Yeah, but that objection applies to basically any weapon put in the heavy slot. (Unless Graviton Thruster Lances go right through really thick cover, I suppose.)
That sounds like a giant target begging to over extend into range of the enemies anti vehicle weapons.
considering "hit something with it and it might break the fancy imploder," and that they do much less damage even when they do work...
Sticking one on a speeder chassis could work. Personally I was hoping to stick a point singularity projector on a speeder, since that seems the like absolute maximum firepower that we could feasibly put on our fast attack, but for shoot and scoot artillery there's a lot to be said for having the fastest possible scooting so they would serve different purposes anyway. And I think the light grav-tank chassis costs around three times what the speeder chassis does at base, so we can't even save any significant EP by centralizing vehicle-scale guns instead of dispersing them between multiple vehicles, which speaks strongly in favor of dispersal.
you will have to work on making the tech more rugged before smacking it into things really hard repeatedly is really viable. there's only so much Wraithbone's inherent durability can do!
Simple elegant almost pretty and completely and utterly able to wreck your shit.
I don't think it's a trap option, I think it's 'these are dangerous but affordable melee weapons intended for shock troops that see brief but super high intensity combat'. Think Terminators teleporting in with assault cannons they can't possibly fire for very long and shoulder mounted missiles they can't replace or reload in combat. They might not be the incredible damage output of power mauls, but they're nearly half the cost.
Pretty much this. they're maintenance queens at present, and tend to break after moderately long periods of usage, but while they're working they're a darn sight better than just smacking something with a heavy weight on the end of a stick. and they're... not cheap, objectively, but cheap adjacent.
Yeah, once we get things like jump packs/infantry teleportation I can definitely see the appeal. They're just not objectively better than power mauls and that's fine.
Well, let's break it down. 450 needle carbines is 1800 EP. 100 heavy needlers is 1000 EP, and 50 Spike Cannons is 600 EP. Finally, 50 Starblaster Carbines is 400 EP and 100 Starcrystal.
If we want two star anvils we can build one this turn and build another next turn. One for fighting in general and in case Biel Tan has a titan or other super heavy, and a backup incase the first one bites it.
