OT: LAND WALKER -Japanese Robot suit-

[Renegade 13]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
...I thought that was 'dreaded by many'?

That too.

[Parasite]

Yep, Geek below.

[PvK]

There's a more impressive walking system video on the same site, showing a guy being taken down stairs on a chair. Shifts balance from one "foot" to the other. A bit slow, and I think I'd want to be ready to jump out, but pretty fun to watch.

I still think walking tanks ("mechs") seem like a sci-fi tech which creates many more problems than it solves... it doesn't seem likely to me that it'd ever be a combat-efficient system. This demo video kinda helps illustrate that - "look, I'm precariously up in the air, struggling not to fall over, and a conspicuous target to everyone around me!"

I do wonder what the passing drivers were thinking!

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

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[narf poit chez BOOM]

@Jack: Yeah, but all of that is more than counter-balanced, in my opinion, by it being a big, huge target. However, I think miniture giant robots might work - Anywhere from ten to twenty feet.

However, giant robots measured in tens of meters are a bad idea, in my opinion.

[dogscoff]

Mechas would be good for crowd control. They would be *extremely* intimidating to lightly-armed riotous mobs, (unless of course they pulled a Skywalker and tangled the legs up with wire=-) and their height would be an advantage, enabling the pilot to see the entire crowd and not just the front line.

*Stomp* *stomp* *squish* *squish*

[PvK]

A rioting populace is only intimidated by armored vehicles until they get cheaply taken out by some improvised device or cheap portable anti-vehicle weapon, like the equivalent of 20th Century bazookas, RPG's, etc.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

To take out a mech, you don't need firepower - What you need is a rocket designed to push it over. Gravity will do the rest.