![]() ![]() ![]() You cannot compare 31st century battlemechs with 20th century battletanks. When we are comparing mechs and tanks, we must advance them both to a more equal level technological playing field. Its like that kid that suddenly tells you that their spaceship has force fields and your attacks are worthless. It destroys the integrate of the story and setting. Nothing is worse than something that is too powerful. These are a form more of CLASS-III APS rather than traditional mecha. For the purposes of this article, Mecha will be framed within those considerations above and for me, mecha will always be those humanoid war-machines from Gundam, Dynamo Joe, ROBOTECH, and Battletech/Mechwarrior.Įven in the realm of science fiction, there must be grounding to the world setting and its technology. These mecha use symbiotic interfacing that allows the pilots to think and the suit to react. In addition, there are the Bioroids from Southern Cross. When pilots use their own limbs to control the machine, it is more of a CLASS-III APS rather than a traditional mecha.the massive mecha suits of Pacific Rim are a hybrid in someways, but the of those war machines size is far beyond most APS in sci-fi. ![]() When we examine the mecha of Battletech, Titanfall, and Macross, they are more of a vehicle with the controls being setup similar to a fighter or tanks. Mecha is more of vehicle than an armored suit worn over the body of the pilot/controller. Often the word mecha and armored power suit are mixed up and used interchangeable. But when it comes to cataloging Mecha in the wider scope of futuristic war-machines, we can place the concept of"mecha" more in the vain of bipedal or even hexapod piloted war-machines that are much larger than the human crews that control them, think more along the lines of modern main battle tank on legs. Mecha or "meka" is the Japanese term for "mechanical” and is a board generalized term for all manner of vaguely humanoid robotic devices, which encompassed everything from automotive robotic workers, to Honda's Asimo, to the giant robotic war-machines popular in Battletech, Transformers, and ROBOTECH. ![]()
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