Battlemechs vs Tsarists (Not a RAR!)

[Zor]

An Error in an examination in regards to the Russian Revolution in Victoria Australia


If you don't get a laugh out of this, your dead.

Zor

[fgalkin]

Wait, you mean to tell me that the cruiser Avrora does not transform into a giant stompy bourgeois-killing mech?

They've lied to me!

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[Crazedwraith]

If you don't get a laugh out of this, your dead.

my dead what?

I find this question particularly relevant. Since this isn't funny.

[lord Martiya]

A Zentradi scout! Now I wonder: why did they wait so long before attacking?

[The Duchess of Zeon]

Nope, a Btech Battlemech. That's how it's identified, anyway, which makes it funnier: Because the person who operated one of those as her very first Mech was Natasha Kerensky. Kerensky. The connection between that name and a certain hapless individual in those events is particularly hilarious.

Granted, it is one of the so-called "lost mechs" so... you're also right.

[Vendetta]

Nope, a Btech Battlemech.

It's one of the totally properly licensed honest (maybe) Macross designs (a Glaug, the boss version of the bad guy robits).

I fully expect the next we shall hear of this is when Harmony Gold pipe up with a cease and desist.

[LaCroix]

That's a Marauder, with the turreted AK5. May absolute favourite mech in the game, once you chop the thing off and install a heavy laser, instead...

[Stark]

If only it could fly like a Glaug? Comparing Btech performance to Macross performance is pretty funny stuff. Steal the art but for god sakes slow it down and glue it to the floor!

[Masami von Weizegger]

It reminds me of the opening for the PS2 game Ring of Red:



Although as far as I'm aware, that video has been not been used as a source for exams in Australia or elsewhere.

[Vendetta]

Man, Ring of Red was a pretty sweet robit game. Pity it's so ancient and terrible looking (PS2 launch game) that no-one will ever reissue it.

[Stark]

It was really just the 3-unit combat that was cool; the 'strategy' bits were just Front Mission Olden Days. It was a shame they didn't have a broader variety of robits, too, but I guess making models cost more in 1999.

[Vendetta]

Well yeah.

Though I do remember the robits falling over and exploding being quite satisfying as well, it was just good animation enabled by the fixed combat plane, but it did give a good impression that it was the force of the shell hit that flattened them.

Actually, having this type of Old And Clompy robits would be a good way to what we were talking about last night, a version of World of Tanks where everything isn't a box with a gun on top and there's more scope for visual variation*, but it's not all the laser and missile spam (and inevitable brokenness due to no-one ever making a balanced game with mechlab style building ever) of Mechwarrior.


*Y'know, apart from early tiers which are all old designs that were completely batshit insane in retrospect.