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Kraken
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 Posted: 02-Sep-2012 08:12 Post subject: Hands? |
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This is something of a pet peeve of mine.
The other day I got to looking through the 3067, which has all of the mechs that were designed for MW4. Most of them have lower arm actuators, but no hands; instead, no matter how small the weapon (such as a single machine gun), their arm ends in a gun barrel.
IMHO, if a mech has a lower arm actuator, why not go ahead and give it a hand actuator if there are enough critical slots available?
I can understand only having the shoulder and upper-arm actuators, as that would allow a mech to rotate its arms around and fire to the rear.
But I don't see any tactical advantage to having lower arms without hands.
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chihawk
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| Posted: 02-Sep-2012 08:35 Post subject: Re: Hands? |
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| Kraken wrote: | | But I don't see any tactical advantage to having lower arms without hands. |
We've had this discussion at a few Battletech games and everyone generally agrees with this...it's OK to have some without hands for "flavor" reasons, but for the most part every mech should have them as a default.
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Sleeping Dragon
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| Posted: 03-Sep-2012 13:52 Post subject: Hands? |
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You get +2 cool for big guns 8)
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Rudel Gurken
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| Posted: 07-Oct-2012 06:09 Post subject: Hands? |
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I too think it's for the cool look.
It depends on the designer and his preference.
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Ozzy McKinnen
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| Posted: 10-Oct-2012 16:53 Post subject: Hands? |
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Some design works seem to regularly employ nutcases.
Or perhaps hands went out of fashion, wait a couple decades and they're back again! 8)
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