What is the most /k/ mecha series?

>>14624695
Metal Gear Solid since it revolves around a soldier taking out stupid walking military machines with as many guns and explosives as he can equip in his backpack.

you literally just put two opposites together, you cant get an answer for that

>>14624731
This. /k/ has zero tolerance for mecha. The very fact mecha anime exists is enraging to them.

Their stance on mecha is 1. They don't exist. 2. They can't exist. 3. They will never exist. 4. If they did exist they would be destroyed in seconds by the common weaponry.

The fact that the mechs are fictional or have fictional reasons why they they can't be taken down by shooting it in the leg with a .22 never factors in.

>But minosky particles prevent missile l-
>No fuck you. It's getting blown up by busted up soviet helicopters.

>But force fields.
>No fuck you. Busted up soviet helicopters beat force fields.

>But gravity control.
>No. Fuck you. Busted up soviet helicopters.

So yeah, it's pretty much impossible to have a /k/ mecha series.

>>14624786
But once the weaponized Kuratas is mass produced!...

>>14624817
they have to build one first

>>14624830
>take the prototype they already built
>replace the BB guns with actual guns

>>14624857
That one doesn't move, though.

>>14624905
Actually it does move, they just can't drive it in the streets of Japan because they lack the legal permits to do so due to the potential "safety hazards" it would cause.

>>14624786
>1. They don't exist.
>2. They can't exist.
>3. They will never exist.
>4. If they did exist they would be destroyed in seconds by the common weaponry.
So... Build Fighters?

>>14624786
There are exceptions. /K/ loves the various walkers from Star Wars and the Valkyries from Macross. Or as the Kommandos call, them "space tomcats".

>>14624977
Actually I'd argue for a scenario similar to LBX instead since those are robots with real firepower just scaled down that don't run on made up plastic particles...

In fact I remember them talking about how to apply them to the military since conventional weapons would have problems targeting them because of their small size

>>14625010
that's because the valkyries are pretty plausible in plane form, and rely on alien space magic to function anyways.

>>14625010
what about power armor?

>>14625037
Yes they like power armor too. In fact, people who try to dismiss power armor usually get shit on in the comments section because that stuff is being worked on right now.

>>14625018
They/we don't really have a problem with the battroid forms either since most of the transformations in the show take place in zero-G.

Patlabor because part of the story is that mechs are absolutely fucking useless for war.

>>14625131
Patlabor 2 particularly since that's basically a Tom Clancy plot from when Tom Clancy still wrote decent mil fiction

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>>14625131
huh?

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>>14625170
really makes you think

>>14624702
Mellowlink is the exact same thing, except that the main guy isn't some super soldier badass. He's just a guy with some brains, a lot of luck, a massive chip on his shoulder and a really big gun.

Also, there are no whimsical, unrealistic magic powers that can immediately point at as proof of how fake everything is

>>14625174
Wasn't the whole point of that scene that sticking mecha in a jungle without any sort of back up would inevitably result in fucking them up? And that management knew this and stuck them in there on purpose for whatever reason?
It's been a while since I've seen Patlabor 2.

Patlabor 2 has pretty good millitary porn either way.
Maybe /k/ would like Dougram. Lots of combined arms in this.

>>14624786
>/k/ has zero tolerance for mecha
this doesn't make sense

guns are mecha

I'd like say the Front Mission games, but that's the same as Patlabor. Only exists because a niche was opened and stuck like those dumb tank things Patton was always going on about. If no one remembers history: Nobody thought tanks would stick. Spider tanks are mocked as well, but a mountain climbing tipedal-tank has uses. And the army will just get lazy and want an all in one perfect mechanized unit, which is where powered armor will be once we get a small enough power source capable of landmate type stuff. Ironman is fantasy.

There is also space, which would be the best chance of humanoid mecha finding a niche since there would be a lot of construction use robotic equipment and vehicles that you'll want to give as many uses for.

>>14625958
Multi-pedal*

>>14624786

It's not impossible. You just take as much from /k/ as you can.

I'm pretty sure a /k/ mecha series would be incredibly grim, without being melodramatic.

Think the bloody seriousness of "The Pacific" crossed with the camaraderie of "Band of Brothers", with "Platoon" and "Come and See" thrown in for good measure.

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>>14625191
Household appliances, too. Anything which is mechanical is inherently /m/.

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>>14626590
mecha isn't short for mechanical, no-nuts.

>>14625131
Tell that to the Helldiver team.

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>>14626614
>Mecha
>MECHAnical

What.

>>14626614
That's precisely the japanese origin of the term actually.

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>>14625179
>He's just a guy with some brains, a lot of luck, a massive chip on his shoulder and a really big gun.
woah there! What a badass!

>>14626614
>smug anime face
>wrong

color me surprised

anyway, to answer your question: fuck /k/

>>14625174
>Being surrounded
>Guys asking permission to shoot
>Denied

Dude, they're bassically being told to hold their fire entire time by idiotic /k/tastic high command for lulz, and the captain give a return fire in his own initiative just when everything was too late. And they're in with promise of support that will never come, even tanks will be wrecked to shit when it comes to this.

>Really makes you think

It'll be if you actually pay attention to what you just watch m8. It make you think that army commanded by /k/ek was a huge mistake

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>>14627759
PG7V2's won't even dent the frontal armor of any modern western MBT lol.

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Shame what append to Gasaraki. I've only seen a few scattered episodes but it always looked to me to be one of the most feasible depictions of mech a ever. With the TAs being sort of a new force on the field, filling a niche between tanks and copters. But then supposedly it gets really weird. I wonder what /k/ would have thought about it if it had stayed the course

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Mellowlink

Why are there never any anti-material snipers in any other media ever? Is shooting vehicles not as sexy as shooting people?

>>14627841
There's Suou from DtB.
Lynette from Strike Witches used a Boys AT rifle.

>>14627806

>Thinking RPG's even need to penetrate the front armor.

Kek, any suficial damage is enought to make tanks goes full stop. The hit will stagger the crew and makes them vulnerables to get swarmed (exept its crewed by universal soldier or something). And even Ahmeds are smart enought to just target the weakspot like cameras, exposed crew, tracks, etc.

There's reasons why tank crew always cry "GET THAT FUCKING RPG AWAY AAAAAAAAH" m8.

>>14628080
Oh yeah, the moral of this story is: don't ever fuck with infantry.

>>14626021
So Muv Luv? Without the obvious uniforms that trigger people because it started out as a porn game before being Mil SciFi

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>>14627841
Argevollen, while replacing tanks with mecha and having no air support due to in-universe atmospheric conditions not allowing for flight, had a lot of combined arms and did have a soldier taking out a mecha by hiding in a building with an anti-materiel rifle.

Argevollen is the most military mecha series I've seen, with focus given to all of the unit and emphasis put on stuff like dealing with artillery and their scout/spotter being one of the most important members of the team. It also has less of a gap between the main mecha and the enemy mooks than you'd think.

But it's ignored by most of /m/ due to the slow pacing and muh cee-gee mecha. There's also a bad first impression of the MC, he does the I HAVE TO DISOBEY ORDERS TO SAVE PEOPLE thing a grand total of twice in the first three episodes, and then never again.

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>>14628209
Also featuring competent and consistently valuable mook mecha pilots in the squad who don't eat up the character focus for the rest of the supporting cast.

Also a pretty grounded depiction of the war, with the characters just being random soldiers. Also the only show I can think of where the only time you see the enemy leader is when he's giving a "buy war bonds" speech.

>>14628175
>Without being melodramatic

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>>14626021
Soo..... Steel Battalion then?

Or i think things like Appleseed manga will be a thing for them.

>>14624786
knights of sidonia is actually pretty good on the practical aspect

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>>14628441
See, the big problem I can see /k/ having is that there's no role on the battlefield for a "realistic" mech that an existing weapon platform doesn't already do better. Like in your pic, there's absolutely no reason to field those over tanks.

>>14632116
What about a Guntank or Zaku Tank scenario where the bottoms of the robots are tanks but instead of turrets & cannons they have robot upper bodies?

That way they can equip a variety of different weapons depending on the situation

>>14627759
Those are UN mechs, that was bound to happen to them. They do that shit all the time IN REAL FUCKING LIFE

>>14632203
That gets rid of half the advantages of a tank, its low profile.
>That way they can equip a variety of different weapons depending on the situation
how many different variations of "fuck off big gun" do you need.

>>14632203
At that point you dont really need arms on it though, you can just mount the weapons right on the torso and swap the torso out as nee-

oh wait thats called a turret

>>14632228
More than you'd think, they use smoothbore designs to support a greater variety of ordinance yknow.

>>14632228
>>14632230
>Why are Guntanks even a thing?

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>>14632235
Which doesn't require throwing out the gun barrel and turret for an entirely different one, like what you're suggesting.

>>14632241
That was my first post in the thread, you got me confused for some other anon.

>>14632239
because apparently having a torso makes you actually able to hit thin- oh no wait three of them just jobbed to a gouf

>>14632116
/k/ here, this is exactly the issue

Power armor is fully acceptable but requires tech we wont be seeing for a long time and some seriously bullshit armor materials to even be worthwhile, but at least it has a clearly defined use.

>>14632256
No I'm actually asking that question. The Federation had those those double-barreled tanks before making the Guntank...What happened to even justify making them?

>>14632283
mumble mumble minovsky particles mumble mumble

>>14632283
They would make neato toys to sell to japanese kids.

>>14624786
There was actually a thread posted on /k/ yesterday that had bipedal and spider walkers. Some guy was posting designs for a forum thing he was doing. It actually was pretty well received, floating battleships and all

>>14632266
How do you feel about AMBAC

>>14632283
To sell toys
Also because guntanks have a way better visual range due to being taller, I suppose that could be useful if youre fighting on a barren low gravity moon or something

>>14632293
Ball.

>>14632217
Do not, I repeat DO FUCKING NOT EVER FIGHT UNDER UN COMMAND

EVER

YOU *WILL* BE LEFT TO DIE IN A THIRD WORLD SHITHOLE WITHOUT FIRING A SINGLE SHOT

Just ask Belgium.

>>14632293
>create technology to allow mobile suits to maneuver in space without shitloads of verniers
>reactor output improves
>turns out shitloads of verniers makes for far more nimble suits
>slap shitloads of verniers on everything
10/10 best technology ever

>>14632292
Except even then it was noted they were only really useful in urban ruins and mountain combat

>>14632334
Right, which is reasonable in the gunpowder, non spacey mecha world. A hull down tank facing advancing walkers in open terrain, easy tank victory unless the mechs have stalinium or Reich steel armor

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R8 this mecha /k/ommandos.

>>14632389
>built for close in urban encounters
>sniper
this is stupid

>>14632389
Well I've always liked spider tanks, I'm not full /k/ though.

I've always considered spider tanks long ranged though, never seen them being useful for close in

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>>14632394

What makes you think it can't it be both?

>>14632410
i'm considering it as a urban warfare weapon system because its got legs, and wheels, and guessing by the size of the smoke canister launchers, its relatively compact.
why else would you have legs and wheels if your in any space that isn't full of debris and decent road surfaces.

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>>14624786
> /k/ has zero tolerance for mecha.

48 year old /k/ook here and I enjoyed the early BattleTech books, (from “Decision at Thunder Rift” up to whichever one had the big battle between the Clans and Comstar and Hanse Davion passing away) despite the real world impractically of mechs.

Huge ass mechs with gigantic penis shaped guns ain’t going to happen, but I could see some kinda powered armor type mech eventually being produced on a small scale, something like the mech in “Avatar”.

>>14632467
TALOS is the closest we're going to get to mecha IRL.
Powersuits for specialized troops and maybe for rear echelon types who have to carry around heavy shit.

>>14632467
>gigantic fucking window
It's a shame, because it'd be a cool design if they just removed this one flaw.

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>>14632479

I'm sure the design allowed for swapping out the windows for armor panels.

>>14632496
So why didn't they?
They had time to nigger rig flamethrowers, autocannons, and the software necessary to utilize them, but couldn't be fucked to put up even a little protection for the pilots, when they had full knowledge of the natives having projectile weaponry capable of piercing said windows for how many years before the protagonist came and fucked everything up?

>>14632504
Could be for purpose of visibility, but I agree with you, they should have worked out a countermeasure for known threats

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>>14632504
>So why didn't they?

Because it's a movie.

But even if the Avatar mechs were originally scientific / industrial vehicles retrofitted with weapons, arrows (even from big blue alien bows) ain't going to penetrate the glass panels.

>>14624695
Off the top of my head : Front Mission (poorly placed wanzers can be easily fucked over by choppers/tanks) and Red Eyes, if they don't mind superhuman bullshit elite dudes killing everyting everywhere forever

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>>14627841
>>14627848
Don't forget this cutie.

>>14632540
Problem with FM is weapon design. Goes full on retard with mechs holding giant 2 arm sniper rifles and chain guns.

>>14624786
/k/ loves Macross

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>>14632116
>>14632228
>>14632266
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZuZdykKwxE

I got you, son.

>>14632116
Gasaraki had such great power armor designs.

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>>14624786
>No fuck you. It's getting blown up by busted up soviet helicopters.
>No fuck you. Busted up soviet helicopters beat force fields.
>No. Fuck you. Busted up soviet helicopters.
If it's a Hind-D I'd believe it.

>>14632504
>>14632518
Company is full of jews, obviously.

>>14632504
Because then you wouldn't be able to see the actor's face, and that's the greatest sin you can commit in the entertainment business.

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>>14624786
If /k/ hates /m/, then wouldn't /m/+/k/ be Patalabor, the cynical, self-hating mecha series?

>>14624786
>helicopter always wins

Don't let them watch The Third since a heli gets beaten by a tank

>>14633137
Gets beaten by the best fucking tank bro, you mean.

>>14628209
>>14628225
Actually /m/ did had a dedicated follwers compared to elsewhere on internet(thanks to AZ,which was airing at the same time). Infact many on /m/ had said that it is closest to a Front Mission Anime we got.

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>>14624695
Patlabor

>>14624786
>Busted up soviet helicopters.

How many Mosin-Nagants does it take to make a helicopter?

>>14632416
Sauce?

>>14633211
0

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How do I Votoms? First is 1983 tv, I guess, but where to go from there?

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>>14633430
just go production order.

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>>14633435
Ok then, thanks.

>100 posts and nobody mentioned flag

>>14633445
>100 posts
> and nobody mentioned flag

Your is 98, making your comment self contradictory.

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>>14633462
Details. 98 is so close to 100 you might as well just say 100, it'll look better.

>>14633137
>>14633143
https://a.pomf.cat/zeoyif.webm

Why is the future so far away? Why was I born too early to have a cool, stoic AI buddy?

>>14633137
But tanks can't fly.

>>14633696
Your AI is far away, yes
https://youtu.be/2plIsSqU214

>>14633713
yeah, and they say giant insects can't fly either

>>14633713
Except the Russians had glider deployed tanks, and I don't mean as the payload.

They're WERE the glider.

>>14633947
those didn't actually work

even after removing the light tank's gun and ammo it was too heavy to be towed

>>14633947
>>14633957
For some reason I am reminded of that ridiculous scene in the A-Team Movie where they had the parachuting tank...

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>>14633217

Quo Vadis 2. A game with FMV sequences that are far above and beyond what you could hope to see within proper gameplay.

>>14634300
> Quo Vadis 2
It's a game? Goddamnit!

>>14632389
Source?

>>14635903

Dude.

DUUUUUUUUUUDEEEEE.....

I am so not repeating myself for someone as lazy as you are being right now......

>>14624731
How so?