> Putting your cockpit in the most least armored spot

>>14984496
>JUST
TA

>>14984497
FLOW NAY

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>cockpit is literally a cock pit

>>14984496

> most least

>>14984496
In a humanoid mecha, the head is the best position for the cockpit. And like in humans, there's no reason for it not being heavily armored, just like the human skull is very thick. Headshots are very difficult anyway in moving targets.

>>14984636
>Head is the best position.
Actually, the dick is.

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>>14984548
ZoE made the term cockpit even more apropiate.
Turn A was first, though.

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>there is no affordable/not-prohibitively-expensive Escaflowne plamo/action figure
kill me

>>14984496

To be fair, its the position highest off the ground. For the sort of battles Guymelefs fight, that makes it virtually impossible for any non-Guymelef to get a shot at you, and other Guymelefs have weapons that can cut through your armor anyway.

Its only a bad position in settings where your enemy has accurate and powerful ranged weapons, which Escaflowne really doesn't. Saibach has those liquid-metal spears, but their tech seems to be pretty new since everyone else reacts to them like Saibach's tactics are totally unheard of.

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>>14984639
That's just begging for pic to happen to your robot.

>>14985206
Zaibach are clearly the only people making new Guymelefs; everyone else seems to be using relics and hand-me-downs.

That said, you also have to remember that melef pilots are manually piloting them. Like, you're strapped in, and your limbs get extended. You can't NOT be in the main body for that to work.

>>14985178
My god. ZoE has some cool looking mechs.

>>14984496
>putting your balls right in the open for anything to hit it
>don't even bother evolving any muscles or fat to cushion it or at the very least stop growing pain nerves to it

>>14984636
>In a humanoid mecha, the head is the best position for the cockpit. And like in humans, there's no reason for it not being heavily armored, just like the human skull is very thick. Headshots are very difficult anyway in moving targets.

So SPT Layzner and Xabungle/Iron Gear had it right all along eh ?

>>14986471
You forget that the Iron Gear's advantage is that they literally know and point out that they're in a cartoon.

>>14984496
>Putting a cockpit right in the center of mass where it's most likely to be hit, likely next to the engine

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>>14984496
>>14984624

>>14988606
>Putting cockpit away from the center of mass where it's impossible to move the thing without getting concussions.