Klobbersaurus414 Posted August 4, 2001 Share Posted August 4, 2001 The minotauruses are annoyingly slow because they have legs instead of wheels. Having legs does no good if youre just walking on sand. If they had wheels they would go twice as fast and cost less. (Hydroulic legs are much more expensive than legs I'd imagine.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klobbersaurus414 Posted August 4, 2001 Author Share Posted August 4, 2001 Im almost a sword master! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Klobbersaurus414 Posted August 4, 2001 Author Share Posted August 4, 2001 Im a sword master! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klobbersaurus414 Posted August 4, 2001 Author Share Posted August 4, 2001 Okay i am now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salikadali Posted August 4, 2001 Share Posted August 4, 2001 Well, maybe because its easier for it to travel over rough terrain, and maybe because it looks cool, and also maybe the Atriedes wanted to have mech units instead of tanks, just to be different. I think the first reason is the more practical one, although I do not see any difference between where tanks can go, and where mechs can go in the actual game, and I agree, Minos are annoyingly slow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salikadali Posted August 4, 2001 Share Posted August 4, 2001 How many post to change rank? 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salikadali Posted August 4, 2001 Share Posted August 4, 2001 Yea, cool. Im a sword master. congrats to Klobbersaurus and myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ordos45 Posted August 4, 2001 Share Posted August 4, 2001 I agree probably the rough terain part. Whoo-hoo you're sword masters only around 180 more posts until you're Emperor, rach for the sky. Or just reach 20 more posts for Mentat and 20 after that for Duke and the about 120 after that Emperor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gobalopper Posted August 4, 2001 Share Posted August 4, 2001 Please don't post messages just to increase your post count, if you do your count will be reset to -1 billion! Or something like that. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas Posted August 4, 2001 Share Posted August 4, 2001 wheeled units look boring but mechs are differant. and seeing mongooses walking to battle is tight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peseverance Posted August 5, 2001 Share Posted August 5, 2001 i think they hould give mechs speed bonuses when not on sand and when on sand they have a chance on getting stuck in knee deep sand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted August 5, 2001 Share Posted August 5, 2001 well in mech warrior the mechs were really fast.............andi think they use legs becasue they respect something like the hawk,,,,,,,,,,,,um im just guessing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_fox Posted August 5, 2001 Share Posted August 5, 2001 In the game minos DO go faster on land, don't they?I agree that legs are stupid. They're too unstable. Even if they did stabilise them, it would be a lot simpler to use wheels anyway. Yes, mechs look cool, but is that really a good reason?I don't think minos should be faster. They'd then be too good. People are already complaining that the mino's too good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peseverance Posted August 6, 2001 Share Posted August 6, 2001 well..... faster on landbut on sand...... ever tried urunning on sand? you know what happens... now make yourself 10000x heavier you won't be able to move in sand.....in Mechwarrior the mechs use legs because a Tank which weighs the same weight can't move as fast on tracks/wheelsa M1A2 Abraham tank weighs more than 70tons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly Posted August 7, 2001 Share Posted August 7, 2001 Heh. Anyone familiar with the Macross/Robotech universe surely went 'hey, that looks familiar' when they first saw the Minotauraus. And while there are no detailed tech specs for the E:bfD units (Westwood should put those together!), I can point to the specs for the M1A2: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/3457/abrams.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted August 7, 2001 Share Posted August 7, 2001 yah saw it pretty kewl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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