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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 1665943" data-attributes="member: 2238">There are several assumptions I would make about mechs:1.  Their armor is somthing that is a lot tougher than anything we have today.2.  Their weapons are made to go through that armor.3.  Some can get up to 60mph in speed.  Some are faster some are slower.  4.  They are not limited by terrain.5.  Some even carry cruise missiles like the Arrow IV.So I would doubt that a modern Hellfire or TOW would be able to get through the armor, or would do very little damage.  We are talking about 21st C vs. 28th C.  Case in point the locust.  It is a machine that can cruise at 120kph+ (80mph).  If you are on the freeway going 60mph, this little bug can fly past you.  And he is running.  Stomp stomp stomp.  With grace and elegance.  With armor 50 times stronger* than anything we have on a tank today.  This is somthing modern weapons could not penetrate.  It is an ATV.  It can go underwater and into space.  Into forests and mountains.  If can fill the roles of infantry, armor, and support.  Sharing this last one with aircraft.  Thats a pretty spiffy weapon system, just in its versatility alone.  And we have not gotten to the actual shooting yet which is where the "real" 21st C tech and the made up 28th C tech have thier disjuctions.  It makes sense that a mech is primarily a "direct fire" weapon system, as most of the roles it fills are direct fire roles.  Direct fire is where the target is seen and aimed at from the gun.  So while the indirect long range never miss attack is accounted for (long toms and Arrow IVs), I guess the question is why do mechs miss in direct fire if they have the computing power to have really good targeting?  Why, if we can occasionally send a bomb down a vent, or drive cruise missiles down streets in the 21st C, can't Giant Multirole walkers in the 28th track each other worth a damn?  Why does the pilot even have to think about aiming?  These are all really good questions and one of the flaws in battletech as it stands.  But this will be reconciled and the questions will be answered in the next post *This is a number I am pulling out of my butt based on the relative tensile strengths of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes vs. Titanium.  Titanium weighs in at 900 MPa, almost 1 GPa.  SWCN weigh in at 63GPa at it highest recorded measurement.  I knock it down to 50 to be realisitic.  I would assume that such technology would be used to make mech armor.  Thus impenetrable by today's standards.  Aaron.</blockquote>

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