What would mechs look like using WW2 technology? What would they be armed with? Would they be crewed by a team? Would they have specialised roles like WW2 tanks did?
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>What would mechs look like using WW2 technology
They wouldn't be able to move under their own power or fire a single shell without toppling
>What would mechs look like using WW2 aesthetic
THEY WOULD LOOK SO GOOD
LOOK AT THIS SHIT
NOW STRAP LEGS AND ARMS TO THAT SHIT
NOW WATCH IT WERF SHIT
SO GOOD
>>13898493
>What would mechs look like using WW2 technology?
I don't think it'll be tech that affects how they look like, rather, I think its the general trial-and-error method that happened with tanks that would lead to all sorts of mecha design until they get something good.
>What would they be armed with?
Good ol' tank guns and the occasional howitzer?
>Would they be crewed by a team?
Possible.
>Would they have specialised roles like WW2 tanks did?
If you mean in terms of roles like AA and whatnot, sure.
But in terms of tank types(Light, Medium, Heavy, etc), the mechs would probably have something similar, until they dump the whole Heavy-Mech concept later because cost and effectiveness. Then there's the brits with their cruiser tank and infantry tank, then later the universal tank projects, which is pretty much MBTs.
>>13898493
Like this, tank cannons, yes, yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UuvwB4NvHk
>>13898511
And the same thing would happen in the naval theatre, except instead of transitioning from massive floating gun batteries to massive floating airfields, battleships would transition from massive floating gun batteries to massive floating catapult batteries that fling mechs at opposing ships.
Because it would look cool.
>>13898493
Which reminded me that I have to check out Gear Keirg and Dust.
Say what you want about the books, but Leviathan's mechs were pretty cool.
>>13898512
Oh, whoa. This game looks better than Front Mission games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsnVtEZIMR4
>>13898755
It's sort of like one, if every attack took five minutes to make. But the ponderous pace of the game kind of fits the clunkiness of the robots.
Soundtrack was good too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxLiNe52ytE&list=PLv-SzqmtNVdZE46T8stHKWh3oSVaDLLCl&index=2
https://mega.nz/#F!TJZABLIa!N3KXlxXcz5eD7mNRGNFKsw
You're welcome.
>>13899161
Added Volume 3.
I've only heard about this comic book on /co/. I personally find it incomprehensible that it has never been mentioned here before.
It's French, so it has all the sex and violence that the gringoes are too chicken to add.
>>13898737
Keith Thompson is a great artist.
>>13900945
>western trash
So, let's see: according to your logic, the best mecha-related cartoon/comic book/videogame is not allowed on /m/, whereas the worst mecha-related garbage is /m/, as long as it is made in Japan.
Am I correct?
>Nazi Mech
Top of the Line Mech with V2 Rockets strapped on. Unnecessarily big, complex, and absolutely gorgeous to look out.
>American Mech
Small, quick, cheap, and effective. 15 of them to every one nazi mech
>Japanese Mech
Has a sword for no real reason, and the cockpit protection is only a piece of glass. Every mech has a self destruct.
>>13900983
>german equipment looks good
never got this, they all look like boxes and shit.
>>13900926
Quick question: what's a good program to read these on?
>>13898493
They build mechs with WWII technology. They were called tanks and airplanes, they didn't have legs because mechanical walking is incredibly difficult to do and is inefficient as a means of propulsion.
Ever heard of a game called Ring of Red?
>>13898493
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn2hxyjZXO4
>>13900945
go fuck yourself
>>13901047
There's plenty of software. I personally use CDisplay, an archaic thing that hasn't had an update in over a decade, thanks to its developer passing away.
Apart from that one, there are plenty of options:
http://lifehacker.com/5858906/five-best-desktop-comic-book-readers
I honestly do not understand why manga/hentai releases use ZIP/RAR as standards instead of CBR/CBZ/CB7 like comic book releases.
>>13901297
>None of his works outside of Gundam look anywhere as inventive
Get fucked, imbecile. I'm tired of this trolling.
>>13901297
>insulting syd mead
literally and figuratively kill yourself my man
>>13901011
They look like menacing boxes.
The M4 was a working machine with minimal charm.
Soviet tanks were utterly terrible when it comes to crew comfort, but some of their stuff look good with their slope/curved armor.
The germans had tanks that were overengineered in some aspects, but the tanks, despite being boxes(The Tiger, for example), looked good.
The germans having boxes for tanks didn't stop american forces from screaming ITS A TIGEEEEEEER when they see german tanks.
>>13901499
>M4
>minimal charm
she curvy as fuck though
>>13901419
Alright, thanks.
>>13900926
I storytimed book one and two here once.
>>13900965
>western
>best mecha anything
Maybe getting sued in court, but that's it. Fuck off back to Battletech and your not Dougram and Macross miniatures, cunt.
>>13901278
>gundam with a moustache
>that'll show him
The only thing that got killed was your argument, fàm.
>>13901433
>le generic space colony wreckage
Looks like an insert for a children's book about space, straight out of the 70s.
>>13900945
Absolutely correct
>>13900945
See
>>13900959
>>13905477
See what
>>13905511
Keith Thompson ain't that shit. Don Figueroa ain't that shit. You can't point to battletech as an example of all western /m/ designeven tho I'm kinda doing the same by saying Keith is an example of good western /m/generalizing just makes you seem ignorant and dumb.
>>13898493
>What would mechs look like using WW2 technology?
Someyhing like stylized shirotanks.
>What would they be armed with?
Some light cannons and machine guns I guess. Also picrelated.
>Would they be crewed by a team?
2-3 people seems like the right choice (I can make up roles for them at least).
>Would they have specialised roles like WW2 tanks did?
Of course. Depending on their weapons, armor, speed, size and other specs. I'd love to watch a Stalingrad battle OVA with hundreds of Katyushas vs. some German supertanks.
>>13900983
>Small, quick, cheap, and effective. 15 of them to every one nazi mech
But the whole reason Merka triumphed over Japs in the pacific air war is because they built heavier, more expensive, more powerful, more complex machines that were superior in most ways to the Jap ones except for climbing ability, allowing their pilots to actually get home
The steel in the rear of the Grumman's cockpit literally saved lives
>>13898493
That would be fucking amazing to watch.
>>13906759
Sora No Woto had WW2 tech tanks.
>>13900945
>>13904876
Stop being fucking nigger spics.
this might be relevant, even if it's more WW1 overall;
http://trenchbreaker.tumblr.com/
>>13905995
Anon, the Germans lost the race for air dominance when all of their next gen projects that were supposed to cover the stretch until jet fighters could be actually put into use floundered and the Japanese quit the league early on.
>>13900983
>Top of the Line Mech with V2 Rockets strapped on.
You should look up the firing proceedures of a V2. The vids are on the tube. Afterwards come back and tell me how to bolt that to a robot.
>>13906799
I just realized those enemy mechs are Panthers with legs.
>>13901419
CBZ and CBR is literally just Zip and Rar with their file extensions renamed
>>13898500
Mein neger.
I bet they'd have a team of reloaders running in tow. Or some poor bastard would open a hatch behind the launchers in OP's image and slip new rockets into the tubes one by one while the commander and gunner took turns berating him for being too slow.
>>13908257
I don't think people understand how huge and incredibly unreliable V2s were.
