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[Helbourne]

Gees, people need to stop over thinking Battletech. It was intentionally simplfied to make the TT game playable. I surprised we don't see threads demanding real world ranges for these weapons.

[Angus McBeef]

Helbourne, on 15 March 2013 - 06:50 PM, said:

Gees, people need to stop over thinking Battletech. It was intentionally simplfied to make the TT game playable. I surprised we don't see threads demanding real world ranges for these weapons.

A more fun theory for why people keep asking such detailed physics questions about mechs is that they are secretly building one in their backyard. Like in Jurassic Park, when that guy would call Dr. Grant at all hours of the night asking what baby dinosaurs would eat...for an exhibit at a museum...yeah.

[Toong]

Coole, on 14 March 2013 - 08:11 PM, said:

I know this is a game, but I feel like I was just wondering if anybody else thought about this. A helicopter without a tail rotor has its fuselage spin in the opposite way of the rotor because of torque. Hence why most helicopters have a tail rotor, so it can counteract torque.
But mechs don't have tail rotors (that I know of), so how come a mech can twist its torso as if the torso are a helicopters rotors, and the legs are the fuselage. I think this is a legitimate question because mechs are in the air a lot, and poptarts, and jj, etc.
For the record, I'm not trying to nerf anything, but I am curious. Is it explained in lore? Have the devs brought this up? Am I not the master physicist that I like to believe I am (even though I'm no graduate)?

Gyroscopes. Designed and constructed by space wizards.

This issue honestly does not bother me one bit.

[yashmack]

its called a gyroscope, a spinning mass of metal int he center of the mech that can completely change the position of a mech in mid air...

[Mazzyplz]