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<blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 9301003" data-attributes="member: 28487">Ok, I had a quick look to refresh my memory and mechs are huge, house size or larger in height. They can be seen from 10's of kilometres away.This makes them vulnerable to direct artillery fire from cover to the area that they are moving in.They weight in the same range as tanks but that load is all on the feet. I doubt that they could manoeuvre on most surfaces. The soil would not take the weight.They are fundamentally unstable, so are humans but it is worse for a mech and they are very vulnerable to trip effects and land mines targeting the feet and ankles. This also makes for more complex maintenance and logistics.These are my principle objections to mechs. The big one is size and it has gotten worse over time. We have drones that are hard to spot and could spot mechs moving from tens of kilometres away. Once they can establish range and movement vector, just call-in artillery from out of line of sight to the mechs and bomb the area until there are no more mechs.I will add that if they are generating that much em from their shield then use that em as guidance or method of location.Are you saying that the mechs are effectively in a hamster ball of shielding and are stepping on that to move?If the mech is moving by putting weight on the forward edge of the shields could not a wheeled vehicle not do something similar?How does the mech shoot through its own shields?Can the shields be shaped to work as a ground effect vehicle?All that said, had wave it away and play with mechs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UngainlyTitan, post: 9301003, member: 28487"] Ok, I had a quick look to refresh my memory and mechs are huge, house size or larger in height. They can be seen from 10's of kilometres away. This makes them vulnerable to direct artillery fire from cover to the area that they are moving in. They weight in the same range as tanks but that load is all on the feet. I doubt that they could manoeuvre on most surfaces. The soil would not take the weight. They are fundamentally unstable, so are humans but it is worse for a mech and they are very vulnerable to trip effects and land mines targeting the feet and ankles. This also makes for more complex maintenance and logistics. These are my principle objections to mechs. The big one is size and it has gotten worse over time. We have drones that are hard to spot and could spot mechs moving from tens of kilometres away. Once they can establish range and movement vector, just call-in artillery from out of line of sight to the mechs and bomb the area until there are no more mechs. I will add that if they are generating that much em from their shield then use that em as guidance or method of location. Are you saying that the mechs are effectively in a hamster ball of shielding and are stepping on that to move? If the mech is moving by putting weight on the forward edge of the shields could not a wheeled vehicle not do something similar? How does the mech shoot through its own shields? Can the shields be shaped to work as a ground effect vehicle? All that said, had wave it away and play with mechs. [/QUOTE]

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