Chris Campbell wrote:
And how would they manage this? It's a shield. You can't just wander
on through it if you have a small craft.
I was assuming some type of shield that was good against line-of-site
energy weapons but couldn't really stop something physical like a
fighter or mech from coming through. If it could then all bets are off,
obviously.
*Inside* a ship. No one who wants to keep their ship intact will use
heavy ordinance inside of it. Doing so would be suicidal.
Ah, my bad. But would not a dozen armed mechs attacking a ship pose a
harder defense problem for that ship than one enemy ship with the same
total amount of weapons as the dozen mechs? I mean, a dozen targets
englobing it vs. one target firing at it from only one direction? And
then, since they're mechs, they can also perform the boarding
party/capture portion of the operation, something a large ship or
fighter squadron might not be able to do so well.
Sure. It's plausible as a desperation move, but nobody's gonna do it
as a matter of SOP. There are just better ways to get the job done.
I understand that in terms of now. But it's too easy for circumstances
to change enough in general for a once stupid idea to become the obvious
first choice. Not saying that it's a given with armed mechs in space
but I won't write it off yet until I'm hearing about pitched battles in
space that don't need mechs.
And when you have all of that virtually anything other than a humanoid
design will perform better.
In multiple roles? An all in one Swiss Army knife sort of mech that can
perform all the functions of a fighter, tank and large powered armor? I
agree, you're probably right but given the assumptions I've proposed,
where a mech would no longer be the slow, awkward cousin of a fighter or
tank, I don't see why it would be such an obviously stupid choice. Now,
certainly. But not if all the Ifs are satisfied, a single machine that
can work in vacuum and on land in atmosphere, fly, run, fight.
I can, namely the fact that anything you can do with a mech (in
combat, mind) can be done better by something else.
Some*things* else, yes. Fighters + tanks + helicopters = mechs
(assuming the ability to make a practical Gundam or Dom, which is far
from certain). But if you could have one machine handle the roles of 3
machines at once, why not? Assuming it could be built, of course.
Powered body armor is one thing. I can definitely see that happening
(something like the marines in Starcraft). But there's a pretty big
gap between that and bona-fide mecha.
But when does impossible bullshit kick in? How big does the body armor
have to get before it becomes, based on your analysis, useless or
idiotic? Double the size of a person? 4 times? 8? Madox-01 or
Gasaraki or Macross?
Alfred.
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