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Mecha Design Quest

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[X] Build a two-stage radiator with an external heat loop for the main heat sink

More weight sucks, but the engine has been such a massive problem point I don't think a halfway measure is going to work well enough. Besides, all the other scout mechs have to use the same awful engine as well; all we have to do is show up with a mech that doesn't spontaneously catch fire and we'll win the contest by default.
 
Derpmind said:
all we have to do is show up with a mech that doesn't spontaneously catch fire and we'll win the contest by default.
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Problem with that is if we make a working scout mech which doesnt catch fire but cannot beat all the others in terms of performance.

The others can have a mech blow itself up at the end of whatever test is done, and just sell the capabilities of it while assuring the military of patching up the prototype kinks.
 
[X] Build a through-body tunnel for airflow from port to starboard sides

Tanks in this era will be as cardboard as mechs. The armament will be 25-45 mm guns with a high rate of fire, so it will be enough for us to have a decent reservation from pistol cartridges from PP and partial reservation from rifle cartridges (that is, our height will give us blocks of declination sufficient for 5-12 mm steel to stop the rifle cartridge, even if a perfectly straight sheet would be pierced).

I've been thinking, looking at our passability, what about a field phone? I certainly understand that this is not the canon of SV quests, they immediately go to the radio, but in general, the presence of a car capable of moving through fields, craters, hills and forests will probably put a reel with a telephone cable on it to quickly connect the armed units with each other.

Weakened zones do not play a special role. In addition, for grenades and Molotov cocktails, we are banally quite high and fast. If we're immobilized, the car's already dead. I wouldn't worry too much about the armor, so the second option, which doesn't cause problems for the mechanics, would be useful.
 
[X] Build a through-body tunnel for airflow from port to starboard sides
 
Derpmind said:
Besides, all the other scout mechs have to use the same awful engine as well; all we have to do is show up with a mech that doesn't spontaneously catch fire and we'll win the contest by default.
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A bit of a tall order considering how fire-prone your mecha actually is.

TimEd said:
The others can have a mech blow itself up at the end of whatever test is done, and just sell the capabilities of it while assuring the military of patching up the prototype kinks.
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That depends entirely on the salesmanship involved and how liable any one given officer is impressed by what Cool Things assorted mecha can do.


Melifaro said:
I've been thinking, looking at our passability, what about a field phone? I certainly understand that this is not the canon of SV quests, they immediately go to the radio, but in general, the presence of a car capable of moving through fields, craters, hills and forests will probably put a reel with a telephone cable on it to quickly connect the armed units with each other.
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One, this is a reecee unit, not a field engineering unit. Two, and more importantly, you would have a ton and a half of cable weight per kilometer of cable. This is unsustainable next to a wireless telegraphy set.
 
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One, this is a reecee unit, not a field engineering unit. Two, and more importantly, you would have a ton and a half of cable weight per kilometer of cable. This is unsustainable next to a wireless telegraphy set.
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But this is not quite true. At least if we take the sources available to me at this time, then a cable with a cross section from 10 to 25 mm will weigh from 650 to 2000 kg. In this case, several kilometers of thin cable are unwound by hand, even without a machine except for storing the main reel.
At the same time, radio in this era is quite capricious for the need to constantly have a specialist dedicated only to setting up and working with equipment, as well as to have a large power source for radio stations.
Of course, the conversation is not about the offensive, but for the organization of defensive lines, the phone is clearly cheaper. If we are talking about installing poles for short distances, then the weight of the cable for 1 km drops to 120-160 kg. For underground storage, long distances, or the crossing of rivers and lakes, thicker ones were usually used.
 
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Melifaro said:
But this is not quite true. At least if we take the sources available to me at this time, then a cable with a cross section from 10 to 25 mm will weigh from 650 to 2000 kg. In this case, several kilometers of thin cable are unwound by hand, even without a machine except for storing the main reel.
At the same time, radio in this era is quite capricious for the need to constantly have a specialist dedicated only to setting up and working with equipment, as well as to have a large power source for radio stations.
Of course, the conversation is not about the offensive, but for the organization of defensive lines, the phone is clearly cheaper. If we are talking about installing poles for short distances, then the weight of the cable for 1 km drops to 120-160 kg. For underground storage, long distances, or the crossing of rivers and lakes, thicker ones were usually used.
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Eh. Flashlights are considered unreliable/strange electrical devices (I think the qm stated that as the reason why our mech doesn't have headlights), so tech here probably skewed more towards fossil fuels added with a dash of -punk to make the mechs in this dieselpunk possible.

In other words, just don't look too deep behind the curtains or you'll fall through the cracks.
 
TimEd said:
Eh. Flashlights are considered unreliable/strange electrical devices (I think the qm stated that as the reason why our mech doesn't have headlights), so tech here probably skewed more towards fossil fuels added with a dash of -punk to make the mechs in this dieselpunk possible.

In other words, just don't look too deep behind the curtains or you'll fall through the cracks.
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It makes sense. However, if you do not take questions about some things like the specific pressure on the ground, in general, the concept of a Mech as a unit for rough terrain (and for the 20s this is all that is not a road for a tank), this class of cars looks, well, not bad. I just thought about the fact that mechs as a technique are not so unified exclusively for shooting at the enemy, if you start thinking and thought about the possible options for engineering machines that we can get.
 
Melifaro said:
It makes sense. However, if you do not take questions about some things like the specific pressure on the ground, in general, the concept of a Mech as a unit for rough terrain (and for the 20s this is all that is not a road for a tank), this class of cars looks, well, not bad. I just thought about the fact that mechs as a technique are not so unified exclusively for shooting at the enemy, if you start thinking and thought about the possible options for engineering machines that we can get.
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We need the military to give us the funds (through them agreeing to our prototype) to be flexible enough to explore whatever option we fancy first though.

And even then, war mechs just seem like it would be more fun t design, especially with the coming troubles we know are coming.
 
[X] Build a through-body tunnel for airflow from port to starboard sides.

What is engineering, but a miserable pile of compromises
 
[X] Build a through-body tunnel for airflow from port to starboard sides
agreed we cannot afford the weight, also side armor? Pfffffft who needs that on a scout?
 
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[X] Build a through-body tunnel for airflow from port to starboard sides

Debris ingestion is bad, and we can ill afford adding the weight and extra complications of engineering for the heat sink system. Ergo, a port and starboard tunnel it is.
 
[X] Build a through-body tunnel for airflow from the dorsal to ventral sides.

I think the top and bottom are where the current weak points are, and slightly likely to be fired upon by squads without anti-mecha weapons than the sides. Vertical makes it easier on the firewall too. There's a tradeoff of forgoing extra cooling elsewhere, but I have a feeling engine cooling will still be the main limit.

Pity the crew that gets to de-muck the air filter tho :V
 
Still find the idea of a mecha scout to be fairly silly. More like recon mecha, there no way nobody not going to notice the multi ton stompy thing trying too "sneak" around.
 
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