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<blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4657383" data-attributes="member: 49613"><p>I dunno... that's more of the ol' 3025 charm to me. Military designs are rarely "perfect"... they have to work with what they've got. Maybe one Mech was designed on a world that has a good heavy equipment industry, so it's big and mounts a large autocannon, but it's slow as heck because they suck at building transmissions, and so on.</p><p></p><p>The Sherman was a great tank in WWII not because it had a good gun (it didn't) or good armor (it really didn't). It was a great tank because it was easy to drive, easy to repair and possible to produce in ridiculous numbers. In fact, they were so easy to repair that we could often repair and recrew a tank that had been knocked out and send it back to the front (you just had to give the insides a new coat of white paint to cover up all the blood of the previous unfortunates). That's a war-winner right there. As opposed to any number of ponderous German wonder tanks that had faulty transmissions and/or were so heavy that if one threw a tread it had to be abandoned and burned because there was no way to get it back to a depot... and were so difficult to produce that you couldn't have very many of them. Sometimes you can be better on paper but worse on the field.</p><p></p><p>A real ace makes do with what he has. The vaunted Michael Wittman had to put in plenty of time in a Sturmgeschutz before he ended up with his Tiger.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Korgoth, post: 4657383, member: 49613"] I dunno... that's more of the ol' 3025 charm to me. Military designs are rarely "perfect"... they have to work with what they've got. Maybe one Mech was designed on a world that has a good heavy equipment industry, so it's big and mounts a large autocannon, but it's slow as heck because they suck at building transmissions, and so on. The Sherman was a great tank in WWII not because it had a good gun (it didn't) or good armor (it really didn't). It was a great tank because it was easy to drive, easy to repair and possible to produce in ridiculous numbers. In fact, they were so easy to repair that we could often repair and recrew a tank that had been knocked out and send it back to the front (you just had to give the insides a new coat of white paint to cover up all the blood of the previous unfortunates). That's a war-winner right there. As opposed to any number of ponderous German wonder tanks that had faulty transmissions and/or were so heavy that if one threw a tread it had to be abandoned and burned because there was no way to get it back to a depot... and were so difficult to produce that you couldn't have very many of them. Sometimes you can be better on paper but worse on the field. A real ace makes do with what he has. The vaunted Michael Wittman had to put in plenty of time in a Sturmgeschutz before he ended up with his Tiger. [/QUOTE]
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