Timeline for Would tanks or small walkers be better for Lunar militaries?
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| Mar 14, 2018 at 12:54 | comment | added | Ruadhan | Moon dust doesn't tend to billow in clouds, it's more likely to cake. so in that regard a walker has the advantage as the surfaces getting covered in dust are all non-mechanical (excepting the ankle joints) however being tall in war is almost always a liability. it means you don't benefit from terrain-cover, it means you're a bigger target, and it means your stability becomes an issue, especially with recoil from cannons or impacts from explosions. Your big advantage is the vantage-point for firing weapons means you effectively bring your own high-ground to shoot down at your enemy from. | |
| Mar 13, 2018 at 17:19 | comment | added | skout | But the walkers are higher up. | |
| Mar 13, 2018 at 16:23 | comment | added | Ruadhan | Fewer external moving parts means you can protect the mechanisms far more easily. A tank has dozens of wheels and hundreds of interlocking linkages for the treads. A wheel'd vehicle has only the half-dozen wheels and their join to an otherwise sealed hull. Wheels are decidedly less exposed in this scenario. For the same reason, a walking machine with multiple articulated joints is going to have a lot of exposed mechanisms to jam, a lot of weak-points in combat, and simply won't be as fast in a straight line as a conventional vehicle of the same mass. | |
| Mar 12, 2018 at 20:16 | comment | added | skout | any wheeled vehicle would bring up dust to the insides just like treads. also "big powerful footsteps" aren't exactly the biggest problem, the point of walkers is so that your vehicle wouldn't die on the way to battle doing nothing other then traveling. | |
| Mar 12, 2018 at 13:20 | history | answered | Ruadhan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |