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[Bishop Steiner]

Technically, not the right section, but guess what? None of the fan sections allow for Polls. So if a Mod would like to move it, much like they did for MonnUnitBeta's "Design A Marauder" Contest to the Fan Jumpship after, please do, as long as the polling stays open!!!

So was re-working my old Marauder re-design, when I decided to see what would happen if I made it into a MadCat.


So here is the Marauder


and here is the Timberwolf version


Which do you think it fits better? As a Third possibility, I thought about doing a quick mod to turn it into a Rakshasa.


Input and critiques welcome. I could see the Rak being the easiest, since TBH, I can't remember anyone clamoring for it as their favorite, but, I am quite proud of my machine guns. And I think the Mad cockpit is pretty good. So, since I can't be objective....... help?

[Whatzituyah]

I want to pick all the above aswell.

Edited by Whatzituyah, 22 November 2013 - 08:15 PM.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Tough choice... never heard of the Rak before this......
But it seems to do them all equally well.
Can I vote D : all of the above?

[Escef]

I like the cowl over the Marauder's cockpit better than the bare canopy on the MadCat and Rakshasa. Between the Cat and the Rak, I have to go with the Rak; the Cat's torso mounted support guns look haphazardly attached and give the "chin" area too busy a feel.

[Bishop Steiner]

Shar Wolf, on 22 November 2013 - 08:13 PM, said:

Tough choice... never heard of the Rak before this......
But it seems to do them all equally well.
Can I vote D : all of the above?

the Rakshasa is a 3055 era Davion attempt to mimic the Timberwolf. Not an OmniMech, and obviously, it's a pale imitation, but it does mount 2 ERLLasers, 2 MLasers, 1 MPlaser and 2 ALRM10. It is pretty much a match in speed, armor and heat capacity to the T-Wolf prime.

Escef, on 22 November 2013 - 08:18 PM, said:

I like the cowl over the Marauder's cockpit better than the bare canopy on the MadCat and Rakshasa. Between the Cat and the Rak, I have to go with the Rak; the Cat's torso mounted support guns look haphazardly attached and give the "chin" area too busy a feel.

the semi haphazard attachment is intentional. I felt that it needed the "chin gun" to be essentially on a turret like an Apache Longbow to make it really effective for anti infantry. And well, the TWolf does have an exposed canopy. Anyhow, do appreciate the input!

[Alaskan Nobody]

Bishop Steiner, on 22 November 2013 - 08:59 PM, said:

the Rakshasa is a 3055 era Davion attempt to mimic the Timberwolf.

Yeah I Googled it for Sarna before I commented.
But as that was the first I had heard of it, I cannot comment much on it.

[Jack Avery]

The cockpit is just a bit too square for me to see it as a Timberwolf, it just stands out and bugs when I look at it. But I can't see it as a Marauder after seeing it as a Timberwolf, because the arms and torso just scream Timberwolf to me; what has been seen cannot be unseen.

Now as for a Davion knock-off? Oh yeah, I'm loving it!

[Sephlock]

Jack Avery, on 22 November 2013 - 09:04 PM, said:

what has been seen cannot be unseen.

Tell that to Harmony Gold.

[Bishop Steiner]

Jack Avery, on 22 November 2013 - 09:04 PM, said:

The cockpit is just a bit too square for me to see it as a Timberwolf, it just stands out and bugs when I look at it. But I can't see it as a Marauder after seeing it as a Timberwolf, because the arms and torso just scream Timberwolf to me; what has been seen cannot be unseen.

Now as for a Davion knock-off? Oh yeah, I'm loving it!

I though about putting an angled pane about half way up the front glass, but decided pretty much too many people have done the Apache Longbow canopy on mechs, figure I would try something a little different. Calculated risk, which admittedly won't fly for all! That is actually what made me think Rakshasa, TBH.

Might mod the canopy some, but IDK.

Sephlock, on 22 November 2013 - 09:11 PM, said:

Tell that to Harmony Gold.

Eh, I long for the day someone finally tinkles in their bloody cheerios! I love Robotech as much as any kid from my generation, but HG is a bunch off assnazis, IMO.

Edited by Bishop Steiner, 22 November 2013 - 09:13 PM.

[Alaskan Nobody]

I finally put a vote in.... Rak.....because Hanse. (even though he wasn't around then IIRC)

[RickySpanish]

Voted Marauder, because there simply isn't a more epic Mech.

[Alaskan Nobody]

RickySpanish, on 22 November 2013 - 09:23 PM, said:

Voted Marauder, because there simply isn't a more epic Mech.

The Glorious Urbanmech Love Thread!

[GalaxyBluestar]

i'd say you've changed a squat-ish marauder into the Rak

the timberwolf has a lot more of it's componants spreadout, the proportions of your design are tall and squat like the rakshasa.

[Alaskan Nobody]

GalaxyBluestar, on 22 November 2013 - 09:45 PM, said:

tall and squat

I do not think those words mean what you think they mean.

[ReuSeven]

I am also a huge fan of the marauder, with ECM it could be timberwolf-bane...

[Smitti]

I went Marauder. To me it feels like what a Marauder SHOULD look like. Mildly alien (cockpit shroud does it) but dangerous, like it's meant for stalking things.

Beats the hell out of the old spindly Macross design imho.

*Dons flame-proof suit and grabs fire extinguisher*

Whatever it ends up being, if I bumped into that on the battlefield, I'd run away bravely.

[GalaxyBluestar]

Shar Wolf, on 22 November 2013 - 09:50 PM, said:

I do not think those words mean what you think they mean.

componants-squat

total stance of all anatomy put together makes it tall.



sorry should've made myself more clear.

[Alaskan Nobody]

GalaxyBluestar, on 22 November 2013 - 11:02 PM, said:

That.... is a lot uglier than Bishop Steiner's

[Fury9er]

I voted Rakshasa - I happen to find Clan-inspired IS mechs interesting, stuff like the Avatar and Black Hawk Ku.

I also noticed you put the MGs in the correct locations on the TWolf pic Bishop, good stuff

[MustrumRidcully]

I dunno what to vote, to be honest, but I know this: Your Mad Cat, pardon, Timber Wolf has the big advantage that it does't have this ugly boxy thing that one of its common depictions has:

Spoiler

You know, this one. I put in spoiler boxes so that no one has to suffer too long from it.