as fast period. Bipedal things just aren't that effective for movement. They'll always be slower than wheels or treads and more prone to slip ups due to imbalanced and weight distribution.

Large power armor is a possibility, but once they go beyond infantry level it gets shit on again because our firepower is just too much to make protection for.

>>14231377
>a whole lot of tech into a small body
And that is why the shrinking of those tech is a thing? Let's be serious, why would you give a hypothetical infantry powered armor the ability to take a hit from, say, a tank's gun?
Being able to stop most infantry-killing things like standard rifle calibre bullets and shrapnel would be the bare minimum.

>it just won't move as fast period. Bipedal things just aren't that effective for movement.
That's assuming its moving on legs. Powered armor could be moving around with wheels like roller blades most of the time and only moving with legs when needed. The "legs" could be a glorified suspension for the wheel(s) below. There could be a third "leg" that helps with the balancing, for instance.

>>14231416
The issue is more what would you want on it that makes it worthwhile to surround a person in a giant technological shell?

Radar? Cameras? Wifi? Missiles?
What justification is there for it? If its just protection then at the very least you'd need EMP shielding to prevent them from just getting trapped in giant hunks of metal, and that by itself takes up space and weight. Then you'd need some form of mechanical movement assistance.
Plus to make the shielding worthwhile you'd at least have to let it tank a grenade and small explosives as those are one of the bigger issues.

>legs
point is there is very little time when legs would ever be more efficient, so little you'd have a hard time justifying having them there at all, let alone them being the default.
And if you're going to have a 2 meter tall armored thing that doesn't look like a person and moves on wheels.
That's called a car.

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>>14228988
Misqouted, it was meant for >>14228889

The Hildolfr is a perfect example of why mobile suits are the future. Because look at how the Hidolfr took down the 6 Zakus. Shot 2 in the back while they were unaware, 1 while the pilot stopped when he panicked after being shot by an incendiary round, 1 because the pilot froze up after the Hildolfr transformed. 1 by a point blank scatter shot after it got knocked to the ground, and 1 being shot down by machine gun fire.

5 of the 6 kills were because of the mobile suit pilot errors and not the Hildolfr itself. Although having the Hildolfr piloted by an artillery instructor did allow it to preform much better than in the hands of a normal pilot.

Also keep in mind, the Hildolfr could only score kills with artillery when the enemy was unaware or nearly immobilized. During the initiate attack after the first Zaku got destroyed, the 2nd Zaku was able to move enough to have the impact only cause negligible damage to one of the power cables in the head.


Could the Hildolfr have a role in the Zeon Forces? Absolutely. Would it be the lead attacker or does this somehow vindicate tanks in battle? Absolutely not.

>>14231763
>My cherry picked example from a mech show that conveniently ignores important aspects of physics and engineering is why mechs are the future

>>14231763
Isn't the Hidolfr from a series where a magic particle prevents radar and long range missiles from functioning? That universe needs a fictional handicap to even give mecha a fighting chance so that's a pretty poor example.

>>14231763
>mobile suits are the future
>source: chinese cartoon

>>14231763
>mechs are the future
>source: cartoons
Sometimes I wish there was an IQ test to post on 4chan.

Honestly if you think a mech that can rapid fire 120mm and is lighter than 200 tons can be done I'd like to see how.
Hell, I'd like to see a tank design that could do that. It's completely bonkers.

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When will Tank fags and muh realism fags get out of /m/?

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>>14231803
>>14231836
>Complains about realism
So what happens when a tank gets stuck in the mud more than it being a sitting duck?

>>14231775
>Take the whole battle into account
>Cherry picking

>>14231792
So you're saying when a tank doesn't get a long range laser guided missile it's unfair to the tank? Shouldn't that be considered an equal playing field since the mobile suits don't get to use that sort of a weaponry either?

>>14228881
>>14228881

>OYW era MS dodging a tank shell like a fucking ballerina
triggered

>>14232212
that .gif amuses me. imagine what a mech would have done if it tried to walk on the same terrain with the same weight.

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>>14232236
First off, it's a walking motion, not just a heavy object bulldozing through and creating a solid path. So even if the path is mucky, a mobile suit should have enough power to just walk through it. If the ground started to give way and the pilot was alert. He'd activate his thrusters to get the stuck foot out of the irregular terrain, or if the entire area gives up, use his boosters to jump out of the area.

>>14232212
>a whole battle
an entire battle that faces the same problems.

I can say jackie chan single handedly fought off the entire mongol army, then hire him to make a movie about it.

Doesn't meant it can actually happen.

>>14232294
Yeah use the boosters to jump out of the area and give his squad's position away. Great idea.

>>14232080
unfortunately, never.

>day/k/are shits bashing chinese cartoons trying to look mature, again
>handful of /m/orons took the bait showing how little they know about the real world
>NUH-UH NO U

why don't mods do their fucking job seriously

>>14232212
I'd just like to point out that the main purpose of that .gif is actually just to show how unreliable the Porsche Tiger's engine is.

>>14232294
Why not put those same boosters on a tank to get more speed since it's lighter than a mech? Why are you comparing WWII tech with fantasy space tech?
Why am I bothering with this?

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>>14232437
Wait the mods are supposed to do something?

That is rare.

>>14232589
Nah, whenever someone shitposts they just ban a translator instead and call it a day.

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>>14232609
>ban a translator instead and call it a day.
Is this how things work on /m/

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>>14230141
Nope

>>14232622
It's a meme /a/fag

>>14232628
Oh then it is even worse.

>>14232630
Yes. The truth is, nobody gets banned unless you post porn, and even then I've sometimes only gotten banned after posting the same image after it's been deleted already.

>>14232622
Yes, that's what happened to TE Spoiler Guy, who was banned halfway through one of his spoiler threads when a shitposter trolled it (the shitposter remained in the thread and was never banned.)

>>14232628
>>14232639
are full of shit.

>>14232662
Yes, it applying to one person and one person alone makes it applicable to the entire board. Dumbass.

>>14232679
Are you retarded?

>>14232693
No, but you evidently are.

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>>14232704
Nah you're retarded.

>>14232480
>Goes faster because there are rockets straped to it.
>Might still get stuck because it's still just a giant mental box moving along the ground
>Harder to steer and break depending on the speed
>Can still only go in a near straight line making it an easy target.
>Because you're an idiot

>>14232356
Well the bigger problem is Zakus curb stomped Type-88s to the point the Federation abandoned producing them halfway through the war to focus development on mobile suits. And outside of a few guntank variants, tanks never took a major role in battles for the rest of UC. So yeah, I basically threw threw you tankfags a bone by going into detail as to why the Hildolfr was effective in its one sorte. Buy yeah, the project was scraped because it wasn't seen as practical with how much success mobile suits were having, so here we are.


>Rest of the thread has even more shitposting than usual.
Can't you take this to a bugfag thread or something? A majority of what they do is shitposting by default.

>>14232724
>>Rest of the thread has even more shitposting than usual.

It's a bait thread, I can't believe you expected there to not be any shitposting. Title was pretty blatant "Tank > Giant Robo" anyways.

>>14229006
This.

I won't watch a show where a damn F40 gets gored while stupid waifus drive a tank.

Real or not, there's certain things that are off limit.

>>14232734
Doesn't mean you can't convert it into something good. Have you not seen the Monster Hunter community that opted to stay in /v/ in action?

>>14232791
>/v/
They were doomed from the start.

>>14232795
You'd be surprised, their only weakness is talking about which weapons are best and people who think Freedom Unite is better than Tri.

>>14231039

The only thing they had against walkers were artillery (mostly stationery) and ships (the only thing that could match them blow for blow)

Based Thunderchild

>bitching about giant robots on the giant robot board when everyone already heard this whole song and dance a million times by now
These threads should be bannable.

>>14231039
In the new movie, it was because they had force shields that prevented damage. You can't take out something if an invisible barrier prevents all damage from reaching the moist unguarded good bits.

In fact, would mechas be more feasible or less when we develop the tech for nearly impenetrable force shields that are projected an inch or so over the surface of the mech's body?

>>14232878
less because you could just put that shit on a tank and not have to train people in an entirely new weapon system and mode of operation, and also not have to make entirely enw logistical chains, MOS's, and all the other shit required for a weapon system to work in complete synchronicity within the armed forces.

>>14231039
War of the worlds had super accurate heat ray lasers.
The artillery was inaccurate and slow.

>>14228429
What's the name of that anime?

>>14232946
Rub A Dub Dub: Black Mark.

>>14232946
Boku no Mechas are Dumb and Tanks are Better: The Animation: The Movie: The Video Game: The Interactive Experience.

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>>14228429
This is why giant robot > tank.

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>>14228452

>>14232946
>>14231194

>>14232946
Krauts Rule Everything Around Me.

>>14228429
>they just stay there in mid air getting hit

If this were truly realistic, the mechas would've had some sort of autopilot to prevent dumb shit like that

>>14228429
A tank can't cross a river. It can't fly over a city. It doesn't have maneuverability, here it can shoot them because it's far away and they are just staying there in the open, but if they started dodging and moved they would have it very complicated. A tank cannot fly in space. So in this very particular example, maybe, just maybe, you are right; they do need the help of the robot's pilots, of course, who just stare there willing to be slaughtered instead of MOVING THE FUCK OUT of the way.

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>>14234095
>A tank can't cross a river

Excuse me?

>>14233043

this pic makes me chuckle every time

>>14234098
>Shittonne of barrels stacked up
what

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>>14234109

It's a snorkel

>>14229408
>those tie fighter sounds

I need to watch MADOX-01 finally

>>14232212
Sauce pls

>>14232212
Does anyone kow a kancolle for tanks?

>>14234173
>Sauce pls

fucking really?

>>14228641
There's already a counter to that, anon.
The RPG simply fires two shells.
The first one eats the protection, the other ones makes you toast.

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>>14234173
Girls und Panzer

>>14234469

APS already have a "Double Tap" mode where they can quickly engage both parts of the projectile.

The two part RPGs were created to deal with Explosive Armor, not APS.

>>14235184
Except something like the RPG-30 had been designed with earlier forms of APS such as Arena and Drozd already in mind. Double tap APS is kinda of a new thing.

It's kinda surprising, armor for once might actually be outpacing infantry-based anti-tank weapons. Layering so much forms of protection on actual modern MBTs means you have to make bigger more badass missiles that might be too clumsy for boots to lug around properly.

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>>14228429
If you look at the number of rounds coming in at the stasi TSF and the high volume of fire which went on for several seconds then there are easily over 100 tanks in the forest.

More then a tank regiment, each tank battalion have 40 tanks and there are 3 battalions in a regiment.

The amount of weed that was smoked when this scene was made must have been extremely high.

>>14232365

In mid battle almost everyone already know your position anon, so why fucking bother?

>>14235638

Well expected in something coming from /k/autism director. Hell, have you try their homemade brownies?

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>>14234098
Hope you have a ford and no hole when you need it.
Also, the easy way is always mined.

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>>14229841
Actually the money spent don't mean much.
- Air-fighter are needed
- It is more costly to make one
- It is insanely costly to make one that will survive Next-Gen anti-air defense.
The same can be said for attack copter.

And we are in a time of peace (sand fanatic don't count), come the next war and you'll be much more careful sending supersonic-VTOL-deathtrap over enemy lines.

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>>14231443
> And if you're going to have a 2 meter tall armored thing that doesn't look like a person and moves on wheels.
That's called a car.

Who said it had to be humanoid and who said it couldn't be worth it ?

Tank are hardly the penultimate in cross country ability. They were built for niche purpose (trench) and stayed on the frontline because they were hard to kill. Now they are on life-support and only anti-missile system could save them.

You only need a doctrine of "shoot first, from anywhere" to make power armor to mechs interesting. Adding wheels to them would simply make them superior than old design

>>14236175
>In mid battle almost everyone already know your position anon, so why fucking bother?
Not even close to true. Stop taking your ideas of combat from fucking anime.

Visible = dead. Armour hasn't been as powerful as the tools available to punch through it since WW2.

>>14238139
>Adding wheels to them would simply make them superior than old design
You do realize there are actual reasons tanks don't use wheels, right? Treads are used A) because they're better on uneven terrain than wheels and B) because they spread the pressure out more evenly.

Anything with even vaguely a tank, or god forbid an MS's weight would sink like a fucking stone in any form of difficult terrain.

>>14232878 >>14232903
Depend, how do the impenetrable force shield interact with the ground ? If the tank can't shield itself because it would push against every structure taller than itself, you have a good reason to walk on thin legs

anyway, such tech would redefine our understanding of science so much we might as well have the ability to teleport bomb within enemy HQ if that happened..

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>>14235295
> It's kinda surprising, armor for once might actually be outpacing infantry-based anti-tank weapons. Layering so much forms of protection on actual modern MBTs means you have to make bigger more badass missiles that might be too clumsy for boots to lug around properly.

indeed

>>14238146
Because they can't switch to walking in an heartbeat ?

> Anything with even vaguely a tank, or god forbid an MS's weight would sink like a fucking stone in any form of difficult terrain.

That's a childish argument that was never true. Nice goalpost run by the way.

Do the math, tank use tracks because they naturally have a far from ideal geometry for locomotion, track are large because most of it don't push actively on the ground, but ironically the larger track also give them a poor adherence. When a tank hit a slope it's low center of weight barely help.

Walking locomotion rely on changing your geometry constantly, you can't get bogged down unless the bog actively weight you down and your feet digging slightly into the ground give you an ideal adherence. A 100tons mechs would have no problem moving around with even a quarter of a tank's surface. And a 30tons gun could take a 150mm tank gun recoil with no anchor.

>>14238141
In future when combat scanner and radar are advance enought, why not?

Also, mid battle means there is firefight going on, and enemy basically already guess the accurate possibility of your position judging by the noice and flashes. So since we talking about driving machine, all it care about now is quick enought maneuvering.

If you talking about recon or flanking, then the battle not even begin for that unit yet. And if the pilot even bother to done that kind of maneuver, then he is an idiot and he already dead anyway.

>Visible = dead

If you alone and doing recon/scout, then yes

>>14232365
>Yeah use the boosters to jump out of the area and give his squad's position away. Great idea.
Minovsky scattering means even if the engagement starts, the odds of accurate strikes at range is very very low.

Why don't we just attach a pair of legs to a tank and make it able to launch nukes?

>>14228897
To be fair, Stasi wasn't known for taking to the front lines so they probably were hilariously incompetent.

>>14229841
Technically, TSFs Are air power.

>>14238141
Simply firing a weapon a weapon can give away your position and while stealth is all well and good, hiding infantry on the ground is way easier than hiding a plane in flight.

Thus, if visible=dead then infantry is the king of battles.

>>14238402
Less a matter of stealth, more a matter of concealment. Think about camouflage, while you might have the vague idea that of your position, exactly where to shoot isn't so clear. And yes, infantry is very difficult to uproot from an entrenched position without specific weaponry to deal with them. A fleshy meatbag is vulnerable to wide area weaponry whereas an even moderately armored vehicle is not.

>>14238436
Which then brings us to the concept of powered armor, the most plausible of mecha.

Honestly, I wish there were more animes like Red Eyes and Madox

>>14238385

The director of SM is supposedly on record for saying that he purposely made them look bad because he thinks that a competent enemy faction based off a real-life policing organization would trigger people.

I couldn't make this shit up even if I tried.

Whatever may be the case, the pro-Soviet Stasi spend the finale of the novel run butchering opponents left and right before they end up surrendering after their leader is killed, in stark contrast to the anime rendition.

Well, not much to expect when they pour money into making short series as really expensive advertisements for VNs. Any publicity is good publicity, was that how it went?

>>14228862
they squat literally everywhere.

Any of you did this?

>>>/k/29956787

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>>14238276
I can't follow up on the nuke part, but here are your leg tanks.

>>14239109
OH GOD IT'S HIDEOUS

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>>14239180
>shitting on the Crab Gunner
I'll fight you.

I'd love a Max Factory kit of these things like they're doing with the other Combat Armors. The old kits like the ones these covers came from would likely be much harder to find and less satisfactory to boot.

>>14239187
It's literally just a tank with legs. Just a tank by itself would look cooler

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>>14239194
I think it's cool and I'll still fight you.

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Nobody has pictures of poor Blizzard Gunner.

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Saraba yasashiki hibi yo

>>14239204
Do it then faggot

>>14239246
>>14239204
WAIT

Let me get my camera first.

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>>14239246
>>14239263
>RP
I am confused.

Anyway give Dougram a go, it's nice.

>>14236175
>/k/autism director
Lol no.

The director dont even know about the stasi

>>14228429
Nobody was implying it was the ether way around in the first place.

>>14229917
Just imagine if Cold War US scientists and Nazi scientists combined their lunacy and made weapons.

>>14229917
IRL the Italians were the ones that had propaganda about their awesome walking machines and who used twin-seated mini subs to good effect.
And the French are the ones who really max out the "PUT the BIGGEST GUN on the SMALLEST AND FASTEST THING WE GOT"-logic in their armoured vehicles today.

So wanzer- or VOTOMS-like mech would end up being a French/Italian thing, most likely.

>>14239525
>Just imagine if Cold War US scientists and Nazi scientists combined their lunacy and made weapons.

ICBMs are just that.

>>14231048
>No Kenshiro
Disregarded.

>>14239109
>>14239187
>>14239192
>>14239200
RIP Cochraine's Goliaths

>>14228452

>muvluv
>all about muh yamato tamashii swords
>knife doesn't beat machinegun

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>>14228898
Evangelion movie, tanks vs Eva 2 scene.
LOL.

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>>14228898

"What is this easy mode bullshit? Are they even TRYING to hit anything?"

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Mechwarrior is hard sci-fi and the plot says they use mechs to turn war into a game in order to honor combat skill as victory and nothing else.

>>14241454
Even with scientific accuracy and ample time (takes place in the year 3000), it's still fantasy as fuck.