Mechs are so much cooler than tanks. How can tanks even compete?

Because walking mecha are inefficient as fuck.

>mechs
>cooler than tanks

Nice joke.

>>343953054
>Nani-

>>343952387
>cuckmechs

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Mech video games >tank video ... wait a minute tank video games? Yeah I never seen one either.

>>343952387
>How can tanks even compete?
Well you know.. since they're actually REAL unlike mechs..

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>niggas who think mechs being impractical or inefficient makes them any less cool
>thinking treads > legs

okay NERD

>>343952387
because tanks are real, and work

>>343953054
Fucking thanks anon I was searching that gif

>>343953701

Found the casual who has never played BattleTanx

>>343952387
Production line value
If you move your argument to mechs being intended as superweapons
Nukes are so much cooler than mechs.
How can mechs even compete?

>>343953701
>wait a minute tank video games? Yeah I never seen one either.
World of Tanks, one of the Top 5 most popular games in the world right now based on both popularity and revenue?
War Thunder, Battlefield, Armored Warfare, and then dozens of shovelware titles that die a week after launch just like with mech games.

>>343953701
>he has never played battle tanks 1 and 2
Nigga...

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This is what happens when people try to be original.

>>343952387
Giant Robots are by their very nature, a bad concept. It's taking the ineffective and absurd and glorifying it for no good reason. There is no situation in which an oversized mechanical man is more effective than a flying/dynamic wheeled mobile tank/artillery.

There is literally no reason whatsoever to produce large scale mecha, ever. You want mecha without them being shit, they damn well better be exo-suits. That's the only "mecha" worth a shit because it's the only one that makes any sense. Enhancing soldiers IS something you do. Building poorly constructed humanoid vehicles with poorly designed Japanese energy swords is bad and you should feel bad for thinking it's good.

>>343954020
Nukes are boring. Nobody wants to use them.
For example, it's like if someone gave you a choice between a mech or a tank.
Nobody wants to use a tank.

>>343952387
>exposed wiring
>ammunition stored where
>escaping crew just tumble 20 feet down?
>shit armor
>high profile

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>>343952387
I want to drive a tank in a mech game, because I'm a contrarian shitter.

>>343953569
Bellzelute is cooler.

>>343953751
Can't bust through dense forestation with flimsly legs mate.
Also shithouse slope climbing with legs.

>>343954385
Why would you need to do all that when you can just fly?

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>>343954163
>energy swords
okay, you can try and defend tanks no matter how futile that effort actually is but now you've crossed the line.

>>343954163
>Giant Robots are by their very nature, a bad concept.
In real life, sure. But this is /v/, not /irl/.

From a video game perspective, mechs offer a sensical solution to gameplay depth problems. Mechs can sensibly equip several weapons simultaneously, mechs can customize parts to perform different actions and maneuvers, and mechs allow certain technological concepts to be presented to the player without shoehorning them in.

Imagine an FPS where you play as a normal man who can use two chain guns, four missile launchers, a sword and shield, and a jetpack all at the same time. How would you animated that? How would he use all of these weapons? But if you slap them on a mech, it makes sense.

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>>343954385
>implying my mech wouldn't be the Squatbot 3000 with legs like Redwood trees

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>>343953963
>Battletanx
You're OK, anon.

>>343954385
You aren't busting through dense Forrest in a tank either.

>>343954163
I actually think exosuits are kinda shitty.
Unless they're using a breathable liquid that greatly enhances the soldiers muscular capabilities and impact resistance.

>>343952387
Tanks are the superior design. They just work better.

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>>343954214
Other kinds of walkers > Mechs

>>343954598
lmao, yes you are.

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>>343954465
>mech attempts to fly
>intercepted in minutes by the slowest planes
terrible design

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>>343954739
This. Spider was my Metal Warrior of choice.

>>343952387
>Irish mechs

>>343952769
>>343953721
>>343953760
>>343954163
>muh practicality
No one's discussing the possibility of a mech in reality.

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>>343953751
Treads are pretty cool too, broski.

>>343952387
Legs =/= Mech
That's a walker you've poster there buddy
It's a mech if it has an articulated upper torso

>>343952387
tonks are real

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>>343953701
>use the same amount of resources horizontally instead of vertically
>can stick a whole lot more dakka on it
you need to stop comparing mecha to conventional tanks

phantom crash was the greatest mecha game ever created and no we'll never have a proper sequel or remake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n5j-38Vrjs

This is what Mechafags actually believe is better than a tank.

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Tanks can be cool, but I agree. Mechs with skis are god tier.

ITT
>ITT: Tankfags want everything to be absolutely realistic
I forgot vidya can't include fantasy

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>>343955680
>says mechs are better
>posts proofs that tanks are cooler superweapons

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>>343952387
>used to play Mechwarrior tabletop game
>mechs, tanks, and infantry are all equally awesome
>infantry can commandeer mechs
>tanks and mechs duking it out, pretty balanced
>yfw flying over hindering terrain and surrounding your opponents

GOD
DAMN

I miss this shit.

>>343955516
>Not using based experimental bombers
Smhtbqhfamalamaramadamadingdong

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>>343955863
tl;dr,
clan invasion
>balance

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tonk a best

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>>343954268
your image tickled me so i made a thing

and i like spider tanks; they're impractical and cool

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>>343956082
Pretty good, anon.

>>343956052
Get a load of this guy
>he doesn't even do orbit drops from space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAZV7X94UFA

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>>343955845
Imagine a Warlord with skis

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If you ask me, it's got to be a joke. Not only is making a tank walk on two legs a technical nightmare, but there's no point in making a walking tank to begin with. Putting legs on a tank would raise its clearance, increasing its frontal projection area. It'd also be less stable. Suppose the legs help the tank travel bad roads... I don't see the logic in that. Isn't that what treads are for? I mean, anyone who'd seriously consider making a thing like that has got to be a wacko. ...Come to think of it, there was a guy in the States who wrote a paper on that subject. What was his name... Emerson? Heinrich? ...Something like that; I don't really remember. 'Course, no one took that seriously.

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>Tanks
>Cool

You're fucking wrong kids.

>>343956346
>implying you can't shove a tonk in a drop pod

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Is it too much to ask to have a game with a healthy mix of tanks and mechs? I feel like it emphasizes the fantastical to have traditional weapons of war in there too.

Bonus points if you are the one in a tank against the more crazy walkers.

>>343956429
giant magical kamen rider suits are more silly than cool, zeon's designs are way cooler anyways

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>>343956429
>posing for the camera is the most important aspect of a war machine

mechs are great.

space on the other hand..... meh.

>>343956757
>....
>meh.
get out

>>343956429
Reminder most early OWY battles were won mostly with tanks

>>343955659
>This is what Mechafags actually believe is better than a tank.

It's cooler, and that's what matter.

You can't go DMC with a tank, it simply doesn't have the dimensions for it.

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>>343956619
to be fair, the zeong was super gay and lame, but at least you tried zeon

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>>343956619
How the fuck does a gundam look like a Kamen rider.
Also fuck you, Kamen rider is awesome.

>>343955863
mechcommander soon fellow clanner

>>343952387
>How can tanks even compete?

By pretty much being better at everything.

Faster, tougher, more firepower, less weight, lower profile. A single modern western tank would probably wreck an entire squad of mechs.

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>>343956429
>being rude
>not liking both equally
>not realizing all you tank and mecha fags are all plebs compared to the robot swarm master race

lovin erry laff

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>>343956619
>>mechs, tanks, and infantry are all equally
Fucking this.

>>343955907
asswashers a shit
CZAR is vastly superior
>get asswasher
>if it wins you the game you had already won through different means
>if it doesn't win you the game you have to harass for 20 minutes to get anything done
>regular T3 bombers are a better use of resources if you have air superiority
>cant even bust a bunker
>only real use is destroying enemy armies in the field and then running back to your anti air defences

vs

>get czar
>if it gets past the initial intercept you bust the bunker you send it at by default; either through its highest single damage in gain laser or through its death explosion
>though T3 bombers are better if the enemy has poor defences the CZAR is a perfectly viable option against a turtle

all other experimental options are a better use of resources

>>343952387
>being a clanker
enjoy sticking your dick in metal, darwinism is where its at

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why not both?

>>343952387
dumb weeb

>>343955207
So then why is the question how can tanks compete?

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>>343956619
Fuck yeah, Zeon!

>>343953701
>Yeah I never seen one either.

World of Tanks and War Thunder, and then a handful of simulators like Steel Beasts.

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who /medium/ here

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Mechs can shoot boobs! How can you even compete with that?

>>343957087
oh god i forgot whats his face even drove that thing. and then it'd launch out the fucking airplane lol

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>Not a single post has mentioned Zone of the Enders

Come the fuck on.

>>343956542
Holy shit, thank you, I was thinking about cropping that image today.

At the end of the day, a tank is just a vehicle, a machine. It can't be an extension of its pilot like a mech because it lacks the anthropomorphization aspect in its design.

A mech isn't meant to be like a tank, it's meant to be like a really big suit of armor.

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>that idle engine noise when you're in your mech
one of the few good things from mechwarrior online

>>343956542
>Is it too much to ask to have a game with a healthy mix of tanks and mechs?
no
you must be either with us or you're against us
no middleman working around here bucko
yes or no
tanks or mechs
faggot or based
pick one
in all seriousness that'd be ace, mechcommander did it pretty well

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>>343957087

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>>343957386
>it's meant to be like a really big suit of armor.
Or a really tiny one

>>343953569
This looks dope. What is it

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Modern tanks move over hills and rubble just fine.
If you decided that's not good enough, if you absolutely must have a tank with legs just in case, it would still have treads on its legs, and it would be shaped more like a tortoise than a human.
Warfare has never been about what looks cool.

>>343954552
All those benefits apply to a tank as well, at least a futuristic tank with the same technology required for a giant humanoid mech. You get proportionally LESS room for extra weapons inside a mech, not more.
I guess the one difference is a tank wouldn't be able to climb ladders, but a ladder scaled up for a mech to use would be silly anyway, so just don't put ladders in your game.

how would you balance mechs and tanks in a game together? what would be the advantages of using one over the other?
Would you have:
>anime magic powered mechs who fly really fast and do all the ninja shit
>"realistic" mechs that are slow and clunky
>a mix of both, allowing something bulky and big yet not hindering movement

>>343957558
I don't watch a lot of Gundam, are Zeon always the "badguys?" Their suits are so damn rad, that feels like a waste.

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Has anyone played this on steam? Any good?

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>>343952387
Are there any games that have both mechs and tanks that's still fun
Jakub is god tier east Europe art

>>343955740
>Not the Z2 version
Pleb

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>>343957593

L, I think.

>>343957621
>Warfare has never been about what looks cool.

What if it's not warfare.

What if it's HIGH STAKES BOXING?

>>343957621
>All those benefits apply to a tank as well
Tanks use treads, anon. They don't have omnidirectional moving, they have to turn either their tracks or their turrets.

And a tank with a jetpack doing high-g maneuvers For Answer style would look absurd.

>>343957657
>mech
Small, agile, but weak
>tank
Durable all-rounder

Mechs rely on superior positioning (getting on top of buildings, where tanks can't go, and firing down on tanks, where tanks can't elevate their guns to fire back) but lose in a straight-up fight.

Kind-of like Light Assault and Heavy in Planetside 2.

>>343957558

THe more I watch this the less it makes sense.

Is that blood? Engine fluid? Either way why is it coming from stabbling the cockpit?

>>343957781
Armored Core 2, 2 Another Age, 3, Silent Line.
Front Mission 4. (I just want a decent PC version of this that doesn't have fucky things going on)

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>not liking your mechs to look gay as fuck

>>343957781
>Are there any games that have both mechs and tanks that's still fun
I remember Mechassault 2 had some controllable tanks. I think they were actually viable if you were fighting light mechs.

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>>343957723
Zeon aren't always portrayed as the bad guys. I like Feddie suits, but Zeon looks so sinister.

Check out 08th MS Team and War in the Pocket. Those are my two favorite series.

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>>343957908
Domon is the hero we deserve.

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No one has ever made an outright magical tank. I think westerners are too obsessed with realism, and that's why a lot of modern western games are so boring. What ever happened to us, we created things like Lensman and Flash Gordon. Now we're so boring in an attempt to be real.

>>343958015
reasonable assessment
add
>mechs do have some armour; but it's mostly there for increased stability while firing

What are some mech games/mods where you have a view inside the cockpit? Are there any mecha-themed mods for popular games?

>>343958283
Thanks anon, I'll do that.

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>not being a mech, tank AND plane all at the same time.

Come on guys, have some imagination

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>>343958342
fighter g gundam
why dont you just let a tank run you over

>>343958450
mechwarrior online

>>343958359
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_%28tank%29

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>>343958538
>hating G Gundam
I could have guessed you hate fun.

>>343958576
>1960

Not surprising, it was made in a time when we still had imagination.

>>343958538

Domon doesn't need a mech to break a tank with his bare hands

>>343957621
>the second robot

Ahaahahahahaha

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>>343958487
>Get Devastation on sale
>Beat it in 2 hours, fun as fuck but obviously lacking in content
>Still manage to get a refund for it

>>343958687
No way, do you know how many episodes of robotech I've watched?

>>343958359
there is stretching belief and there is supressing disbelief
tank super-weapons stretch belief (it does not exist now but it might someday)
mechs are super-weapons by nature and involve suppressing disbelief (if the super-powerful weapons they carry existed someday why would you not just mount it on a less resource intensive platform)

both are fiction set in the future but one is sci-fi and one is fantasy

>>343957386
>It can't be an extension of its pilot like a mech

You apparently didn't watch Fury. Crew in the tanks case but point stands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8vFGQ0uJQc

Or Girls und Panzer if you need the weeb example.

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>>343958006
>at least a futuristic tank with the same technology required for a giant humanoid mech
Read the whole post next time.
And how is a humanoid mech supposed to aim without turning its arms and head at all? If it needs to do a sudden 180, a tank with a turret would accomplish that using far fewer moving parts.

>>343957103
He's talking competing in the context of being cool. Reading comprehension dude.

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>>343958808
>robotech

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>>343953054
Reminder, this motherfucker slaughtered all the tanks by himself.

I straight up don't understand how people aren't fascinated by mecha.

>>343955740
Why is the Tem Ray Circuit flying at the end?

>>343958870

So? What does that have to do with anything?

Fantasy is inherently superior to science fiction anyway.

>>343958924

I'm talking about for thematic purposes.

>>343959047
It's the psychoframe

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>>343959047

That's the psychoframe dingue.

Don't you know the magical letter T when you see it?

>>343957621
I remember this argument was made back in 2001, in a PS2 game called Ring of Red. It's an alternate reality where WW2 was fought with gasoline-powered mechs. In the game, they say that in the European theatre, tanks outperformed mechs (called AFW in the game) because Europe had mostly flat terrain. In the game's setting, you fight in Japan, which has irregular terrain, so the mechs are used instead of tanks. And even more, there's a class of mech used for artillery (Heavy AFW) that indeed uses 4 legs instead of two.

>>343959047
It's part of the psychoframe. They never explained what that T really was.

You know if the U.S. military had a mechanized infantry corps that had mechs, I'd probably start working out and join the military immediately.

PTSD? High stress combat situations? Mental reprogramming with military dogma?
That's fine, I get to pilot a giant robot!

Keep in mind that in the original Gundam there was a specific reason for abandoning all normal forms of warfare for mechs.

Because the creation of minovsky particles created electronic interference on such a level that all forms of radar and communication that wasn't in point-blank range was rendered completely useless. Everyone had to go back to either fighting in melee combat, or firing blindly in a direction and hope you hit something.

>>343959024
Reminder that the Earth Federation held off an army of Zakus, Goufs, Doms for nine months using only tanks and footsoldiers, then a single Gundam and a handful of GMs completely wiped Zeon in two months.

>>343959316
A mech would be just like a fighter plane, not a common vehicle. They would give you all kinds of tests, and only the best would stay to pilot them.
Eye problems? Out. Prone to vomiting? Out.

>>343959369
You could probably eyeball a shell pretty well, with some practice.

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will mecha anime ever be good again
will we ever get a truly amazing mecha game

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>>343959369
IIRC electronic jamming becoming unfathomably advanced is the reason for ship combat in LoGH being what it is, where they need shuttles to carry messages between ships instead of radio.

>>343959539
Not in space where you're also bombarded by radiation throwing shit off, and there's crap cluttered all around our solar system.

The Federation's solution was a barrage of laser cannons large enough to blanket everything in front of them, then sweep in with mechs to engage what survived.

>>343959508
>Mad because a lone Ace slaughtered his precious tanks and was only eventually stopped by the 08th MS team

Kek

>>343959369
>or firing blindly in a direction and hope you hit something
...which is how most warfare functions today. Everything short of mavericks and ICBMs are dumbfire, and even all of those can be operated manually.

Gundams are only "functional" in-universe because they operate off of magical bullshit machinery like in >>343959625. Look at that range of motion, how fluidly everything operates. And the Hy-Gogg was one of the FIRST mobile suits developed.

Where was this technology when they made the fighters and battleships?

>>343959508
Zeon isn't exactly good with their mechs.
Hence why zakus have always been copy paste mechs that get fucked by the thousands by protag of the anime

>>343959625
Barbatos was pretty good from the few episodes I'v seen. Mobile workers were pretty cool.

>>343959369
i'm not a gundam fan, i don't get it

Why couldn't they just use light signals or something in space

that would be cool actually, animating futuristic battles that have to resort to visual cues for communication

>>343959745
"you could probably eyeball a shell pretty well"
what part of this did you not understand
he's not talking about using a rangefinder or radio co-ordinates here

>>343959856
>Where was this technology when they made the fighters and battleships?

It doesn't work on non-humanoid frames.

No really, look it up.

>>343959316
>Mental reprogramming with military dogma?
That's not how it works.

Although the reality of exosuits and mechs is really advancing quickly. I thought TALOS project was going to be vaporware but it's materializing very quickly.
Exosuits would be incredibly helpful in the motorpool.

>>343953054
>woooww it took 5 of you to kill me

>>343952387
This is structurally terrible. Anyone who thought that design was functional in any way should be euthanized.

>>343959179
What do you think the T stands for, dingus? It stands for Tem Ray obviously.

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>people posting anime mechs over superior western styled mechs

>>343959856
>Look at that range of motion, how fluidly everything operates
i wish more mech shows/games would make the mechs more clunky so you can actually feel the weight of it

>>343959891

Because you're missing the entire point of mechs.

It's to sell models

>no one realizes that they are both useless because of the availability of ATGM

>>343959891
>Why couldn't they just use light signals or something in space
They do that. Also flares, smoke signals, or literally just getting close and opening the hatch.

>>343959943
Z E O N G
And literally every mobile armor. The only reason the frames are humanoid is to take advantage of AMBAC in space, nothing else. This is no excuse.

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>>343959070
>Fantasy is inherently superior to science fiction anyway.

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Just look how operator tank artillery can be.
How can mech cucks even compete?

>>343959856
The first mobile suit was built 6 years before the Hygogg, it's in no way one of the first ones.

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>>343953054
>the only recorded tank victory in all of gundam UC lore

>>343959070
>I'm talking about for thematic purposes.

So am I. Worn, wearly, lumbering tank matches the worn and weary men inside of it.

>>343959369
That was just in that one timeline, and that wasn't even part of the universal century, that was the amino domino timeline.

Technically the first gundam was the rx78 and it was different from other mobile suits because it had gundamium alloy armor. Which was much the same with the Wing time line except the gundams were not mass produced and based off the tallgeese, no newtypes but there was an AI system and something like a psychoframe.

>>343959024
They had space fighters an stuff too but yeah. Federation goes hard as balls.

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>>343960023
I dont understand how they can think something modelled directly after a human in futuristic armour is cooler than this

its bland and uninspired; I'd rather have the human in futuristic armour at human scale and the giant mecha with more robotic articulation

>>343953701
>he doesn't play Steel Armor: Blaze of War

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Tonks are pretty cool, literally impervious to small arms fire, can fire several types of shells as necessary, low silhuette, fucking huge range and good accuracy means that a couple tanks can lock down an area of 3km~4km around them.

>>343960069
nope, there is a lot of shit available to a modern military to counter ATGMs teams, like drone survaillance.

>>343960126
Isn't that NGE?
Like, right before they get blown up by an Angel?
Oh wait that was the joke, wasn't it?

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>Not liking both
>Not liking the hybrid
>Not liking the weeb warrior himself

Baka desu

>>343952387
>How can tanks even compete?
by being real

>>343960069
ATGM?

>>343960204
Before the Federation made Project V, they fought the Zakus with infantry and tanks. And took down a lot of them (they held for a few months). I think there's one episode of MS Igloo that shows a "Zaku hunter" squad. It's just some guys with bazookas, explosives and tank support.

>>343959891
They use light signals in space, in V Gundam they use them a lot. They also use laser communication as a last resort, but it's easy to intercept.

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>>343960363

>>343960503
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfgPt1730Ls

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>>343954042
>World of Tanks
Hope to fucking god they're willing to fund a S2 of GuP.

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>>343960327
Western mechs 4lyfe.

>>343960503
Lets be honest here.
A group of men armed with rocket launchers n shit would do amazing against gundams in an urban environment.

>>343960487

Anti-Tank Guided Missile.

Javelins and shit.

>>343960148
>The first mobile suit was built 6 years before the Hygogg, it's in no way one of the first ones.
The original Zaku I was developed back then, and it was barely a combat unit.

Meanwhile, every other mobile suit for both the Zeon and ESFS only became operational in 0079. This includes the Hy-Gogg. So yes, other than the Zaku I, the Hy-Gogg is one of the FIRST mobile suits.

>>343960227
Minovsky Particles are 100% canon in Universal Century. Every UC Gundam features them, including the original.

>>343960487
Anti tank guided missiles. One dude with a missle from far away can fuck up a tank.

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>>343960023
>superior western styled mechs

That the most famous of which, Battletech, was taken from anime.

In fairness it's not like they stole it. They paid for the rights to use it, but then it turns out the people they paid were not the ones who held the international rights so they got sued anyway.

>>343960227
>and it was different from other mobile suits because it had gundamium alloy armor

Lunar Titanium

>>343960117

Yes, it is. The problem with science fiction is that it is held back by certain aspects of its storytelling.

>>343960214
>worn and weary

Who the fuck wants that?

>>343960327

You say that when the same franchise gives us Tau Battlesuits.

>>343960582
My favourite thing about western mech is there's less hands; why the fuck would you put hands on your giant robot

>>343960487
"Approximately ten gorillion mallards"
Birds are notorious for their brilliant wartime strategies. Any aussie can tell you about the emu war.
No really, Emus won a war in 'Straya. Google "the great emu war".

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Tankfags BTFO

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>>343959625
>It's an Anonymous didn't watch Fafner thread on /v/

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>>343960686
To punch things.

>>343959625
What is Macross Delta

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>>343960069
>infantry is useless because a single MG can stop an entire company
this is you.

>>343960686
To hold the big gun.

>>343960582
Western mechs = Best mechs

eastern mechs look more like FAGotrons than MEGAtrons with all those gay colours and stupid triangles coming out of everywhere desu

>>343960679
>The problem with science fiction is that it is held back by certain aspects of its storytelling.

So is fantasy in several manners. And "Magic so I ain't got to explain shit" gets old fast.

>Who the fuck wants that?
That wasn't the question you asked, and besides, that'd be where Girls und Panzer would come in if you need rainbows unicorns and moe shit exclusively.

>>343960886
Transformers are eastern.

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>tfw Ye Not Guilty

>>343960378
To be fair, Evas aren't really mechs. Not much mechanics under that armour.

>>343960582
You do realize lots of early Battletech designs were animu rip-offs?

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>>343960679
>That the most famous of which, Battletech, was taken from anime.
Most the famous battletech designs aren't based on any anime mechs. Being the madcats and the like.

>>343960886
>Western mechs = Best mechs
Someone didn't play any Front Mission games

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>>343960686

You're right.

Why have hands when you can have CLAWS?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr6bJDGXBZs

Typical Western Mech Design

>>343960687
>Australia actually waged war on their emu population

Holy fuck how am I just finding out about this?
STRAYA, EXPLAIN

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>>343961046

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>>343960629
Episode 14 of the original Gundam.
A group of Zeon footsoldiers on hoverbikes fly up and just plant timebombs on the Gundam.
Except they're retarded and give Amuro enough time to manually remove all the bombs, drive them off, then return safely.

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>watch any modern mecha
>CGI

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>>343960975
>what are biomechs

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>Talking shit about military mechs.

Don't fuck with the combaticons

>>343960842
A company of soldiers is a large number of low value targets. A single tank or mech is one high value target.

>>343961089
>Decisive Emu Victory
>EMU VICTORY

Holy shit they LOST?! How do you LOSE against emus!?

>>343960679
Yeah I'll concede that. Funny thing is I used to be pretty anti-eastern back in the day and I used to post this retarded image macro someone else made of a Warlord Titan vs Gundams, VFs, and Evangelions. Now I just don't give a shit and I don't mind either styles.

>>343959625
fafner exodus was pretty phenomenal, thunderbolt was also pretty click depsite how short it was. Concrete revelutio was criminally underrated and bones is making a 50 episode mecha original in 2017 (well its rumored.) IBO's 2nd half also has alot of potential.

mecha has seen better times but things are improving.

>>343960913
>that'd be where Girls und Panzer would come in if you need rainbows unicorns and moe shit exclusively.

No, I mean things like knights and shouting warriors.

Like a weeaboo German knight who likes to emulate the samurai and fights with a giant sword JUST BECAUSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfN65U1OIM

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>>343961039
>Typical western Mech
>Siamese Mech game

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>>343960574
Holy shit. If more mech shows were like this I'd be hooked.

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>>343961046
Not as bad as this, or the time a large American force landed on an island, only to suffer a significant amount of casualties with there being literally no Japanese forces on the island.

Functional power armor > Helicopter gunships > tanks > power gap > giant mechas

>>343961286
Think about it.

>>343961283
>and fights with a giant sword JUST BECAUSE
It's because the Dygenguar wasn't finished when they had to emergency deploy it so none of the onboard weapons were functional. He just used his old mech's sword instead.

>>343961286
That's the joke though
That Koreans can easily emulate Western aesthetics when they want to.

Why else would they make a Cowboy pilot it? As a subtle HAHA on Americans.

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tanks best.

>>343961406
>Not as bad as this, or the time a large American force landed on an island, only to suffer a significant amount of casualties with there being literally no Japanese forces on the island.
It was Canadians and Americans, and the Japanese planted landmines, sea-mines, and had booby-traps all over the island. It was also snowing.

>>343960965
>im a tomato

Wasn't the spinning metal top is the most efficient mech design in battlebot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nNaOmHKFxQ

Just need to add guns (not allowed in the competetion) and you have a perfect "mecha."

>>343961283
I wanna get into the OG series but translated sources are few and far desu. Makes me sad.

>>343955740
What game is this?

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>>343961204
Overman King Gainer is too good for the normies at /v/eddit

>build HG gunpla
>instructions are the same size as a brochure
>build MG gunpla
>comes with a fucking booklet
I wasn't ready.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIafv1kJhBk

Now THIS : This is typical Japanese aesthetics in a giant robot.

>Emotive Face
>Able to grow magic green crystals for weapons
>Made up of a robot man and a robot dragon
>Piloted by your typical High School Aged Guy
>Along with two of the five girls he's currently banging
>It can also stop time and channel everyone's will to power it up
>It's also got the soul of an ancient god inside of it

>>343961141
You forget in victory bandits on motorcycles do really well too. Its basically Mecha > Any large target, any thing small and fast > Mecha

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>>343961682
spinning only works because ranged weapons are disallowed

that said for shows like that your bot needs some god damn style

>>343961729
It's not a game but a nice gallery of neat looking animations.

>>343953569
thanks doc

>>343962001
Just give me the name.

>>343954583
hehehe

>>343961982
not really, mechas are just incredibly inefficient by design
the human shape is only functional at human size

so power armor would work, mechas not so much

>>343962062
Super Robot Wars Z3.

>>343954598
Are you from early WW2?

>>343958029
Blood of the crew. Remember, they're Japanese so they actually have thousands of gallons of various fluids per human body stored under intense pressure; it's why arousal causes explosive nosebleeds, they can cry waterfalls of tears, etc. Give 'em a good poke with a mechsword and you get that gif; only has to hit, nearly hit, or startle one member to pop him and that explosion of viscera pops the others.

>>343961682
I have flashbacks to Japanese bug fights and that Hercules beetle from season 2. Before someone memed up the site

>>343962138
Wait, that game I played on the original gameboy back when I was a kid got sequels?

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>>343960575
Me too, Anon. Me too

>>343962171
even in early WW2 the germans managed to bust through the ardennes with their tanks despite that region being mostly forests, hills and rivers

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>chromehounds is now 10 years old

>>343961682
It seemed in the first televised airings years ago Ramp designs were the best. But the spinning ones wrecked nearly everything and it was usually ramp vs spinning for topdog.

>>343962208
It's not a sequel, they just make a ton of games. It's one of the longest-running game series that almost never got out of Japan. It has more than 70 games, and you probably played one of its spin-offs and never even realized.
Another Century's Episode is a spin-off.

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So how is Gundam Breaker 3, anyway? I know it's Gunpla, but is it worth playing?

>>343962208
You're joking, right? 24 games, a series of animes, and four spinoff series each with their own sequels. Super Robot Wars is easily one of the most popular mech series ever, and the most famous crossover series short of Smash.

>>343962106
FUCK OFF NORMIE

>>343958253
Nothin' here but us trees

>>343962450
Amazing customization with lots of options, gameplay is repetitive hack 'n slash.
You decide whether building tons of crazy gunpla is enough to deal with the boring combat.

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>implying tanks will ever be this cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E05Lb_7-pGU

How can they even compete?

>>343962552
>implying normies aren't the ones going MECHAS ARE COOL

>>343962450
good

>>343962413
FUCK YOU SEGA YOU TOTALLY KILLED MY NOSTALGIA FOR YOUR OLD SYSTEMS WITH CHROME HOUNDS WHY DID YOU INFLICT THAT BLIGHT ON THE WORLD WE CANT AFFORD SERVERS YEAH FUCKING RIGHT

>>343962450
It's fun.
Really short.
Crazy levels of customization
Combat is boring unless you switch gunpla often.

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>>343953054
Oh we doing this dance again?

>>343961375
Animated with really bad 3D?

>>343962430
No it had to be on the original gameboy because I remember it being in that greenish monochrome and my family lived in Japan for a number of years.

>>343962527
Not joking.

>>343962718
thats dumb, the turrets dont even move on any of them.

>>343962718
that mech would be too small to fit anyone but a quadruple amputee inside

>>343962725
The series started on the GameBoy, back in 1990. I meant the game from the .webm is not a direct sequel, just another game in the series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Robot_Wars_video_games

>>343962718
tanks are basically snipers though, properly-equipped infantry would wreck the tanks too if they get that close

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>not wanting to pilot a humanoid machine
>not piloting the extension of human spirit

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Guys

what if instead of a robotic man

We made a robotic Godzilla

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>>343962718
>posting shitty gifs

>>343963003
nah, using equal technology the tank would be faster, stronger and more agile than an equal size mech
the engines that actually give that mech the ability to walk? they give that tank the ability to spin its turret 360 within a tenth of a second

>>343963023
>I only like making characters that look like me in create a character

>>343961727

OG1 and 2 were translated and Moon Dwellers is coming out in english next month. That's 3 of 5 games

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>>343962923
This is an AT from VOTOMS.
It's 90% walking deathtrap and 10% mech.

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What's better, a bunch of normal-sized guns, or a single really REALLY big gun?

>>343963209

I wish I was blue

>>343963224
>English

Engrish is more accurate.
If Lighting Bong is anything to go off of.

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>>343963291
many normal size guns firing at the same time.

>>343963179
Fuck yeah 00

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Tanks couldnt take out a Kaiju

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>>343963291
what if we took a bunch of REALLY big guns and shot them at the same target over and over again?

>>343963114

Bullshit, we didn't make Mechagodzilla, aliens from Black Hole Planet 3 did.

>>343963338

Hey, the games being 100% japanese didn't stop me from playing them, a silly translation certainly will.

>>343952387
tanks are cheaper and more reliable

>>343963365
is this voltron?

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/m/, if you're in here, what do you think of skells?

>>343962208
A sequel for the GBA series literally came out this week

>>343963438
Nah, they just didn't try hard enough.

>>343963291

It depends on the firing rate of said big gun

>>343963438
yes the could
say you take that sword, put that on a giant as fuck tank, and have him spin that thing at 100rpm

KaijuBlender 9000

>>343963520
SKELLZ IS LE RAD XD

Aside from that, I dunno.

>>343963461
certainly won't*

>>343955243
is there a point to the treads when they are elevated in the middle like that? as far as i can tell they might as well be wheels

>>343963438
guns* couldn't take out a kaiju
I'm sure missile delivery of the swords they use in pacific rim would be a better use of resources

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>>343963621

>SKELLZ IS LE RAD XD

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>>343963520
They were cool enough.

Uban and Mastema a best.

>>343963520

Most of them are kinda boring honestly. The one that's neat, the Ares, is ironically the one you can't do anything to customize.

>>343963438
They can, though. They made the jaegers to beat them to death instead of explode them and send all their toxic innards and blood all over the place and kill everything. jagers beat them to death with blunt trauma. The sword is a last line of defense, the missiles the australian one used were all dummy rounds that just smacked into it and didn't explode.

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>>343959316
>we get to fuck ISIS up with giant cool robots
just like the intro of the Robocop remake, but cooler.

>>343963767

This. It's not that they couldn't kill it a different way, it's just that ways that didn't involve beating it to death tended to have consequences.

>>343963676
fuck that shit, the kaiju come from a single predictable spot
put a satellite over that spot, arm it with a bunch of tungsten rods and every time some ugly fucker comes crawling out drop one

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>>343952387
>Not both at the same time

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>>343963667
The treads in the middle would still contact the ground if climbing over hills and mounds. Or driving up over a car. One of the most satisfying things to do with a Metal Slug.

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>>343957330
That /v/ is no more

Although they did do the remastered collection on the 360. So I'm sure some of the younger crowd experienced it, unless they didn't know what it was and overlooked it.

>>343963906

THey don't want to get the toxic blood everywhere

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>Tfw so few good Japanese mech games that feel like a War is taking place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8waLdD1W3g&feature=youtu.be

This is a giant robot according to Japan

>>343963757

I liked the idea of Ares, but in execution it's incredibly boring. I've got the worst one too, Ares 70. It can mow over everything weak, but isn't powerful enough to stand up against super bosses. It's the worst feeling ever.

>>343963995
its the middle of the ocean and that rod strikes with the force of a thermonuclear blast when it hits, there's going to be very little organic pieces left after the impact

>>343964054
Organic shit can be robots too don't be racist.

>>343958226
Souce?

>>343964054
>robot

now I know you're fucking with me

>>343963023
Knowing why those two are fighting ruined that fight.

>>343963946
You can make treaded vehicles with arms? Sign me the fuck up.

>>343963438
You're right. I heard the sequel is actually panning out too.

ARMORED

CORE

MASTER

RACE

>>343964186
Nope, it's the upgrade for this robot from the previous game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7hR3BQ8ZJI

It's still a "robot" according to Japan.

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>>343963747

I liked Urban and Verus. Just too bad they weren't as effective as heavies. They really needed to work on the issues of balancing in this game.

>>343964447
>not playing Verdict Day RIGHT NOW

>>343963176
>nah, using equal technology the tank would be faster, stronger and more agile than an equal size mech

Yes anon, that's why bipedal humans are considered cripples compared to people in wheelchairs.

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>not using mechs as cops to FIGHT CRIME

>>343964047
play high macs

>>343964489
I know your posts are just an excuse to shill the games showing cool robots. Keep going

>>343964503

For Answer is better.

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>>343952769
>>343955207
>>343957103
>>343958959
>>343953721
>>343954163
Wouldn't a mech that's basically a highly armored exoskeleton that's roughly or just a bit larger than a human be very practical though? You could fit machineguns onto its arms and shit and you'd have a mobile machinegun platform. Something a bit like the Stealth suit in pic related. And it wouldn't have a larger silhouette.

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>>343964552

Mechs gotta have something to set them apart. Something a tank can't do, but it can't be animu powers.

>>343964512
an ant can lift 5000 times its own bodyweight, yet a human sized ant couldn't survive in earth's atmosphere

humanoid shapes are only efficient at humanoid size, if a giant mech tried to quickly turn like a human the sheer momentum would snap it in half

>>343964631

Oh, sorry. Quoted you by accident.

>>343964649

Walk on two legs?

>>343964613

A titan can just step on them.

>>343964649
>but it can't be animu powers.

Bullshit, why not? They're already completely unrealistic and unfeasible so why aren't we allowed to go full hog?