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Mecha Design Quest

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[X] Call up Andrei with Workshop 1 and trade secrets. You're going to be spilling the beans on what the contests really entail, but knowing that canny old coot, he'll have something worth the cost.

I have a sense that our group is a bit tired at the moment. Maybe Andrei's found a trick or two in his efforts.
 
[X] Call up Andrei with Workshop 1 and trade secrets. You're going to be spilling the beans on what the contests really entail, but knowing that canny old coot, he'll have something worth the cost.

Just to check @7734 , but there is supposed to be a Phase 7 between our second Phase 6 and the current Phase 8 right? :p (Threadmarks can be so fun at times)
 
[X] Leave your mecha pilots in Brest to practice while you and most of the shop take your holiday. They need the stick time, and more importantly might be able to sneak some lessons to the potential pilots for the contest.
 
[X] Leave your mecha pilots in Brest to practice while you and most of the shop take your holiday. They need the stick time, and more importantly might be able to sneak some lessons to the potential pilots for the contest.
 
[x] Leave your mecha pilots in Brest to practice while you and most of the shop take your holiday. They need the stick time, and more importantly might be able to sneak some lessons to the potential pilots for the contest.


The problem with This, of course, is the chance of one of the pilots managing to wreck the thing when the shop crew aren't around to fix it up...
 
[X] Call up Andrei with Workshop 1 and trade secrets. You're going to be spilling the beans on what the contests really entail, but knowing that canny old coot, he'll have something worth the cost.
 
[X] Leave your mecha pilots in Brest to practice while you and most of the shop take your holiday. They need the stick time, and more importantly might be able to sneak some lessons to the potential pilots for the contest.

Edit: Based on personal experience in engineering completions, the team with the most practice time on the testing field is usually the winner.

Chargone said:
[x] Leave your mecha pilots in Brest to practice while you and most of the shop take your holiday. They need the stick time, and more importantly might be able to sneak some lessons to the potential pilots for the contest.


The problem with This, of course, is the chance of one of the pilots managing to wreck the thing when the shop crew aren't around to fix it up...
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So, normal operating conditions then. :V
 
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[X] Cut a week off the holiday, run home, and get 0-2 fitted over on 12Y spec instead of 12N spec so you can bring it too. Even if all it does is eat dirt in destructive testing, it still buys you some breathing room on the repair teams.

If our mechs are liable to get wrecked, then I'm for this.
 
7734 said:
This was already looking like a bad idea. The new 800-rated transmission was too big to package like the 675-rated transmission, so it had to actually go directly centerline in the tank. This, in turn, meant you'd need to angle the drive shaft to cut into the compartment in a very nasty slice, which then forced you to move everything around. The loader had to sit reverse to the travel of the mecha, the shell carriage had to be modified for this, the gas tankage had to massively be adjusted (there were now ceiling gas tanks, and you really weren't sure how to feel about that.) and a whole host of other very dumb fixes went to work.
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Called it, sort of.

Not a fan of the Andrei option, since that possibly means yet more re-engineering on our horrible frankenmecha, and right before the make-or-break testing is not the time to start adding more variables.
 
[X] Leave your mecha pilots in Brest to practice while you and most of the shop take your holiday. They need the stick time, and more importantly might be able to sneak some lessons to the potential pilots for the contest.
Winged_One² said:
The comments about this being a finicky mech are quite funny behind the curtain.
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So is that because 1. It's actually abnormally reliable, or 2. We've messed up and it's so finicky as to be a major flaw? Or is finicky-ness not even a major factor?
 
[X] Leave your mecha pilots in Brest to practice while you and most of the shop take your holiday. They need the stick time, and more importantly might be able to sneak some lessons to the potential pilots for the contest.
 
Derpmind said:
So is that because 1. It's actually abnormally reliable, or 2. We've messed up and it's so finicky as to be a major flaw? Or is finicky-ness not even a major factor?
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I don't actually know much about this one (because @7734 keeps notes locally and I and aim to minimize my exposure to his systems anyway also because I joined as a Foreign Mechs Guy).

Sure you got a probably too big gun and a lot of legs, but legs aren't major problem areas unless you overload them (or build a Doomchicken) and there will be many designs suffering from Too Much Gun.

We're not yet sure which of several ideas we'll run with for a few but trust me that one nation will probably establish the position of MC to take care of all the stuff that's going on.

An idea you're unable to preempt because you're playing France, nation of the one man turret. Of course, it may also be a bad idea in the first place.
 
[X] Leave your mecha pilots in Brest to practice while you and most of the shop take your holiday. They need the stick time, and more importantly might be able to sneak some lessons to the potential pilots for the contest.
 
Strunkriidiisk said:
Well fuck.

...on that note, would you be at all willing or able after this design contest to share how we most egregiously balls'd the design up? Or perhaps for the Fourmi? Could be interesting to see our "grade" as it were.
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No, that defeats the purpose of things.

thepsyborg said:
...They're not doing destructive testing last? What a weird choice.
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There's a reason they're asking for three prototypes.

Pyro Hawk said:
Just to check @7734 , but there is supposed to be a Phase 7 between our second Phase 6 and the current Phase 8 right? :p (Threadmarks can be so fun at times)
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[X] Leave your mecha pilots in Brest to practice while you and most of the shop take your holiday. They need the stick time, and more importantly might be able to sneak some lessons to the potential pilots for the contest.

Doomchicken the first from France. If it works, great, if it doesn't blame the idiot who wanted it bipedal. We could totally have made this into a quad and the guns would be so much safer.
 
7734 said:
No, that defeats the purpose of things.
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Fair enough.

Though, there is something digging at me. Back during the munitions vote, it was noted that the smaller cannon options compared to the French 75 (the montagne, etc) were too small to meet the requirements for explosive fill, yet they were options anyway. Was there going to be some way to manage those to bring them up to spec somehow, or were they just trap options?

7734 said:
Well yes, but then this would be, God forbid, British.
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Horrifying.
 
We could have made it hexapedal. That is apparently the traditional french way of mecha leg composition.
 
Strunkriidiisk said:
Fair enough.

Though, there is something digging at me. Back during the munitions vote, it was noted that the smaller cannon options compared to the French 75 (the montagne, etc) were too small to meet the requirements for explosive fill, yet they were options anyway. Was there going to be some way to manage those to bring them up to spec somehow, or were they just trap options?
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In theory there probably could have been, bulking up the chamber. But that's a pain in the ass for procurement. Using those fuck off big bombs might have been a valid way to go.

But that's also a shitload of boom to be hauling around. A decent compromise might have been the rockets.

However, overall I think in hindsight the problem of "750 g fill" plus biped is like; "Are you fucking smoking the happy sauce?"

Interested to see what this thing does in the trials. I'm kind of expecting both mechs to kind of shit themselves.
 
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