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That Time I Became A Dictator Of A Small Asian Communist Nation

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Kinda wanna expand upon the point of mounting too much realism on a mech. It doesnt really work very well. I mean, a bit of realism is nice, but mechs dont even work practically in real life.

It also kinda saps the fun out of it. And a lot of the fun in something like battletech is that people dont look too closely on the details. Theyre too distracted by big stompy robots, which actually IS fun.

And the idea of mechs being era defining... its because theyre mechs. Kinda hard to beat the sight of reality-defying, big stompy robots as something to define a new era.

The realism works well on conventional vehicles like planes or tanks. Mechs... ehhh.

Imagine beholding the sight of a robot the size of a (admittedly small) building one day, then they unveil something more like upsized power armor.

Carcer said:
I'm re-re-reading the quest and I was wondering, once we've finished reading it, can we publish our father's diary?
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Might be nice for a mech historical museum. Something for the future and whatnot.
 
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Carcer said:
I'm re-re-reading the quest and I was wondering, once we've finished reading it, can we publish our father's diary?
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You've already put a sanitized version of it into a museum.
CyberFemme said:
to keep dirt and dust out of the joints.
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FYI, I don't really track stuff like this beyond throw-away lines, stuff like that is far too small for me to keep track of. It does make for good fluff though!
abominable said:
Reading about realistic alt timeline America is depressing enough. Fuck realism.
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Don't worry...it gets worse.
*Screams atop a local hill during a mildly warm evening with light cloud cover at the US finally rolling above an 15...by rolling a 20.*
 
HeroCooky said:
Don't worry...it gets worse.
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In this case, I hope we get funpanzer and not realpanzer. :(

I wanna play and have fun with unrealistic mechs, not get depressed over glorified power armor burdened by realism.

You could really make a joke out of it tbh.

Kid: Mom, I want Iron Tiger!
Mom: We have Iron Tiger at home.
Iron Tiger at Home: *Iron Tabby noises
 
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i think theres a conundrum in the choice that people arent really addressing. the iron tabby is basically the solutions to todays problems meanwhile the steel leopard is the solution to a possible tomorrows war, in the sense that the iron tabby could be seemlessly integrated into our OOB without major shifts in our doctrine and work very effectively while the steel leopard is a jump akin to the creation of super heavy tanks whose only real purpose would be combat with heavily mechanized troops(pardon the pun).

so i guess what im trying to say is who are we trying to fight against?, because it seems to me that if we are only fighting proxy wars, revolutions, counterinsurgency operations and wars against minor and regional powers, the iron tabby will serve us in a much better capacity. meanwhile having given the T1 to the USSR means that its only a matter of time until one of uncles sam's alphabet letter soup agencies manages to steal one and reverse engineer them, so long term inter mecha conflict seems inevitable.(unless we win a diplo victory so devastating that we bring the americans/the western world into the fold peacefully.)

as a side note, while i abolutely apreciate the idea of just upgunning our mechs to all hell and ride into the horizon in a glorious ball of explosions, there is something to be said about overkill. so i wholeheartedly approve of the decision to kill off the development of the thunderfire.

personally i would like to choose the iron tabby for production and use while continuing to develop the steel leopard platform(as the basis for an eventual T3)

[x] Iron Tabby
 
GoukaRyuu said:
Oof, America falls on the Bicentennial?
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I honestly don't know that much about the celebration, but the events during 1976 ITTL weren't that bad in the grand scheme of things. It, at the very least, led to the greatest song of all time getting the recognition it deserved.
abominable said:
Mmm. AIDS?
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The GISS and social policies ensured that, while it exists now, it isn't pandemic levels of "generation of homosexuals gone" as in the US in the coming years/decades.
 
The point about us designing a mech for a specific set of requirements is a good one. We're not aiming to fight a peer war anytime soon, so why would we build mechs geared towards that?
 
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Yeah, I gotta say the realism thing feels like a huge waste of time to me. I'm not gonna say that's never something worth doing, but like, we picked mechs from a series of impossible options including anti-gravity I see no reason to treat this as possible at all. I get that when anybody knows a lot about things it gets frusturating when it's portrayed wrong, but for mechs the absurdity of it is part of the fun. If we had got the anti-grav tech I wouldn't be a fan of people trying to figure out the maximum mass or whatever in the same way, we have long since entered the realm of absurdity, realism for its own sake has little place here.
 
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