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[verybad]

Because whoever gets a team of 12 Urbanmechs together after their INEVITABLE inclusion in the game and puts the pain down on a group of "Clan Thunder Sword Wol Maximum Fiat" clanners first is a better group of pilots than any other.

You gotta respect the people crtazy enough to get in one of those things and go out facing players all chromed out in MadCats and such.

You can take the easy way, or you can be a hero.

Driving around an optimized supertech mech isn't manly. Driving an Urbie (especially if it's got heart logos on it), and winning against all odds. That takes guts, and garners respect.

[Siphonaptera]

The Urbanmech is the Yin to the Charger's Yang.

[Felicitatem Parco]

The UrbanMech is like a de-badged Ford Escort Cosworth... you laugh at it, at first, thinking it's just an ugly, small ****box... and then it tears you a new one.

[Name140704]

The Urbanmech was created to pass the time until Thomas Hogarth was born. Also, It helps explain the Capellan situation after the 4th succession war.

[verybad]

Thomas Hogarth is a joke, except he's more lame than funny, kind of like reading a Garfield...Hah hah, Garfield likes pizza...and he's a fat cat! Sounds like Haha, Thomas Hogarth is a Steiner...and he likes big mechs and parties! Hilarious...

An Urbie has a viable role. Delaying superior forces in urban settings untile infantry can set mines, reinforcements can arive, and maybe the day won.

Nobody is ever gong to argue that the Urbie is a superior design, but it's a very cheap design, and it's got relatively good firepower and armor for it's tonnage. It isn't something you send out in open terrain against first line mechs, but it can act as a mixed force support mech, providing AC-10 power. Think of it as a smi mobile turret and you can see a roile for it.

[Helmer]

It's like a Honey Badger.


Honey Badger and Urbie dont give a &!@!%*#!

[Nik Van Rhijn]

They just ran out of ideas and copied R2D2.

[Unclecid]

the urbie legend started in MW2:mercs.

in that enterprising young mech jocks would take a urbie, strip it, max its engine, add 2 med lasers and wat lil room left for armour.
the result was a mighty lil terror.

[neodym]

urban mech is so popular in my opinion the same way many "high quality artists" in pop music are popular like Nicki Minaj or Justin Beiber

[Felicitatem Parco]

WHAT!? DID YOU JUST COMPARE URBANMECH TO THE BEEBZE? Geeze, that's like comparing Kai Allard Liao to LingLing.

[Torment2]

The pure satisfaction of ventilating an Atlas in the back while he's otherwise preoccupied.

It's the same kind of reaction in TT when you roll a 12 for hit location with gauss rifles at long range.

All you hear from any spectators is "OOOOOOHHHHHH!!!!!"

[name51875]

It's because in every battle there will be salvages and in every battle there will be useless salvages, so this is why Urbanmech needed it's for dispose all those useless salvages, it's a trash can with legs anyway.

[Daneiel]

Lets face it that mech is build to fight with the enemy not run from them like most of its weight class , it has good firepower , not bad armor and when comes to fight in urban areas where the speed is not a factor but manuvarability that mech is beast .

[Nerts]

You know what I love about the Urbie? It costs a bit under 1.5 million Cbills. A Hunchback costs over double that, they're a go-to mech for defending a wide urban area on a budget.

[Trogusaur]

Urbie goes in, Urbie goes out. You can't explain that.

Edited by Lord Trogus, 26 February 2012 - 01:53 PM.

[John Moon]

I have a soft spot for Urbanmechs because I won a Gunslinger with one . When I saw the table was an cityscape, I grabbed the Urbie for the 1/1 Piloting/Gunnery and played hide an seek from all the bigger mechs. It finaly came down to me and a Battlemaster. I think the only armor I had that wasnt internal was my head and my legs and I was down to my small laser after my right torso being shot to crap. After alot of manuvering and using full cover to keep from getting sqashed, I managed to DFA him. He had already taken a LRM (5point) hit earlier in the game to his head and I went internal, critted and took out his cockpit And I made my piloting role (gotta love that 1 piloting skill) and ended the game on my feet...

[Articus]

perhaps because its an absoloute terror in urban settings, where its short stature and rounded design helps it blend in against buildings? where its AC20 can tear you a new one up close. perhaps cripple a leg. then turn a corner and dissappear down another street. waiting for you to chase it. or perhaps because its short stature allowed it to hide behind a parking garage. perhaps you didnt see it there, powered down and waiting. and perhaps he just send a hail of AC/20 rounds hammering into your thinly armoured back..

i wont say the urbie is a perfect mech on the battle field. far from it. its too slow, lightly armored and short ranged to be of any use anywhere but the city. however. it was never made for that. its arena is the cityscape, where it can fight and fade however it pleases. sliding down alleys and streets a much larger mech could never give chase. popping up where you least expect it, and punishing arrogent pilots who let it get to close

[Psydotek]

I actually do hope that urban battlefields are designed to in such a way that 'mechs of short stature can find shortcuts and hiding places that larger 'mechs won't be able to access.

Go Urbanmech!

[Tezz LaCoil]

You see... it's that Fooley Cooley NewModality that makes the Urbanmech so popular!

As I post this I think: What have I done?

Then I think: Probably nothing at all. No one reads this far into threads!

Edited by Prower, 26 February 2012 - 09:02 PM.

[Bogsveigir]

Jumbik, on 12 February 2012 - 12:03 PM, said:

Even though it looks quite ehm different, the main reason why people are keen to love or hate it may also come from the one and only ULTIMATE question... what was going through the head of the "designer" when this Mech came to life ... you see where I'm going?

So is there something extremely well thought behind the idea OR was it like ... hmm what will I draw now, the eyes are rounding around the room and then when he looks below the desk ... hmm oh well fu.. this!

From what I remember, the UrbanMech was designed for fighting in the urban jungle. It can run through a cityscape (ferrocrete roads) at top speed without having to worry about skidding, freeing-up the pilot's attention for aiming and firing. It is also an older design, pre-dating most of the larger mechs, which wouldn't have been as common or powerful at the time.

One Urbie isn't that much to worry about, but a squad of them defending the streets, popping-over or around buildings, and you're in a mess. In most novels, invasions aren't always filled with a phalanx of Heavies or Assaults. A Raven, Dart, or Jenner, etc, can get into trouble trying to whip around corners. Traction versus velocity, momentum, and pilot skill . . . made me re-roll more than one character.

That being said, I think a large part of the attraction is like being able to brag that you beat-down an armed mugger with a wiffle-bat. Anyone can totally 'buy the farm' with an Urbie, but few can live with one.

Me? I'm hoping for a Scorpion, or Chimera to show.