"Would You Like to Pilot a Real Mech?" Topic

Assuming for the moment that your machine would not sink into the ground, would you like to pilot an actual mech from your favorite game, movie, or show?

Yes
No
Maybe
No opinion
What's a mech?

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Yes for me! I'd love to pilot a Mad Cat. The bomber-like cockpit, lots of shooty missiles, big guns, fast. It's the quintessential B'tech mech for me.

Yes, but I know that I would just be a missile magnet!

No! would rather be an Aerotech pilot!

Sure, as long as no one was shooting at me with armor-defeating rounds, or my armor was impervious to them.

Otherwise, not so much.

No.

Hell ya! I second a Mad Cat.

No…it's a giant deathtrap that cannot really hide. I think Dirtside had the right of it. You might as well paint a big target on the front. A transparent cockpit? Really?

They are fun but impractical.

I have several hundred hours via Virtual World. A Loki configured as a Warhammer was always my favorite

Oh. Hell. Yeah.

"No! would rather be an Aerotech pilot!"

Why not go for the best of both worlds and go Veritech!
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yes

Not that I wouldn't, but if I have a choice I would rather be princeps of an Imperator-class titan.

Hatchetman model. the entire cockpit ejects.

Heck yeah! I love the Madcat!

Veritech: there is no substitute.

Pilot? Of course! Take into an actual live-round firefight? No freaking way!

Never understood the appeal of these big stompy robots. Dorky looking, and useless…

Yes, I'd like to pilot Mechagodzilla…

Battlemechs are too big, Gundams are worse.

Full Metal Panic's M9 Gernsback armslave (~8m tall, the 'Barrett' is a ~57mm high-velocity gun!)

Patlabor (6m tall)

Gasaraki's Type 17 Tactical Armor (pilot model is ~5' tall, TA is ~4m)

Or a Landmate (~3m tall).

The Landmate and Armslave are both master/slave controlled. Whatever the pilot can do, the mech can. This includes martial arts moves and anything that an infantryman might do (go prone, you name it). A landmate isn't any taller than an Abrams, and a TA is about the height of a Bradley.

I really can't imagine the motion sickness I'd get from all that rocking… my cockpit would've covered in puke.

Oh Hell Yeah!

I have a list of them I'd love to take for a spin.

The top four on the list:
VF-1
Tomahawk/Warhammer
Dictator 70
Gundam Heavy Arms

For me it would be the Highlander battle mech. 95tons of mech that was known for the "highlander burial" in which it would jump and literally drive lighter mechs into the ground.

Would love it. Either a Warhammer or a Marauder.

If I *had* to pick a Clan mech, it would be a Mad Cat.

I retract my earlier response. This is the definitive answer, the VF-14A Veri-Tomcat armed with an oversized French FAMAS-style bullpup rifle. Screw Battletech, Robotech rules!

I would go with either a veritech fighter (Airplane AND giant robot?! OKAY!) or I would go for any of the 'Gears' from Heavy gear. I played the heck out of the PC game and Love how they could go from top speed on their tracked feet to dodging behind cover in no time. Speed would be key for any mech I were to pilot!

The CG

Sod Battlemechs, I'm another vote for a Valkyrie (Veritech).

The reasons are obvious:

1. Bad guys are running round in Battlepods, and the kill tallies against those are measured in the dozens.

2. You get Kenny Loggan for your personal soundtrack.

3. No Heat Sinks to record.

4. As a Valkyrie pilot, you can have blue hair and glasses Harry Potter would be ashamed of, and STILL get the girl:

5. No Heat Sinks to record.

6. Valkyrie comes complete with machine guns capable of shooting something more than 90 metres away.

Alas, no love for the Scope Dog.

Anyone taking a close look at Japan these days?

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I put a vote in for Varitechs as well and offer love for the Scope Dog, which is probably the most feasibly of all the mechs mentioned.

Also offer love for a classic Gundam machine, the Zaku II. I don't care if it's slow, obsolete or useless against superior mechs. I will always love it in the role of an anti-battleship and on Earth, mobile artillery platform capable of wasting whole platoons of MBTs in the right hands.

I don't think other people would want me walking around in one, really. I can cause enough chaos tripping over my own feet. Tripping over five ton feet would be too much mess to clear up.

YouTube link I still miss MW4 mercs hopefully this will be with us soon

MAD CAT

I would like to try piloting one around I suppose. I would not want to take one to war.

I'd love to have a Scopedog, and all my mates have them as well. It would make the drive to work much more fun and if all my mates had them as well, we could REALLY get into roller-hockey :).

The other bonus is that they aren't too huge so are less of a missile magnet :)

Never understood the appeal of these big stompy robots. Dorky looking, and useless…

I have to agree with the mouse.
I can't think of anything sillier looking or so lacking in engineering plausibility.

Gundam, Escaflowne, Valkyrie, Galient, Xabungle, Orguss, Dragonar, Mazinger, Patlabor, VOTOMS, Gunbuster, landmates, etc.: yes!

Battletech mechs: gods, no!

Al | GIANT STOMPY ROBOTS

Landmates, absolutely. Firepower of a Brad, and I can run & duck? Heck, yes.

Yes. Any flavor will do.

Yes, of course… but none of those tiny, weak, and inferior "Real" robots…

Hotblooded Robot Pilots prefer Super Robots!

Supers are not constrained by trivial things like physics or engineering plausibility… they are made of Unobtainium and fueled by industrial grade PURE AWESOMENESS!

And yes, SIZE DOES MATTER!

You know, I completely forgot about doing some Scope-dog roller-hockey! The police would totally soil themselves if they had to pull over a mecha…

I have a second engineering project to do now… (First is to make a working Landmate 'costume' for anime cons)

No, I would like to pilot the deathstar! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

I'd totally pilot a mech. I prefer power armor or infantry walkers/protomechs/heavy PA suits, but I'll take a mech any day.

And yes, I realize that Dirtside probably has the right of it.

Pilot a mecha….
Hmmmm….

Hell yes. As long as it's like this

this

Or this

But if I have to go big and over the top, there is always this.

Nothing better than a one man battleship.

At least with the Invid mecha I'd command swarms of scouts and shocktroopers.

If that were possible,no.I'd rather be an eccentric billionaire.

NO.
It is the stupidest thing since the Panjandrum. Choosing a battlemech is like choosing a bullseye and choosing one of the anime mechs is like choosing to rip your own head off whilst trying to dodge a barrage of missiles which mysteriously miss and then don't try again… or maybe the problem is that they are unguided?
I am so over the mechs that rely exclusively on energy shields or other mysterious sources of invulnerability and the super robots being the only way they can be fought, when we can all see they shouldn't be able to even stand.
Particularly Gravion and Evangelion… Gravion being intolerably stupid didn't help either.
The only way around the inherent problem (ie you can't help but hit it unless it manages to dodge with G forces lethal to its pilot) is to reduce the thing to power suit size (landmates ok…) or have it function remotely like the moonbase VRRDS-controlled robots from Palladiums Mutants in Orbit.

@Ditto: Same problem with a mere mortal carrying a real Barrett. Stupid barrel is long enough that it's always in the way!

Armslaves are a bit big (and the show even acknowledges them as utterly improbable), but human flexibility and maneuverability with MBT firepower is really hard to ignore as a concept.

I'll take Mecha Godzilla.

…With a bad sound track.

@Lion: so are teleportation and FTL. Doesn't make the Enterprise any more viable.

Why does everyone have to inject current "reality" into the OP comment of "from your favorite show?" The question really presumes two things:

1) you like them in the first place (this lets our the meanie head naysayers)

and

2) you are gonna clearly be in a not-real life place such as your favorite show (this lets out the complaints about realism and feasibility).

Try to have some fun and suspend your disbelief. If you can't, maybe you should double check your facing colors for the War of Jenkin's Ear figures you just got.

Honestly… NO.

Ask me about a Savanna Master (the true king of the Battletech universe) I might have a different answer….