Timeline for Advantages of "Spider Mechs" over Tanks?
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| May 16, 2018 at 15:56 | comment | added | MissMonicaE | This reminds me of a book I once read on the battle for Stalingrad, which claimed that the beautifully-engineered German tanks were way more of a liability than the Soviet tanks, which were basically just giant tin cans with treads and guns, and therefore much easier to repair. | |
| May 15, 2018 at 11:35 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | Think of the fun of trying to keep sand out of those joints. "All right, sarge, let's saddle up!" "Ehhh...no can do, captain. The hip joints on legs 2 and 4 are locked up again, the knees on 1, 3, and 7 are shot, the ankles on 2, 6, and 8 are wasted...and I've got this pain in the diodes all down my right side...sir..." "<grumble-grumble> ...tank! <grumble-grumble>" | |
| May 14, 2018 at 11:35 | comment | added | jean | In addition humans don't like rough terain and shock/strategic points will be usually build in moreless plain terrain and most of time serviceable by roads. If the position is in high ground even your spider mech battalion will get a hard time climbing under fire. A probable cheaper and more efficient way to attack the position is by air. For a good mech scifi world see here | |
| May 14, 2018 at 9:48 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | Maintenance would be a pain in the posterior actuators for sure. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 3:51 | history | answered | StephenG - Help Ukraine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |