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[Felix Dante]

I'm sure I'm going to get flak for this Poll...but what the heck!

Let the Ack-Ack guns fire away. I can take it!

P.S. Yes those are all actual published Battlemechs for those who are wondering...
I'm curious to see who can actual identify them all...

Edited by Felix Dante, 22 February 2012 - 01:28 PM.

[Kenyon Burguess]

i dont think any of the mechs are silly. urban mechs can go a long ways toward a cities defense.

[Felix Dante]

Geist Null, on 22 February 2012 - 01:29 PM, said:

i dont think any of the mechs are silly. urban mechs can go a long ways toward a cities defense.

Too true, but their main enemy was intended to be poorly armed pirates, not usually other
main-line Battlemechs.

Urbanmechs were meant to be a cheap civic defense against soft enemies...nothing more.

In MWO they would be a semi-joke to add IMHO. That's all.

Don't worry, I understand there are a lot of Urbie fans out there...
heck I even voted in the poll for them myself!

[Pvt Dancer]

Got a pic of the Jack-in-the-box? It is the only one I am unfamilure with.

[Lorcan Lladd]

I'm not sure the Mackie could be called a joke; it's pretty primitive, alright, but it's still in the Assault weight class with pretty decent combat capabilities - I think it could hold its own against most of the other 'Mechs of this era, on single combat.
Save for Clan 'Mechs, of course.

So, I know we're not very likely to see it in MWO, but I voted for it, anyway.

[Ghostrider45]

The Makie is an older model short of a juck yard are musem they wouldn't be around

[Felix Dante]

Pvt Dancer, on 22 February 2012 - 02:22 PM, said:

Got a pic of the Jack-in-the-box? It is the only one I am unfamilure with.

I haven't seen a pic of it since I originally saw it in a Battletechnology mag back in the 80s or 90s.

It was a heavy mech, I think, with the capability for the internal structure to "Jump" out of its armor and then run away at a faster speed because it had no more armor slowing it down. Basically it was a protoype command mech that it's intent was to keep the commander alive and abe to "retreat" from combat more easily.

Funny as heck.

[Chuckie]

BTW whats silly about a UrbanMech ? Urbies ROCK !



BTW Never understood the trashcan imagery.. They are more my little hard boiled mech choice

[metro]

I chose Griffin. Was always a good mech. So a Super-Griffin, geeeesh, I dunno if anyone could handle that firepower.

[Felix Dante]

Chuckie, on 22 February 2012 - 02:54 PM, said:

BTW whats silly about a UrbanMech ? Urbies ROCK !



BTW Never understood the trashcan imagery.. They are more my little hard boiled mech choice

I should clarify again: Urban Mechs do rock...
But to add them to MWO would be kinda silly (hence the poll) as they would lose (I estimate) 90%
of fights versus anything faster or heavier.

Urbie-on-Urbie battles on the other hand would be funny as all get-out.

[Chuckie]

Felix Dante, on 23 February 2012 - 09:15 AM, said:

I should clarify again: Urban Mechs do rock...
But to add them to MWO would be kinda silly (hence the poll) as they would lose (I estimate) 90%
of fights versus anything faster or heavier.

Urbie-on-Urbie battles on the other hand would be funny as all get-out.

Ahh.. a Urbies job is to defend URBAN enviroments.. and they do it well.

That said they said the game would have more focus on an Urban enviroment... so....

[Petroff Northrup]

Later add-on for the game idea, the urbie-dome, an urban solaris map where you and friends fight off endless waves of urbies.

[Felix Dante]

Chuckie, on 22 February 2012 - 02:54 PM, said:

BTW whats silly about a UrbanMech ? Urbies ROCK !


BTW Never understood the trashcan imagery.. They are more my little hard boiled mech choice

You know...I just realized the Urbanmech looks kinda-like R2-D2...
with a Big-A$$ gun!

[Stone Profit]

Felix Dante, on 22 February 2012 - 01:27 PM, said:

I'm sure I'm going to get flak for this Poll...but what the heck!

Let the Ack-Ack guns fire away. I can take it!

P.S. Yes those are all actual published Battlemechs for those who are wondering...
I'm curious to see who can actual identify them all...

I prefer the Joker variant of the Jack...

[Bullwerk]

Mackie, being able to pilot the Granddaddy of mechs would rock

[Torment2]

There is nothing silly about an urbanmech. Something that can blow away anything and costs next to nothing? Sign me up!

[pursang]

_Torment_, on 23 February 2012 - 03:42 PM, said:

There is nothing silly about an urbanmech. Something that can blow away anything and costs next to nothing? Sign me up!

But...but it looks like Humpty Dumpty. =\

[Felix Dante]

pursang, on 23 February 2012 - 07:48 PM, said:

But...but it looks like Humpty Dumpty. =\

Yet again...helps make it part of the "silly" part of this poll...

Looks like th Urbanmech has definately pulled ahead too!

Edited by Felix Dante, 24 February 2012 - 07:47 AM.

[TheTeacher]

Chuckie, on 22 February 2012 - 02:54 PM, said:

BTW whats silly about a UrbanMech ? Urbies ROCK !

Of course they do.....

Edited by TheTeacher, 24 February 2012 - 08:55 AM.