Chris Campbell wrote:
If they have a shield that will defend against weapon emplacements
you're pretty much boned. No way small craft will help you there, no
matter what Star Wars says.
I was thinking more smaller craft to get close, inside the shield
itself, to manage an attack.
For capture, you do a boarding action with a real ship and then use
small craft as needed during the boarding process. Probably not
necessary, though, since no one's going to be packing heavy ordinance
inside a ship anyway.
Where do you get that idea? I would think that power projection would
translate from surface ships to space ships. This of course assumes
multiple targets out in space to project power to, Moon and Mars
colonies, orbiting colonies, etc.
There's a leap of logic when it comes to using the mechs for space
combat, though. There's just no point to arming the things, ever.
Hell, even if you use them for boarding actions you still won't arm
them with anti-ship weaponry, since there's no point. Just give them
what they need to get onboard.
I could see the point in the event that the ferrying ship(s) are
attacked and are either forced to leave or get destroyed. Where's the
protection then? Sure, maybe one or two rounds per mech for defense but
it would be like bazookas against tanks for infantry, not great but
better than just standing there wishing your tanks hadn't been wiped out
as the enemy tanks approach.
I can. Anything a mech can do a jet can do better. Mechs will have
their place, but it won't be in space (or rather, not when it comes to
combat; if you're talking construction or such, rock on). Someone
might strap weapons to a mech if it's all that was available, but once
he gains access to real military hardware he'll drop the mech in a hurry.
I am assuming a great deal when I defend the idea, of course. I'm
assuming sufficient power (so it doesn't turn into Robot Jox half hour
to make a move), stronger mechanisms for moving limbs so they would be
the scaled up equivalent of UFC combatants vs. present-day cranes with
hands at the ends, faster/more powerful computers to run all the crap
necessary to make mechs commonplace.
I agree that the odds are slim that it could happen, all the events
would unfold such that at the end of it you have mechs and those mechs
are considered not only viable for construction and what not but
convertible to weapons platforms. My point is there's nothing I can see
that would make that impossible or definitely not happen.
I think the key would be the piloting interface. If the pilot can be
hooked in such that all his basic human movements and reactions could be
scaled up to a limbed mech *then* I think it would be far better than
the controls you have for a jet or helicopter or tank. You wouldn't
have to translate anything to throttles or levers, you'd just decide
that you had to turn around and aim, just as if you were scrambling
around in a paintball game, and the mech would do the same thing and
out-react other machines, it would be like wearing massive powered body
armor. Big if.
Alfred.
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