#hovertank

[oldschoolfrp]

Battles and equipment of the 22nd century (David Sutherland and William McLean, Space Marines, sci-fi miniature wargame by A Mark Ratner, FanTac Games, 1977)

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: Legion - A squad of Phase I clone troopers beside a TX-130 Saber-class fighter tank by Sergey Glushakov

[dragonkid11]

In today's episode, let's about the CEF tanks, the floating kind.

Oops forgot to post this earlier.

[karagin22]

[ariesgamesandminis]

Interceptor: Aether Stream restocks are in & ready to hit your table!

Interceptor: Starter Set Interceptor: Core Rulebook Interceptor: Terran Commonwealth Squadron Set Interceptor: Callistonian Empire Squadron Set

[agbpaints]

Played a point capture game of battletech today. I ended up losing (elementals are just too darn good at taking ground) but oh my god, the Saladin

I've had a few of these for a while now but never used them. It turns out that an AC/20 that's moving at locust speed for expensive-ish locust cost (less than 600 bv!) is a god damn nightmare machine. Flanking behind someone, drifting into a 180, and then blasting their rear section for 20 is insanely fun. Doubly so if you load precision ammo to have the secret 20 damage pulse laser >:)

Speaking of drifting- I was *not* expectIng there to be upside to failing a sideslip PSR. Usually if you fail a control roll its bedtime for bozo but with a sideslip, assuming you don't hit something (or someone), you can just keep moving and the hexes of movement caused by the drift are FREE! Hitting a forest or sliding out of the map are still very real hazards but if you time your turns out right and the map is large enough to support it you can be a drift king and push well beyond what you'd seemingly be capable of tmm-wise. That is until your skirts rip and the sideslip sends you careening into your own mechs lol

[fragariavescana]

Who here remembers the real Europa Ice War?

[captain-price-unofficially]

Soviet Object 760 "hovertank", an early 1960s design incorporating hover-cushion technology. It didn’t actually hover but was mostly immune mines and swamps; note dummy gun and huge Plexiglas canopies. The project team was eventually reassigned to build the Lunokhods lunar rover.

[fleshengine]

Something I do really love in sci fi stories is a hard sci fi group running headlong into a soft sci fi scenario and being totally out of their depth. Let me explain.

The UEG in Halo is a hard (ish) sci fi setting. Short of slip-space tech and the propulsion systems of their starships, pretty much everything they have is theoretically creatable given our current understanding of the world. This is in line with a lot of older "hard sci fi" where it's realistic apart from one or two things that enable the story to actually... ya know... happen?

Anyway, the UEG/UNSC is hard sci fi, and are doing pretty well for themselves up until the battle of Harvest, where they sprint headlong into fighting The Covenant. The Covenant, with their homing plasma weaponry, energy shields, and hovertanks. The Covenant are soft sci fi, not obeying the laws of reality and not caring. The UNSC is outclassed, and I love it. The UNSC's best weapon against The Covenant, Spartans, have armor partially made from reverse engineered Covenant tech. They can win ground battles, but space battles are another story, they need 3-1 odds and even then typically take heavy losses. That's how out of their depth the UNSC/UEG is. I love it. But lemme continue.

In The Expanse, the various human governments and groups, are a hard sci fi civilization. They don't have FTL, but they do have hyper efficient fusion drives (a quick salute to Solomon Epstein). Everything else they have is hard sci fi. But when [spoiler] gets discovered, it's really neat to watch them try to make sense of it. Because it doesn't make sense, that shit is sci fi fantasy.

I think similar stuff happens in Stargate, but I don't know enough about that to comment on it.

I haven't read The High Crusade but it seems to be this trope stretched to the extreme and I love that.

Yeah that's what it is, isn't it. It's a trope. Well fuck it, I love this trope.

[not-a-workin-boy]

back on my bullshit helloooo . spurred on by a guy who found this on a tumblr post i saw like . thirty minutes ago idk where it went. anyway. comically long post incoming bc i'm probably autistic or something about these robots. i think i have to cut this up into reblogs bc tumblr wants my head

talk about a scary scary world /j

ethereal ass picture. this is from pt1 btw i just haven't clipped it yet

some guy in the audience has a camera w the flash power of 17 suns and it goes off intermittently its crazy

feeding them breadcrumbs :D !!!

[wild west theme starts playing]

hold on to my seven layer burrito from taco bell

upgrade my beloved i love you upgrade

i'm pretty tired of him, myself...

upgrade does her intro after this and says that when she grows up, she wants to be a pretty pretty princess!!! i'm happy to tell you , upgrade from 2010 , you did in fact achieve that dream! you didn't become a hovertank, though.

YEAH GIRL GET HIS ASS!!

cutting it here bc again. tumblr wants me dead

[lynnbecks-gaming-sideblog]

Background image is from popular mech/tank/hovertank-based war-crime simulator Brigador, go play it, it's really good.

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

Franz Vohwinkel

[grayrazor]

The aesthetic for "generic alien spaceship" was kinda set by the 1953 War of the Worlds movie, even to this day. (Even though those originals are technically more like hovertanks.)

[spectralidax]

Hovertanks are very useful on Planet Shark. Their ability to traverse most types of terrains allows them to be useful for lightning raids and scouting.

[karagin22]