Poll: Japanese or Western Mecha?

[Shock and Awe]

"COMMUNISM IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF FAILURE."

I gotta say western

 

[tehroc]

 

[Akai Shizuku]

I am physically attracted to both.

I always wanted to make a Japanese mech, but I couldn't, so I made a western one.

http://i47.tinypic.com/2zrg54z.jpg

I call it the 2012. It's got two miniguns similar to the GAU-8, two seeker rockets, and a main cannon that shoots like a mother.

 

[Wolvaroo]

And excuse me for being an idiot, but what's that mech from?

Google images that led me to a site for the rules and mechs of robotech tabletop game.

Which I did not know existed.

Kind of odd how the Battletech universe went both ways with thier more humanoid mechs early on then to what we saw in Mechwarrior.

There is an unlicensed fan-made Java game you can play if buying the old books, models and hex maps arn't you're thing.

http://megamek.sourceforge.net/

Very well supported and a passionate community.

EDIT: OH! You said ROBOTECH. My bad.

 

[Dark Prophet]

western. pictures tell everything u need it's just pure cool

http://www.thiel-a-vision.com/?p=3229

 

[Xom]

This one doesn't seem to fall under either Samurai or Tank With Legs.
Unless of course we mean a water tank.

 

[Xom]

western. pictures tell everything u need it's just pure cool

http://www.thiel-a-vision.com/?p=3229

Aw fuck, and here I was going to post a picture of the iron giant and make grown men cry when they remembered the final scene.

 

[Bad Cluster]

snip

Dammit, you beat me to it. Ok
My move.

 

[Bob the Average]

i like the western mechs the half-plodding titans like in mechwarrior the giant samurai thing just seams silly and a little mundane. mundane for giant robots anyway.

 

[Xom]

Checkmate.

 

[JenXXXJen]

The Japanese one's just seem more imaginative to me.

 

[Brad Shepard]

Im a huge fan of code geass so...

Guren ftw

 

[Dr.Sean]

The idea itself is pretty fucking stupid. Why would you waste billions of dollars on a one-man giant robot that punches things up when you can do that yourself? Even with added weapons such as lasers and missiles, the cost of manufacturing such monsters and the sheer amount of collateral damage they cause is enough to put one nation's army a billion steps in front of the competition and plunge the same country into an eternal economic abyss, just like America! Swords don't count as weapons for mechs either, because it is much more cost-effective to use a butcher knife. Besides, you don't need to punch things, you're a giant tank! All a mech has to do to be effective in melee is to fly into the air and land on things, assuming that doesn't destroy it.

I choose Western Mechs, because it's much more logical to stick machine guns or missiles on a 50 ft walking tank than it is to give it arms to pick stuff up or punch.

 

[cambodiancam]

This needs a Both option, I like some from each side but neither has all the things that I like.

 

[A random person]

And gentlemen, my defensiveness was quite possibly justified.

 

[JWAN]

yea see the best way to solve this is for each country to build one and make them fight to the death

 

[JWAN]

slap on a battery of 6 inch guns with HEAT rounds and you would have a winner.

BOOM* melty* Sizzly* secondary explosions*

 

[cambodiancam]

The idea itself is pretty fucking stupid. Why would you waste billions of dollars on a one-man giant robot that punches things up when you can do that yourself? Even with added weapons such as lasers and missiles, the cost of manufacturing such monsters and the sheer amount of collateral damage they cause is enough to put one nation's army a billion steps in front of the competition and plunge the same country into an eternal economic abyss, just like America! Swords don't count as weapons for mechs either, because it is much more cost-effective to use a butcher knife. Besides, you don't need to punch things, you're a giant tank! All a mech has to do to be effective in melee is to fly into the air and land on things, assuming that doesn't destroy it.

I choose Western Mechs, because it's much more logical to stick machine guns or missiles on a 50 ft walking tank than it is to give it arms to pick stuff up or punch.

What about mech on mech combat? That's kind of like giving an air plane only bombs.

 

[Souplex]

And gentlemen, my defensiveness was quite possibly justified.

I would say this thread has proven contrary to your fears for the most part.

 

[JWAN]

The idea itself is pretty fucking stupid. Why would you waste billions of dollars on a one-man giant robot that punches things up when you can do that yourself? Even with added weapons such as lasers and missiles, the cost of manufacturing such monsters and the sheer amount of collateral damage they cause is enough to put one nation's army a billion steps in front of the competition and plunge the same country into an eternal economic abyss, just like America! Swords don't count as weapons for mechs either, because it is much more cost-effective to use a butcher knife. Besides, you don't need to punch things, you're a giant tank! All a mech has to do to be effective in melee is to fly into the air and land on things, assuming that doesn't destroy it.

I choose Western Mechs, because it's much more logical to stick machine guns or missiles on a 50 ft walking tank than it is to give it arms to pick stuff up or punch.

^ this

why use a sword when you can launch a cruise missile or a 16 inch shell, or use 30mm cannons that use API rounds