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TheDemonInEveryone
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Re: Mechs?
Posted: 18 Apr 08 1:42 AM
I think Mechs in the sense most people think of them at least in this series is a horrible horrible idea. What makes you think Mechs would fair any better then the Tanks in The Steel Gaunlet did? However, along the idea of mechs I could see an intresting idea as a Recon Drone/Sentry for the books involving the force recon or the books like #4 where Company L was by itself. A 3 legged mech that would deploy and sit real low to the ground, could be draped with a Chamoleon(Sp?) blanket or armor and be equiped with a small blaster to act as a sentry/ recon drone. Possibly as something to be dropped in with the force recon/Marines at a landing site to secure the landing site without force a fireteam or two to stay back and keep said site secured until additional troops followed. Just a Thought.. however, You would have to kinda Force them into the story as they are not really needed.
Skink
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Re: Mechs?
Posted: 18 Apr 08 6:39 AM
Hi I'm the Skink. Introduce yourself in the intro page. Don't worry about spelling the boys bug me about it 24/7
DavidS
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Re: Mechs?
Posted: 19 Apr 08 5:05 PM
Force Recon has its "minnies," little robots that skitter about gathering intelligence where full-size people can't go without being discovered.
Jep'ray
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Re: Mechs?
Posted: 20 Apr 08 12:26 PM
mini and mirco bots are the future... i've seen some of the plans and it will be interesting to see how much money they are willing to throw at it...btw love them minnies you guys used...as for mechs the only thing i can see becoming reality is powered armor, but then the enemy will simply get a bigger gun and we are back to square one again...
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Skink
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Re: Mechs?
Posted: 20 Apr 08 4:05 PM Modified By Skink  on 4/20/2008 4:08:09 PM)

I think within the next 50 years we will see less and less tanks and more APC's similar to the Strikers and Bradleys. Oh, I saw a minnie similar to what the Force Recon boys use on the military channel's show: "Weaponology"

http://military.discovery.com/technology/robots/about/about.html

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