On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Brandon Cope <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- On Mon, 1/18/10, David Scheidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Brandon Cope <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > I didn't say they weren't valuable. I just said they > > weren't as vulnerable > > > as tracks. > > > > YOu keep asserting it. It's not going to become true > > because of repetition. > > The side saying legs are more vulnerable than tracks hasn't proven that > either. > > They're substantially larger targets. Larger surface area, harder to armor. Contain all sorts of vital power transmission stuff (details depends on what you're using to move them), which makes them vulnerable: nearly any attack that breaches armor will hit something important. (legs won't have much dead space, because they need to be as light as possible.) > See p.VE180, Jamming Tracks. There really isn't an equivalent for legs. > > Mecha don't have shoelaces to tie together? -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
