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[Dannyalcatraz]

While 100-foot tall battlemechs are, realistically speaking, "artillery practice", 7 to 10 meter-tall battlemechs are rather more practical for the following reasons:

1) Broken and hilly terrain. I am given to understand that tanks, and tankers, hate broken and hilly terrain.
2) Changing the load-out for a tank is generally either impossible, very difficult, or only trivial changes are possible. Changing the loud-out for a battlemech is, theoretically at least, no more difficult than changing the loud-out for an infantry soldier.
3) At 7-10 meters, a battlemech would not be much less "stealthy" than a tank, and can, theoretically, take the same sorts of obscured positions as infantry soldiers.
4) Hands can be surprisingly useful.
5) Grenades and other thrown bombs. Tanks are generally not also "instant mortar platforms".
6) Theoretically, at least, a brain-machine interface or more mechanical interface makes it difficult to create a more intuitive and easy-to-understand interfacecontrol scheme.

Given your opening about the impracticality of 100’ tall mecha, don’t you mean 7-10 “feet” tall as opposed to “meters”? A.K.A. “2-3” meters?

 

[Random Bystander]

Given your opening about the impracticality of 100’ tall mecha, don’t you mean 7-10 “feet” tall as opposed to “meters”? A.K.A. “2-3” meters?

I have no idea why you are pointing out my mischievous desire to trip people up with different measurement systems.

 

[megamania]

I can’t imagine it would be. What’s your goal?

I enjoyed Torg and wanted a change from Eberron. Unfortunately, half of my players refuse to do anything but 3.5.

sigh

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I feel your pain. I mean, I love 3.5Ed- it’s my favorite iteration of D&D- but there are other great games out there.

And the group I’ve been in since 1998 (don’t know if we’re still a legit group) played D&D almost exclusively.

 

[Scott DeWar]

I feel your pain. I mean, I love 3.5Ed- it’s my favorite iteration of D&D- but there are other great games out there.

And the group I’ve been in since 1998 (don’t know if we’re still a legit group) played D&D almost exclusively.

Like Pathfinder

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Yeah, I liked a lot of the 3.5 cousins, and planned to make a massive cross-rules homebrew, cherry picking my favorite elements. But along the way, I kinda lost the spark. I had plans, but didn’t want to flesh them out...and some worked better in non-D&D rulesets. I wanted to play other games...in other genres.

Then my group went on a poker kick.

I enjoy poker, but I don’t take it as seriously as these guys do. I mean, you’ll probably never see any of them on the WPT, but they do often vacation with their families at casinos and play well enough to break even or come out ahead. I mean, covering ALL of their expenses for travel, lodging, etc.

The funniest thing is, I am not a good poker player. But as good as they are, when I play them when I’m drinking, they can’t read me as well, and I come out ahead. It’s uncanny.

 

[trappedslider]

So this is a thing or was

I know Apple's T&C includes "You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture, or production of nuclear, missile, or chemical or biological weapons."

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Well, I’m screwed, then.

 

[ArchfiendBobbie]

Eh, souls are overrated. I've got, like, 20 of them.

 

[Random Bystander]

...Er. If one should perhaps have signed that Apple license, and perchance have a spare Death Star lying around...?