Why would anyone bother with mechs when tanks and humans already

File: 2017-08-08-15-18-39--124569535.jpg (15KB, 225x225px) Image search: [Google]

15KB, 225x225px

>>386578205
How is your tank going to stand up against THIS?

>11800 HP.
>3100 Armor, a walking tank.
>150 MOV, as quick as a fighter jet.
>350 EN, enough to use all his guns several times over.

And that doesn't count the Sanchiki Zanbatetsu, the most powerful blade forge by master Rikimaru Sanbetsu. Easily dishes out 7800 damage, force field pierce. Rocketto Panchi, Eye Beamu, and Omega Brasta for a versatile kit.

In the hands of a pilot with Nekketsu, like Burrito-kun, the Sanchiki Gurungurasta knows no rival.

File: Martian_head_hologram.png (841KB, 1436x1080px) Image search: [Google]

841KB, 1436x1080px

Because it's cooooooool.

>>386578205
Mechs are taller, and this has several advantages:

>They can check above buildings.
>They have a better shooting angle, allowing for better range.
>The guns they use are bigger, therefore stronger.
>They can prime grenades with fingers and throw them.

And so on.

>>386578205
>Why would anyone bother
As the last thread made abundantly clear, autism.

>>386578205
>>386578205
Fuck you.

File: 1485803703423.webm (3MB, 852x480px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 852x480px

A mech carrying an autocannon peeking around the corner of a building beats a tank any day. Try turning the main turret without bumping into something.
Furthermore, a mech could aim directly above it to counterattack any ambushing infantry that may be waiting inside a tall building, unlike a tank with its limited vertical turret axis.
A mech could easily improvise in providing cover to its supporting infantry, such as pushing or leveraging a car from the ground and using it as a makeshift shield against incoming smallarms fire.
A mech could grab and raise supporting infantry to higher levels so they could enter a building from a window rather than the obvious front/back door. Same goes to helping them out of the building.
A mech could easily step over any sort of obstacle that would otherwise stop a tank without needing any support, such as Czech hedgehogs and the like.
All of this assuming said mech is properly design to fit in a urban environment.
Among other good examples.

>>386579264
i think mechs are cooler than tanks by far
but if we have technology capable of that, tanks would be far more evolved than what they currently are and would probably have workarounds for everything you listed
that is if such technology existed

>>386578691
how big are these fucking mechs? 10ft or 20 metres? in the last thread they were all over the fucking place with weight and height.

And here's a novelty thought for ya, how about instead of parking a bipedal tank behind a building where its engines will give it away because of heat and noise we use...wait for it...Anti-armour soldiers. Fucking crazy idea amirite?


>>386579079
Jimmies confirmed rustled.


>>386579264
You know what can also peek around corners? Ordinary soldiers armed with rocket launchers that have a tiny profile and don't make that much noise compared to -oh say, a large walking tank.

Furthermore infantry can also fire back at their ambushers in a tall building, they even have a load of ways to counter. From storming the building to calling down fire support like artillery or *GASP* tanks!

A tank IS cover for infantry when against small arms fire, unlike a mech that apparently has to use cars instead of its super advanced body.

Alright you got me on that one, that does sound useful. However again, why need a multi million dollar giant mech when soldiers can use ladders to climb and ropes to repel and climb up? A flash grenade or a grenade through a window would also render the enemy behind it incapacitated.

Soldiers can walk past tank traps and the like easily too, even removing them to allow their tank support to follow.

I would assume so since it would be a fucking investment and a half by the military m8, though why bother with such a thing when soldiers and tanks already accomplish the situations mechs are supposedly have the advantage for.

>>386581718
>Furthermore infantry can also fire back at their ambushers in a tall building
And? A mech could easily aid them in it.

>A tank IS cover for infantry when against small arms fire
Enjoy getting pinned down behind your tank and being subsequently showered in explosives because you're all bunched up.

>why need a multi million dollar giant mech when soldiers can use ladders to climb and ropes to repel and climb up?
The enemy could be expecting ropes/stairs breaching. A mech could shoot the rooms and everyone in them apart through the window before safely dropping infantry in it.

>A flash grenade or a grenade through a window would also render the enemy behind it incapacitated.
That won't stop their fatal funnel and/or traps set up near the door.

>Soldiers can walk past tank traps and the like easily too
The mech wouldn't need to stop and wait until they removed them though. It could push onward while they clear the mines.

>it would be a fucking investment and a half by the military m8
Military funding is infinite m9.

>why bother with such a thing when soldiers and tanks already accomplish the situations mechs are supposedly have the advantage for.
Because when conflicts break out and people start to realize cities are the most valuable territory to conquer, they'll have to revolutionize urban combat. Tanks won't cut it with all the flaws I've listed. Cities are death traps for them.

what a great and totally not gay thread, OP. you must be an expert in military technology from the look of it.

>>386578312
This. I'd like to see a tank stand up to Dr. Hell's army of mechanical beasts.

>>386579079
fuck you metal man

Go on /k/ and ask this question and you'll get better answers. Mechs are useless in combat compared to a tank because any environment a tank cant get into mechs usually can't either, and in real life attack helicopters are what go into those environments. Mechs technologically are also harder to maintain, because you're never gonna be able to protect them as well as a tank without adding a bunch of other shit.

File: 1497380529018.jpg (190KB, 900x1200px) Image search: [Google]

190KB, 900x1200px

>>386579264
In games, yes, but there is no way that people aren't crushed by the mech's feet when they're operating so closely.

File: 10.jpg (70KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

70KB, 1280x720px

>"solve the weight issue by pulling a karate pose"

Teeeen...

>>386583117
Just stay a few feet back when on the mech?

>>386583092
There's nothing a mech can do that the current modern military already does and much better without such a heavy cost.

>>386583257
Cringe

>>386583308
look cool?

File: 1501090995552.jpg (74KB, 428x807px) Image search: [Google]

74KB, 428x807px

>>386583117
Not trying to derail the thread, but I need more.

Mecha have a maneuverability and versatility advantage in a setting where you can justify their ability to operate (sci-fi/magic)

Of course in the real world mecha aren't practical.

File: canvas.png (2MB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 1280x720px

>>386583502

>>386583381
They both look cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6QU2i6-BQc

File: 1377070498690.jpg (1MB, 2720x1850px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2720x1850px

>>386578205
>muh realism
Mechanical monstrosities shit all over your concept of anti-fun, anti-cool

>>386582563

>And? A mech could easily aid them in it.
So can a tank, an APC, an airstrike, a helicopter and artillery. Or all of them, that's the magic of modern armies, they are quite versatile.

>Enjoy getting pinned down behind your tank and being subsequently showered in explosives because you're all bunched up.
Yes because tanks have NO WAY of firing back and are immobile, its not like they have mounted MSGs, LMGs and a big fuck off canon or anything to counter the small arms fire. Its not like they can be used as mobile cover so soldiers can move away from hotzones. No no no, such situations can only be solved by mechas, not modern tech we have today.

>The enemy could be expecting ropes/stairs breaching. A mech could shoot the rooms and everyone in them apart through the window before safely dropping infantry in it.
And the enemy -won't- be expecting a large fuck off mech because why? We're living in the future where mechs are established so why wouldn't the enemies be expecting mechs?...And once again, a tank can do the same job.

>That won't stop their fatal funnel and/or traps set up near the door.
But a tanks explosive shell into the room will.

>Military funding is infinite m9.
Even the military with its retardedly deep funding has given up on plenty of projects in the past m8o.

>Because when conflicts break out and people start to realize cities are the most valuable territory to conquer, they'll have to revolutionize urban combat. Tanks won't cut it with all the flaws I've listed. Cities are death traps for them.
Start to? Military analysts worth their chops or anyone with common sense know that cities are valuable. And why -have- to? Modern militaries already have a plethora of strategies to take over cities and plans for occupation. No god damn ridiculous mecha required. Cities are death traps for tanks, same goes for your precious mechs. Leave the city fighting to infantry and light vehicles, not giant walking targets running on magic fairy dust.

>>386578205
>Tanks have speed, mobility and firepower
>Humans and mechs realistically cannot
Lmao bipedal fags BTFO, treaded master race WW@.

>>386582563
>I don't know anything about tactics or military logistics the post.

>>386585168
>Tanks have speed, mobility and firepower
Yes
>Humans and mechs realistically cannot
Humans can and do, mechs not realistically.

>>386586342
Human certainly do not have any of those three comparable to a tank.

>>386586958
No they don't but they can still fufill many of the roles proposed for a mech. Manpads and portable explosives fill a lot of these roles.

File: 1468444637660.png (56KB, 491x585px) Image search: [Google]

56KB, 491x585px

If tanks are superior to giant robots, than where is the Super Tank genre? What is the Mazinger Z of Tanks?
Mechfriends 1, Tankfags 0

>>386578691
> Mechs are taller, and this has several advantages
> taller
> advantage
Stopped reading
Closed the thread
Crashed 4chan
Set fire to the server room