As mechs seem to only be feasible in fiction how do you justify mechs in your sci fi setting? A few ideas i had for my settings were that mechs are used as construction vehicles to carry heavier stuff while still being capable of defending themselves. Another idea was four legged artilery used to move around mountains and being way more mobile.
>>729366374mechs are impractical because of the square cube law. maybe a huge structure underwater like a mobile sea base would work, def not with four legs tho.
>>729366374>As mechs seem to only be feasible in fiction current tech level is too lowyou want big mechs when we're barely able to make walking human sized robots that need to be recharged every 30 minutes>heavier-than-air flying machines are impossibleThis is what faggots were confidently proclaiming, yet here we are.
>>729366374>mechs seem to only be feasible in fictionTypical Wh*toid incapable of superior asian imagination. This is why Anime produced the three best selling animated films of all time (Kimi no Na Wa, Mugen Train, Spirited Away) whilst all the West has is big mouth. The filthy Westard gaijin prides themselves on restricting their own creativity, living a life with closed mental pathways and a small puny imagination. What is worse the filthy WHITOID sees this inferior thought process as a smug point of arrogance over nippon. The Japanese have no such restraints and mog the filthy Whitoid cringe media in every way. P.s. they are building mechs in Korea right now, whilst America has trans story time. The glorious Whitoid """"creativity """" on full display everyone. Total Japan victory over the jew dominated western Goy bitches
>>729366374They're for space and with the very specific niche of fighting around critical infrastructure you want secured and not obliterated from 100,000+ kilometers away.
>>729366374for use in zero gravity/thread
>>729366374>A few ideas i had for my settings were that mechs are used as construction vehicles to carry heavier stuff So you ripped off gundam?
>>729366374>justify mechsYou don't have to justify shit in fiction, you just can't have a clearly present better alternative. You want to have robot horses as a form of transport? Fine. Just don't also have cars in your universe.
>Abrams turret on legsnot a mech
>>729366374pilot neurally connects to the mech so a humanoid bodyplan is preferable since suddenly having your legs replaced by tank treads feels weird
>>729366374If they're fitted for combat in space then a humanoid form makes more sense since use of legs lets you jump in 0G from surface to surface or using hands to pull yourself along the surface of a ship. So it might make sense if the same mechs primarily used for space combat also function planetside.
Justifications are for nerdsI just do what i want
>>729366374>4 legged mech tanksMan it's criminal that ring of red never got a sequel.It had WW2 mecha for no reason other being cool as fuck.
>>729366374a) the terrain is so fucked up you need legs to move aroundb) the world is defined by religious zealots and everything must look like humans, animal shaped things are sin; so you've gotta make your tank look like a guy
>>729366374>how do you justify mechs in your sci fi setting?they're coolMuh realism fags can get their legs blown off by an ali express drone in Ukraine
>>729366374They are cool>NOOO MAH HECKIN SCIENCE™They are cool.
>>729366374Try a biological justification: Humans in this setting are just psychologically incapable of piloting anything that uses wheels. Railroads, automobiles, and tanks never became popular because their wheels inherently cause extreme motion sickness among everyone except uplifted animals and rare "newtype" mutants (though sleds/sleighs, boats/ships, balloons, and planes are fine).
>>729370528(Carts/wagons also did not become popular.)
>>729366374Ignore the physical limitations because addressing that at all is gay pedantry in fiction. As for form factor, I like the idea that the mechs use a brain scan to operate. Like you raise your arm and the mech raises its arm. It would track that the easiest and most natural machines to pilot have the same anatomical setup as we do for ease of use.
>>729366374Small ground robots.Small flying robots.
>>729367284>current tech level is too lowNo, it's too high. Even in gundams, it went from big robots to small.We already at small robot level. AI/neutral/starlink combat robots.
>>729370867Gundam isn't real life retard. It doesn't work like that. The bigger something is, the bigger the motor needed to move it.
>>729370983Ivan, call 117
>>729366374by realizing that justifying a lack of mechs makes you a giant homosexual
Ring of red did it OK. The mechs were big, slow, and clanky. They weren't super articulated, even the humanoid ones were slow outside of bursts of speed.
>>729366374I don't let "think tanks" or "experts" with the MIC arm up their rectums decide what's viable in my "setting." Tanks have proven to be just that, containers of metal that blow up just as well as concrete from drone attacks.
You're supposed to come up with a cool design and then justify it later. If you don't have a cool design, you haven't even reached the starting line but you're already worrying about your victory speech.
>>729366374>how do you justify mechs in your sci fi setting?Theyre cool
>>729366374I think Patlabor justified it quite decently. It began as giant construction workers designed for massive building projects. As time passed, criminals started repurposing them, prompting the government to develop more specialized combat mechs as a countermeasure.And then the military found out that the mech are perfect for dense urban and jungle environment, yet totally sucks in open field when up against tanks (which led to the Griffon project etc)...
>>729366374The "mechs" in my autitsic oc donutsteel setting are organic/semi living "exosuit" things that neurally link to their users. Them having limbs just makes them easier to control for their pilots.
>>729366374Mechs (mostly quadruped spider mechs tbf) are perfectly explained in sci fi frontiers where you have limited access to resources and need an all-terrain vehicle. Good luck driving a tank through a swamp, or trucks through mountain passes. Meanwhile a mech can go everywhere.
Mechs are cool. IDGAF about any arbitrary rules.
