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Transposition, or: Ship Happens [Worm/Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio | Arpeggio of Blue Steel]

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You know, I wonder if Taylor has the same restriction as the other Fog ships. The one were they can't directly attack the land with her weapons. Or if since she is the only one there she simply doesn't
 
EiosChronos said:
You know, I wonder if Taylor has the same restriction as the other Fog ships. The one were they can't directly attack the land with her weapons. Or if since she is the only one there she simply doesn't
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She's an experimental model, she might not have the same restrictions. Her ability to use her Klien-Field armor plates as stepping stones is probably a result of that. She's already attacked land-based enemies (admittedly with her "mental model" equivalent).

And then there was the dragon fight....
 
EiosChronos said:
You know, I wonder if Taylor has the same restriction as the other Fog ships. The one were they can't directly attack the land with her weapons. Or if since she is the only one there she simply doesn't
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I'm pretty sure they can attack land-based targets, when Haruna has her breakdown she almost calls in a massive strike on Japan before the Admiralty Code calms her down. The Fog just doesn't attack targets on land because of how they are interpreting their orders.
 
In the anime, Gunzou questions Iona, the mental model of I-401 on this very subject. Her response is the Fog can't directly attack land targets per their orders, but collateral damage in attacking naval targets is acceptable. Haruna (in the manga) is, as you mentioned, undergoing a breakdown, and not thinking logically and rationally at that time. Despite attempts to not attack shore targets, Yokosuka gets hammered pretty hard.
 
Kryslin said:
In the anime, Gunzou questions Iona, the mental model of I-401 on this very subject. Her response is the Fog can't directly attack land targets per their orders, but collateral damage in attacking naval targets is acceptable. Haruna (in the manga) is, as you mentioned, undergoing a breakdown, and not thinking logically and rationally at that time. Despite attempts to not attack shore targets, Yokosuka gets hammered pretty hard.
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I bet mental models count as naval targets...
 
>Warship too big
Just do what the transformers do and have a semi truck rolling around. When the need arises, transform and boat out.
 
TheSentinelStone said:
I think that was called mass shifting, but it requires stupid amounts of power and was basically Megatron flexing back in G1 when he turned into a gun.
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He wasn't the only one capable either, Soundwave could, but he did it a lot more rarely. Maybe once in a blue moon, since I recall in Arrival From Cybertron, Soundwave mass shifted down to handheld for a human. I think the tape bots and Blaster might have been able to as well. There might have been a comic somewhere that had Laserbeak mass shifted to human scale after being injured or something. That said, Laserbeak had a lot less mass to shift going down that small than Soundwave or Megatron.
 
I'm pretty sure I've seen an aircraft carrier transformer somewhere. It might of been fan art though. Edit found it! Broadside Aircraft carrier and jet triple changer.
 
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Ghrathryn said:
He wasn't the only one capable either, Soundwave could, but he did it a lot more rarely. Maybe once in a blue moon, since I recall in Arrival From Cybertron, Soundwave mass shifted down to handheld for a human. I think the tape bots and Blaster might have been able to as well. There might have been a comic somewhere that had Laserbeak mass shifted to human scale after being injured or something. That said, Laserbeak had a lot less mass to shift going down that small than Soundwave or Megatron.
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Like I said it was incredibly power intensive, most Transformers just didn't have the resources to use it very often if the didn't have to, Soundwave only used it for infiltration missions not every time he transformed. Megatron just didn't care about the resource cost.
guy that exists said:
I'm pretty sure I've seen an aircraft carrier transformer somewhere. It might of been fan art though. Edit found it! Broadside Aircraft carrier and jet triple changer.
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There is a scene where he changes into his aircraft carrier form and just drops himself on top of Trypticon.
 
I'm just waiting for Taylor's ship form to be revealed, preferably at a time where she'll provider fire support.
 
What I'm hoping for is, if Leviathan still attacks Brockton Bay, for Taylor to perform a dramatic reveal of Wisconsin in time to tank the opening wave of Leviathan. After that, panic from Leviathan's opening shot AND a Battleship rising from the bay, everyone thinks the Wisconsin to be out of the fight, only for Taylor to unload 9 barrels of Fog tech augmented FREEDOM into Leviathan.

What does Leviathan do? Does it ignore the Parahumans to deal with a threat that can tank it's hits AND damage it, or does it focus on the Battleship and let the Parahuman's wear away at it?

Bonus if that image of a broadside firing Iowa-class with the caption "Keeping the Deep Ones deep since 1775" starts floating around the PHO boards.
 
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