so let me get this straight: it has the profile of a ww1 tank, is slow as an interwar tank, has the armor of a ww2 tank, has the gun of a modern tank BUT with worse range, penetration, and precision, doesn't have CMs, doesn't have ERA, doesn't have an autoloader, doesn't have GPS, doesn't have telemeters or aiming softwares of any kind, it barely has an electric motor to turn the turret, it barely has a radio, and you're telling me THIS is a futuristic design?
>>64665273>and you're telling me THIS is a futuristic designNo, it's retro-futurism. There is a difference.
>>64665283retrofuturism is something that looks outdated but it performs better than anything today. the leman russ performs worse than an early cold war tank, it's not retrofuturism that's plain ignorance on the part of those who came up with that design and specifications.
>>64665273>and you're telling me THIS is a futuristic design?Yes.Because the future in question is one that's all about how miserable, backwards and shitty that particular future is.They can make approximately half a million of them a day, and need to make two and a half million of them an hour so there's a bit of a production deficit going on. Adding a cupholder would require them to turn an additional whole solar system in to plastic resin every day.This design has been optimized to be issued with all the consequence and weight of a rifle during the battle of the Somme.
>>64665273Not much of a 40k fag but I believe it's canonically a tractor.
>>64665293nigger, the imperium has thousands of planets turned into giant factories, and you're telling me they can't make something that could even be competitive today??
>>64665273Stop spamming 40k threads
>>64665321>spamming this is the first 40k thread i've made in like a year, i don't find this topic so off the rules, since you have regular discussions about start trek. if you don't like it, hide it.
>>64665330complaining about 40k shit being stupid and unrealistic is boring. if there are dozens of clickbait youtube videos about a subject then it doesnt need a thread.
>>64665273No shit, you autistic retard.
>>64665273Yes. You're wrong about the details, it has the works with electrical gizmos, but the design is retarded. Despite the hilarious Imperial Armour figures and stuff like atgm and apfsds shells being all but lostech, the Russ regularly shows strengths that would mog a mbt. Just take a gander at the hives of autism like Spacebattles if you're into that shite.From a doylist perspective the Russ was deliberately designed to look like ass-backwards shit. And the IA authours knew what they were doing when they wrote it's specs.For a watsonian answer, the tank originates from the DAoT and it was designed by a big-brained AI to be the most effective tool for it's designated task. Add on Mechanicus incompetence for the lack of upgrades.Also the Guard's aesthetic is top tier and if you disagree then you have no taste.
>>64665362I'm not "complaining" because the tank in the OP doesnt exist in the first place. I wanted to engage in a discussion regarding a piece of fictional hardware but you sucked the fun out of it.
>>64665273sorry anon you might be acoustic
>Taking some britbongs numbers he pulled out of his ass from 1997 seriously40k is best when you don't try to think too much about it.
>>64665295Weren’t tanks tractors at one point in their lives?
>>64665273>but what about muh realismYou're an autistic faggot.
>>64665295Meme lore, but the Land Raider originated from a tractor in some RT lore.
>>64665273As with anything in 40k you have to take it on a case by case basis.Depending on the forge world an individual leman Russ could have everything from futuristic sensors, comms, plasma and laser cannons and advanced alloy materials as armour and an engine that can run on wood pulp.Or it could be a stripped down cheap shitbox that can only nominally be called a Russ, or anything in between these extremes
There are things worse than a Russ.
>>64665300yeah, they just kind of suck that bad.
